CN203774604U - Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) passive mode-locking laser - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) passive mode-locking laser. The laser comprises a single-tube semiconductor laser, a self-focusing lens, a laser crystal, a plane-concave mirror a, a plane-concave mirror b, a plane mirror, an output mirror and a SESAM saturable absorber mirror. With utilization of the picoseconds laser technology, the energy flux density entering to the SESAM saturable absorber mirror must be high enough if mode locking is required to be realized; a resonant cavity is symmetrically arranged in a Z-shape, optical elements in the resonant cavity are independent from one another and are arranged in a compact manner, so the laser is simple in structure and small in size; and the SESAM is used as the mode-locking element, and the SESAM combines a semiconductor saturable absorber with a mirror, is simple, and has the advantages of being self-locking and excellent in stability, thereby enabling the resonant cavity to be simple and compact, and obtaining stable mode-locking pulses.
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Technical field
The utility model relates to a kind of SESAM laser with active-passive lock mould, belongs to laser mode locking technical applications.
Background technology
Picosecond laser technology is physics, chemistry, biology, optoelectronics, and the subject such as laser spectroscopy studies and disclose the important means of new ultrafast process to microcosmos.
At life science, picosecond laser can be used for correcting defects of vision, detects and accurately excises cancer, cerebral surgery operation, treatment aneurysm, openheart surgery, beauty treatment, treatment burn.
Manufacturing industry, picosecond laser can help extensive and low cost fabrication composite material effectively, can carry out the micro-processing of high-quality to metal and other industries material, the demand of laser fine processed and applied, impels pulse and photoelectron relaxation time, transition time similar and be as short as enough cold picosecond lasers melting and have huge development prospect.
In laser ranging field, picosecond laser range finding has high peak transmitted power, thereby has super ranging far away, and certainty of measurement is high, the advantage such as can work under without cooperative target condition.
As mentioned above, obtain application picosecond laser so widely, generally realize by mode-locking technique.People obtain reliable stable mode locking pulse output again in simple in structure pursuing, and research focus concentrates on active mode locking technique and passive mode locking is technical.Compared with active mode locking laser, SESAM laser with active-passive lock mould has the features such as simple and compact for structure, reliable and stable and good beam quality.
SESAM is semiconductor saturated absorption mirror, be a kind of by semiconductor saturable absorption material the optics together with combination.The pulse width that SESAM locked mode obtains than active mode locking, can obtain the even narrower pulsewidth of several psecs.Equally, with saturable absorption dyestuff ratio for passive mode locking, SESAM needs frequent replacing unlike dyestuff, has reduced to a great extent the cost of laser, and the while has also been strengthened the operability of laser.The ultra-short pulse laser obtaining by SESAM passive mode locking, has very large using value and development prospect in optical-fibre communications, medical science, the trickle processing of superfinishing, high density data storage and record, time resolved spectroscopy and nonlinear optics.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this utility model is to provide a kind of SESAM laser with active-passive lock mould, utilize picosecond laser technology, realizing locked mode, just must to make to incide energy-flux density on SESAM saturated absorption mirror enough high, exceed the locked mode threshold value of SESAM saturated absorption mirror, in this process, ensure that oscillation light and resonant cavity are strictly coaxial simultaneously, otherwise can due to not overlapping of gain space and laser generation space raises even the threshold value of laser can not bright dipping, ensure that pump light and oscillation light meet pattern matching, and make the spot size on laser crystal and SESAM saturable absorbing mirror suitable, meet these conditions and just can realize locked mode.
For achieving the above object, the technical solution adopted in the utility model is a kind of SESAM laser with active-passive lock mould,
This laser comprises single-tube semiconductor laser, GRIN Lens, laser crystal, plano-concave speculum a, plano-concave speculum b, plane mirror, outgoing mirror, SESAM saturated absorption mirror.
The GRIN Lens of mode-locked laser is placed between single-tube semiconductor laser and laser crystal; The resonant cavity of this mode-locked laser is two Z-shaped layouts; Laser crystal one side is connected with GRIN Lens; Plano-concave speculum a4 is placed in laser crystal opposite side, and described light path is injected the focus place before plano-concave speculum a incident behind the center of laser crystal; Plane mirror is placed in the focus place of light path after plano-concave speculum a reflection, and optical routing laser crystal level is injected plano-concave speculum a, and the angular range between incident light and the reverberation of plano-concave speculum a is 0～10 °; Described light path, after laser crystal, plano-concave speculum a, plane mirror, is just Z-shaped structure; Symmetrical with the just Z-shaped structure of laser crystal, plano-concave speculum a, plane mirror composition, outgoing mirror, plano-concave speculum b, the anti-Z-shaped structure of SESAM saturated absorption mirror composition; Wherein, described plane mirror, outgoing mirror are horizontal arrangement, outgoing mirror is placed in light path on the horizontal line of plane mirror reflection, plane mirror is positioned at plano-concave speculum b incident front focus place, SESAM saturated absorption mirror is positioned at plano-concave speculum b reflection back focus place, angular range between incident light and the reverberation of plano-concave speculum b is 0～10 °, through the refract light glancing incidence of plano-concave speculum b to SESAM saturated absorption mirror minute surface; Described just Z-shaped structure, anti-Z-shaped structure form the two Z-shaped structure that is arranged symmetrically with of resonant cavity jointly.
Compared with prior art, the utlity model has following beneficial effect.
1, resonant cavity adopts the symmetrical placement of Z-shaped, and the optics of resonant cavity is separate, and optics is placed compact, makes the simple volume of laser structure little.
2, resonant cavity selects SESAM as locked mode components and parts, SESAM is that semiconductor saturable absorber combines with speculum, and device is quite simple, has the advantage such as self-starting, good stability, make resonant cavity simpler, compact, and can obtain stable mode locking pulse.
Brief description of the drawings
Fig. 1 is SESAM laser with active-passive lock mould resonant cavity light path schematic diagram.
In figure: 1, single-tube semiconductor laser, 2, GRIN Lens, 3, laser crystal, 4, plano-concave speculum a, 5, plano-concave speculum b, 6, plane mirror, 7, outgoing mirror, 8, SESAM saturated absorption mirror.
Embodiment
Below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, the utility model is described in further detail.
As shown in Figure 1, a kind of SESAM laser with active-passive lock mould, this laser comprises single-tube semiconductor laser 1, GRIN Lens 2, laser crystal 3, plano-concave speculum a4, plano-concave speculum b5, plane mirror 6, outgoing mirror 7, SESAM saturated absorption mirror 8.
The GRIN Lens 2 of mode-locked laser is placed between single-tube semiconductor laser 1 and laser crystal 3; The resonant cavity of this mode-locked laser is two Z-shaped layouts; Laser crystal 3 one sides are connected with GRIN Lens 2; Plano-concave speculum a4 is placed in laser crystal 3 opposite sides, and described light path is injected the focus place before plano-concave speculum a4 incident behind the center of laser crystal 3; Plane mirror 6 is placed in the focus place of light path after plano-concave speculum a4 reflection, and optical routing laser crystal 3 levels are injected plano-concave speculum a4, and the angular range between incident light and the reverberation of plano-concave speculum a4 is 0～10 °; Described light path, after laser crystal 3, plano-concave speculum a4, plane mirror 6, is just Z-shaped structure; Symmetrical with the just Z-shaped structure that laser crystal 3, plano-concave speculum a4, plane mirror 6 form, outgoing mirror 7, plano-concave speculum b5, SESAM saturated absorption mirror 8 form anti-Z-shaped structure; Wherein, described plane mirror 6, outgoing mirror 7 are horizontal arrangement, on the horizontal line that the light path that is placed in outgoing mirror 7 reflects through plane mirror 6, plane mirror 7 is positioned at plano-concave speculum b5 incident front focus place, SESAM saturated absorption mirror 8 is positioned at plano-concave speculum b5 reflection back focus place, angular range between incident light and the reverberation of plano-concave speculum b5 is 0～10 °, through the refract light glancing incidence of plano-concave speculum b5 to SESAM saturated absorption mirror minute surface; Described just Z-shaped structure, anti-Z-shaped structure form the two Z-shaped structure that is arranged symmetrically with of resonant cavity jointly.
In whole mode-locked laser, be divided into two class light, i.e. oscillation light, resonant cavity output light; This pair of Z-shaped being arranged symmetrically with in structure, wherein, I, II, III are resonant cavity output light, and IV is oscillation light in resonant cavity; Single-tube semiconductor laser 1 is pumping source, plano-concave speculum a4, plano-concave speculum b5, plane mirror 6, outgoing mirror 7, SESAM saturable absorbing mirror 8 form resonant cavity, in the time there is locked mode oscillation light in resonant cavity, the ejecting end of the described laser crystal 3 through injecting after GRIN Lens 2 is with the angle of wedge, have the output of part locked mode light I, due to outgoing mirror 7 plated film in resonant cavity, ensure the transmitance of institute's plated film to oscillation light, in outgoing mirror 7 one side of resonant cavity dorsad, have and prolong locked mode light II, the III that in chamber, incident light and reverberation direction are exported respectively; Plane mirror 6, outgoing mirror 7 are horizontal arrangement, and IV is oscillation light in resonant cavity.
Described resonant cavity laser crystal 3 is can be Nd:YVO
4laser crystal, Nd:GdYVO
4laser crystal, Nd:YAG laser crystal; It injects the logical light face of end for square, and perpendicular to crystal a axle, and plated film meets oscillation light is all-trans, one of its ejecting end cutting that pump light is anti-reflection with inject the angle of wedge of holding into 10o, and plated surface oscillation light anti-reflection film.
Plano-concave speculum a4 and plano-concave speculum b5 radius of curvature equate, and plated surface is to the oscillation light film that is all-trans; Plane mirror 6 plated surfaces are to the oscillation light film that is all-trans; Outgoing mirror 7 plated surfaces have the reflectance coating of certain transmitance to oscillation light; SESAM saturated absorption mirror 8 surfaces are coated with the film that is all-trans to oscillation light, and logical light face be square, be placed in a gold plated copper heat sink on; All element surfaces are glancing incidence.
Embodiment
As shown in Figure 1, laser adopts end pumping mode, and end-pumped threshold is low, and delivery efficiency is high, and easily realizes basic mode running, good beam quality.Laser pump source adopts single-tube semiconductor laser 1 pump light wavelength to select 808nm, and laser crystal 3 is Nd:YVO
4crystal, Nd
3+ion doping concentration is the square that the logical light face of 0.5at.% is 4mm × 4mm, the crystal length that is parallel to optical direction is 5mm, laser crystal 3 meets 1064nm oscillation light is all-trans near one side (pump face) surface coating of pump light, 808nm pump light is anti-reflection, plated surface 1064nm anti-reflection film in resonant cavity, and have an angle of wedge (to prevent that etalon effect from affecting mode-locked laser pulsewidth) that becomes 10o with pump face.Plano-concave speculum a4 and plano-concave speculum b5 radius of curvature R=200mm, the concave surface plating 1064nm film (R>99.8%) that is all-trans.The plated surface 1064nm of plane mirror 6 in chamber be all-trans film, dorsad not plated film of the surface of resonant cavity.The part reflectance coating that the optical surface plating of outgoing mirror 7 in chamber is 1.5% to 1064nm transmitance, not plated film of the surface of resonant cavity dorsad.It is heat sink upper that SESAM saturable absorbing mirror is fixed on a gold plated copper, is greater than 99% at 1030nm to 1100nm place reflectivity, is 2% at the saturated absorption coefficient of the SESAM of 1064nm place, and saturation flux is 50 μ J/cm
2, saturated recovery time is less than 10ps.The pump light that single-tube semiconductor laser 1 sends focuses in laser crystal 3 after GRIN Lens 2, chamber mirror a4 is 130mm apart from the distance of laser crystal pump face, be 125mm apart from the distance of plane mirror 6, oscillation light incides on plane mirror 6 after plano-concave speculum a4, pass through successively again the reflection of outgoing mirror 7 and plano-concave speculum b5, finally be focused into and be mapped on SESAM saturated absorption mirror 8 minute surfaces, outgoing mirror 7 is 125mm apart from the distance of chamber mirror b5, chamber mirror b5 is 125mm apart from the distance of SESAM saturated absorption mirror 8, realizing locked mode, just must to make to incide energy-flux density on SESAM saturated absorption mirror enough high, exceed the locked mode threshold value of SESAM saturated absorption mirror, in this process, ensure strictly coaxial (otherwise the threshold value rising that can make laser due to not overlapping of gain space and laser generation space even can not bright dipping) of oscillation light and resonant cavity simultaneously, ensure that pump light and oscillation light meet pattern matching, and make the spot size on laser crystal and SESAM saturable absorbing mirror suitable, meet these conditions and just can realize locked mode.Detecting locked mode flashlight by oscillation light in the faint resonant cavity of laser crystal 3 wedge angle reflectives, in the time injecting pumping light power 3.8A, is 1.3W from the two-way locked mode light gross power of outgoing mirror output, realizes the stable output of mode-locked laser.
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1. a SESAM laser with active-passive lock mould, is characterized in that: this laser comprises single-tube semiconductor laser (1), GRIN Lens (2), laser crystal (3), plano-concave speculum a(4), plano-concave speculum b(5), plane mirror (6), outgoing mirror (7), SESAM saturated absorption mirror (8);
The GRIN Lens (2) of mode-locked laser is placed between single-tube semiconductor laser (1) and laser crystal (3); The resonant cavity of this mode-locked laser is two Z-shaped layouts; Laser crystal (3) one sides are connected with GRIN Lens (2); Plano-concave speculum a(4) be placed in laser crystal (3) opposite side, described light path is injected plano-concave speculum a(4 behind the center of laser crystal (3)) focus place before incident; Plane mirror (6) is placed in light path through plano-concave speculum a(4) reflection after focus place, optical routing laser crystal (3) level is injected plano-concave speculum a(4), plano-concave speculum a(4) incident light and reverberation between angular range be 0～10 °; Described light path is through laser crystal (3), plano-concave speculum a(4), after plane mirror (6), be just Z-shaped structure; With laser crystal (3), plano-concave speculum a(4), the just Z-shaped structure of plane mirror (6) composition is symmetrical, outgoing mirror (7), plano-concave speculum b(5), SESAM saturated absorption mirror (8) forms anti-Z-shaped structure; Wherein, described plane mirror (6), outgoing mirror (7) are horizontal arrangement, outgoing mirror (7) is placed in light path on the horizontal line of plane mirror (6) reflection, plane mirror (7) is positioned at plano-concave speculum b(5) incident front focus place, SESAM saturated absorption mirror (8) is positioned at plano-concave speculum b(5) reflection back focus place, plano-concave speculum b(5) incident light and reverberation between angular range be 0～10 °, through plano-concave speculum b(5) refract light glancing incidence to SESAM saturated absorption mirror minute surface; Described just Z-shaped structure, anti-Z-shaped structure form the two Z-shaped structure that is arranged symmetrically with of resonant cavity jointly;
In whole mode-locked laser, be divided into two class light, i.e. oscillation light, resonant cavity output light, this pair of Z-shaped being arranged symmetrically with in structure, wherein, I, II, III are resonant cavity output light, and IV is oscillation light in resonant cavity, single-tube semiconductor laser 1 is pumping source, plano-concave speculum a(4), plano-concave speculum b(5), plane mirror (6), outgoing mirror (7), SESAM saturable absorbing mirror (8) forms resonant cavity, in the time there is locked mode oscillation light in resonant cavity, the ejecting end of the described laser crystal (3) through injecting after GRIN Lens (2) is with the angle of wedge, have the output of part locked mode light I, due to outgoing mirror (7) plated film in resonant cavity, ensure the transmitance of institute's plated film to oscillation light, in outgoing mirror (7) one side of resonant cavity dorsad, have and prolong the locked mode light II that in chamber, incident light and reverberation direction are exported respectively, III, plane mirror (6), outgoing mirror (7) are horizontal arrangement, and IV is oscillation light in resonant cavity.
2. a kind of SESAM laser with active-passive lock mould according to claim 1, is characterized in that: described resonant cavity laser crystal (3) is for being Nd:YVO
4laser crystal, Nd:GdYVO
4laser crystal, Nd:YAG laser crystal; It injects the logical light face of end for square, and perpendicular to crystal a axle, and plated film meets oscillation light is all-trans, one of its ejecting end cutting that pump light is anti-reflection with inject the angle of wedge of holding into 10o, and plated surface oscillation light anti-reflection film.
3. a kind of SESAM laser with active-passive lock mould according to claim 1, is characterized in that: plano-concave speculum a(4) and plano-concave speculum b(5) radius of curvature equates, and plated surface is to the oscillation light film that is all-trans; Plane mirror (6) plated surface is to the oscillation light film that is all-trans; Outgoing mirror (7) plated surface has the reflectance coating of certain transmitance to oscillation light; SESAM saturated absorption mirror (8) surface is coated with the film that is all-trans to oscillation light, and logical light face be square, be placed in a gold plated copper heat sink on; All element surfaces are glancing incidence.
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