Advances in Optics, Photonics, Spectroscopy & Applications <strong>VI</strong> <strong>ISSN</strong> <strong>1859</strong> - <strong>4271</strong>Fig. 4. Oscilloscope traces of eye-safe 1 st Stokespulse, pump and depleted pump in ri<strong>ng</strong> Ramanlaser.Fig. 5. 3 rd Stokes pulse energy as a function offlashlamp energy (1) without and (2) withintracavity telescope and (3, 4) as a function ofoutput coupler reflectivity at different pumpenergy. The dots 5 show 3 rd Stokes pulse width(FWHM) as a function of flashlamp energy.The most essential characteristics of the eye-safe laser source based on the ri<strong>ng</strong> KTP-OPO areshown in Fig. 6 and 7. The source generates radiation pulses with energies up to 35 mJ andduration ~11 ns at electrical pumpi<strong>ng</strong> energy which does not exceed 8 J. Accordi<strong>ng</strong> to ourmeasurements, the output wavele<strong>ng</strong>th of the KTP-OPO with pumpi<strong>ng</strong> by radiation with λ=1.064μm is1570.8nm.Thisagreeswelwiththecalculatedvalue(1571nm)obtainedusi<strong>ng</strong>thepublishedSelmeierequationforKTP.Thelo<strong>ng</strong>-termoperationofthesourcepumpedat6.5J.isas<stro<strong>ng</strong>>tro<strong>ng</strong></stro<strong>ng</strong>>caseforitsreliability.Thepulseenergyhasbeenmonitoredfortwointervalsofmorethanthreehoursofcon<s<stro<strong>ng</strong>>tro<strong>ng</strong></stro<strong>ng</strong>>>tin</s<stro<strong>ng</strong>>tro<strong>ng</strong></stro<strong>ng</strong>>>uousoperationthathavebeenseparatedbyanone-hourpause.ItcanbeseenthattheaverageOPO pulseenergyof~24.7mJremainspracticalyconstantwithprolo<strong>ng</strong>edoperation.Onlysmalrandom cha<strong>ng</strong>esofoutputenergyduetothestatisticalpropertiesofNd:YAG-lasergenerationandthenoisepropertiesofOPOgenerationareobserved.Thecha<strong>ng</strong>esoccurwithastandarddeviationof0.74mJ.Fig. 6. Output energy of travelli<strong>ng</strong>-waveOPO as a function of electrical pump energyof Nd:YAG laser. Insert shows spectrum ofeye-safe radiation.Fig. 7. Behaviour of eye-safe radiation energy forlo<strong>ng</strong>-term source operation at repetition rate of 10Hz. Insert shows one-dimensional energy densitydistributions for (1) near and (2) far fields.38
Nhữ<strong>ng</strong> tiến bộ <stro<strong>ng</strong>>tro<strong>ng</strong></stro<strong>ng</strong>> <stro<strong>ng</strong>>Qua<strong>ng</strong></stro<strong>ng</strong>> học, <stro<strong>ng</strong>>Qua<strong>ng</strong></stro<strong>ng</strong>> <stro<strong>ng</strong>>ph</stro<strong>ng</strong>>ổ và Ứ<strong>ng</strong> dụ<strong>ng</strong> <strong>VI</strong> <strong>ISSN</strong> <strong>1859</strong> - <strong>4271</strong>Forthetraveli<strong>ng</strong>-waveOPO,ac<s<stro<strong>ng</strong>>tro<strong>ng</strong></stro<strong>ng</strong>>>tin</s<stro<strong>ng</strong>>tro<strong>ng</strong></stro<strong>ng</strong>>>gasanaturaldia<stro<strong>ng</strong>>ph</stro<strong>ng</strong>>ragm,narowerpumpi<strong>ng</strong>beamsdecreasetheapertureoftheOPOresonator(inotherwords,theefectivevalueoftheFresnelnumber)andtherebyhelptodecreasethedivergenceoftheOPO radiation,evenwithhighintrinsicdivergence.InthecauseofKTPcrystals,three-mirorri<strong>ng</strong>cavityisresonantonlyforthesignalwaveandthelargepumpi<strong>ng</strong>beamdivergenceisreflectedmainlyintheidlerwaveradiation.One-dimensionalenergydensitydistributions1and2havebeenrecordedinthenear(~60cmfrom thesource)andfar(focalplaneofthes<stro<strong>ng</strong>>ph</stro<strong>ng</strong>>ericalmiror)fields,respectively.ThedivergenceoftheOPObeam withaverageoutputenergyof~25mJislesthansevendifractionlimits.Itshouldbenotedthatthefabricatedsourcemodelwiththeri<strong>ng</strong>OPOhasproduced2.5·10 6 pulseswithoutasubstantialcha<strong>ng</strong>einthecharacteristicsoftheoutputradiation.IV. CONCLUSIONWehavedemonstrateddiferentapproachestodeveloppulsedeye-saferadiationsourcesinwhichRamanlasersbasedonNd:KGW crystalsandOPOwithKTPcrystalsconvertemisionofNd:KGW andNd:YAGlaserswiththe 4 F 3/2 – 4 I 13/2 and 4 F 3/2 – 4 I 13/2 worki<strong>ng</strong>transitionsintothe1.5–1.57spectralra<strong>ng</strong>e.Independenceontheapproach,naturalcooledsourceswithRamanlaserconvertersensureeye-safewavele<strong>ng</strong>ths,pulseenergies,pulsewidthsandoutputbeamdivergencesbei<strong>ng</strong>betweenthelimits1.5and1.54μm,9and15mJ,3and25nsand5and15mrad,respectively.Basedonthetraveli<strong>ng</strong>-waveOPO,acompact,highlyefective,eye-safelasersourceradiatepulsesofupto35mJinenergy,11nsecinduration,and10Hzinrepetitionrateatelectricalpumpenergy≤ 8J.Atthe86.5% levelofthetotalpulseenergy,thesource-beamdivergenceisnotsomanyassevendifractionlimits.REFERENCES[1]V.I.Dashkevich,V.A.Orlovich and A.P.Shkadarevich,in CD-ROM Technical Digest onInternational conference ICONO/LAT 2007: Minsk,Belarus,28May–1Jun,2007,pp.LO1-58[2]V.I.Dashkevich,V.A.Orlovich,A.P.ShkadarevichandA.S.Shushpanov,,J. Appl. Spectrosc. Vol.75,2008,pp.539-545.[3]V.I.Dashkevich,V.A.OrlovichandA.P.Shkadarevich,J. Appl. Spectrosc. Vol.76,2009,pp.685-691.[4]V.I.Dashkevich,V.A.OrlovichandP.A.Apanacevich,in CD-ROM Technical Digest on 14 thInternational conference on Laser Optics «LO-2010»: St.Petersburg,Rusia,28Jun–2July,2010,pp.R1-436.39