搜索

x
中国物理学会期刊

高重频宽调谐太赫兹参量振荡器的研究

Study of High-Repetition-Rate Widely Tunable Terahertz Parametric Oscillator

PDF
导出引用
  • 高重频宽调谐太赫兹辐射源在物质光谱检测、快速成像等领域有着迫切需求.本文理论分析了太赫兹参量过程净增益的影响因素,明确了泵浦光能量密度对太赫兹波输出功率与调谐范围的影响.实验中,基于高重频电光调Q 1064 nm激光器泵浦氧化镁掺杂的铌酸锂晶体(MgO:LiNbO3,MgO:LN),实现了重复频率4kHz、调谐范围为1.05-4.96THz的太赫兹波输出,实验与理论计算能够很好地吻合。且当泵浦功率为28W时,在1.7THz处获得的太赫兹波最大平均功率为120µW,对应的能量转换效率为4.3×10-6,峰值功率约为10.3W.

     

    In applications such as material detection and imaging, terahertz radiation sources with high repetition rates can significantly shorten the sample inspection time and terahertz sources with a broad tuning range can effectively enrich spectroscopic information and expand the range of detectable materials. To address the difficulty in simultaneously achieving high repetition rate, wide tuning range, and high output power in existing terahertz sources, this work theoretically and experimentally investigates the output characteristics and underlying physical mechanisms of a high-repetition-rate, broadly tunable terahertz parametric oscillator (TPO) based on an MgO:LN crystal.First, starting from the stimulated polariton scattering (SPS) process, a net-gain model for the terahertz parametric process is established to systematically analyze the effects of pump peak power density, pump beam size, and crystal absorption on the terahertz generation efficiency and tuning range. The theoretical results show that appropriately increasing the pump energy density can enhance the terahertz parametric gain and effectively extend the tuning capability toward the high-frequency side. Experimentally, a high-repetition-rate electro-optically Q-switched 1064 nm laser is used as the pump source to construct the MgO:LN-based TPO. By optimizing the phase-matching angle and the pump beam size, continuous terahertz-wave output is achieved with a repetition rate of 4 kHz and a frequency tuning range of 1.05-4.96 THz. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical analysis. When the pump power is 28 W, a maximum average output power of 120 μW is obtained at 1.7 THz, corresponding to an energy conversion efficiency of 4.3×10-6 and an estimated peak power of about 10.3 W. Further analysis indicates that in the high-frequency terahertz region, a higher pump peak power density helps overcome the losses caused by crystal absorption, thereby improving the output power and broadening the accessible tuning range.

     

    目录

    /

    返回文章
    返回