CN1284284C - High precison femtosecond synchronous technology and device - Google Patents
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The present invention discloses a high-precision femtosecond laser simultaneous technique. The gain media and the synchronous coupling media of two femtosecond lasers to be synchronized are separated and the two femtosecond lasers respectively use an independent gain medium; then, the oscillation light beams of the two femtosecond lasers are coupled in a kerr medium by mutually intercrossing in a cavity; the synchronization is realized by mutual phase modulation effect (XPM which is also called as cross phase modulation effect.); the respective gain medium of the two femtosecond lasers can use the homologous medium, and can also use different kinds of media. The present invention also discloses a synchronizing device which comprises two resonant cavities and a coupling cavity, wherein a gain crystal is respectively arranged in the two resonant cavities; a coupling crystal is arranged in the coupling cavity; oscillation lasers in the two resonant cavities is overlapped in the coupling crystal in the coupling cavity to generate the mutual phase modulation effect, and thus, the synchronization is realized. The synchronizing device has the advantages of compact structure, compactness, simple and easy mode locking starting, good synchronization stability and high precision.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of femtosecond laser method for synchronous and device.
Background technology
In laser technology research, ultra-short pulse laser discloses the dynamic (dynamical) unique property of material transient state as the human time period sign that can control and in microcosmos, it is one of the most popular laser research contents always, its application study is penetrated into the forefront problem of subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, communication, and and then caused many new subjects, as the formation and development of subjects such as high field physics, femtochemistry, the big Capacity Optical communication of ultrahigh speed.Adopt ti sapphire laser oscillator (document 1, D.E.Spence, P.N.Kean, the W.Sibbert of KLM (Kerr LensModelocking) technology; Opt Lett.1642 (1991)), simple in structure with it, good stability, advantages such as output pulse pulse width become the strong instrument of scientific research, but in many application studies field, as relevant synthetic, Ah second's generation of Laser of pump probe, laser imaging, laser spectroscopy, optical frequency standard, laser pulse (1 Ah second=10-18 second), utilize the fields such as quantum communication of quantum entanglement attitude, often need the femto-second laser pulse of the phase mutually synchronization of exportable two bundles even multi beam.Therefore, pursuing the femtosecond laser technology and the practical devices device of high synchronization accuracy, is significant content.
Realize that up to now the synchronous mode of femtosecond laser mainly contains active synchronization and passive and synchronous two kinds.Active synchronization adopts the laser oscillator of two platform independent, and the electronics equipment that relies on the oscillator periphery is realized the synchronous of two independent laser.This mode is less demanding to the adjusting of laser, but the electronics equipment more complicated, synchronization accuracy is relatively poor usually, and repetition rate time corresponding amount of jitter is hundred femtosecond magnitudes.Passive and synchronous is to utilize two femtosecond lasers mutual position modulation (XPM) effect in Ke Er (Kerr) medium to realize synchronous technology, common structure is to adopt the common gain of a gain media as two femtosecond oscillators, make it have the function of vibration and coupling concurrently, have synchronization accuracy height, advantage of simple structure.But just because of having adopted same medium, therefore two shared same gains of laser exist the gain competition effect, thereby cause laser stability poor, synchronization dependability is low, laser is regulated problem (document 2.M.R.X.de Barros and P.C.Becker:Opt.Lett.18,631 (1993), document 2.A.Leitenstorfer such as complexity, C.Furst, and A.Laubereau, Opt.Lett.20916, (1995)).Owing to this reason,, do not release corresponding practicability product in the world though passive and synchronous technical research was once for the moment popular always.
What can all adopt as the product device of the synchronous femtosecond laser of commercialization at present is the active synchronization mode, as previously mentioned, this technology relies on mainly that to adopt the circuit reponse system to stablize two laser cavities outside the oscillator chamber long and realize genlocing between the oscillator, but more passive and synchronous low usually one or two magnitude of mode of its synchronization accuracy.For example Switzerland TimeBandwidth company (document 4http: //www.timebandwidth.com/) to have adopted the synchronization accuracy of the femtosecond laser of CLX-1100 type clock synchronizer be 500fs, Spectra-Physics (document 5http: //precision of www.splasers.com/) Lok-to-Clock synchronizer also is 500fs, the result is best is that to adopt model be that the femtosecond laser synchronization accuracy of Synchro-Lock 900 synchronizers can reach 55fs to the relevant company (document 6, http://www.coherentinc.com/) of the U.S..And the product with passive and synchronous femto-second laser of high synchronization accuracy is still blank.
Summary of the invention
Technology barrier at existing passive and synchronous femtosecond laser technology existence, the purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of brand-new passive and synchronous technology, utilize this technology can avoid producing between two lasers the gain competition effect, to guarantee synchronous stability and the reliability of laser; Another object of the present invention provides the femtosecond laser synchronizer of the passive and synchronous technology of a kind of the present invention of application.
The present invention seeks to realize like this:
A kind of high accuracy femtosecond laser method for synchronous, the gain media for the treatment of two synchronous femto-second lasers is separated with synchronous couplant, and make two lasers each with its gain media independently, then the vibration light beam of two lasers by in the chamber mutually cross-couplings in a kerr medium, by the mutual position mudulation effect (XPM that produces, also claim cross-phase modulation effect) and realize synchronously, wherein two lasers gain media separately can adopt medium of the same race, also can adopt different types of medium.
A kind of high accuracy femtosecond laser synchronizer based on simultaneous techniques of the present invention, comprise two resonant cavitys and a coupling cavity, be provided with a gain crystal in two resonant cavitys separately, be provided with a bimorph crystal in the coupling cavity, overlap in the bimorph crystal of oscillating laser in two resonant cavitys in coupling cavity, produce position mudulation effect mutually, thereby realize synchronously; In addition, also comprise two respectively with the corresponding flat output mirror of two resonant cavitys, in above-mentioned resonant cavity and the coupling cavity respectively form device and described flat output mirror is installed on the base plate.
Further, described resonant cavity comprises a condenser lens, a laser gain crystal, former and later two plano-concave total reflective mirrors, former and later two plane, low-angle broadband total reflective mirrors, former and later two quartz prisms; Described coupling cavity comprises a laser coupled crystal, two pairs of deielectric-coating plano-concave total reflective mirrors (semicircle mirror) that are all-trans in femtosecond oscillating laser broadband; Two pairs of deielectric-coating plano-concave total reflective mirrors in the described coupling cavity are complementary with a resonant cavity respectively.
Further, described base plate is of a size of 800 * 400mm, and the focal length of described condenser lens (1,2) is 10cm, and described gain crystal and bimorph crystal are the ti sapphire crystal of Brewster's angle cutting, and size is 4 * 4 * 4mm; Described front and back plano-concave total reflective mirrors (5,6,7,8) are made by K9 glass, its radius of curvature is 100mm, bore is 12.7mm, thickness is 4mm, the concave surface of wherein preceding plano-concave total reflective mirror (5,7) is coated with double-colored deielectric-coating anti-reflection to 532nm and that the 700-900nm wave band is all-trans, the back side is coated with the anti-reflection film of 532nm pump light, and the concave surface of back plano-concave total reflective mirror (6,8) is coated with the broadband deielectric-coating that the 700-900nm wave band is all-trans; Plane, low-angle broadband, described front and back total reflective mirror (9,10,11,12) is the K9 glass substrate of thickness 4mm, is coated with the broadband deielectric-coating that under the 3-10 ° of incidence angle 700-900nm wave band is all-trans; Described flat output mirror (13,14) is the fused quartz substrate of thickness 4mm, is coated with under the vertical incidence that transmitance is the deielectric-coating of 10%-20% in the 700-900nm wave band; Described front and back prism (15,16,17,18) is the quartz prism of Brewster's angle cutting, prism to relative distance be about 80cm; Described deielectric-coating plano-concave total reflective mirror (20,21,22,23) is the semicircle mirror that is coated with 700-900nm wavelength broadband all-dielectric film.
Further, described flat output mirror (13,14) is the plane total reflective mirror, and its substrate is the K9 glass of thickness 4mm, is coated with the broadband deielectric-coating that vertical incidence is all-trans to 700-900nm; Described back low-angle broadband plane total reflective mirror (11,12) is the broadband flat output mirror of vertical incidence, and its substrate thickness is the fused quartz of 4mm, is coated with under the vertical incidence that transmitance is the deielectric-coating of 10%-20% in the 700-900nm wave band.
Further, the confocal setting of deielectric-coating plano-concave total reflective mirror that two couple in the described coupling cavity is all-trans to femtosecond oscillating laser broadband, its curvature is 100mm.
Further, the kerr medium in the described coupling cavity, promptly described laser coupled crystal are Brewster's angle to be placed, or plates anti-reflection film and vertically place, and material is a Ti doped saphire, or is the medium that quartz or BBO have strong Kerr effect.
The synchronous femtosecond laser technology of new type of passive proposed by the invention and that adopt is compared with the active synchronization technology, not only need not complicated electronics equipment, and also synchronization accuracy is also than high one or two magnitude of active synchronization mode.Compare with traditional passive and synchronous technology in addition, because gain media of the present invention is what to separate with couplant, therefore avoided influencing each other between gain competition effect and the two independent laser fully, thereby made that the stability of laser system and synchronous reliability are strengthened greatly.Particularly, thought principle of the present invention and technology can expand in the high-precise synchronization of femtosecond laser of other different gains medium, also can be used for synchronous many femto-second lasers more than two synchronously.End is got up, and main feature of the present invention has:
1. be the innovation scheme of synchronous femtosecond laser, filled up the blank of not having passive and synchronous laser commercial product device in the world.
2. the synchronization accuracy height can be technical scheme and the practical product that synchronization accuracy is the highest so far less than 1fs.
3. the output pulse of every road laser is pulse width not only, and adjustable (pulsewidth 30~70fs).The output result who is better than existing other scheme and product.
4. because the present invention adopts prism as dispersive compensation element, the two-way laser of being exported can be tuning separately, only can obtain the tuning output of wavelength from 740nm~860nm with one group of laser mirror.
5. the output average power of single channel can reach 1.4W, is the result of average power maximum in the synchronous laser of present finding.
6. overall structure compact of the present invention, only about 800 * 400 * 200mm of volume compares the volume minimum with present being seen synchronous femtosecond laser product with system.
7. the present invention does not need the electronics equipment of the needed complexity of active synchronization, and is therefore with low cost, be easy to the duplication of production assembling.
8. the present invention adopts the design of separate oscillators coupling, so the two-way mode-locked laser respectively enjoys gain, does not disturb mutually, has avoided the gain competition effect of traditional passive and synchronous scheme, thereby has had higher system stability.
Because femtosecond laser is in the important application in the fields, forward position such as generation of pump probe, quantum communication, high-accuracy optical frequency com, infrared femto-second laser pulse synchronously, therefore the present invention will provide novel high precision high stability research means for above-mentioned numerous subject, have important academic application and certain economic benefits.
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Fig. 1 is a principle of the invention structure chart;
Fig. 2 exports the stable waveform that shows on the digital oscilloscope of back synchronously for the present invention;
Fig. 3 is a concrete mounting structure schematic diagram of the present invention;
The cross-correlation waveform that Fig. 4 adopts the intensity correlation technique to record.
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The present invention is described in detail below in conjunction with drawings and Examples:
Embodiment 1:
As shown in Figure 3, wherein each element is corresponding with Fig. 1, all is installed on the base plate that is of a size of 800 * 400mm, and concrete parameter and installation requirement that element is selected are as follows:
Four drift angles are that 69 ° quartz prism 15,16,17,18 Brewster's angles are placed, and this quartz prism is opposite on the adjusting bracket and translation stage of scalable pitching and angle, the wherein translation stage of prism 17,18 design electing vertical adjusting as, move horizontally, its micrometer head extends to outside the laser oscillator loam cake, so that under the situation of not opening device outer case, can be only realize that by rotating micrometer head the startup of locked mode and pulsewidth, spectrum regulates.Change the long arm end quartz prism can change laser to 15,18 and 16,17 insertion amount output pulse width and spectrum.
Regulate plane total reflective mirror 11,12 and flat output mirror 13,14, incident ray is returned along former road, can realize the continuous oscillation of titanium precious stone laser.Further optimize the focal position of plano-concave total reflective mirror 6,8 in titanium gem crystal 3,4, and optimize the position of coupling cavity mirror 20,21,22,23, can realize the locked mode running.Laser can be realized by means of laterally moving of prism 17,18 from continuous jump to locked mode.
On the basis of realizing locked mode, regulate coupling cavity mirror 20,21,22,23 two bundle laser are fully overlapped in crystal 19, and optimize locked mode again, can produce stronger mutual position modulation, strengthen synchronous stability.Guarantee to make the chamber length of two laserresonators poor in the adjustment process<1cm.Synchronous femtosecond pulse output can be realized in position by translation stage fine setting plane total reflective mirror 12.Whole laser generation light path is 6cm apart from the height of base plate.
Incide photodiode after the signal attenuation with the two-way mode-locked laser pulse, the locked mode waveform on the signal input oscilloscope observation oscilloscope that again photodiode is produced.Under the triggering state, can see that two-way waveform one road is stable, other one tunnel drift.The position of fine setting plane total reflective mirror 12, when showing the stable waveform of two-way as shown in Figure 2 on the oscilloscope, laser promptly realized synchronously, even it is long at this moment to finely tune the chamber in certain scope, oscillographic sync waveform also remains unchanged.
Embodiment 2:
The concrete parameter of each element and installation are as embodiment 1.But adopt 13,14 to be the plane total reflective mirror, get bore 25.4mm, the K9 glass substrate of thickness 4mm is coated with the broadband deielectric-coating that under the vertical incidence 700~900nm is all-trans; Adopt 11,12 to be flat output mirror, get bore 25.4mm, the fused quartz substrate of thickness 4mm is coated with under the vertical incidence that transmitance is the deielectric-coating of 10%-20% in 750~850nm wave band.
Embodiment 3:
The concrete parameter of each element and installation are as embodiment 1.But bimorph crystal 19 adopts the quartz crystal of thickness 5mm cloth Shandong this special angle cutting of scholar.
Embodiment 4:
The concrete parameter of each element and installation are as embodiment 1.But plane mirror 12 is connected by piezoelectric ceramic with the two-dimensional adjustment mirror holder, utilizes external direct current power supply drive pressure electroceramics translated plane speculum 12.
Embodiment 5:
The concrete parameter of each element and installation are as embodiment 1.But titanium gem crystal 3,4 can be respectively or is replaced by the titanium gem crystal of this special angle cutting of 5 * 5 * 10mm cloth Shandong scholar simultaneously.
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1. high accuracy femtosecond laser method for synchronous, the gain media for the treatment of two synchronous femto-second lasers is separated with synchronous couplant, and make two lasers each with its gain media independently, then the vibration light beam of two lasers by in the chamber mutually cross-couplings in a kerr medium, realize that by the mutual position mudulation effect that produces synchronously, wherein two lasers gain media separately adopts medium of the same race or adopts different types of medium.
2. based on the high accuracy femtosecond laser synchronizer of the described high accuracy femtosecond laser of claim 1 method for synchronous, it is characterized in that, comprise two resonant cavitys and a coupling cavity, be provided with a gain crystal in two resonant cavitys separately, be provided with a bimorph crystal in the coupling cavity, overlap in the bimorph crystal of oscillating laser in two resonant cavitys in coupling cavity, produce position mudulation effect mutually, thereby realize synchronously; In addition, also comprise two respectively with the corresponding flat output mirror of two resonant cavitys, in above-mentioned resonant cavity and the coupling cavity respectively form device and described flat output mirror is installed on the base plate.
3. high accuracy femtosecond laser synchronizer as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that described resonant cavity comprises a condenser lens, a laser gain crystal, former and later two plano-concave total reflective mirrors, former and later two plane, low-angle broadband total reflective mirrors, former and later two quartz prisms; Described coupling cavity comprises a laser coupled crystal, two pairs of deielectric-coating plano-concave total reflective mirrors that are all-trans in femtosecond oscillating laser broadband; Two pairs of deielectric-coating plano-concave total reflective mirrors in the described coupling cavity are complementary with a resonant cavity respectively.
4. high accuracy femtosecond laser synchronizer as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that, described base plate is of a size of 800 * 400mm, the focal length of described condenser lens (1,2) is 10cm, described gain crystal and bimorph crystal are the ti sapphire crystal of Brewster's angle cutting, and size is 4 * 4 * 4mm; Described front and back plano-concave total reflective mirrors (5,6,7,8) are made by K9 glass, its radius of curvature is 100mm, bore is 12.7mm, thickness is 4mm, the concave surface of wherein preceding plano-concave total reflective mirror (5,7) is coated with double-colored deielectric-coating anti-reflection to 532nm and that the 700-900nm wave band is all-trans, the back side is coated with the anti-reflection film of 532nm pump light, and the concave surface of back plano-concave total reflective mirror (6,8) is coated with the broadband deielectric-coating that the 700-900nm wave band is all-trans; Plane, low-angle broadband, described front and back total reflective mirror (9,10,11,12) is the K9 glass substrate of thickness 4mm, is coated with the broadband deielectric-coating that under the 3-10 ° of incidence angle 700-900nm wave band is all-trans; Described flat output mirror (13,14) is the fused quartz substrate of thickness 4mm, is coated with under the vertical incidence that transmitance is the deielectric-coating of 10%-20% in the 700-900nm wave band; Described front and back prism (15,16,17,18) is the quartz prism of Brewster's angle cutting, prism to relative distance be about 80cm; Described deielectric-coating plano-concave total reflective mirror (20,21,22,23) is the semicircle mirror that is coated with 700-900nm wavelength broadband all-dielectric film.
5. high accuracy femtosecond laser synchronizer as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, described flat output mirror (13,14) is the plane total reflective mirror, and its substrate is the K9 glass of thickness 4mm, is coated with the broadband deielectric-coating that vertical incidence is all-trans to 700-900nm; Described back low-angle broadband plane total reflective mirror (11,12) is the broadband flat output mirror of vertical incidence, and its substrate thickness is the fused quartz of 4mm, is coated with under the vertical incidence that transmitance is the deielectric-coating of 10%-20% in the 700-900nm wave band.
6. high accuracy femtosecond laser synchronizer as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, the confocal setting of deielectric-coating plano-concave total reflective mirror that two couple in the described coupling cavity is all-trans to femtosecond oscillating laser broadband, and its curvature is 100mm.
7. high accuracy femtosecond laser synchronizer as claimed in claim 2, it is characterized in that, kerr medium in the described coupling cavity, be that described laser coupled crystal is the Brewster placement, or plate anti-reflection film and vertically place, material is Ti doped saphire or is the medium that quartz or BBO have strong Kerr effect.
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