WO2015167115A1 - 광섬유 레이저 장치 및 광섬유 레이저 제공방법 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a fiber laser device. Specifically, the present invention relates to a fiber laser device and a fiber laser providing method capable of implementing a high power pulse laser.
- a laser device is a light source that supplies suitable energy to a material so that electrons can emit photons, and uses a mirror to cause the photon to repeatedly pass through the material to generate laser light.
- the laser device continues to grow in the background of the advancement of the optical communication field, the increasing demand for industrial lasers, and the growth of medical applications.
- fiber lasers have been developed and used in various fields. The fiber laser is continuously expanding its field of application with advantages such as excellent laser beam characteristics, excellent stability, and ease of maintenance.
- a pulse laser having a narrow line width is required in order for light input to the laser device to be output at another wavelength through wavelength conversion.
- a pulse type fiber laser having a narrow line width for efficient wavelength conversion is required.
- a photonic crystal fiber or a large-mode-area double clad fiber (hereinafter referred to as LMA DCF or double clad optical fiber) having a core size of several tens of um is used.
- the photonic crystal fiber has an advantage of having excellent beam quality, it is difficult to construct a high power all fiber laser due to difficulty in connecting optical fibers.
- the LMA DCF is a large-diameter optical fiber connector, so that the connection between the optical fibers can be easily performed, thereby making it easy to produce an optical fiber laser in the form of an all-optical fiber.
- the structure of the LMA DCF has a core of several tens of um in size, and consists of several hundred um of inner cladding and an outer cladding surrounding it.
- the optical fiber structure of the LMA DCF will be described.
- the rare earth metal is doped in the core, and the NA (numeric aperture) is about 0.04 to 0.08.
- the inner cladding guides the excitation light and the NA is about 0.4 to 0.5.
- the outer clad may be acrylic having a lower refractive index than the inner clad.
- the diameter of the inner cladding is approximately 5-20 times that of the core.
- the excitation light guided by the inner clad is absorbed in the region overlapping the core, that is, the excitation light passes through the core, but the light absorption does not occur because the outside of the core is not doped. Therefore, when the excitation light is distributed in the inner clad, the light absorption rate of the excitation light per unit length is lower than when the excitation light is advanced to the core and the excitation light is distributed only on the core.
- the absorption rate of the excitation light is indicated by the core absorption rate and the absorption rate when the excitation light is guided by the inner clad as the clad absorption rate.
- the clad absorption per unit length of the optical island rate varies depending on the structure of the individual optical fiber, but falls approximately by the inverse of the area ratio compared to the core absorption rate. For example, if the diameter of the inner cladding is 5 to 20 times larger than the diameter of the core, the clad absorption is about 25 to 400 times the area ratio.
- the excitation light cannot be sufficiently absorbed, and the efficiency is low. If the LMA DCF optical fiber is too long, the signal light is absorbed and efficiency is lowered. In consideration of this point, in general optical fiber lasers, it is common to allow light absorption of about 90% of the excitation light.
- a method of generating a low power seed beam and amplifying the high power through an amplifier is generally used.
- the diameter of the fiber In order to generate a high power laser beam in a fiber laser, the diameter of the fiber should be increased. However, if the diameter of the optical fiber is large, there is a disadvantage that the spatial mode of the laser beam does not generate in a single mode but occurs in multiple modes. Therefore, in order to maintain the quality of the output beam in a single mode, the core size of the optical fiber cannot be enlarged indefinitely, thereby limiting the maximum output of the optical fiber laser.
- the length of the optical fiber In order to generate an efficient laser beam in the fiber laser, the length of the optical fiber must be adjusted to sufficiently absorb the excitation light.
- the length of the optical fiber is limited by nonlinear phenomena such as stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS).
- SBS stimulated Brillouin scattering
- SRS stimulated Raman scattering
- the SBS threshold light output is To Is given in the form of.
- a SBS represents an effective cross-sectional area where an optical fiber and a laser beam react
- g eff represents an SBS effective gain coefficient
- L eff represents an effective optical fiber length.
- the threshold of the SRS is To Where A R is the effective cross-sectional area, g R is the Raman gain factor, and L is the fiber length.
- a method of increasing the absorption rate per unit length of the excitation light can be considered. That is, the doping concentration of the doping ions in the optical fiber can be increased. However, when the doping concentration is increased, the photodarkening and the like generally increase, which causes problems that are not suitable for use as a laser gain medium.
- the LMA DCF optical fiber a method of obtaining a high power fiber laser under conditions in which the length of the optical fiber, the diameter of the optical fiber, and the concentration of the doping ions of the optical fiber are limited, wherein the excitation light is directed to the core so as to increase the light absorption rate in the optical fiber.
- a light source in which the NA of the excitation light is smaller than the NA of the optical fiber core is required, and an optical coupler capable of combining the excitation light and the signal light is required.
- the NA of the output beam is 0.16 to 0.4, so it cannot be bonded to the core and guided.
- an optical coupler capable of combining high output excitation light and signal light as a core in the LMA DCF is not possible.
- the present invention has been developed through repeated studies by the inventors under the above-described background, in a fiber laser, an optical fiber laser device and an optical fiber for obtaining a high power fiber laser even under conditions in which the length and diameter of the optical fiber and the concentration of the doping ion are limited.
- a fiber laser device includes a seed portion for providing at least two seed lights having different wavelengths; and an amplifying portion for amplifying the at least two seed lights, wherein the amplifying portion has a shorter wavelength than the seed light.
- a method of providing a fiber laser comprising: providing at least two seed lights having different wavelengths; Preamplifying the at least two seed lights using excitation light of different wavelengths using a first amplified optical fiber; Amplified seed light having a shorter wavelength among the at least two seed light amplified is used as excitation light, and finally amplifies the amplified seed light having the longest wavelength among seed light using a second amplified optical fiber; And output after the final amplification.
- a laser having a high peak power can be obtained while using the same optical fiber.
- the present invention by shortening the length of the optical fiber as much as possible, it is possible to obtain an optical fiber laser device having a pulse output having a high peak output while using the same optical fiber.
- a small diameter optical fiber can be used while having a high peak output, so that a single mode laser beam can be easily obtained, thereby improving the quality of the laser beam.
- FIG. 1 is a simplified block diagram of an optical fiber laser device illustrating the operation and principle of the present invention.
- FIGS. 2 and 3 show an energy level table of a laser medium having various energy levels.
- FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of an optical fiber laser device according to the embodiment.
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a fiber laser according to an embodiment.
- 1 is a schematic block diagram of an optical fiber laser device for explaining the operation and principle of the invention.
- a final amplifier (3) for amplifying and outputting another seed light by using one seed light of the two seed lights as excitation light, and a collimator for irradiating the laser light emitted in parallel and a controller 5 including at least a collimator 4 and a synchronization driver 15 for synchronizing the two seed lights.
- the seed part 1 includes a first seed light source 6 for providing a first seed light having a first wavelength ⁇ 1 and a second seed light source for providing a second seed light having a second wavelength ⁇ 2 ( 7) and an optical coupler 8 for coupling the light provided from the first and second seed light sources 6 and 7.
- the preamplifier 2 includes excitation light sources 9 and 10 for providing excitation light having a third wavelength? 3, amplified optical fibers 11 for amplifying seed light using the excitation light, and reverse light.
- An optical isolator 12 to remove and an optical filter 13 for performing optical filtering are included.
- At least one preamplifier 2 may be provided and placed in series along a light path. The relationship between the first wavelength, the second wavelength, and the third wavelength may be provided with the first wavelength being the longest, the second wavelength being the next, and the third wavelength being the shortest. Such interrelationships of wavelengths are equally applicable to the following description of the present specification.
- the amplified optical fiber 14 is provided in the final amplifier 3 so that the second seed light of the second wavelength is used as the excitation light, thereby amplifying the first seed light of the first wavelength.
- the final amplifier 3 may not be provided with a separate excitation light source.
- the first seed light amplified by the final amplifier 3 passes through the collimator 4 and exits to the irradiated object as parallel light.
- optical fiber laser device The operation of the optical fiber laser device will be described in detail.
- the first seed light irradiated from the first seed light source 6 may be provided as a pulse having a short pulse width
- the second seed light irradiated from the second seed light source 7 may be provided as a continuous output CW. have.
- These seed lights are combined in the optical coupler 8 and amplified in the amplified optical fiber 11 by excitation light of the third wavelength in the preamplifier 2.
- the preamplifier 2 may be provided in plural in series so that the seed light may be continuously amplified.
- the second seed light may be driven by a pulse.
- the second seed light may be driven with a longer pulse than the first seed light.
- the first seed light and the second seed light are preferably synchronized with each other by the synchronization driver 15. This is to effectively perform the output of the optical fiber laser device.
- the pulse width of the second seed light and the time delay or the time leading to the first seed light of the second seed light may vary depending on the specific fiber laser device.
- the second seed light of the second wavelength is absorbed by the amplified optical fiber 14 to serve as excitation light.
- the first seed light of the first wavelength is continuously amplified and output from the amplified optical fiber 14.
- FIGS. 2 and 3 are diagrams showing energy level tables of laser media having various energy levels.
- various types of absorption and generation wavelengths may be combined according to the generation wavelength or absorption wavelength of the dopant.
- excitation light is incident on a wavelength having a large absorptivity, and laser signal light is generated in a wavelength region where absorption is almost absent (in the case of FIG. 2). If the laser is generated in the absorption region, the laser efficiency decreases due to reabsorption. However, if the distribution of the upper level is sufficiently large due to the strong excitation light, the laser signal can be generated even in the region where there is absorption (in the case of FIG.
- [lambda] 1 (first wavelength) can be a generated wavelength with little absorption
- ⁇ 1 when a fairly strong excitation light having a wavelength of ⁇ 3 is incident on the laser medium to increase the distribution of higher levels, not only ⁇ 1 but also ⁇ 2 can be generated.
- the two seed lights of the first wavelength and the second wavelength are incident by using excitation light of the third wavelength
- the two seed lights are amplified and output.
- the amplification efficiency may vary according to the intensity of the excitation light and the intensity of each seed light
- the first seed light of the first wavelength which is generally a wavelength band without absorption, may be mainly amplified.
- the first seed light when the first seed light is operated with a short pulse and the second seed light is incident on the continuous output, only the signal of the second seed light is amplified while the optical signal of the first seed light is not incident, and the first seed is lighted.
- signals of two wavelengths are simultaneously amplified according to respective wavelength amplification efficiencies.
- the amplification efficiency of the two seed lights may vary depending on the pulse width and the gain efficiency of each seed light.
- the amplification efficiency of the two seed lights will be described in detail.
- the amplified optical fiber 11 of the preamplifier 2 excited by the continuous output excitation light is combined and amplified together with the pulsed first seed light and the second output light signal of the continuous output, amplification according to each wavelength is performed. If the rates do not differ significantly, the first seed light is amplified only for the duration of the pulse, and the second seed light of continuous output is amplified continuously.
- the pulse width of the optical signal of the first seed light is t p
- the period is T
- the period T is significantly smaller than the saturation time of the laser medium and T >> t p
- the energy ratio per unit time of the optical signal to be amplified is approximately t p : T.
- the pulse width is 10ns and the pulse period is 10us
- the energy per unit time according to the wavelength is about 1000 times different.
- the output energy per unit time according to the wavelength may vary depending on the amplification factor for each wavelength and the incident light intensity of each wavelength in a specific laser system, but may be expressed in a form proportional to the duty ratio of a pulse. That is, it can be expressed in a form proportional to t p : T.
- the optical signal of the second wavelength where the second seed light is amplified is Absorbed by the medium to act as excitation light, the optical signal of the first wavelength is continuously amplified and output.
- the optical signal of the second wavelength proceeds to the core of the optical fiber.
- the optical signal of the second wavelength which serves as excitation light in the final amplifier 3 is generated in the core of the optical fiber, the NA of the laser beam of the second wavelength generated is identical to the NA of the core, so that a separate optical coupler Is not necessary. Therefore, when the optical signal of the second wavelength is incident on the final amplifier 3 having no separate excitation light, it can serve as the excitation light acting in the core excitation method.
- a case where the excitation light is guided to the core of the optical fiber can obtain a core absorptivity (a concept of high light absorption as contrasted with the clad absorptivity when the excitation light is guided to the inner clad). . Therefore, compared with the clad excitation method that provides the clad absorption, the absorption per unit length is large, so that sufficient absorption is possible with a short optical fiber length, and the peak output of the optical signal of the first wavelength can be further increased.
- FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of an optical fiber laser device according to the embodiment.
- the description given for the configuration of FIG. 1 for explaining the principles of the present invention shall be applied as it is.
- a seed part 20 providing a first seed light having a first wavelength having a different wavelength and a second seed light having a second wavelength, and two seeds provided by the seed part 20.
- a first preamplifier 30 and a second preamplifier 40 for amplifying light; an optical signal of the first wavelength and an optical signal of the second wavelength amplified by the preamplifier 30, 40;
- a final amplifier 50 for amplifying and outputting the optical signal of the first wavelength by using the optical signal of the second wavelength as excitation light, a collimator 60 for irradiating the emitted laser light in parallel, and the two
- a controller 70 is included which includes at least a synchronization driver 71 for synchronizing the seed light.
- the seed part 20 includes a first seed light source 21 for providing a first seed light having a first wavelength ⁇ 1 and a second seed light source for providing a second seed light having a second wavelength ⁇ 2 ( 22 and an optical coupler 23 for coupling the light provided from the first and second seed light sources 21 and 22.
- the first seed light source 21 and the second seed light source 22 may be configured as a laser diode, and may be configured as a laser resonator.
- the first seed light source 21 and the second seed light source 22 may include respective amplifiers.
- the second preamplifier 40 includes excitation light sources 41 and 42 for providing excitation light having a third wavelength? 3, amplified optical fibers 43 for amplifying seed light using excitation light, and vice versa.
- An optical isolator 44 for removing the true light and an optical filter 45 for performing optical filtering are included.
- the final amplifier 50 is provided with an amplified optical fiber 51 so that the optical signal of the second wavelength can be used as the excitation light, thereby amplifying the optical signal of the first wavelength.
- the final amplifier 50 is not provided with a separate excitation light source.
- the first seed light amplified by the final amplifier 50 passes through the collimator 60 and exits as parallel light.
- the first preamplifier 30 may be configured as a single mode optical fiber to amplify the seed light in a core excitation method with a low output.
- the optical fibers of the second preamplifier 40 and the final amplifier 50 may be formed of an LMA DCF having a core diameter of 25 ⁇ m and an inner clad diameter of 250 ⁇ m.
- the second preamplifier 40 may perform amplification by the clad excitation method, and the final amplifier 50 may amplify the output light by the core excitation method.
- the length of the amplified optical fiber 43 of the second preamplifier 40 may be composed of a few m
- the amplified optical fiber 51 of the final amplified part 50 may be composed of several tens of cm.
- Ytterbium is added to the amplified optical fibers 43 and 51, and a Yb optical fiber laser is generally an optical fiber laser that outputs a wavelength in the 1030 to 1100 nm band.
- excitation light having a wavelength of 915 to 940 nm band and 970 to 985 nm band may be used.
- the wavelength of the seed light is 1030 ⁇ 1080nm and 970 ⁇ 985nm, the wavelength of the excitation light may be used 915 ⁇ 940nm.
- the first wavelength of the first seed light source 21 uses 1064 nm and the second wavelength of the second seed light source 22 uses 976 nm.
- the excitation light is driven by a continuous output.
- the two seed lights are combined and input to the first preamplifier 30, and the first and second seed lights are amplified according to the respective amplification rates in the first amplifier 31 composed of the single mode optical fiber.
- the energy ratio per unit time of the first seed light in the form of pulse and the second seed light in the continuous output is approximately proportional to the pulse operating ratio of the first seed light, and thus the signal having the wavelength of 976 nm, which is a form of continuous output. Has much greater energy.
- the output of the single mode optical fiber is amplified to a higher power in the second preamplifier 40 composed of the clad excitation LMA DCF.
- the output optical signal of the preamplifier 30 and 40 is incident to the final amplifier 50 having no excitation light.
- an optical signal of 976 nm (second wavelength) amplified by the preamplifier 30, 40 is absorbed, and an optical signal of 1064 nm (first wavelength) is continuously amplified. It is output through the collimator 60.
- an optical signal having a pulse width of about 10 ns and a wavelength line width of about 0.1 nm may have a high peak output.
- the nonlinear phenomenon causes damage to the laser device. Therefore, the peak output of the optical signal is limited to about several tens of kW.
- the preamplifier amplifies the peak output of the optical signal of the first wavelength only a few kW and the optical signal of the second wavelength is also driven by the continuous output or the long pulse, so that the energy per unit time is increased and the peak output is increased.
- the amplified optical fiber 51 of the final amplifier 50 has a length of about several tens of cm, it is possible to amplify the peak output of the first wavelength optical pulse to a level of several hundred kW without the nonlinear effect.
- the length of the amplified optical fiber 51 of the final amplifier 50 is shortened because the core absorption rate can be obtained by amplifying the light absorption output light of the excitation light by the core excitation method.
- the core excitation method is possible because the NA of the laser beam of the second wavelength optical signal operating as the excitation light coincides with the NA of the core.
- the length of the amplified optical fiber 51 is sufficient as the length of 1/2 ⁇ 1/1400 compared to the length of the amplified optical fiber having a clad absorption of 90% when the other conditions are the same.
- the optical signal of the second wavelength (wavelength of the second seed light) amplified by the excitation light of the third wavelength is used as the excitation light in the amplified optical fiber 51 of the final amplifier 50.
- the optical signal of the first wavelength is subjected to at least two stages of amplification.
- the amplification optical fibers 51 of the final amplification part 50 are tens of centimeters long after the first amplification is performed in the preamplification part 30, 40 without a nonlinear phenomenon at a peak output lower than the core size. Due to the short, it can be amplified second to hundreds of kW without nonlinear phenomenon.
- the short length of the amplified optical fiber 51 is because the core excitation effect can be obtained as described.
- the overall amplification efficiency may be inferior to that of other fiber laser devices, but there is an effect of producing a large peak output using optical fibers having the same core size.
- the present invention is not limited to the optical fiber laser device according to the above-described specific embodiment and may further include various configuration examples.
- the following further suggests other embodiments that fall within the scope of the same idea.
- the wavelength of the seed light and the wavelength of the excitation light presented in the above embodiment are not limited to the cases shown in the embodiment.
- select a short wavelength with absorption as excitation light and strongly excite as excitation light with other wavelength as excitation light as the second seed light.
- the first seed light can select the output wavelength as the final pulse.
- two or more seed lights may be provided to be amplified, and then, in the final amplifier, another seed light may be operated as excitation light with respect to a wavelength of one seed light providing an output wavelength.
- the optical fiber is not limited to the Yb-doped optical fiber, and an optical fiber to which other dopants such as Nd, Er, and Tm are added can be used sufficiently.
- amplified optical fibers to which different types of ions are added may be used for each amplification unit. At this time, the operation of the optical fiber laser device can be achieved by making the output wavelength of the preamplification part coincide with the absorption wavelength of the amplified optical fiber of the final amplification part.
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a fiber laser providing method according to an embodiment.
- At least two seed lights having different wavelengths are provided (S1). At this time, one of the at least two seed light may be the output wavelength. Thereafter, the two seed lights are amplified using excitation light having different wavelengths (S2). At this time, the wavelength of the excitation light is preferably shorter than the wavelength of the two seed light. The amplified seed light having the shorter wavelength among the at least two seed light amplified thereafter is used as the excitation light, and the amplified seed light having the longest wavelength among the seed light is amplified again (S3). The seed light amplified in two stages is emitted (S4).
- optical fiber laser device having a pulse output with a large peak output even in the case of optical fiber laser devices of the same size and length.
- a small diameter optical fiber can be used to improve the quality of the laser beam.
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- 파장이 다른 적어도 두 개의 씨드광을 제공하는 씨드부: 및상기 적어도 두 개의 씨드광을 증폭하는 증폭부가 포함되고,상기 증폭부에는, 파장이 상기 씨드광보다 짧은 여기광을 이용하여 상기 적어도 두 개의 씨드광을 증폭하는 전치증폭부; 및별도의 여기광원이 제공되지 않고, 상기 적어도 두 개의 씨드광 중에서 파장이 가장 긴 씨드광에 대하여, 다른 씨드광은 여기광으로 작용하여, 상기 파장이 가장 긴 씨드광이 증폭되는 최종증폭부가 포함되는 광섬유 레이저 장치.
- 제 1 항에 있어서,상기 최종증폭부에는 LMA DCF가 증폭광섬유로 사용되고, 상기 증폭광섬유는 코어여기방식으로 상기 파장이 가장 긴 씨드광을 증폭하는 광섬유 레이저 장치.
- 제 2 항에 있어서,상기 증폭광섬유의 길이는, 90%의 클래드 흡수율을 가지는 증폭광섬유의 길이에 비하여 1/2~1/400의 길이로 제공되는 광섬유 레이저 장치.
- 제 3 항에 있어서,상기 씨드광은 두 개이고, 상기 증폭광섬유에는 이터븀(Yb)이 첨가되고, 어느 하나의 씨드광의 파장은 1030~1080nm이고, 다른 하나의 씨드광의 파장은 970~985nm이고, 상기 여기광의 파장은 915~940nm인 광섬유 레이저 장치.
- 제 1 항에 있어서,상기 파장이 가장 긴 씨드광은 짧은 펄스인 광섬유 레이저 장치.
- 제 1 항에 있어서,상기 파장이 가장 긴 씨드광을 제외하는 씨드광은 연속출력 또는 긴 펄스인 광섬유 레이저 장치.
- 제 1 항에 있어서,상기 전치증폭부와 상기 최종증폭부에는 증폭광섬유가 제공되고, 각각의 증폭광섬유에는 같거나 다른 희토류가 첨가되고, 상기 희토류에는 Yb, Nd, Er, 및 Tm가 포함되는 광섬유 레이저 장치.
- 제 1 항에 있어서,상기 씨드광을 동기화시키기 위한 동기화 드라이버가 포함되는 광섬유 레이저 장치.
- 서로 다른 파장의 적어도 두 개의 씨드광을 제공하는 것;제 1 증폭광섬유를 이용하여 다른 파장의 여기광을 이용하여 상기 적어도 두 개의 씨드광을 전치증폭하는 것;증폭된 상기 적어도 두개의 씨드광 중 파장이 짧은 증폭된 씨드광이 여기광으로써 사용되어, 씨드광 중에서 파장이 가장 긴 증폭된 씨드광을, 제 2 증폭광섬유를 이용하여 최종증폭하는 것; 및최종증폭된 다음에 출사되는 것이 포함되는 광섬유 레이저 제공방법.
- 제 9 항에 있어서,상기 제 1 증폭광섬유는 클래드여기방식으로 증폭이 수행되고, 상기 제 2 증폭광섬유는 코어여기방식으로 증폭이 수행되는 광섬유 레이저 제공방법.
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