双端泵浦腔内和频紫外激光器的实验研究.pdfVIP

摘 要 LD 双端泵浦紫外激光器既具有激光二极管泵浦效率高、光束质量好、结构紧 凑和寿命长等优点，同时也具有紫外激光器波长短、衍射效应小、穿透力强、分 辨率高、单光子能量大等特色。在军事、科研、工业和农业等各个领域都获得了 广泛的应用。随着性能优良的紫外波段非线性光学晶体和增透膜技术的提高，以 及在激光器的光学模式选择和谐振腔结构优化设计上的重大成就，使得紫外激光 器在效率、功率、稳定性和光束质量上都有长足的进步。 本文以二能级系统替代四能级系统来讨论调 Q 状态下的速率方程，分析了产 生巨脉冲调 Q 开关的几种方法，详细阐述了非线性晶体和频与倍频理论，分析了 哪些参数可以使非线性转化效率更高，比较了几种常用的增益晶体和非线性晶体 的特性并根据本实验的特点来选取适用的晶体；讨论了四种调 Q 开关的优缺点来 确定最适宜的方法，设计了半导体泵浦光纤耦合输出后的准直聚焦透镜装置，可 直接计算出泵浦光到增益晶体表面光斑的半径。 实验中为了获得高功率全固态 355nm 紫外激光器，采用平凹腔结构，通过 LD 双端泵抽运 Nd:YVO4 晶体，在声光 Q 开关调制作用下产生 1064nm 脉冲基频光，利 用两块LBO晶体分别进行腔内倍频、和频产生355nm紫外激光。在LD抽运功率54W, 调制频率40kHz的条件下，获得紫外的最高输出功率为6.67W，脉冲宽度为20ns, 2 M =1.1。最终结果表明，腔内和频可得到高效率，高光束质量的紫外激光输出。 关键词：紫外激光器，非线性变换，Nd:YVO ，LBO，热效应 4 I ABSTRACT LD double-end-pumped UV laser not only have high efficiency, good beam quality, compact structure and long life, etc. but it also have UV laser short wavelength, small diffraction effect, strong penetrating power, high resolution, single photon energy characteristics, etc. Usually used in various field of military, scientific research, industrial and agricultural. With develop of the nonlinear optical crystal in ultraviolet band and AR coating technology. And major breakthrough of the resonator structure designed and optical mode selection, making the UV laser have made considerable progress in the efficiency, power, stability and beam quality. In this paper, we used two-level system to replace the four-level system to discuss the Q-state rate equation, and analyze several method of generated giant pulse Q-switched. Elaborated nonlinear crystal and