CN116526275A - Ultra-short pulse generating device and method based on concave spherical lens and multi-pass cavity - Google Patents
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技术领域technical field
本发明涉及超快激光技术领域,具体涉及一种基于凹球面体镜片与多通腔的超短脉冲产生装置及其产生方法。The invention relates to the field of ultrafast laser technology, in particular to an ultrashort pulse generating device based on a concave spherical lens and a multi-pass cavity and a generating method thereof.
背景技术Background technique
超短脉冲激光在材料加工、医疗技术和超快科学等方面具有广泛的应用前景。重要的超快科学研究成果非常依赖于先进的超短脉冲激光技术,因此也促进了超快激光技术的发展。传统的钛宝石激光器以峰值功率高,脉冲宽度短的优势,在过去三十多年得到了广泛应用。近年来,在极紫外光和光电子能谱系统的相关应用中,钛宝石激光器正在逐渐被高重复频率,高平均功率掺镱光纤飞秒激光器取代。然而,掺镱光纤飞秒激光器带宽窄,相应的脉冲宽度长,这些带来了后脉冲压缩技术的挑战。Ultrashort pulse lasers have broad application prospects in material processing, medical technology, and ultrafast science. Important ultrafast scientific research results are very dependent on advanced ultrashort pulse laser technology, and thus also promote the development of ultrafast laser technology. Traditional Ti:Sapphire lasers have been widely used in the past 30 years due to their advantages of high peak power and short pulse width. In recent years, Ti:Sapphire lasers are gradually being replaced by high repetition rate, high average power Ytterbium-doped fiber femtosecond lasers in related applications of extreme ultraviolet light and photoelectron spectroscopy systems. However, the narrow bandwidth of ytterbium-doped fiber femtosecond lasers and the corresponding long pulse width bring challenges for post-pulse compression techniques.
现有飞秒激光器输出的激光脉冲宽度在四十到百飞秒范围。为了进一步获得更短脉冲宽度的超短脉冲,再将激光脉冲输入到单独的后脉冲压缩装置。脉冲压缩装置通常使用的两种基本技术方法是使用充气空芯光纤或者固态熔融石英片在非线性光克尔效应下展宽光谱然后进行色散补偿。相比之下,固态熔融石英片的技术方法可以应用在高于千瓦级平均功率的激光,并且对输入的激光光束稳定度要求较低。但是,在高光强下,固态熔融石英片会出现锥发射,从而使得光束空间模式变差并且输出效率下降。另一方面,激光光束需要多次通过熔融石英片,在此持续展宽光谱的过程中同时会引起时间上的脉冲分裂。并且,现有的多通腔内放置的是平板形材料,只能针对一种特定的脉冲功率,模式匹配仅对多通腔的本征模式匹配而没有考虑腔内材料非线性的模式匹配。The laser pulse width output by existing femtosecond lasers is in the range of forty to hundreds of femtoseconds. In order to further obtain ultrashort pulses with shorter pulse widths, the laser pulses are input to a separate post-pulse compression device. The two basic technical methods commonly used in pulse compression devices are to use gas-filled hollow-core fibers or solid fused silica plates to broaden the spectrum under the nonlinear optical Kerr effect and then perform dispersion compensation. In contrast, the technical method of solid fused silica sheet can be applied to lasers with an average power higher than kilowatts, and has lower requirements on the stability of the input laser beam. However, at high light intensities, solid fused silica plates exhibit cone emission, which degrades the beam spatial mode and reduces output efficiency. On the other hand, the laser beam needs to pass through the fused silica plate multiple times, causing temporal pulse splitting in the process of continuously broadening the spectrum. Moreover, the existing multi-pass cavity is placed with a flat plate material, which can only target a specific pulse power, and the mode matching only matches the eigenmode of the multi-pass cavity without considering the nonlinear mode matching of the material in the cavity.
发明内容Contents of the invention
为了解决以上现有技术中存在的问题,本发明提出了一种基于凹球面体镜片与多通腔的超短脉冲产生装置及其产生方法,以减小超短脉冲激光脉宽,提高脉冲激光光束模式稳定性,将高功率长脉宽的飞秒激光器提升为脉冲时间宽度小于四十飞秒的超短脉冲激光。In order to solve the above problems in the prior art, the present invention proposes an ultrashort pulse generating device based on a concave spherical lens and a multi-pass cavity and a generating method thereof, so as to reduce the pulse width of the ultrashort pulse laser and improve the pulse width of the pulse laser. The stability of the beam mode improves the femtosecond laser with high power and long pulse width to an ultrashort pulse laser with a pulse time width of less than 40 femtoseconds.
本发明的一个目的在于提出一种基于凹球面体镜片与多通腔的超短脉冲产生装置。An object of the present invention is to propose an ultrashort pulse generating device based on a concave spherical lens and a multi-pass cavity.
本发明的基于凹球面体镜片与多通腔的超短脉冲产生装置包括:飞秒光纤激光器、预啁啾调控模块、光束模式匹配模块、非线性光谱展宽模块和色散补偿模块;其中,非线性光谱展宽模块包括多通腔耦合镜、两个多通腔腔镜和一对自相位调制介质,多通腔耦合镜位于多通腔腔镜前,两个多通腔腔镜凹面相向且相隔设定的距离构成多通腔,一对自相位调制介质采用固态凹球面体非线性材料,自相位调制介质的中心位于多通腔中心轴上,自相位调制介质的形状为凹球面体,在自身中心处的厚度最薄且越远离自身中心位置的厚度越厚,材料采用透明的具有光克尔效应的非线性材料,一对自相位调制介质对称放置于多通腔中心两侧,并且关于多通腔的中心对称,并且分别放置在平移台上,平移台能够带动一对自相位调制介质对称地远离或者靠近中心;The ultrashort pulse generation device based on the concave spherical lens and the multi-pass cavity of the present invention includes: a femtosecond fiber laser, a pre-chirp control module, a beam mode matching module, a nonlinear spectrum broadening module and a dispersion compensation module; wherein, the nonlinear The spectral broadening module includes a multi-pass cavity coupling mirror, two multi-pass cavity mirrors and a pair of self-phase modulation media. The multi-pass cavity coupling mirror is located in front of the multi-pass cavity mirror. A fixed distance constitutes a multi-pass cavity. A pair of self-phase modulation media adopts a solid concave spherical nonlinear material. The center of the self-phase modulation medium is located on the central axis of the multi-pass cavity. The shape of the self-phase modulation medium is a concave spherical body. The thickness at the center is the thinnest and the thickness is thicker as it is farther away from its center. The material is a transparent nonlinear material with optical Kerr effect. A pair of self-phase modulation media is symmetrically placed on both sides of the center of the multi-pass cavity. The center of the through cavity is symmetrical, and they are respectively placed on the translation stage, and the translation stage can drive a pair of self-phase modulation media away from or close to the center symmetrically;
飞秒激光器发出激光脉冲光束至预啁啾调控模块,激光脉冲光束为准直光束;预啁啾调控模块使得激光脉冲光束的偏振方向位于水平面内,并且为激光脉冲光束引入负色散,使得经过自相位调制介质的光谱展宽效果更好,形成预啁啾脉冲光束输入至光束模式匹配模块;光束模式匹配模块将预啁啾脉冲光束束腰在非线性条件下模式匹配为多通腔的本征束腰模式,并使得经变换后的光束束腰的位置位于多通腔的中心;预啁啾脉冲光束经多通腔耦合镜导入至多通腔中;多通腔腔镜在稳定腔条件下形成闭合循环多通光路;一对自相位调制介质作为非线性媒介,在光克尔效应的自相位调制下展宽激光脉冲光谱,并且形状为凹球面体能够抵消光克尔效应的自聚焦效果;在多通腔内,光束的光斑大小从中心向外逐渐变大,每一通光路透过自相位调制介质的光程与透过自相位调制介质的位置有关,而每一通光路透过自相位调制介质的位置与自相位调制介质所处的位置相关,自相位调制介质远离多通腔中心则每一通光路透过自相位调制介质的光程增加,透过自相位调制介质的光程增加使得非线性相位移增加,并且非线性相位移与输出的光束空间模式的大小有关系,因此通过调节一对自相位调制介质的相对位置,同时对称靠近或远离中心,使得光束进入至自相位调制介质的位置不同,来调节光束经过自相位调制介质的光程,从而改变多通腔内的非线性相位移,使得激光脉冲光束相对于设定的入射脉冲能量下,多通腔输出的光束空间模式稳定;经过色散补偿模块对光束进行准直,调节光束偏振方向位于水平面,并对激光脉冲光束进行色散补偿,获得在脉冲光谱宽度范围内的傅里叶极限短脉冲。The femtosecond laser sends out the laser pulse beam to the pre-chirp control module, and the laser pulse beam is a collimated beam; the pre-chirp control module makes the polarization direction of the laser pulse beam in the horizontal plane, and introduces negative dispersion to the laser pulse beam, so that after the The spectral broadening effect of the phase modulation medium is better, and the pre-chirped pulse beam is input to the beam mode matching module; the beam mode matching module matches the pre-chirped pulse beam waist to the eigenbeam of the multi-pass cavity under nonlinear conditions Waist mode, and make the transformed beam waist position in the center of the multi-pass cavity; the pre-chirped pulse beam is introduced into the multi-pass cavity through the multi-pass cavity coupling mirror; the multi-pass cavity mirror forms a closed cavity under stable cavity conditions A circular multi-pass optical path; a pair of self-phase modulation media as a nonlinear medium, the laser pulse spectrum is broadened under the self-phase modulation of the optical Kerr effect, and the shape is a concave spherical body that can offset the self-focusing effect of the optical Kerr effect; in multiple In the cavity, the spot size of the beam gradually increases from the center to the outside. The optical path of each optical path through the self-phase modulation medium is related to the position of the self-phase modulation medium, and the distance of each optical path through the self-phase modulation medium The position is related to the position of the self-phase modulation medium. If the self-phase modulation medium is far away from the center of the multi-pass cavity, the optical path of each optical path through the self-phase modulation medium increases, and the increase of the optical path through the self-phase modulation medium makes the nonlinear phase The displacement increases, and the nonlinear phase shift is related to the size of the output beam spatial mode. Therefore, by adjusting the relative position of a pair of self-phase modulation media, while symmetrically approaching or away from the center, the position of the beam entering the self-phase modulation medium is different. , to adjust the optical path of the beam passing through the self-phase modulation medium, thereby changing the nonlinear phase shift in the multi-pass cavity, so that the laser pulse beam is stable in the spatial mode of the beam output by the multi-pass cavity relative to the set incident pulse energy; The dispersion compensation module collimates the beam, adjusts the polarization direction of the beam to be in the horizontal plane, and performs dispersion compensation on the laser pulse beam to obtain Fourier-limited short pulses within the pulse spectral width range.
预啁啾调控模块采用声光可编程色散滤波器;或者,预啁啾调控模块依次包括:第一半波片、脉冲啁啾调控器件和回射镜,脉冲啁啾调控器件放置在平移台上,脉冲啁啾调控器件采用光栅对或色散棱镜对。The pre-chirp control module adopts an acousto-optic programmable dispersion filter; or, the pre-chirp control module sequentially includes: a first half-wave plate, a pulse chirp control device and a retroreflector, and the pulse chirp control device is placed on a translation stage , the pulse chirp control device adopts a grating pair or a dispersion prism pair.
光束模式匹配模块包括:透镜组、延时线和反射镜;透镜组包括凹透镜和凸透镜,在非线性条件下模式匹配为多通腔的本征束腰模式;通过反射镜改变光路,连接透镜组和延时线的激光脉冲光束;延时线包括直角面反射镜、平移台以及直角回射镜或者相互垂直放置的两个反射镜,直角回射镜或者相互垂直放置的两个反射镜放置在平移台上,使用延时线调节光程,使得经变换后的束腰的位置位于多通腔的中心。The beam mode matching module includes: lens group, delay line and mirror; the lens group includes concave lens and convex lens, and the mode matching is the intrinsic beam waist mode of the multi-pass cavity under nonlinear conditions; the optical path is changed through the mirror, and the lens group is connected and the laser pulse beam of the delay line; the delay line includes a right-angle reflector, a translation stage and a right-angle retroreflector or two reflectors placed perpendicularly to each other, and the right-angle retroreflector or two reflectors placed perpendicularly to each other are placed on On the translation stage, use the delay line to adjust the optical path, so that the position of the transformed beam waist is located in the center of the multi-pass cavity.
非线性光谱展宽模块的多通腔耦合镜的前表面镀有高反膜,反射率为大于99%。多通腔腔镜为两个凹球面反射镜,两个凹球面反射镜的反射面朝向相对,根据多通腔腔镜的凹球面曲率,按照形成稳定腔条件设定的距离放置,形成稳定腔;多通腔腔镜具有宽光谱高反射率,光谱范围从900纳米到1200纳米,反射率大于99%。自相位调制介质的材料采用透明的晶体或玻璃。The front surface of the multi-pass cavity coupling mirror of the nonlinear spectrum broadening module is coated with a high-reflection film, and the reflectivity is greater than 99%. The multi-pass cavity mirror is two concave spherical reflectors, the reflection surfaces of the two concave spherical reflectors are facing each other, according to the curvature of the concave spherical surface of the multi-pass cavity mirror, it is placed according to the distance set by the conditions for forming a stable cavity to form a stable cavity ; The multi-pass cavity mirror has a wide spectrum and high reflectivity, the spectral range is from 900 nanometers to 1200 nanometers, and the reflectivity is greater than 99%. The material of the self-phase modulation medium is transparent crystal or glass.
色散补偿模块包括半波片和两片啁啾镜;两片啁啾镜平行放置于旋转台,通过旋转台带动啁啾镜旋转,以调节入射光进入到啁啾镜的角度;在色散补偿模块中,用透镜准直光束;准直后的光束入射到半波片;通过调节半波片,使得光束偏振方向位于水平面;从半波片出射的光束以设定的角度进入一对啁啾镜;采用啁啾镜多次反射激光脉冲光束补偿色散,获得在脉冲光谱范围内的傅里叶极限短脉冲。The dispersion compensation module includes a half-wave plate and two chirped mirrors; the two chirped mirrors are placed in parallel on the rotary table, and the chirped mirror is driven to rotate by the rotary table to adjust the angle at which the incident light enters the chirped mirror; in the dispersion compensation module In this method, a lens is used to collimate the beam; the collimated beam is incident on the half-wave plate; by adjusting the half-wave plate, the polarization direction of the beam is in the horizontal plane; the beam emitted from the half-wave plate enters a pair of chirped mirrors at a set angle ; The chirped mirror is used to reflect the laser pulse beam multiple times to compensate the dispersion, and obtain the Fourier limit short pulse in the pulse spectrum range.
本发明的另一个目的在于提出一种基于凹球面体镜片与多通腔的超短脉冲产生方法。Another object of the present invention is to propose a method for generating ultrashort pulses based on a concave spherical lens and a multi-pass cavity.
本发明的基于凹球面体镜片与多通腔的超短脉冲产生方法,包括以下步骤:The ultrashort pulse generation method based on the concave spherical lens and the multi-pass cavity of the present invention comprises the following steps:
1)飞秒激光器发出激光脉冲光束,激光脉冲为准直光束;1) The femtosecond laser emits a laser pulse beam, and the laser pulse is a collimated beam;
2)获得预啁啾脉冲光束:2) Obtain the pre-chirped pulse beam:
将飞秒激光器发出的准直光束导入至预啁啾调控模块,预啁啾调控模块使得激光脉冲的偏振方向位于水平面内,并且为激光脉冲光束引入负色散,使得经过自相位调制介质的光谱展宽效果更好,形成预啁啾脉冲光束;The collimated beam emitted by the femtosecond laser is introduced into the pre-chirp control module. The pre-chirp control module makes the polarization direction of the laser pulse in the horizontal plane, and introduces negative dispersion to the laser pulse beam, so that the spectrum of the self-phase modulation medium is broadened The effect is better, forming a pre-chirped pulse beam;
3)实现激光脉冲光束到多通腔的模式匹配:3) Realize the mode matching of the laser pulse beam to the multi-pass cavity:
预啁啾脉冲光束输入至光束模式匹配模块,光束模式匹配模块将预啁啾脉冲光束束腰在非线性条件下模式匹配为多通腔的本征束腰模式,并使得经变换后的光束束腰的位置位于多通腔的中心;The pre-chirped pulse beam is input to the beam mode matching module, and the beam mode matching module matches the pre-chirped pulse beam waist to the intrinsic beam waist mode of the multi-pass cavity under nonlinear conditions, and makes the transformed beam beam The position of the waist is located in the center of the multi-pass cavity;
4)获得激光脉冲的非线性光谱展宽:4) Obtain the nonlinear spectral broadening of the laser pulse:
光束经多通腔耦合镜导入至多通腔中,多通腔腔镜在稳定腔条件下形成闭合循环多通光路;一对自相位调制介质作为非线性媒介,在光克尔效应的自相位调制下展宽激光脉冲光谱,并且形状为凹球面体能够抵消光克尔效应的自聚焦效果;在多通腔内,光束的光斑大小从中心向外逐渐变大,每一通光路透过自相位调制介质的光程与透过自相位调制介质的位置有关,而每一通光路透过自相位调制介质的位置与自相位调制介质所处的位置相关,自相位调制介质远离多通腔中心则每一通光路透过自相位调制介质的光程增加,透过自相位调制介质的光程增加使得非线性相位移增加,并且非线性相位移与输出的光束空间模式的大小有关系,因此通过调节一对自相位调制介质的相对位置,同时对称靠近或远离中心,使得光束进入至自相位调制介质的位置不同,来调节光束经过自相位调制介质的光程,从而改变多通腔内的非线性相位移,使得激光脉冲光束相对于设定的入射脉冲能量下,多通腔输出的光束空间模式稳定;The light beam is introduced into the multi-pass cavity through the multi-pass cavity coupling mirror, and the multi-pass cavity mirror forms a closed loop multi-pass optical path under the condition of a stable cavity; a pair of self-phase modulation media is used as a nonlinear medium, and the self-phase modulation of the optical Kerr effect The laser pulse spectrum is broadened downward, and the shape is a concave spherical body, which can offset the self-focusing effect of the optical Kerr effect; in the multi-pass cavity, the spot size of the beam gradually increases from the center to the outside, and each pass passes through the self-phase modulation medium The optical path is related to the position through the self-phase modulation medium, and the position of each light path through the self-phase modulation medium is related to the position of the self-phase modulation medium, and the self-phase modulation medium is far away from the center of the multi-pass cavity, and each pass light The optical path through the self-phase modulation medium increases, and the increase of the optical path through the self-phase modulation medium increases the nonlinear phase shift, and the nonlinear phase shift is related to the size of the output beam space mode, so by adjusting a pair of self- The relative position of the phase modulation medium is symmetrically close to or away from the center at the same time, so that the position of the beam entering the self-phase modulation medium is different, so as to adjust the optical path of the beam passing through the self-phase modulation medium, thereby changing the nonlinear phase shift in the multi-pass cavity, Make the laser pulse beam relatively stable under the set incident pulse energy, the beam spatial mode output by the multi-pass cavity;
5)对激光脉冲进行色散补偿:5) Dispersion compensation for laser pulses:
非线性光谱展宽模块输出的激光脉冲光束入射到色散补偿模块,色散补偿模块对光束进行准直,调节光束偏振方向位于水平面,并对激光脉冲光束进行色散补偿,获得在脉冲光谱范围内的傅里叶极限短脉冲。The laser pulse beam output by the nonlinear spectrum broadening module is incident on the dispersion compensation module. The dispersion compensation module collimates the beam, adjusts the polarization direction of the beam to be in the horizontal plane, and performs dispersion compensation on the laser pulse beam to obtain the Fourier within the pulse spectrum range. Leaves extreme short pulses.
本发明的优点:Advantages of the present invention:
(1)产生效率高,获得的激光脉冲光束空间模式稳定:激光脉冲光束空间模式与多通腔内非线性相位之间有一个平缓区,根据本发明,能够通过移动一对自相位调制介质的相对位置调节多通腔内非线性相位,使得装置工作在稳定模式;一对自相位调制介质的形状和厚度选择也能够避免激光光束的锥发射,使得激光脉冲能量保持在目标模式内,获得较高的超短脉冲产生效率;(1) The generation efficiency is high, and the laser pulse beam spatial mode obtained is stable: there is a gentle zone between the laser pulse beam spatial mode and the nonlinear phase in the multi-pass cavity. According to the present invention, a pair of self-phase modulation media can be moved The relative position adjusts the nonlinear phase in the multi-pass cavity, so that the device works in a stable mode; the shape and thickness selection of a pair of self-phase modulation media can also avoid the cone emission of the laser beam, so that the laser pulse energy can be kept in the target mode, and a higher High ultrashort pulse generation efficiency;
(2)适用于脉冲峰值功率不同的飞秒激光脉冲光束:根据本发明,由于一对自相位调制介质能够移动调节,本发明能够对每一个脉冲能量有差别的飞秒激光器进行优化调试;(2) It is suitable for femtosecond laser pulse beams with different pulse peak powers: according to the present invention, since a pair of self-phase modulation media can be moved and adjusted, the present invention can optimize and debug femtosecond lasers with different pulse energies;
(3)降低了激光脉冲光束与多通腔之间的模式匹配难度:本发明的装置采用一对形状为凹球面体的自相位调制介质,相当于凹透镜,具有发散光束作用,能够抵消激光光束通过非线性介质时的聚焦效应,不必对多通腔进行非线性模式匹配处理也能够降低激光脉冲光束在非线性介质中的峰值功率波动;(3) The mode matching difficulty between the laser pulse beam and the multi-pass cavity is reduced: the device of the present invention adopts a pair of self-phase modulation media whose shape is a concave spherical body, which is equivalent to a concave lens, has the effect of diverging beams, and can offset the laser beam The focusing effect when passing through the nonlinear medium can reduce the peak power fluctuation of the laser pulse beam in the nonlinear medium without performing nonlinear mode matching processing on the multi-pass cavity;
(4)增强非线性光谱展宽效应,提高激光脉冲压缩比:本发明在多通腔的非线性光谱展宽模块设置了预啁啾模块,引入负色散,有利于防止激光脉冲光束在时间上分裂,获得更宽的光谱。(4) Enhance the nonlinear spectral broadening effect and improve the laser pulse compression ratio: the present invention sets a pre-chirp module in the nonlinear spectral broadening module of the multi-pass cavity, and introduces negative dispersion, which is beneficial to prevent the laser pulse beam from splitting in time, Get a wider spectrum.
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图1为本发明的基于凹球面体镜片与多通腔的超短脉冲产生装置的一个实施例的示意图;Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of an embodiment of the ultrashort pulse generation device based on concave spherical lens and multi-pass cavity of the present invention;
图2为根据本发明的基于凹球面体镜片与多通腔的超短脉冲产生装置的一个实施例激光脉冲入射到非线性光谱展宽模块前后的光谱图。Fig. 2 is a spectrum diagram before and after the laser pulse is incident on the nonlinear spectrum broadening module of an embodiment of an ultrashort pulse generating device based on a concave spherical lens and a multi-pass cavity according to the present invention.
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下面结合附图,通过具体实施例,进一步阐述本发明。The present invention will be further elaborated below through specific embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
如图1所示,本实施例的基于凹球面体镜片与多通腔的超短脉冲产生装置包括:飞秒光纤激光器1、预啁啾调控模块2、光束模式匹配模块3、非线性光谱展宽模块4和色散补偿模块5;其中,As shown in Figure 1, the ultrashort pulse generation device based on concave spherical lens and multi-pass cavity in this embodiment includes: femtosecond fiber laser 1, pre-chirp control module 2, beam mode matching module 3, nonlinear spectrum broadening Module 4 and dispersion compensation module 5; wherein,
预啁啾调控模块2依次包括:第一半波片6、第一反射镜7、第一光栅8、第二光栅9和回射镜10,第一光栅8和第二光栅9平行放置,且第二光栅9安装在第一平移台上,第一平移台上采用精密可调平移台;The pre-chirp control module 2 includes in turn: a first half-wave plate 6, a first mirror 7, a first grating 8, a second grating 9 and a retroreflector 10, the first grating 8 and the second grating 9 are placed in parallel, and The second grating 9 is installed on the first translation platform, and a precision adjustable translation platform is used on the first translation platform;
光束模式匹配模块3包括透镜组、延时线和第二反射镜13;透镜组包括凹透镜11和凸透镜12;通过第二反射镜13反射至延时线;延时线包括直角面反射镜14、平移台以及直角回射镜15,直角回射镜15放置在第二平移台上;The beam pattern matching module 3 includes a lens group, a delay line and a second reflector 13; the lens group includes a concave lens 11 and a convex lens 12; it is reflected to the delay line by the second reflector 13; the delay line includes a rectangular reflector 14, translation platform and right-angle retroreflector 15, and right-angle retroreflector 15 is placed on the second translation platform;
非线性光谱展宽模块4包括多通腔耦合镜17、第一和第二多通腔腔镜20和21和第一和第二自相位调制介质18和19,多通腔耦合镜位于多通腔腔镜前,两个多通腔腔镜凹面相向且相隔设定的距离构成多通腔,一对自相位调制介质采用固态凹球面体非线性材料,自相位调制介质的中心位于多通腔中心轴上,自相位调制介质在自身中心处的厚度最薄且越远离自身中心位置的厚度越厚,采用透明的具有光克尔效应的非线性材料,第一和第二自相位调制介质18和19对称放置于多通腔中心两侧,并且关于多通腔的中心对称,并且分别放置在第三平移台上,平移台能够带动一对自相位调制介质对称地远离或者靠近中心;The nonlinear spectrum broadening module 4 includes a multi-pass cavity coupling mirror 17, first and second multi-pass cavity mirrors 20 and 21 and first and second self-phase modulation media 18 and 19, and the multi-pass cavity coupling mirror is positioned at the multi-pass cavity In front of the cavity mirror, the concave surfaces of two multi-pass cavity mirrors face each other and are separated by a set distance to form a multi-pass cavity. A pair of self-phase modulation media is made of solid concave spherical nonlinear material, and the center of the self-phase modulation medium is located at the center of the multi-pass cavity. On the axis, the thickness of the self-phase modulation medium at its center is the thinnest and the thickness farther away from its center is thicker. A transparent nonlinear material with optical Kerr effect is adopted. The first and second self-phase modulation medium 18 and 19 are symmetrically placed on both sides of the center of the multi-pass cavity, and are symmetrical to the center of the multi-pass cavity, and are respectively placed on the third translation stage, and the translation stage can drive a pair of self-phase modulation media away from or close to the center symmetrically;
色散补偿模块5包括准直透镜23、第二半波片24和第一和第二啁啾镜25和26;第一和第二啁啾镜25和26平行放置于旋转台,通过旋转台带动啁啾镜旋转,以调节入射光进入到啁啾镜的角度。The dispersion compensation module 5 includes a collimating lens 23, a second half-wave plate 24, and first and second chirped mirrors 25 and 26; the first and second chirped mirrors 25 and 26 are placed in parallel on the rotary table, driven The chirped mirror rotates to adjust the angle at which the incident light enters the chirped mirror.
飞秒激光器1发出激光脉冲光束至预啁啾调控模块2,激光脉冲光束为准直光束;激光脉冲光束经过第一半波片6,使得激光脉冲光束的偏振方向位于水平面内,从而经过自相位调制介质的光谱展宽效果更好,经第一反射镜7上方入射到第一光栅8和第二光栅9,通过第一平移台平移调节第二光栅9的位置,控制光栅对的间距,引入负色散,改变预啁啾激光脉冲的波形,形成预啁啾脉冲光束;经过第一光栅8和第二光栅9后的激光脉冲光束通过回射镜10后降低高度,在原光束下方折返并再次经过第一光栅8和第二光栅9,经第一反射镜7反射输入至光束模式匹配模块3;凹透镜11和凸透镜12在非线性条件下将光束束腰大小模式匹配为多通腔的本征束腰模式,通过第二反射镜13反射至延时线,延时线调节光程,使得经变换后的束腰的位置位于多通腔的中心;预啁啾脉冲光束经第三反射镜16反射,再经多通腔耦合镜17导入至非线性光谱展宽模块4的多通腔中;第一和第二多通腔腔镜20和21之间的距离满足稳定腔条件,在稳定腔条件下形成闭合循环多通光路;一对自相位调制介质作为非线性媒介,在光克尔效应的自相位调制下展宽激光脉冲光谱,并且形状为凹球面体能够抵消光克尔效应的自聚焦效果,激光脉冲光束在多通腔腔镜之间来回反射,16个来回,32次通过第一和第二自相位调制介质18和19,激光脉冲光束在多次通过第一和第二自相位调制介质18和19时获得了光谱展宽;在多通腔内,光束的光斑大小从中心向外逐渐变大,每一通光路透过自相位调制介质的光程与透过自相位调制介质的位置有关,而每一通光路透过自相位调制介质的位置与自相位调制介质所处的位置相关,自相位调制介质远离多通腔中心则每一通光路透过自相位调制介质的光程增加,透过自相位调制介质的光程增加使得非线性相位移增加,并且非线性相位移与输出的光束空间模式的大小有关系,因此通过调节第一和第二自相位调制介质18和19的相对位置,同时对称靠近或远离中心,使得光束进入至自相位调制介质的位置不同,来调节光束经过自相位调制介质的光程,从而改变多通腔内的非线性相位移,使得激光脉冲光束相对于设定的入射脉冲能量下,多通腔输出的光束空间模式稳定;光束经过第四反射镜22反射至色散补偿模块5,经准直透镜23准直光束,准直后的光束入射到第二半波片24,通过调节第二半波片24,使得光束偏振方向位于水平面,从第二半波片出射的光束以设定的角度进入第一和第二啁啾镜25和26,采用啁啾镜多次反射激光脉冲光束补偿色散,获得在脉冲的光谱范围内的傅里叶极限短脉冲。The femtosecond laser 1 sends a laser pulse beam to the pre-chirp control module 2, and the laser pulse beam is a collimated beam; the laser pulse beam passes through the first half-wave plate 6, so that the polarization direction of the laser pulse beam is located in the horizontal plane, thereby passing through the self-phase The spectral broadening effect of the modulation medium is better. It is incident on the first grating 8 and the second grating 9 through the top of the first reflector 7, and the position of the second grating 9 is adjusted by the translation of the first translation stage to control the distance between the grating pairs and introduce negative Dispersion, changing the waveform of the pre-chirped laser pulse to form a pre-chirped pulse beam; the laser pulse beam after passing through the first grating 8 and the second grating 9 decreases in height after passing through the retroreflector 10, turns back under the original beam and passes through the second grating again A grating 8 and a second grating 9 are reflected by the first mirror 7 and input to the beam pattern matching module 3; the concave lens 11 and the convex lens 12 match the size of the beam waist to the intrinsic beam waist of the multi-pass cavity under nonlinear conditions Mode, reflected to the delay line by the second reflector 13, and the delay line adjusts the optical path so that the position of the transformed beam waist is located at the center of the multi-pass cavity; the pre-chirped pulse beam is reflected by the third reflector 16, Then it is introduced into the multi-pass cavity of the nonlinear spectrum broadening module 4 through the multi-pass cavity coupling mirror 17; the distance between the first and second multi-pass cavity mirrors 20 and 21 satisfies the stable cavity condition, and is formed under the stable cavity condition A closed-loop multi-pass optical path; a pair of self-phase modulation media as a nonlinear medium broadens the laser pulse spectrum under the self-phase modulation of the optical Kerr effect, and the shape is a concave spherical body that can offset the self-focusing effect of the optical Kerr effect. The pulse beam is reflected back and forth between the multi-pass cavity mirrors, 16 back and forth, 32 times through the first and second self-phase modulation media 18 and 19, and the laser pulse beam passes through the first and second self-phase modulation media 18 multiple times and 19 obtained spectral broadening; in the multi-pass cavity, the spot size of the beam gradually increases from the center to the outside, and the optical path of each optical path passing through the self-phase modulation medium is related to the position through the self-phase modulation medium, while The position of each optical path passing through the self-phase modulation medium is related to the position of the self-phase modulation medium. If the self-phase modulation medium is far away from the center of the multi-pass cavity, the optical path of each optical path through the self-phase modulation medium increases. Through the self-phase modulation The increase of the optical path of the modulation medium increases the nonlinear phase shift, and the nonlinear phase shift is related to the size of the output beam spatial mode, so by adjusting the relative positions of the first and second self-phase modulation media 18 and 19, the symmetry Close to or away from the center, so that the position of the beam entering the self-phase modulation medium is different, to adjust the optical path of the beam passing through the self-phase modulation medium, thereby changing the nonlinear phase shift in the multi-pass cavity, so that the laser pulse beam is relative to the set Under the incident pulse energy, the spatial mode of the beam output by the multi-pass cavity is stable; the beam is reflected by the fourth mirror 22 to the dispersion compensation module 5, and the beam is collimated by the collimating lens 23, and the collimated beam is incident on the second half-wave plate 24. By adjusting the second half-wave plate 24 so that the polarization direction of the beam is in the horizontal plane, the beam emitted from the second half-wave plate enters the first and second chirped mirrors 25 and 26 at a set angle, and the chirped mirrors are used to The sub-reflected laser pulse beam compensates for dispersion and obtains Fourier-limited short pulses in the spectral range of the pulse.
在本实施例中,激光脉冲参数是脉宽300fs,脉冲能量300μJ,中心波长1030nm,重复频率333KHz;光栅选择为刻线数300,闪耀角24.8度的近红外光栅。模式匹配透镜组选择为-500mm凹透镜和400mm凸透镜,它们之间的距离采用平移台调节。多通腔腔镜直径50.8mm,曲率半径300mm,多通腔腔镜之间的间距480mm。凹球面体材料的自相位调制介质直径30mm,曲率半径-400mm,采用熔融石英材料并镀1030nm增透膜。通过非线性光谱展宽模块产生如图2所示的光谱。In this embodiment, the laser pulse parameters are pulse width 300fs, pulse energy 300μJ, center wavelength 1030nm, and repetition frequency 333KHz; the grating is selected as a near-infrared grating with 300 lines and a blaze angle of 24.8 degrees. The mode matching lens group is selected as a -500mm concave lens and a 400mm convex lens, and the distance between them is adjusted by a translation stage. The diameter of the multi-channel cavity mirror is 50.8mm, the radius of curvature is 300mm, and the distance between the multi-channel cavity mirrors is 480mm. The diameter of the self-phase modulation medium of the concave spherical body material is 30mm, and the radius of curvature is -400mm. It is made of fused silica material and coated with a 1030nm anti-reflection coating. The spectrum shown in Figure 2 is generated by the nonlinear spectrum broadening module.
最后需要注意的是,公布实施例的目的在于帮助进一步理解本发明,但是本领域的技术人员可以理解:在不脱离本发明及所附的权利要求的精神和范围内,各种替换和修改都是可能的。因此,本发明不应局限于实施例所公开的内容,本发明要求保护的范围以权利要求书界定的范围为准。Finally, it should be noted that the purpose of the disclosed embodiments is to help further understand the present invention, but those skilled in the art can understand that various replacements and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention and the appended claims. It is possible. Therefore, the present invention should not be limited to the content disclosed in the embodiments, and the protection scope of the present invention is subject to the scope defined in the claims.
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