Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
2 Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Frequency modulation (FM)-to-amplitude modulation (AM) conversion is an important factor that affects the time–power curve of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) high-power laser facilities. This conversion can impact uniform compression and increase the risk of damage to optics. However, the dispersive grating used in the smoothing by spectral dispersion technology will introduce a temporal delay and can spatially smooth the target. The combined effect of the dispersive grating and the focusing lens is equivalent to a Gaussian low-pass filter, which is equivalent to 8 GHz bandwidth and can reduce the intensity modulation on the target to below 5% with 0.3 nm @ 3 GHz + 20 GHz spectrum phase modulation. The results play an important role in the testing and evaluating of the FM-to-AM on the final optics and the target, which is beneficial for comprehensively evaluating the load capacity of the facility and isentropic compression experiment for ICF.
dispersion grating frequency modulation-to-amplitude modulation conversion high-power laser facility inertial confinement fusion phase modulation High Power Laser Science and Engineering
2024, 12(1): 010000e9
1 中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所高功率激光物理联合实验室，上海 201800
2 中国科学院大学材料与光电研究中心，北京 100049
薄片激光器可以实现高峰值功率、高平均功率、高光束质量的激光输出，是高重复频率皮秒泵浦源的关键技术之一。基于Yb∶YAG单薄片激光模块设计并搭建了再生放大系统，连续泵浦下获得了平均功率为40.9 W、重复频率为1 kHz、脉冲宽度为3.4 ns的激光输出，水平方向上的光束质量因子（）和竖直方向上的光束质量因子（）分别为1.12和1.10。基于腔内光束指向主动控制技术，2 h输出的平均功率稳定性峰谷（PV）值和均方根（RMS）值分别为6.42%和0.56%。在600 μs脉冲泵浦情形下，光光效率达16.1%。在10 kHz重复频率下，获得了53.3 W的高平均功率的激光输出，和分别为1.07和1.06。
激光器 薄片激光器 再生放大器 脉冲泵浦 激光稳定性
1 中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所高功率激光物理联合实验室, 上海 201800
2 中国科学院大学材料与光电研究中心, 北京 100049
在激光惯性约束核聚变(ICF)实验中,为了满足打靶光束动态聚焦的需求,提出了通过时空复合激光预放大系统实现动态聚焦的技术路线。基于菲涅耳衍射传输理论,利用快速傅里叶变换的数值模拟方法,建立了时空复合光束的传输模型,分析了滤波器小孔尺寸、软化因子、消光比以及相位差等多种因素对时空复合光束传输效果的影响,并进行了实验验证。初步实验结果与模拟结果较为吻合,这可有效支撑对时空复合光束各项传输参数的优化,为后续时空复合光束的传输放大提供指导。所提出的技术下一步将用于高功率激光装置预放段的时空复合系统,支持高功率激光装置动态聚焦打靶实验研究。
激光光学 时空复合 预放系统 动态聚焦 光束传输 激光放大器 中国激光
2021, 48(24): 2405001
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai201800, China
2 Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China
Based on the pulse-shaping unit in the front end of high-power laser facilities, we propose a new hybrid scheme in a closed-loop control system including wavelet threshold denoising for pretreatment and a first derivative adaptive smoothing filter for smooth pulse recovery, so as to effectively restrain the influence of electrical noise and FM-to-AM modulation in the time–power curve, and enhance the calibration accuracy of the pulse shape in the feedback control system. The related simulation and experiment results show that the proposed scheme can obtain a better shaping effect on the high-contrast temporal shape in comparison with the cumulative average algorithm and orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm combined with a traditional smoothing filter. The implementation of the hybrid scheme mechanism increased the signal-to-noise ratio of the laser pulse from about 11 dB to 30 dB, and the filtered pulse is smooth without modulation, with smoothness of about 98.8%.
first derivative adaptive smoothing filter recovery of smooth pulse signal-to-noise ratio wavelet threshold denoising High Power Laser Science and Engineering
2021, 9(2): 02000e15
Author Affiliations
Abstract
National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
A high power laser system was used to drive the ignition of inertial confinement fusion (ICF), of which the high energy, the uniform focal spot, the accurate laser waveform, and the synchronization between the laser beams are key parameters. To accomplish this, global laser characteristics control should be assured, which was the main purpose of the injection laser system. In this paper, the key technological progress involved in the improvement of the performance of the injection laser of SG-II is reported, including frequency domain control, time domain control, near-field spatial shaping, pre-amplifier technology, and the optical parametric chirped pulse amplification pump source.
amplifier injection laser pulse shaping spatial shaping synchronization. High Power Laser Science and Engineering
2018, 6(2): 02000e34
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
2 National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai 201800, China
We demonstrate a laser diode end-pumped helium gas-cooled multislab Nd:glass laser amplifier. The design and thermal management of the proposed laser amplifier are discussed. The thermally induced wavefront aberration of the slabs was also measured and compared with simulation results. A small-signal single-pass longitudinal gain of 1.8 was measured with a pump energy of 7.3 J. With an injected seed energy of 0.6 mJ, the output energy from the amplifier reached 0.5 J at 0.2 Hz and 0.43 J at 0.5 Hz in a multipass extraction geometry, thus demonstrating the feasibility of diode-pumped, high-energy lasers with direct gas cooling.
laser diode gas cooling Nd:glass wavefront aberration laser amplifier. High Power Laser Science and Engineering
2018, 6(2): 02000e15
中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所, 上海 201800
理论分析了基于边缘加热条件下气冷钕玻璃放大器的热致波前畸变, 模拟计算了不同加热温度下钕玻璃片的温度分布和热波前畸变分布, 并进行了实验验证。结果表明, 数值模拟与实验结果能较好地吻合, 在产热率为0.6 W/cm3时, 钕玻璃片产生的热波前畸变随着边缘温度的增加而减小, 而当边缘温度达到90 ℃时, 热波前畸变开始出现反转, 随温度增加而增加。合理设计边缘加热结构和优化加热温度, 能有效抑制气冷钕玻璃放大器的热波前畸变。
激光光学 热畸变 边缘加热 钕玻璃 氦气冷却 激光放大器
Author Affiliations
Abstract
National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
Accurately and efficiently predicting the fundamental-frequency temporal shape of broadband long-pulsed lasers is very important in research on the properties of high-power laser amplifiers. In this study, we first propose that analytic electric polarization in the temporal domain is applied to broadband long-pulsed pulse amplification. We first verify the accuracy of this algorithm in the dozens of picoseconds range and the results are consistent with Miro software. Then we simulate the broadband long-pulsed amplification. The simulation results indicate that the front edge of the output pulse is more enlarged than the end edge owing to saturation and that the gain narrowing induces severe amplitude modulation. Analytic electric polarization in the temporal domain is effective and precise for investigating the broadband pulse amplification in the time scale from dozens of picoseconds to nanoseconds, and the computation time can be decreased by at least 4 orders of magnitude.
Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics
2016, 14(1): 031405
Author Affiliations
Abstract
National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
Accurately and efficiently predicting the fundamental-frequency temporal shape of broadband long-pulsed lasers is very important in research on the properties of high-power laser amplifiers. In this study, we first propose that analytic electric polarization in the temporal domain is applied to broadband long-pulsed pulse amplification. We first verify the accuracy of this algorithm in the dozens of picoseconds range and the results are consistent with Miro software. Then we simulate the broadband long-pulsed amplification. The simulation results indicate that the front edge of the output pulse is more enlarged than the end edge owing to saturation and that the gain narrowing induces severe amplitude modulation. Analytic electric polarization in the temporal domain is effective and precise for investigating the broadband pulse amplification in the time scale from dozens of picoseconds to nanoseconds, and the computation time can be decreased by at least 4 orders of magnitude.
000.4430 Numerical approximation and analysis 140.3280 Laser amplifiers 070.2465 Finite analogs of Fourier transforms 300.6300 Spectroscopy, Fourier transforms Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics
2016, 14(1): 031405
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所高功率激光物理联合实验室, 上海 201800
2 中国科学院大学, 北京 100049
A new laser amplifier structure based on Ndglass regenerative amplifier and off-axis four-pass amplifier is designed for high power laser facilities. The parasitic oscillation and pencil beam of the four pass amplifier are studied and a method is introduced to suppress them. By injecting a 1053 nm single longitudinal mode laser pulse with pulse duration of 3 ns and pulse energy of 1 nJ, a 10.3 J amplified pulse with a 2% shot-to-shot energy stability is obtained. The total gain of the amplifier system is over 1010. The output laser beam is a flat top profile with a 71% near field fill factor and modulation of 1.4 and 91% pulse energy can be focused into 2 times of diffraction limits. The experimental results and output performance of the amplifier system fully meet the requirements of the pre-amplifier of high power laser facilities, which shows that multi-pass amplifier can be used in high power laser facilities.
激光器 高功率激光 预放大器 再生放大 四程放大 寄生振荡 lasers high power laser pre-amplifier regenerative amplifying four-pass amplifying parasitic oscillation Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics
2014, 12(1): 0902003
