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中国物理学会期刊

种子注入螺旋手性控制的调Q涡旋固体激光器特性

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.74.20250667

Characteristics of Q-switched vortex solid-state laser with spiral chirality controlled by injection seeding

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.74.20250667
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  • 对固体激光器进行模式控制可以产生涡旋光通信、目标探测等需要的高质量涡旋光. 在调Q脉冲运行状态下, 同一角向阶次相反螺旋手性光场的选择成为调Q涡旋固体激光器目前面临的一个主要技术瓶颈. 提出将小功率种子涡旋光注入谐振腔中进行脉冲激光手性选择, 建立了种子注入下多光场速率方程模型, 研究了阈值注入信噪比、单脉冲能量、径向模谱等特性. 结果表明: 阈值注入信噪比随模式角向阶次升高而上升, 抽运功率、输出镜反射率和谐振腔长度增大均使阈值注入信噪比升高. 注入状态下单脉冲能量与自由运转状态下单脉冲能量的比值随角向阶次的升高有所下降, 增加抽运功率、减小输出镜反射率、减小谐振腔长度可使该值升高. 适当的激光器参数下, 谐振腔对种子光的径向模谱具有一定的净化作用. 本文的手性控制方案及研究结果可为涡旋光激光器的研究提供参考.

     

    Optical vortex beam has wide application prospect in fields such as optical communication, lidar detection and optical trapping. To increase the operating distance, a high-power vortex laser source are required in these applications. Control of the spiral chirality of the Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) mode has become a key problem in Q-switched pulsed solid-state vortex lasers. In this work, we present an injection seeding method to control the spiral chirality of the LG mode in Q-switched laser cavity. The schematic of the method is shown in Fig. (a). A small power continuous wave vortex beam with determined chirality is injected into the laser cavity, with the gain medium pumped by a ring-shaped beam. The light field with the same spiral chirality as the injected beam will exceed the light field with the opposite spiral chirality, and the chirality purity will increase as the injected power increases. The threshold injected signal-to-noise ratio increases with the angular order of the LG mode increasing, this is due to the reduced overlap of the standing wave patterns of the opposite chiral beams. The signal-to-noise ratio of threshold injection also increases as the pumping power and the reflectivity of the output mirror increase. The ratio of the pulse energy under injection to the pulse energy under free running decreases with the angular order rising. This ratio increases with the pumping power rising, and decreases with the reflectivity of the output mirror increasing. The seeding beam generated by spiral phase modulation of the fundamental mode beam always has a wide radial spectrum. The radial spectrum of the beam generated by second order spiral phase modulation of the fundamental mode beam is shown in Fig. (b). Under an appropriate ring width of the pumping beam, this radial spectrum can be purified in the Q-switched laser cavity as shown in Fig. (c). Therefore, the spiral phase modulated beam can be used as a seeding source to generate high-purity vortex pulse.

     

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