CN210779471U - Optical fiber laser and cooling device thereof - Google Patents
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A fiber laser and a cooling device thereof relate to the technical field of fiber lasers, the fiber laser comprises a gain fiber, the cooling device is provided with a fiber runway for coiling the fiber, the fiber runway comprises an annular gain fiber runway for coiling the gain fiber, and the gain fiber is coiled on the gain fiber runway to form the same shape with the runway. Each circle of the gain optical fiber runway is mainly formed by smoothly splicing 4 sections of a second-class arc runway section with the bending radius of R2 and 4 sections of a first-class arc runway section with the bending radius of R1 for realizing bending mode selection of the coiled optical fiber, the first-class arc runway section and the second-class arc runway section are spliced alternately, the circle center of the first-class arc runway section is positioned in the gain optical fiber runway ring, the circle center of the second-class arc runway section is positioned outside the gain optical fiber runway ring, and R1 is smaller than R2. The leakage of pump light can be reduced, and the light-light conversion efficiency and the output power are improved.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a fiber laser technical field.
Background
The high-power optical fiber laser instrument has the outstanding advantages of high efficiency, small volume, excellent beam quality, stable and reliable work, strong environmental adaptability and the like, and has wide application prospect in the fields of photoelectric countermeasure, industrial processing and the like. In recent years, new progress and breakthrough are continuously made in fiber materials, devices and system integration technologies, people gradually put forward requirements on higher output power and better beam quality for fiber lasers, and especially put forward specific requirements on single-fiber high-power single-mode in military.
The fiber laser includes a resonator fiber serving as a resonator and a gain fiber serving as a gain medium. At present, the diameter of a fiber core of a gain fiber of a fiber laser is large, generally in the range of 20-40 μm, and a few or even tens of light guide modes are transmitted in the fiber core, so that a laser beam close to a single-mode diffraction limit cannot be realized, and the beam quality is poor. The bend mode selection technique is the most common way to achieve high beam quality laser beams. Since the laser power originally transmitted in the form of guided mode in the core is partially converted into radiation mode when the fiber is bent, and the radiation mode escapes from the core to form loss, but since different modes in the core have different propagation constants and mode field distributions, the sensitivity of different modes to the bending of the fiber is greatly different. Under the same condition, the bending sensitivity of the high-order mode is far greater than that of the fundamental mode, and the proper bending radius is selected for the gain-increasing optical fiber in the optical fiber laser, so that the gain of the high-order mode can be effectively inhibited, and the beam quality of the output laser is improved, namely the bending mode selection technology.
In the prior art, an optical fiber is usually bent into a circular ring shape, and bending mode selection can be realized by selecting a proper bending radius. The bending length is not too long for realizing the bending mode selection effect, but the length of the gain fiber is generally longer, and most of the gain fiber is usually bent and coiled into a circular ring together with the part of the bending mode selection in order to reduce the volume of the fiber laser. The bending radius for realizing bending mode selection is generally smaller, the leakage of pump light is more serious under the condition that the bending radius of the optical fiber is smaller, the light-light conversion efficiency is lower, and the output power of the optical fiber laser is reduced. Moreover, when the bending mode selection is carried out in a region with a smaller bending radius, the leakage of pump light is serious, the hot spots are concentrated in the existing annular coiling mode, the heat dissipation is not facilitated, and the improvement of the output power of the optical fiber laser is also limited. In addition, the existing circular ring-shaped coiling mode needs more coiling turns.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In view of this, the utility model provides a fiber laser, its pump light reveals less, and light-to-light conversion efficiency is higher, can improve output, realizes high beam quality high power laser output more easily.
In order to achieve the above object, the following technical solutions are proposed.
The optical fiber laser comprises a gain optical fiber, wherein the gain optical fiber comprises a gain coiling section which is bent and coiled into a ring, each ring of the gain coiling section is formed by smoothly splicing 4 sections of a second type of circular arc optical fiber section with the bending radius of R2 and 4 sections of a first type of circular arc optical fiber section with the bending radius of R1, the first type of circular arc optical fiber section and the second type of circular arc optical fiber section are spliced alternately, the circle center of the first type of circular arc optical fiber section is in the ring of the gain coiling section, the circle center of the second type of circular arc optical fiber section is outside the ring of the gain coiling section, and R1 is smaller than R2.
The utility model discloses among the ground fiber laser, gain fiber is every to coil the round, has the bending radius to be the part of R1 to carry out crooked mode selection, also has the bigger part of bending radius (R2), with the revealing that reduces the pump light, thereby improve light-light conversion efficiency and output. And moreover, the first-class arc optical fiber sections and the second-class arc optical fiber sections are spliced alternately, so that the first-class arc optical fiber sections which are small in bending radius and used for bending mode selection are relatively dispersed, heating points are distributed and dispersed, heat dissipation is facilitated, the output power of the optical fiber laser can be improved, and high-beam-quality and high-power laser output is realized more easily. In addition, equal length's gain optic fibre, the utility model discloses an among the fiber laser, the number of turns of coiling of gain optic fibre still less.
Preferably, R1 is 4cm to 10 cm. The bending mode selection effect is better.
Preferably, R2 is 20cm to 80 cm. Therefore, on one hand, the leakage of pump light can be effectively reduced, and on the other hand, the volume of the laser can be considered, so that the volume of the laser is kept small.
Preferably, the included angle between the two end points of each first type of arc-shaped optical fiber section and the connecting line of the circle center of the arc-shaped optical fiber section is less than 90 degrees. On the basis of ensuring the effect of bending and mode selection, the length of the first type of arc optical fiber section is controlled not to be too long, the leakage of pump light is further reduced, and the heat productivity of each section of the first type of arc optical fiber section is balanced.
And the resonant cavity optical fiber comprises a resonant coil section which is bent and coiled into a circular ring shape, and the resonant coil section is arranged in the gain coil section ring. The space can be fully utilized, the weight of the optical fiber laser is reduced, and the light weight is realized.
Preferably, the radius of curvature R3 of the resonant coil section is 4cm-8 cm.
The utility model also provides a cooling device of fiber laser, it can let the pumping light of fiber laser reveal less, improves light-to-light conversion efficiency and output to the point that can disperse to generate heat does benefit to the heat dissipation and improves output.
In order to achieve the above object, the following technical solutions are proposed.
The cooling device of the optical fiber laser is provided with an optical fiber runway for coiling an optical fiber, the optical fiber runway comprises an annular gain optical fiber runway for coiling the gain optical fiber, each circle of the gain optical fiber runway is formed by smoothly splicing 4 sections of a second type of arc runway section with the bending radius of R2 and 4 sections of a first type of arc runway section with the bending radius of R1 for realizing bending mode selection of the coiled optical fiber, the first type of arc runway section and the second type of arc runway section are spliced alternately, the circle center of the first type of arc runway section is in the ring of the gain optical fiber runway, the circle center of the second type of arc runway section is outside the ring of the gain optical fiber runway, and R1 is smaller than R2.
Adopt the utility model discloses a cooling device, on its fiber track, gain fiber winds the round every time, has the bending radius to be the part of R1 to carry out crooked mode selection, also have the bigger part of bending radius (R2), with the revealing of reduction pump light, thereby improve light-to-light conversion efficiency and output. And moreover, the first type of arc runway section and the second type of arc runway section are spliced alternately, so that the part of the optical fiber for bending and selecting the mode, which is coiled and has a small bending radius, is dispersed, heating points are distributed and dispersed, heat dissipation is facilitated, and the output power of the optical fiber laser can be improved. In addition, equal length's gain optic fibre adopts the utility model discloses a cooling device, gain optic fibre coil the number of turns still less.
Furthermore, the optical fiber runway also comprises a ring-shaped resonant cavity optical fiber runway used for coiling the resonant cavity optical fiber, and the resonant cavity optical fiber runway is arranged in the gain optical fiber runway ring.
Preferably, the radius R3 of the resonant cavity fiber track is 4cm-8 cm.
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Fig. 1 shows a shape of a gain optical fiber runway and a shape of a gain winding section of a gain optical fiber of a fiber laser wound by one turn on the gain optical fiber runway in one embodiment of a cooling apparatus of a fiber laser of the present invention;
fig. 2 shows the shape of the gain fiber track and the resonator fiber track, the shape of the gain winding section of the gain fiber of the fiber laser wound in one circle on the gain fiber track, and the shape of the resonator fiber wound in one circle on the resonator fiber track.
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1-gain optical fiber runway, gain coiling section; 11-a first type circular arc runway section and a first type circular arc optical fiber section; 12-a second arc runway section and a second arc optical fiber section;
2-resonant cavity optical fiber runway and resonant coil section.
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The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the following specific examples.
The optical fiber laser comprises a cooling device, a resonant cavity optical fiber and a gain optical fiber, wherein an optical fiber runway for coiling the optical fiber is arranged on the cooling device. As shown in fig. 1, the optical fiber runway includes an annular gain optical fiber runway 1 for coiling a gain optical fiber, the gain optical fiber runway 1 is mainly formed by smoothly splicing 4 sections of a second-type arc runway section 12 with a bending radius of R2 and 4 sections of a first-type arc runway section 11 with a bending radius of R1, the first-type arc runway section 11 is used for realizing bending mode selection of the coiled optical fiber, the first-type arc runway section 11 and the second-type arc runway section 12 are alternatively spliced, the circle center of the first-type arc runway section 11 is within the gain optical fiber runway 1 ring, the circle center of the second-type arc runway section 12 is outside the gain optical fiber runway 1 ring, and R1 is smaller than R2. The part of the gain optical fiber coiled on the gain optical fiber runway 1 is a gain coiling section 1, each coil of the gain coiling section 1 is formed into a shape which is formed by smoothly splicing 4 sections of second-class circular arc optical fiber sections 12 with the bending radius of R2 and 4 sections of first-class circular arc optical fiber sections 11 with the bending radius of R1 for bending mode selection along with the shape of the gain optical fiber runway 1, the first-class circular arc optical fiber sections 11 and the second-class circular arc optical fiber sections 12 are spliced alternately, the circle center of the first-class circular arc optical fiber sections 11 is in the gain coiling section 1 ring, and the circle center of the second-class circular arc optical fiber sections 12 is outside the gain coiling section 1 ring. The gain fiber has a portion with a bending radius of R1 for bending mode selection and a portion with a larger bending radius (R2) for reducing leakage of pump light for each turn of the gain fiber, thereby improving optical-to-optical conversion efficiency and output power. And, first type circular arc fiber section 11 and second type circular arc fiber section 12 splice in turn to let the first type circular arc fiber section 11 that is used for bending mode selection that bending radius is little more disperse, and the point that generates heat is dispersed, more does benefit to the heat dissipation, thereby can improve the output of fiber laser. In addition, the number of turns of the gain fiber is smaller in the fiber laser of the embodiment with the same length of the gain fiber.
Preferably, an included angle between two end points of each first-type arc optical fiber section 11 and a connecting line of a circle center of the arc optical fiber section is less than 90 °, and correspondingly, the same is true for each first-type arc runway section 11, so that on the basis of ensuring the effect of bending and mode selection, the length of the first-type arc optical fiber section 11 is controlled not to be too long, the leakage of pump light is further reduced, and the heat productivity of each first-type arc optical fiber section 11 is balanced.
In the embodiment, preferably, R1 is 4cm-10cm, and R2 is 20cm-80 cm. The laser can be applied to a fiber laser with a single resonant cavity structure, and can realize the output of laser beams with the near diffraction limit of 1 kW-3 kW level. The above-mentioned preferable ranges of R1 and R2 are not necessarily a combination, and there is no necessary relationship between them.
The cooling device is specifically a water cooling plate, and the ring of the gain optical fiber runway 1 of the water cooling plate can be hollowed out to reduce the weight.
As shown in fig. 2, the optical fiber runway of the cooling device further includes a ring-shaped resonant cavity optical fiber runway 2, the resonant cavity optical fiber runway 2 is used for coiling the resonant cavity optical fiber, and the resonant cavity optical fiber runway 2 is arranged in the ring of the gain optical fiber runway 1. The part of the resonant cavity optical fiber coiled on the resonant cavity optical fiber runway 2 is a resonant coiling section 2, and the resonant coiling section 2 is arranged in the gain coiling section 1. Preferably, the radius R3 of the resonant cavity optical fiber runway 2 and the resonant coil section 2 is 4cm-8 cm. Thus, the space can be fully utilized, the weight of the optical fiber laser is reduced, and the light weight is realized. The laser is applied to the optical fiber laser with a main oscillation control amplification MOPA structure, and can realize the laser output with 3 kW-10 kW-level high beam quality.
It should be finally noted that the above embodiments are only intended to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, and not to limit the scope of the present invention, and although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the technical solutions of the present invention can be modified or replaced with equivalents without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the present invention.
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1. The optical fiber laser comprises a gain optical fiber, wherein the gain optical fiber comprises a gain coiling section which is bent and coiled into a ring shape, and the gain coiling section is characterized in that each circle of the gain coiling section is formed by smoothly splicing 4 sections of a second type circular arc optical fiber section with the bending radius of R2 and 4 sections of a first type circular arc optical fiber section with the bending radius of R1, the first type circular arc optical fiber section and the second type circular arc optical fiber section are spliced alternately, the circle center of the first type circular arc optical fiber section is in the ring of the gain coiling section, the circle center of the second type circular arc optical fiber section is outside the ring of the gain coiling section, and R1 is smaller than R2.
2. The fiber laser of claim 1, wherein R1 is 4cm to 10 cm.
3. A fibre laser as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterised in that R2 is between 20cm and 80 cm.
4. The fiber laser of claim 1, wherein the angle between the two end points of each first arc-shaped fiber section and the line connecting the centers of the arc-shaped fiber sections is less than 90 °.
5. The fiber laser of claim 1, further comprising a resonator fiber including a resonant coil segment that is bent into a circular shape, the resonant coil segment being disposed within the gain coil segment loop.
6. The fibre laser of claim 5 wherein the bending radius R3 of the resonant coil section is between 4cm and 8 cm.
7. The cooling device of the optical fiber laser is provided with an optical fiber runway for coiling the optical fiber, wherein the optical fiber runway comprises an annular gain optical fiber runway for coiling the gain optical fiber, and is characterized in that each circle of the gain optical fiber runway is formed by smoothly splicing 4 sections of a second type of arc runway section with the bending radius of R2 and 4 sections of a first type of arc runway section with the bending radius of R1 for realizing bending mode selection of the coiled optical fiber, the first type of arc runway section and the second type of arc runway section are spliced alternately, the circle center of the first type of arc runway section is positioned in the gain optical fiber runway ring, the circle center of the second type of arc runway section is positioned outside the gain optical fiber runway ring, and R1 is smaller than R2.
8. The fiber laser cooling apparatus of claim 7 wherein the fiber racetrack further comprises a resonator fiber racetrack that is configured to be a ring around which the resonator fiber is wound, the resonator fiber racetrack being disposed within the gain fiber racetrack ring.
9. The fiber laser cooling apparatus of claim 8 wherein the radius R3 of the cavity fiber racetrack is 4cm to 8 cm.
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