All-solid-state Q-switched laser and Random laser
A: LD-single-end-pumped all-solid-state AO Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser B: LD-side-pumped Nd:YAG all-solid-state EO Q-switched laser
C: Random laser
Prof. Sun XiaoHong
Henan Key Laboratory of Laser and Opto-Electric Information Technology, Zhengzhou University, Henan, China
Laser-diode (LD) pumped solid-state laser is a new laser device with advantages of compactness, good stabilization, high efficiency and long lifetime. It is widely used in the fields of laser radar, material processing, fiber communication and medical health. It has become one of the international key development direction.
A: LD-single-end-pumped all-solid-state AO (Acousto-Optic) Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser
Fig. 1 The Z-shape cavity A-Q switched system
The advantages of Z-shape cavity are separation of the laser crystal and Q-switched crystal, flexible adjustment of model parameters and decrease of the laser size.
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The paramerers of the Z-shape cavity:
Half angle is 15o
Fig. 2 the shape of the optical pulse when the repeated frequency is 5KHz
Experimental results:When the pump power is 23W and the repeated freq
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The max single puls energy output at 1064nm is 0.74mJ
The max peak power at 1064nm is 16.44kW The min pulse width is 35ns
Fig.3 the experimental setup of the LD-end-pumped CW Nd:YVO4 all-solid-state inner-cavity frequency-doubled laser
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Fig. 4 the relationship of the output power at 532nm and the input power at 1064nm, the max output is 4.44W and
the light-light transfer efficiency is 19.06%
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B: LD-side-pumped Nd:YAG all-solid-state EO (Electro-Optic) Q-switched laser
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Fig. 5 the experimental setup of the LD-side-pumped Nd:YAG all-solid-state EO Q-switched laser
Fig.6 the shape of the optical pulse when the repeated frequency is 200Hz
Single pulse energy 9.37mJPulse width 14.39nsPeak power 651.51kW
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Fig. 7 the experimental setup of the LD-side-pumped Nd:YAG all-solid-state extra-cavity frequency-doubled laser
Fig. 8 the shape of the frequency-doubling optical pulse
Single pulse energy 0.82mJPulse width 8nsPeak power 90kW the light-light transfer efficiency is 17.98%
C. Random laser in laser dye-doped nano-composite PMMA film
1. Introduction
2. Characteristics and Recent Development
3. Our Experimental Results
Introduction
Lasers are now commonplace. They can be used in different fields, for example, laser weapons in the military fields, laser diagnosis and treatment in hospitals, bar-code scanners, compact-disc players and display in daily life, especially high power laser. Random laser is a kind of “thresholdless” laser without an external cavity. According to the material composition, random laser can be classified to three types. One is polymer based laser including dye-doped PMMA nano-composites and conducting polymer. The second is laser based on laser crystal powders and semiconductor powders. The third is temperature-tunable laser composite of laser dyes, liquid crystal and glass powder. According to the difference of pumping source, they include photoluminescence and electroluminescence.
Characteristics of random laser
Spatial profiles of random laser emission intensity.With the increase of pumping power, the light spot is decreased. The light emission transfers from incoherent Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) to coherent laser.
Recent development
Light emission: A temperature-tunable random laser, D Wiersma and S Cavalieri 2001 Nature 414 708.
They filled a porous glass structure with laser dye dissolved in a liquid crystal. Liquid crystals are chain-like molecules that align to a different degree depending on their temperature. As the degree of alignment changes, so does the diffusion coefficient of the overall structure.
Action of a temperature-tunable random laser The phenomenon is caused by the change of liquid crystal phase with temperature.
Random lasing in human tissues, Randal C. Polson and Z. Valy Vardenya, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS VOLUME 85, NUMBER 7 16 AUGUST 2004
Random laser used in disease diagnosis
FIG. 1. (Color) Random laser emission spectra of human colon tissues infiltrated with a concentrated laser dye, namely R6G. (a) Two typical random laser emission spectra from a healthy, grossly uninvolved tissue (blue), of which microscopic image is shown in (b). The narrow spectral lines are in fact coherent laser emission modes (Refs. 10 and 11. The inset shows schematically closed random laser resonators formed due to scatters in the gain medium. (c) and (d), same as in (a) and (b), respectively, but for a malignant colon tissue. There are more lines in the laser emission spectra in (c) (red) that are due to more resonators in the tumor; these are caused by the excess disorder that is apparent in (d).
Experimental results
Yellow emission in PMMA films
Material composition
Rhodamine 590 +PMMA + TiO2 nanoparticles
Pump Source
The film was pumped at 532nm by the second harmonic of Nd:YAG laser at a 450 angle with respect to the normal direction of the film
Material preparation
Rhodamine 590 (Rhodamine 610) and TiO2 nano-partic
les were mixed in 2ml of dichloromethane until the dye was dissolved completely. Then 2ml 13wt% PMMA dichloromethane solution was added to the above mixture. The mixture was sonificated until a homogeneous solution was formed. A PMMA film containing Rhodamine 590 (Rhodamine 610) and TiO2 particles was formed by c
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SEM and SPM micrograph of PMMA nano-composite film
Particles and clusters are existed in film
Experimental Results
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Material composition
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Material preparation
The film preparation is almost the same as the yellow film except for substituting Rhodamine 590 with Rhdamine 610.
Figure 4 (left) The emission spectra of PMMA film doped with Rh610 and TiO2
particles pumped at (a) 0.6mJ/cm2 (b) 52.8mJ/cm2 The amplitude of the spectrum in a has been scaled up by a factor of 10 (right) The line-width Vs. pump energy density. The laser threshold and line-width are 2mJ/cm2 and 4nm, respectively.
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Optical fiber fabricated by the above nanocomposites. They can be used in Random fiber laser with low threshold or without threshold.