Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.3788/col202321.033001
Yahui Liu, Yufei Ma
In the field of absorption spectroscopy, the multipass cell (MPC) is one of the key elements. It has the advantages of simple structure, easy adjustment, and high spectral coverage, which is an effective way to improve the detection sensitivity of gas sensing systems such as tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy. This invited paper summarizes the design theory and the research results of some mainstream types of MPCs based on two mirrors and more than two mirrors in recent years, and briefly introduces the application of some processed products. The design theory of modified ABCD matrix and vector reflection principle are explained in detail. Finally, trends in its development are predicted.
{"title":"Advances in multipass cell for absorption spectroscopy-based trace gas sensing technology [Invited]","authors":"Yahui Liu, Yufei Ma","doi":"10.3788/col202321.033001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3788/col202321.033001","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of absorption spectroscopy, the multipass cell (MPC) is one of the key elements. It has the advantages of simple structure, easy adjustment, and high spectral coverage, which is an effective way to improve the detection sensitivity of gas sensing systems such as tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy. This invited paper summarizes the design theory and the research results of some mainstream types of MPCs based on two mirrors and more than two mirrors in recent years, and briefly introduces the application of some processed products. The design theory of modified ABCD matrix and vector reflection principle are explained in detail. Finally, trends in its development are predicted.","PeriodicalId":10293,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Optics Letters","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88968229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.3788/col202321.021405
Jingjing Zhou, Changsheng Zheng, Bin Chen, Ning Zhang, Qinggang Gao, Hangqi Yuan, D. Jia, Zhanxin Wang, Shande Liu, Yuping Zhang, Huiyun Zhang, Yongguang Zhao
In this paper, we report on a wide wavelength tuning optical vortex carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) of ± ħ , from a thulium-doped yttrium aluminum perovskite (YAP) laser employing a birefringent filter. The OAM is experimentally found to be well maintained during the whole wavelength tuning process. The Laguerre – Gaussian (LG 0, (cid:1) 1 ) mode with a tuning range of 58 nm from 1934.8 to 1993.0 nm and LG 0, − 1 mode with a range of 76 nm from 1920.4 to 1996.6 nm, are, respectively, obtained. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first experimental implementation of wavelength tuning for a scalar vortex laser in the 2 μ m spectral range, as well as the broadest tuning range ever reported from the vortex laser cavity. Such a vortex laser with robust structure and straightforward wavelength tuning capability will be an ideal light source for potential applications in the field of optical communication with one additional degree of freedom.
{"title":"Widely tunable 2 µm optical vortex from a Tm:YAP laser","authors":"Jingjing Zhou, Changsheng Zheng, Bin Chen, Ning Zhang, Qinggang Gao, Hangqi Yuan, D. Jia, Zhanxin Wang, Shande Liu, Yuping Zhang, Huiyun Zhang, Yongguang Zhao","doi":"10.3788/col202321.021405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3788/col202321.021405","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report on a wide wavelength tuning optical vortex carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) of ± ħ , from a thulium-doped yttrium aluminum perovskite (YAP) laser employing a birefringent filter. The OAM is experimentally found to be well maintained during the whole wavelength tuning process. The Laguerre – Gaussian (LG 0, (cid:1) 1 ) mode with a tuning range of 58 nm from 1934.8 to 1993.0 nm and LG 0, − 1 mode with a range of 76 nm from 1920.4 to 1996.6 nm, are, respectively, obtained. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first experimental implementation of wavelength tuning for a scalar vortex laser in the 2 μ m spectral range, as well as the broadest tuning range ever reported from the vortex laser cavity. Such a vortex laser with robust structure and straightforward wavelength tuning capability will be an ideal light source for potential applications in the field of optical communication with one additional degree of freedom.","PeriodicalId":10293,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Optics Letters","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82757207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.3788/col202321.031405
Jinliang Han, Jun Zhang, X. Shan, Yawei Zhang, H. Peng, L. Qin, Lijun Wang
With the rapid development of laser technology, laser as the light source of night vision illuminating can realize long-dis-tance and clear imaging, which has been widely used in laser active illuminating field. A high-power diode laser with a wavelength of 808 nm was designed as the laser active illuminating source, and the output power of no less than 100 W was obtained by spatial beam multiplexing, polarization multiplexing, and high efficiency fiber coupling techniques. In view of the beam homogenization of illuminating source, a novel beam homogenization system based on waveguide is proposed in this work. A square spot with a horizontal divergence angle of 40°, a vertical divergence angle of 10°, and an illuminating power ratio of 4:1 was obtained by a collimating lens. Comparing with the traditional circular illuminating beam, the square illuminating beam can match the illuminating angle of CCD camera better, and the energy utilization rate is higher. In addition, by optimizing the structure of waveguide and collimating lens, the illuminating angle can be changed to meet the illuminating requirements under different conditions theoretically.
{"title":"Beam homogenization structure for a laser illuminator design based on diode laser beam combining technology","authors":"Jinliang Han, Jun Zhang, X. Shan, Yawei Zhang, H. Peng, L. Qin, Lijun Wang","doi":"10.3788/col202321.031405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3788/col202321.031405","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of laser technology, laser as the light source of night vision illuminating can realize long-dis-tance and clear imaging, which has been widely used in laser active illuminating field. A high-power diode laser with a wavelength of 808 nm was designed as the laser active illuminating source, and the output power of no less than 100 W was obtained by spatial beam multiplexing, polarization multiplexing, and high efficiency fiber coupling techniques. In view of the beam homogenization of illuminating source, a novel beam homogenization system based on waveguide is proposed in this work. A square spot with a horizontal divergence angle of 40°, a vertical divergence angle of 10°, and an illuminating power ratio of 4:1 was obtained by a collimating lens. Comparing with the traditional circular illuminating beam, the square illuminating beam can match the illuminating angle of CCD camera better, and the energy utilization rate is higher. In addition, by optimizing the structure of waveguide and collimating lens, the illuminating angle can be changed to meet the illuminating requirements under different conditions theoretically.","PeriodicalId":10293,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Optics Letters","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83029128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on the Nd-doped single-mode fiber as the gain medium, an all-fiber 12th harmonic mode-locked (HML) laser operating at the 0.9 μ m waveband was obtained for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. A mandrel with a diameter of 10 mm was employed to introduce bending losses to suppress mode competition at 1.06 μ m, which resulted in a suppression ratio of up to 54 dB. The 1st – 12th order HML pulses with the tunable repetition rate of 494.62 kHz – 5.94 MHz were obtained in the mode-locked laser with a center wavelength of ∼ 904 nm. In addition, the laser has an extremely low threshold pump power of 88 mW. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that an HML pulse has been achieved in a 0.9 μ m Nd-doped single-mode all-fiber mode-locked laser with the advantages of low cost, simple structure, and compactness, which could be an ideal light source for two-photon microscopy.
{"title":"Generation of 12th order harmonic mode-locking in a Nd-doped single-mode all-fiber laser operating at 0.9 µm","authors":"Bingxin Zhang, Ping Li, Zhaojun Liu, Ming Li, Jing Liu, Haoxu Zhao, Qiongyu Hu, Xiaohan Chen","doi":"10.3788/col202321.011405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3788/col202321.011405","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the Nd-doped single-mode fiber as the gain medium, an all-fiber 12th harmonic mode-locked (HML) laser operating at the 0.9 μ m waveband was obtained for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. A mandrel with a diameter of 10 mm was employed to introduce bending losses to suppress mode competition at 1.06 μ m, which resulted in a suppression ratio of up to 54 dB. The 1st – 12th order HML pulses with the tunable repetition rate of 494.62 kHz – 5.94 MHz were obtained in the mode-locked laser with a center wavelength of ∼ 904 nm. In addition, the laser has an extremely low threshold pump power of 88 mW. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that an HML pulse has been achieved in a 0.9 μ m Nd-doped single-mode all-fiber mode-locked laser with the advantages of low cost, simple structure, and compactness, which could be an ideal light source for two-photon microscopy.","PeriodicalId":10293,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Optics Letters","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83116594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Spatial terahertz wave modulators that can arbitrarily tailor the electromagnetic wavefront are in high demand in nondestructive inspections and high-capacity wireless communications. Here, we propose a liquid crystal integrated metadevice. It modulates the terahertz wave based on the adjustable electromagnetically induced transparency analog when spatially changing the environmental refractive index. The functions of the device can be arbitrarily programmed via photo-reorienting the directors of liquid crystals with a digital micromirror device-based exposing system. The thin liquid crystal layer can be further driven by an electric field, and thus the function can be rapidly switched. Amplitude modulation and the lens effect are demonstrated with modulation depths over 50% at 0.94 THz.
{"title":"Photo-reconfigurable and electrically switchable spatial terahertz wave modulator [Invited]","authors":"Hongguan Yu, Huacai Wang, Zhixiong Shen, Shina Tao, Shijun Ge, Wei Hu","doi":"10.3788/col202321.010002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3788/col202321.010002","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial terahertz wave modulators that can arbitrarily tailor the electromagnetic wavefront are in high demand in nondestructive inspections and high-capacity wireless communications. Here, we propose a liquid crystal integrated metadevice. It modulates the terahertz wave based on the adjustable electromagnetically induced transparency analog when spatially changing the environmental refractive index. The functions of the device can be arbitrarily programmed via photo-reorienting the directors of liquid crystals with a digital micromirror device-based exposing system. The thin liquid crystal layer can be further driven by an electric field, and thus the function can be rapidly switched. Amplitude modulation and the lens effect are demonstrated with modulation depths over 50% at 0.94 THz.","PeriodicalId":10293,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Optics Letters","volume":"155 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83191604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aoran Feng (丰傲然), Bowen Liu (刘博文), Dongyu Yan (闫东钰), Genyu Bi (毕根毓), Youjian Song (宋有建), and Minglie Hu (胡明列) 1 Ultrafast Laser Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Technology (Ministry of Education), School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China 2 Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute, Tianjin University, Shenzhen 518055, China 3 Optoelectronic Detection and Processing Laboratory, School of Electronic Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222, China
{"title":"Sideband-free dispersion-managed Yb-doped mode-locked fiber laser with Gires–Tournois interferometer mirrors","authors":"Aoran Feng, Bowen Liu, Dongyu Yan, Genyu Bi, Youjian Song, Minglie Hu","doi":"10.3788/col202321.061401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3788/col202321.061401","url":null,"abstract":"Aoran Feng (丰傲然), Bowen Liu (刘博文), Dongyu Yan (闫东钰), Genyu Bi (毕根毓), Youjian Song (宋有建), and Minglie Hu (胡明列) 1 Ultrafast Laser Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Technology (Ministry of Education), School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China 2 Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute, Tianjin University, Shenzhen 518055, China 3 Optoelectronic Detection and Processing Laboratory, School of Electronic Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222, China","PeriodicalId":10293,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Optics Letters","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74333578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.3788/col202321.023001
Xin Peng, Min-sun Chen, Hao Liu
We present a non-contact optical investigation of laser-induced plasma at moderate Ar pressure ranging from 1 to 100 Pa. The significant shock front and spatial fractionation among the different charged ions are demonstrated at the pressure of 20 Pa. The collisions between Si IV ions and ambient Ar atoms generate distinct and excited Ar II ions, fresh Si III ions, and electrons at the dense layer. The electron density peaks at the position of the shock front, indicating that the collision that yields electrons is dominant over the recombination process in the region of the shock layer and its immediate vicinity.
{"title":"Optical emission spectrometric diagnosis of laser-induced plasma and shock front produced at moderate pressure","authors":"Xin Peng, Min-sun Chen, Hao Liu","doi":"10.3788/col202321.023001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3788/col202321.023001","url":null,"abstract":"We present a non-contact optical investigation of laser-induced plasma at moderate Ar pressure ranging from 1 to 100 Pa. The significant shock front and spatial fractionation among the different charged ions are demonstrated at the pressure of 20 Pa. The collisions between Si IV ions and ambient Ar atoms generate distinct and excited Ar II ions, fresh Si III ions, and electrons at the dense layer. The electron density peaks at the position of the shock front, indicating that the collision that yields electrons is dominant over the recombination process in the region of the shock layer and its immediate vicinity.","PeriodicalId":10293,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Optics Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85966442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}