EP3864726A1 - Système laser à ouvertures multiples - Google Patents

Système laser à ouvertures multiples

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EP3864726A1
EP3864726A1 EP19797570.9A EP19797570A EP3864726A1 EP 3864726 A1 EP3864726 A1 EP 3864726A1 EP 19797570 A EP19797570 A EP 19797570A EP 3864726 A1 EP3864726 A1 EP 3864726A1
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Bettina Limpert
Arno Klenke
Tino Eidam
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  • the invention relates to an optical system
  • splitting element that splits an input laser beam into a number of spatially separated partial beams
  • At least one optical amplifier through which the spatially separated partial beams propagate
  • At least one path length adjusting element which adjusts the path length of at least one of the partial beams
  • optical components eg of laser amplifiers, spectral broadening elements, transport fibers, optics (eg mirror surfaces, substrates, lenses) etc.
  • a limitation is due to thermal effects that occur above a certain average power and depend on the geometry of the element and external influences. As an example of these effects, a change in the output beam due to the occurrence of a thermal lens can be given in classic solid-state lasers.
  • the occurrence of mode instabilities due to thermal effects limits the achievable average output power.
  • non-linear effects also occur in the medium, such as self-phase modulation.
  • Nonlinear effects are used in elements for spectral broadening. But there are also limiting physical effects there. If solid-state materials in the form of crystals or fibers are used as non-linear media, then there is a limit for the pulse peak power, above all due to the self-focusing already described. If capillaries filled with noble gas are used as the non-linear medium, significantly higher pulse peak outputs are possible, although these can already be achieved with existing laser systems. In addition, the high intensity can lead to ionization of the gas, which is not desirable.
  • the strength of the Kerr effect can be reduced, which among other things. is responsible for the occurrence of self-focus.
  • the pulses are stretched in time before the amplification, so that the peak pulse power is correspondingly reduced during the amplification. After the amplification, the pulses are compressed again in time.
  • DPA Divided Pulse Amplification
  • DPNLC Divided Pulse Nonlinear Compression
  • Spatially separated amplifiers or spectral broadening elements can be used, the input beam being split into several partial beams by means of beam splitters. These are amplified or spectrally broadened in several spatially separated, independent optical elements / channels and finally combined again in one beam.
  • the temporal phase position of the individual partial beams is of fundamental importance, which must match in the sub-wavelength range.
  • the structure can ensure that this condition is met throughout. Otherwise active phase stabilization may be necessary.
  • the pulsed operation must ensure that the individual pulses overlap as precisely as possible when combined. A deviation leads to a reduction in the combination efficiency. With the spectrally identical combination, it is additionally necessary for the individual pulses in the channels themselves to have phase or amplitude profiles that are as identical as possible. Deviations here can also lead to a reduction in the combination efficiency (see J. Limpert, A. Klenke, M. Kienei, S. Breitkopf, T. Eidam, S. Hädrich, C. Jauregui, and A. Tünnermann, "Performance Scaling of Ultrafast Laser Systems by Coherent Addition of Femtosecond Pulses, "IEEE J.
  • filled aperture means the coherent superposition of the partial beams in the near and far field.
  • overlay efficiency theoretically up to 100%.
  • a challenge is the need for one or more elements Beam superimposition, which can lead to undesired performance-related effects in or on these elements.
  • an output laser beam with an enlarged aperture is artificially formed, which, when the individual emissions of the partial beams are superimposed in the far field, represents the diffraction pattern of the artificially formed aperture.
  • the advantage is that there is no need for a combination element, which makes this approach scalable for performance.
  • the limited combination efficiency of typically ⁇ 60% is clearly disadvantageous.
  • Various approaches to components for beam splitting and combination are known in connection with the “filled aperture” method. For example, beams can be split and combined using 1: 2 beam splitters.
  • a 1: 2 beam splitter can be implemented using a polarization-dependent beam splitter or a partially reflective surface. By cascading, several of these beam splitters can be used to achieve 1: N splitting. It is therefore possible to generate N partial beams.
  • the same principle can also be used for the combination, ie the superposition of several partial beams in one output beam.
  • the disadvantage is that the scalability of the number of channels is made more difficult by the number of necessary elements (1: 2 beam splitters). For example, 31 1: 2 beam splitters are required for a 1:32 beam splitter.
  • a 1: N beam splitter can alternatively be implemented as a monolithic diffractive element.
  • the individual partial beams have an angular dispersion that is not identical for the different beams.
  • the different angular dispersion must be eliminated when using ultra-short pulses by means of adapted compensating elements. This can also lead to a high number of necessary elements and make scaling to a high number of channels more difficult. This approach is therefore also very complex.
  • Beam splitters based on reflective elements with zones of different reflectivity offer an elegant solution. It is known from the prior art to use such elements in systems with beam division and spatially separated optical amplifiers (or spectral broadening elements) for the individual partial beams (see A. Klenke, M. Müller, H. Stark, F. Stutzki, C. Hupel, T. Schreiber, A. Tünnermann, and J. Limpert, "Coherently combined 16-channel multicore fiber laser system,” Opt. Lett. 43, 2018).
  • the required enlargement of the beam cross-section leads to ever increasing demands on the surface quality of optical surfaces or substrates (e.g. mirrors, gratings, thin-film polarizers, etc.) of optical components that are required in the beam path between the combination element and application (e.g. a workpiece to be machined).
  • optical surfaces or substrates e.g. mirrors, gratings, thin-film polarizers, etc.
  • performance-limiting effects occur, e.g. Ionization in gas-filled hollow core fibers or Kerr nonlinearity in air or substrates that prevent practical use of the increased performance.
  • the object of the invention to provide an optical system which is improved compared to the prior art.
  • a high beam quality is to be achieved in the output laser beam, the requirements for the surface quality of the optical components used being reduced.
  • the invention achieves this object on the basis of an optical system of the type specified in the introduction in that at least one optical functional element from the group of transport element, spectral broadening element, beam deflection element, optical isolator, optical modulator and arranged in the beam path behind the at least one optical amplifier Pulse compressor is provided, through which the spatially separated partial beams propagate.
  • the combination of the partial beams in the output laser beam thus takes place only after passing through the at least one optical functional element.
  • the invention is based on the basic idea of continuing the concept of beam splitting, ie the generation of partial beams propagating in parallel, followed by coherent combination.
  • the spatially separated propagation of the partial beams does not end after the optical amplification, but is maintained, for example, directly until the application (experiment / workpiece). Accordingly, there is initially no combination of the partial beams, rather the individual, spatially separated partial beams propagate through, for example, a pulse compressor, a spectral broadening element, a transport element, etc., until a combination takes place shortly before the beam exit opening of the system or even directly at the application site.
  • the input laser radiation (e.g. a laser source) is split into several channels, each channel being assigned to a partial beam.
  • the number of channels N should be greater than or equal to two.
  • This is followed by spatially separated optical amplification (e.g. by means of several parallel optical amplifier units).
  • the spatially separated, amplified partial beams are now sent in parallel as a multi-beam array in the most compact possible arrangement by one or more functional elements of the laser system.
  • These elements can include a pulse compressor, elements for power modulation or optical switches (e.g. electro- or acousto-optical modulators, EOMs or AOMs), optical isolators, several spatially separated elements for spectral broadening (e.g. hollow core fiber with several cores / capillaries) as well as the partial beams Elements for transporting the radiation to the application.
  • the advantage of this approach is that the beam areas of the individual apertures assigned to the partial beams do not have to be increased with the total power. Accordingly, we play for a potential deterioration in the wavefront quality due to the lower surface quality of the optical devices used Components in the beam path only matter surface deformations on a surface of the single aperture. This is typically excellent even with large substrates. In practice, the surface quality cannot usually be maintained at a high level over the entire surface of a component. This problem is avoided by the invention.
  • the deformations on the entire surface of the components used in the optical functional element only act as static path length differences in the arrangement according to the invention and can be easily compensated for by the (with N partial beams) N-1 path length adjusting elements which are required anyway for the coherent combination become.
  • the path length control elements also take on the tasks of segmented (spatially divided) adaptive optics that correct all wave front deformations in the overall system. Only any other optical components or substrates in the beam path behind the combination element must have an excellent surface quality.
  • the division element and / or the combination element are each designed as a diffractive beam splitter.
  • the division element and / or the combination element can preferably each be designed as a reflective element with zones of different reflectivity, as is known in principle from the prior art.
  • the division element and / or the combination element each have two or more reflective elements on which the laser radiation is reflected one or more times in succession, the partial beams forming a two-dimensional array in a plane transverse to the direction of propagation. This enables a compact parallel beam path of the partial beams to be realized.
  • an error signal detector which derives an error signal from the output laser beam or from the partial beams, and a controller which derives at least one control signal from the error signal for controlling the at least one path length control element.
  • This control loop can advantageously be used for active control of the coherent Overlay in the output laser beam can be used.
  • the regulation can take place, for example, according to the known LOCSET principle or by sequential phase stabilization (see A. Klenke, M. Müller, H. Stark, A. Tünnermann, and J. Limpert, “Sequential phase locking scheme for a filled aperture intensity coherent combination of beam arrays ”, Opt. Express 9, 12072-12080, 2018).
  • the at least one optical amplifier can advantageously be an optically pumped multicore waveguide doped with rare earth ions, in which a plurality of waveguide structures are integrated, each waveguide structure carrying one of the partial beams. This enables a particularly compact structure to be implemented. Any (thermal or acoustic) disturbances have an essentially identical effect on all partial beams, so that the coherent superimposition in the output beam is hardly impaired.
  • the amplifier can also be a volume-optical amplifier without a waveguide structure, in which all or part of the partial beams propagate.
  • the at least one path length adjusting element should be arranged in the beam path in front of the at least one optical amplifier. This means that the path length control element does not have to be designed for high outputs.
  • the spectral broadening element can also be a multi-core waveguide in which a plurality of waveguide structures are integrated, each waveguide structure carrying one of the partial beams.
  • the spectral broadening element can be a volume-optical element without a waveguide structure.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic illustration of an optical system according to the invention as a block diagram
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic illustration of an optical system according to the invention in one further development as a block diagram
  • an input laser beam coming from a laser source 1 is divided into N channels.
  • an arrangement of partially reflecting mirrors or polarizing beam splitters in a cascaded arrangement, diffractive elements or an arrangement of mirrors with zones of different reflectivity (see below) can serve as the division element 2.
  • the N spatially separated partial beams are now amplified in a spatially separated manner by means of an optical amplifier 4.
  • individual amplifiers e.g. fiber-based amplifiers
  • one or more multicore fibers which implement the concept of spatially separated amplification in a compact manner, can be used.
  • the path length actuators 3 required for controlling the coherent combination are ideally located in the beam path behind the splitting element 2 and in front of the optical amplifier 4. This includes, for example Piezo elements, EOMs or optical wedges that can be moved via actuators are possible.
  • the spatially separated propagation of the partial beams can now take place right up to the application.
  • Elements for beam deflection e.g. scanners, acousto-optical deflectors, etc.
  • elements for power modulation shutters, EOMs, AOMs, etc.
  • fiber-optic transport fibers e.g. multi-core fibers or multi-core hollow-core fibers
  • These elements are summarized with the reference number 5.
  • These elements are optical functional elements in the sense of the invention. It is also possible here that the deflection or modulation affects only a part of the partial beams.
  • the approach according to the invention has further advantages over the prior art.
  • the spatially separated, but as compact as possible arranged partial beams propagate through a pulse compressor (e.g. grating arrangement) as an optical functional element 5.
  • the partial beams do not exceed the thresholds of material destruction or non-linear pulse or beam degradation, since the Area scaling succeeds through the division into partial beams.
  • the beam combination can take place after the pulse compression.
  • the spatially separated partial beams can each be spectrally broadened beforehand. This can be done, for example, in spatially separated waveguides (e.g. glass fibers or gas-filled hollow core fibers).
  • the now spectrally broadened partial beams can then be compressed individually (for example by chirped mirrors) or propagated spatially separated until application.
  • further elements for beam or pulse modification can be run through. Elements for pulse selection, pulse or power modulation or beam deflection are conceivable. These functionalities are summarized in FIG. 1 overall with reference number 5.
  • the amplified, possibly spectrally broadened and modulated pulses can now propagate as spatially separated and collimated partial beams until application, before finally a coherent combination according to the “filled aperture” principle takes place at 6.
  • the division into N partial beams after the laser source 1 is achieved by using a mirror arrangement 2 (see FIG. 3) based on reflectors with zones of different reflectivity, which can produce a large number of partial beams in a compact design.
  • the N-1 path length adjusting elements are realized by a piezo array 3, the arrangement of which is adapted to the geometry of the partial beams.
  • the emitted laser radiation from the amplifying multicore fiber 4 is collimated and the resulting beam passes through a grating compressor 5 '.
  • the lattice compressor 5 ' there is a spectral broadening in a passive multi-core fiber or gas-filled multi-hollow core fiber 6'.
  • a multi-aperture propagation takes place at 7, for example in order to bridge the distance to the application 11 and / or to insert a power modulation or beam deflection.
  • a small fraction of the multi-aperture emission is directed onto a photodiode array 9 for the detection of an error signal.
  • a controller uses this to calculate the necessary corrections by the path length actuators 3.
  • the beam combination takes place at 8 as shortly before application 11 as possible. This is followed by pulse compression using chirped mirrors at 10.
  • FIG. 3 shows a division or combination element based on multiple reflection, as can be used in the exemplary embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the element consists of four sub-elements A, B, C, D.
  • the first sub-element A is a mirror with the highest possible reflectivity.
  • the second sub-element B comprises (in the example shown) four zones with different reflectivity.
  • the laser beams take the path shown in FIG. 3.
  • the reflectivities of the zones of the sub-element B can be selected such that the incident input laser beam EL is divided into partial beams in a certain ratio.
  • An example is a distribution in equal parts to all partial beams. This is achieved by choosing the reflectivities of the four zones at 75%, 66%, 50% and 0%.
  • the outgoing four partial beams then fall on plane-parallel surfaces of the two sub-elements C and D, which are tilted to the sub-elements A, B.
  • Sub-element C is again highly reflective.
  • the sub-element D in turn has four zones of different reflectivity (as before).
  • a two-dimensional array of 16 partial beams is generated in a plane perpendicular to the beam path.
  • the number of zones of different reflectivity in the sub-elements B and D can be any, in accordance with the desired number of partial beams, ie in accordance with the division ratio.
  • the combination element can be of identical design and can be arranged in such a way that the resulting path length differences of the 16 partial beams cancel each other out exactly. Due to the integration of the division or combination in a single element, a compact design is possible and easy adjustment is ensured. In addition, there is no angular dependence of the partial beams on the wavelength, so the element is also suitable for spectrally broadband radiation and therefore for use with ultrashort pulses.

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L'invention concerne un système optique comprenant un élément de répartition (2), qui répartit un rayon laser d'entrée (EL) en un nombre de rayons partiels séparés spatialement, au moins un amplificateur (4) optique, à travers lequel les rayons partiels séparés spatialement se propagent, au moins un élément de réglage de chemin parcouru (3), qui ajuste le chemin parcouru d'au moins un des rayons partiels, et un élément de combinaison (6, 8), qui superpose de manière cohérente les rayons partiels dans un rayon laser de sortie. L'invention vise à obtenir une qualité de rayon élevée dans le rayon laser de sortie, les exigences en matière de qualité de surface des composants optiques utilisés devant être réduites par rapport à l'état de la technique. L'invention propose à cet effet de prévoir au moins un élément fonctionnel (5, 5', 6', 7) optique disposé dans le profil de rayon derrière le ou les amplificateurs (4) optiques, issu du groupe comprenant un élément de transport, un élément de propagation spectral, un élément de déviation de rayon, un isolateur optique, un modulateur optique et un compresseur d'impulsions, à travers lequel les rayons partiels séparés spatialement se propagent.
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