CN1211095A - All-solid self-mode-locking femtosecond laser - Google Patents
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The invention relates to an Nd: LMA full-solid self-mode-locking femtosecond laser capable of generating laser wavelength of 1054nm, which adopts SF57 as Kerr medium, enhances self-focusing effect, reduces self-mode-locking self-starting threshold power, solves the problem that Nd: LMA gain medium can not be self-mode-locked directly due to small nonlinear coefficient, realizes full solidification, becomes a femtosecond laser light source with small volume and stable output, and has application value in the fields of large-scale and super-large-scale laser systems, field intensity physics, laser nuclear fusion, X-ray laser, ultrafast process research and the like.
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The invention belongs to the improvement of solid state laser structure.
The self mode locking technology of laser has brought deep change for the generation of the ultrashort pulse of solid state laser.From titanium jewel self mode locking laser, directly produced at present the short optical pulse of 6.5fs, adopted chamber external compression technology to obtain light pulse less than 5fs.And utilizing chirped pulse amplification to make solid laser system can obtain high peak power density and big output energy, the high-intensity ultrafast laser physics of solid state laser becomes the research focus thus.Because all solid laser is by laser diode (LD) light-pumped solid state laser, has the efficient height, advantages such as volume is little, the life-span is long, good stability, so the total solids self mode-locked laser has become the developing direction that laser field is studied.
The self mode locking of realizing solid state laser then requires gain medium to have big non linear coefficient (n
2), so that enough strong self-focusing effect to be provided, and reduce the starting power of self mode locking.As: Ti:Sapphire, Cr:LiSAF, Nd; Gain medium such as YAG, Nd:YLF all has big non linear coefficient, can satisfy the requirement of self mode locking.But the Cr:LiSAF medium can not be exported the laser pulse of 1054nm, and Nd; YAG, Nd:YLF, Ti; Though the laser pulse about the exportable 1054nm of gain medias such as Sapphire, but Nd:YAG and Nd:YLF can not produce femtosecond pulse because of spectral half-width is narrow, wherein Ti:Sapphire gains lowlyer on the 1054nm wavelength, and can not use the laser diode pump-coupling; Nd:LMA (La
1-xMgNd
xAl
11O
19Though) centre wavelength of laser medium on 1054nm because the non linear coefficient of itself is less, can not directly carry out kerr lens mode locking.So do not see so far the fully solid self mode-locked femto second laser that can produce the 1054nm laser pulse arranged.
Purpose of the present invention overcomes above-mentioned existing problems exactly, designs a kind of fully solid self mode-locked femto second laser that can produce the 1054nm laser pulse.
The designed fully solid self mode-locked femto second laser that can export the 1054nm wavelength of the present invention is to be made of pump optical system and laserresonator coupling, adopting the Nd:LMA of high-dopant concentration is gain media, do kerr medium with SF57, with laser diode-pumped realization; Its concrete technical scheme is, is pumping source with the laser diode, and pump light enters laserresonator by the pump optical system, is provided with optical lens group and half-wave plate in optical system; The structure of laserresonator is followed successively by, the Nd:LMA gain media, its input face is a planar ends, be coated with Double-color film, promptly to the high transmission of pump light, to the reflection of growing tall of the laser wave of 1054nm, the other end is the Brewster angle cutting, concave mirror before the gain media output beam reflects to height through slit, be provided with high reflection back concave surface mirror with preceding concave mirror relative position, the SF57 kerr medium that two ends are the Brewster angle cutting is set between two concave mirrors, and the outgoing beam of back concave surface mirror arrives the output plane mirror through a pair of compensating prism and slit, and the output plane mirror is fixed on the micrometric displacement vibrator.Feature of the present invention also is, the optical path length of whole laserresonator is adjusted near 1154mm, optical path length from the planar ends of gain media to preceding concave mirror is 400mm, concave mirror is 74mm to the optical path length of back concave surface mirror in the past, wherein preceding concave mirror to kerr medium front end is 24.7mm, optical path length from the back concave surface mirror to the output plane mirror is 680mm, wherein prism between apart from being 620mm.
The fully solid self mode-locked femto second laser that the present invention is designed, have big non linear coefficient and the SF57 of very fast response time as kerr medium owing to adopted, strengthened self-focusing effect, reduced self mode locking self-starting threshold power, make the Nd:LMA laser realize stable kerr lens mode locking, solved the Nd:LMA gain media because of the little directly problem of self mode locking of non linear coefficient, its laser pulse width can reach 610fs, wavelength 1054nm; Make the Nd:LMA laser realize total solidsization in laser diode-pumped mode, it is little to become volume, export stable femtosecond laser light source, it has important use and is worth in fields such as extensive and ultra-large laser system, field intensity physics, laser fusion, X-ray laser and ultrafast process researchs.
Accompanying drawing 1 is that gain media, SF57 are the structural representation of the fully solid self mode-locked femto second laser of kerr medium with Nd:LMA for the present invention is designed, and 1 is laser diode among the figure, and 2 is the pump optical system, 3 is half-wave plate, 4 is gain media, and 5 is slit, and 6 is preceding concave mirror, 7 is kerr medium, 8 is the back concave surface mirror, and 9 is compensating prism, and 10 is compensating prism, 11 is slit, and 12 is the output plane mirror.
Describe the enforcement and the operation principle of technical solution of the present invention in detail below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.
The concrete implementation example of the designed fully solid self mode-locked femto second laser of the present invention is as follows.Pumping source adopts laser diode, output wavelength 798nm, the structural order of pump optical system can be compound collimating lens, cylindrical lens, half-wave plate (λ/2), the spherical surface focusing lens are formed, by to the optimization of pump optical system and the calculating of maximum coupling coefficient, make pump light pattern and laser cavity mould reach optimum Match, wherein adopt half-wave plate rotation pumping polarisation of light direction, to realize the maximum polarization absorption of Nd:LMA crystal, improve pumping efficiency, Nd:LMA gain media Nd doping content is at 9-15at%, crystalline size φ 5 * 9mm is wrapped up in crystal and is placed the mode in the red copper frame to dispel the heat with the indium suitcase, and the input face of crystal is a planar ends, be coated with Double-color film, promptly to the high transmission of pump light, to the reflection of growing tall of the laser wave of 1054nm, the other end of crystal is the Brewster angle cutting; The effect of slit 5 is to combine with the self-focusing effect of kerr medium to form class saturated absorption squeezed light pulse realization self mode locking, and the effect of slit 11 is tuning laser oscillation center wavelength stuck-at-054nm, realizes stable mode locking pulse output; Gain media output light arrives preceding concave mirror through slit 5, light path from the planar ends of gain media to preceding concave mirror is 400mm, preceding concave mirror to the optical path length of back concave surface mirror is 74mm, be 24.7mm wherein apart from the kerr medium front end, high reflection plated film is all arranged on two concave mirrors, and the SF57 kerr medium that is provided with between two concave mirrors is long to be 15mm, its two end is the Brewster angle cutting, SF57 is the code name of optical glass material, the colleague technical staff knows, in order to realize astigmatism compensation, before concave mirror surface radius of curvature and beam incident angle thereof choose the astigmatism compensation that should be taken into account gain media Bu Shi face and kerr medium front end Bu Shi face, then concave mirror surface radius of curvature and beam incident angle thereof chooses the astigmatism compensation that also should be taken into account kerr medium rear end Bu Shi face; The emergent light of back concave surface mirror through the dispersion compensation prism to 9 and 10 and slit 11 arrive the output plane mirrors, its optical path length is 680mm, wherein prism between apart from be 620mm, with 10 vertical adjustment the chamber internal dispersion is compensated 9 by prism, the output of realization ultrashort light pulse; Be fixed on the output plane mirror on the micrometric displacement vibrator, choose the output coupling mirror of low transmission (<0.2%),, strengthen in the chamber non-linear to improve interacvity gain power.
By the fully solid self mode-locked femto second laser of the Nd:LMA of above-mentioned for example requirements making, the output wavelength that obtains is 1054nm, light impulse length 610fs, the femto-second laser pulse of spectral half-width 2.1nm; Its locked mode average output power is 15mW, and repetition rate is 130MHz; It is 620mW with the laser diode-pumped continuous running of 3W in 1054nm wavelength continuous power output, oblique efficient 50%, light-light conversion efficiency 20%.Designed laser is not self-starting, be to realize self-starting by vibration output cavity mirror 12, but its locked mode is from keeping, promptly turn off vibrator after, locked mode still can be kept certainly.
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1. fully solid self mode-locked femto second laser, its output optical maser wavelength is 1054nm, be to constitute by the coupling of pump optical system and laserresonator, adopt high-dopant concentration the Nd:LMA gain media, do kerr medium with SF57, with laser diode-pumped realization; It is characterized in that, in optical system, be provided with half-wave plate; The structure of its laserresonator is followed successively by, pump light incident Nd:LMA gain media, its input face is a planar ends, be coated with Double-color film, promptly to the high transmission of pump light, to the reflection of growing tall of the laser wave of 1054nm, the other end is the Brewster angle cutting, concave mirror before the gain media output beam reflects to height through slit (5), be provided with high reflection back concave surface mirror with preceding concave mirror relative position, the SF57 kerr medium that two ends are the Brewster angle cutting is set between two concave mirrors, the outgoing beam of back concave surface mirror arrives the output plane mirror through a pair of compensating prism (9 and 10) and slit, and the output plane mirror is fixed on the micrometric displacement vibrator.
2. laser according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, the optical path length of whole laserresonator is adjusted near 1154mm, optical path length from the planar ends of gain media to preceding concave mirror is 400mm, concave mirror is 74mm to the optical path length of back concave surface mirror in the past, wherein preceding concave mirror to kerr medium front end is 24.7mm, and the optical path length from the back concave surface mirror to the output plane mirror is 680mm, wherein prism between apart from being 620mm.
3. laser according to claim 2 is characterized in that, described Nd:LMA gain media Nd doping content is wrapped up in dielectric crystal and placed the mode in the red copper frame to dispel the heat with the indium suitcase at 9-15at%.
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