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激光介质热效应引起的谐振腔模场结构变化成为高功率涡旋激光器的一个关键问题. 本文建立了环形光泵浦薄片激光晶体的温度场及热形变计算模型, 将热效应像差作为谐振腔衍射积分方程的微扰, 研究热效应对激光器模场结构的影响规律. 具体研究了Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF和Nd:YVO4薄片涡旋激光器的模场结构随泵浦功率、晶体吸收系数、晶体厚度的变化规律. 研究结果表明, 热效应使涡旋激光器模谱产生径向展宽, 模式纯净度下降. 泵浦功率越大, 高阶径向模式占比越大, 模场结构越复杂. 泵浦功率升高时, Nd:YVO4激光器的模谱展宽最大, Nd:YAG激光器的模谱展宽最小. 晶体吸收系数越大, 模谱展宽越严重; 激光晶体厚度减小时, 模谱展宽呈增宽趋势.Optical vortex beam has wide applications in areas of optical communication, lidar detection and optical trapping. To increase the operating distance, a high-power vortex laser source is necessary in these applications. However, the purity of the output vortex beam decreases with the pump power increasing due to the thermal effect of the laser medium. Therefore, modal field degeneration induced by thermal effect of laser medium has become a key problem in high-power vortex solid-state laser. To investigate this modal field degeneration, the heat transfer and thermal deformation model of an annular beam end pumped thin-disk vortex laser (Fig. (a)) is established. The phase difference of the thermal effect is calculated based on this model. Then, the quadratic term is separated from the phase difference. The non-quadratic term, as a small perturbation, is substituted into the diffraction integral equation of the laser cavity. The modal field structure is obtained by using the perturbation method. The variations of the modal structure with pump power, absorption coefficient and crystal thickness are investigated for three kinds of laser crystals, i.e. Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF and Nd:YVO4. The results show that the modal field under thermal effect presents obvious deviation from the ideal mode at high power, and the modal structure shows that it contains many higher-order radial modes, with the angular mode order unchanged. Hence, the radial modal spectrum is broadened by the thermal effect. For an ideal vortex laser without thermal effect operating on the radial mode order 0 and angular mode order 1, Fig. (b) shows the modal structures with thermal effect under different pump power values with a laser crystal thickness of 1 mm. The ratio of the higher-order modes increases and the modal structure becomes more and more complex with the pump power increasing. The ratios of the ideal mode are 0.99, 0.97, 0.90, 0.79 and 0.61, under the pump power of 10 W, 20 W, 40 W, 60 W and 100 W, respectively. Moreover, the Nd:YVO4 laser has the largest and the Nd:YAG laser has the smallest modal spectrum broadening under the same pump power. Figure (c) shows the variation of the modal purity with the pump power. The modal purity of the Nd:YVO4 and the Nd:YLF laser decrease to 0.35 and 0.44 at the pump power of 100 W, respectively. We also investigate the modal structures under different absorption coefficients and crystal thickness values. A larger absorption coefficient or a smaller crystal thickness leads to a larger radial modal spectrum broadening and a smaller modal purity. These results indicate that in the design of high-power thin-disk vortex laser, it is necessary to comprehensively optimize the disk thickness and the absorption coefficient, and consider modal spectrum broadening as well.
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Keywords:
- solid-state laser /
- vortex beam /
- thermal effect /
- radial modal spectrum broadening
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图 1 环形光端面泵浦薄片涡旋激光器结构
Fig. 1. Schematic of an annular beam end pumped thin-disk vortex laser.
图 2 Nd:YAG温度和热形变分布 (a)三维温度分布; (b)三维热形变分布; (c)剖面温度; (d)剖面形变
Fig. 2. Temperature and thermal deformation of Nd:YAG crystal: (a) 3D temperature distribution; (b) 3D deformation distribution; (c) temperature in the section plane; (d) deformation in the section plane.
图 3 不同泵浦功率下3种晶体的温度及热形变 (a) Nd:YAG温度; (b) Nd:YAG形变; (c) Nd:YLF温度; (d) Nd:YLF形变; (e) Nd:YVO4温度; (f) Nd:YVO4形变
Fig. 3. Temperature and thermal deformation of the three laser crystals under different pump power: (a) Temperature of Nd:YAG; (b) deformation of Nd:YAG; (c) temperature of Nd:YLF; (d) deformation of Nd:YLF; (e) temperature of Nd:YVO4; (f) deformation of Nd:YVO4.
图 4 温度及热形变随泵浦功率的变化 (a) 最高温度; (b) 最高温度与中心温差; (c) 最大热形变; (d) 最大热形变与中心热形变差
Fig. 4. Variation of temperature and thermal deformation with pump power: (a) Maximum temperature; (b) difference between the maximum temperature and the center temperature; (c) maximum thermal deformation; (d) difference between the maximum thermal deformation and the center thermal deformation.
图 5 不同泵浦功率下的模场分布和模谱结构 (a) Nd:YAG模场; (b) Nd:YAG模谱; (c) Nd:YLF模场; (d) Nd:YLF模谱; (e) Nd:YVO4模场; (f) Nd:YVO4模谱
Fig. 5. Mode distribution and mode structure under different pump power: (a) Nd:YAG mode distribution; (b) Nd:YAG mode structure; (c) Nd:YLF mode distribution; (d) Nd:YLF mode structure; (e) Nd:YVO4 mode distribution; (f) Nd:YVO4 mode structure.
图 7 不同吸收系数下3种晶体的温度及形变 (a) Nd:YAG温度; (b) Nd:YAG形变; (c) Nd:YLF温度; (d) Nd:YLF形变; (e) Nd:YVO4温度; (f) Nd:YVO4形变
Fig. 7. Temperature and deformation of the three laser crystals under different absorption coefficient: (a) Temperature of Nd:YAG; (b) deformation of Nd:YAG; (c) temperature of Nd:YLF; (d) deformation of Nd:YLF; (e) temperature of Nd:YVO4; (f) deformation of Nd:YVO4.
图 8 温度及热形变随吸收系数的变化 (a) 最高温度; (b) 最高温度与中心温度差值; (c) 最大热形变; (d) 最大热形变与中心热形变差值
Fig. 8. Variation of temperature and thermal deformation with absorption coefficient: (a) Maximum temperature; (b) difference between the maximum temperature and the center temperature; (c) maximum thermal deformation; (d) difference between the maximum thermal deformation and the center thermal deformation.
图 9 不同吸收系数下的模场分布和模谱结构 (a) Nd:YAG模场; (b) Nd:YAG模谱; (c) Nd:YLF模场; (d) Nd:YLF模谱; (e) Nd:YVO4模场; (f) Nd:YVO4模谱
Fig. 9. Mode distribution and mode structure under different absorption coefficient: (a) Nd:YAG mode distribution; (b) Nd:YAG mode structure; (c) Nd:YLF mode distribution; (d) Nd:YLF mode structure; (e) Nd:YVO4 mode distribution; (f) Nd:YVO4 mode structure.
图 10 模式纯净度随吸收系数的变化
Fig. 10. Variation of the modal purity with absorption coefficient.
图 11 不同厚度下3种晶体的温度及热形变 (a) Nd:YAG温度; (b) Nd:YAG形变; (c) Nd:YLF温度; (d) Nd:YLF形变; (e) Nd:YVO4温度; (f) Nd:YVO4形变
Fig. 11. Temperature and thermal deformation of the three laser crystals under different crystal thickness: (a) Temperature of Nd:YAG; (b) deformation of Nd:YAG; (c) temperature of Nd:YLF; (d) deformation of Nd:YLF; (e) temperature of Nd:YVO4; (f) deformation of Nd:YVO4.
图 12 温度及热形变随晶体厚度的变化 (a) 最高温度; (b) 最高温度与中心温度差值; (c) 最大热形变; (d) 最大热形变与中心热形变差值
Fig. 12. Variation of temperature and thermal deformation with crystal thickness: (a) Maximum temperature; (b) difference between the maximum temperature and the center temperature; (c) maximum thermal deformation; (d) difference between the maximum thermal deformation and the center thermal deformation.
图 13 不同厚度下的模场分布和模谱结构 (a) Nd:YAG模场; (b) Nd:YAG模谱; (c) Nd:YLF模场; (d) Nd:YLF模谱; (e) Nd:YVO4模场; (f) Nd:YVO4模谱
Fig. 13. Mode distribution and mode structure under different thickness: (a) Nd:YAG mode distribution; (b) Nd:YAG mode structure; (c) Nd:YLF mode distribution; (d) Nd:YLF mode structure; (e) Nd:YVO4 mode distribution; (f) Nd:YVO4 mode structure.
激光晶体 密度/
(kg·m–3)杨氏模量/GPa 泊松比 热膨胀系数/K–1 热导率/
(W·m–1·K–1)$ {{{\text{d}}n} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{{\text{d}}n} {{\text{d}}T}}} \right. } {{\text{d}}T}} $/K–1 Nd:YAG 4560 317 0.25 7.5×106 14 7.3×10–6 Nd:YLF 3990 85 0.33 8.3×106 6.3 –6.6×10–6 Nd:YVO4 4220 133 0.33 4.43×106 5.2 8.5×10–6 
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