WO2003065519A1 - Element optique - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an optical element, and particularly to a YAG laser.
- the thermal birefringence effect induced by excitation in solid-state laser materials is a serious problem in achieving high power and high quality lasers. This is because it causes bifocalization and deborization of a linearly polarized beam (reference [1]).
- the light propagation direction is set to the (11 1) axis direction
- the light propagation direction is caused by the photoelastic effect due to the thermally induced strain generated accompanying the excitation.
- birefringence thermo birefringence
- the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has as its object to provide an optical element that can significantly reduce a thermal birefringence effect.
- the light propagation direction is selected to be other than the (111) axis direction of the crystal belonging to the equiaxed system, and the birefringence effect based on the photoelastic effect due to the stress induced symmetrically in the center is reduced. It is characterized by the following.
- the light propagation direction is the 0) It is characterized by choosing the direction.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the measurement results of the polarization direction dependence of deborization.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a calculation result of an absorption excitation power dependency of devolatilization according to the present invention.
- Fig. 3 shows the relationship between the absorption excitation power of the devolatilization on the (111), (100) and (110) planes calculated using the theory of References [5] and [6]. It is a figure which shows dependency.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the relationship between 0 and ⁇ on the (111), (100) and (110) planes.
- FIG. 5 is, Omegaganma in each side 2 / gamma.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the exact dependence of devolatilization on the absorption excitation power in the (111), (100) and (110) planes in case (1).
- FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the low absorption power region in FIG. 6 in the horizontal direction.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the dependence of the devolatilization on the absorption excitation power based on the measurement results in the (111), (100) and (110) planes.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the dependence of deborization on absorption excitation power on the (111), (100) and (110) planes in the case of / 4.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a measurement result of the polarization direction dependence of the devolatilization.
- the horizontal axis shows the polarization angle e P (degree)
- the vertical axis shows the devolarization D poI .
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a calculation result of the absorption pump power dependence of the devolarization according to the present invention.
- the horizontal axis is the absorption pump power Pab (W)
- the vertical axis is the devolarization power.
- the inventors of the present invention again calculated the dependence of the devolatilization on the absorption excitation power in consideration of the effect. No matter how large the absorption excitation power was, the angle between the crystal axis and the 45 ° in the (100) plane was changed. It has been clarified that depolarization can be reduced to less than half with linearly polarized light in the (111) plane with linearly polarized light (see the solid line in Fig. 2).
- Deborization is defined as the ratio of the polarization angle extinction power to the original linearly polarized laser light, and is given by the following equation.
- Each point ( ⁇ ,) on a plane perpendicular to the beam propagation direction (Z axis) in a cylindrical rod ⁇ ) the total amount D of devolatilization is
- FIG. 6 the radius r a of the laser beam is the rod radius r.
- the figure shows the exact dependence of the depolarization on the absorption exciton and the degree of absorption excitation when.
- FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the low absorption power region in FIG.
- r is r. If it is large enough, 0 will be close to ⁇ . In other words, the direction of the eigenvector at each point is almost radial and tangential.
- ⁇ r.
- the amount of devolatilization in the (100) plane is only half of that in the (111) plane, but in the (110) plane, ⁇ itself is smaller in the (111) plane than in the (111) plane. Despite being large, it is reduced to almost 1/50 of the (111) plane.
- the YAG laser is described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to the YAG laser and can be applied to an optical element using another equiaxed crystal system crystal. It is possible to reduce the devolatilization of the optical element.
- the thermal birefringence effect can be reduced by simply selecting the propagation direction of light other than the (111) axis direction.
- the devolarization can be reduced by one or more digits without compensation compared to the case of using the (111) cut medium.
- the optical element of the present invention can greatly reduce the thermal birefringence effect by selecting the direction of light propagation to the (110) direction of the crystal, and can be used as a solid-state laser that solves thermal problems. It is suitable.
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