To enhance the correlation in the orthogonal directions, a polarization self-modulation scheme with an intra-cavity quarter wave plate in a coaxial pumping orthogonally polarized laser was proposed. This quasi-isotropic cavity was compared with the traditional scheme in terms of the differences in the oscillation between dual components and the intra-cavity eigenstate distribution was obtained. Both theoretical and experimental results indicated that modes were effectively locked in TE and TM directions and dual-eigenstates output was achieved, which provided a half-free-spectrum-range frequency difference in ±45° directions. Q-switching and dual-wavelength-operation did not affect the polarization self-modulation process.
A theoretical model was proposed to simulate the broadband second harmonic generation (SHG) based on random quasiphase matching (RQPM) by Fourier transform mothed. A broadband SHG experiment system was built which could obtain the distribution of the SHG signal over a whole ZnSe sample. Both the simulated and experimental results demonstrated that the main feature of RQPM is the linear dependency of the SHG intensity with sample thickness.
Based on the rate equation of passively Q-switching, the effects of pump rate on the pulse timing jitter was simulated. The evolution of pulse jitter versus initial transmittance of the saturated absorber and pump power were experimentally investigated using different Nd:YAG/Cr:YAG bonded crystals. By adopting reasonable parameters, it was proved that the pulse jitter of passively Q-switching could be controlled within hundreds of nanoseconds. If an actively Q-switched laser was used as the seed laser for a passively Q-switched microchip laser, the pulse jitter could be reduced down to ~5 ns, and the output characteristics of the passively Q-switched laser with seed injection were discussed.
Efficient orthogonally polarized lasers (OPLs) with power balance is of great significance in many fields. A gain-selfbalanced coaxial-end-pumped orthogonally polarized laser is proposed in this presentation. Using the orthogonal Nd:YVO4 crystal arrangement and a quarter wave plate, different waves were amplified by both crystals and the OPL could operate under the optimized condition. Compared with traditional methods, the beam quality and the coherence of the OPL were greatly improved and the coherence could also be actively switched by pump conditions. Theoretical explanations and discussions were given from the view of thermal effects and laser resonators. It is believed the gain-self-balanced coaxialend-pumped OPL has broad application prospects in precision measurement and other fields.
Theoretical models for the backscattering intensities of Lambertian tilted plates, spheres and cones in monostatic radar situation were proposed, and their one-dimensional (1D) range profiles were simulated in the terahertz range. Then the 1D range profiles of picosecond and nanosecond pulse incidence are compared, which reveal that more details of object shapes can be obtained with the ultrashort terahertz pulse. The influences of target size, posture, pulse width and waveform were also investigated, respectively.
High energy and widely tunable terahertz (THz) generation was demonstrated theoretically based on a semiconductor material 4H-SiC via difference frequency generation (DFG) process. Compared with the conventional THz nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals, 4H-SiC has the main advantages of extremely high optical damage threshold and wide optical transparent range, which implies the potential THz generation with high output energy and broadband tunability. Based on the basic NLO theories, the phase-matching (PM) characteristics, effective nonlinear coefficients, walk-off angles, and PM tolerance of DFG in 4H-SiC were calculated in the 2–15 THz range with different pumping wavelength. The output characteristics of THz generation were simulated in relation with the optical interaction length and the intensities of dual-wavelength pump beams via large-signal analysis among three coupled wave equations, which reveal that efficient and high energy THz generation based on 4H-SiC crystal could be achieved with appropriate crystal length and intensity ratio of dual-wavelength intense pumps, despite of a relatively low nonlinearity of the material.
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