Foi desenvolvida e construída uma cavidade bombeadora para um meio de ganho de Cr:LiSAF na forma de bastão, bombeado por duas lâmpadas, visando sua operação como amplificador de pulsos ultracurtos a taxas de repetição elevadas, e com redução da carga térmica sobre o meio de ganho. A cavidade e o meio de ganho foram caracterizados sob operação como laser e como amplificador de pulsos ultracurtos. Atuando como laser, obtivemos 30 Hz de taxa de repetição e 20 W de potência média, resultado inédito, e ganho máximo de 1,5 por passagem. Alterando as características do bombeamento, foi possível operar o laser a 8 Hz e 16 W de potência média, com ganho máximo de 3,6 por passagem. A cavidade bombeadora, na configuração de maior ganho, foi integrada e sincronizada a um sistema Chirped Pulse Amplification baseado em cristais de Ti:Safira, concebido e construído visando a sua conjugação com o amplificador de Cr:LiSAF. O amplficiador introduziu um fator de amplificação de 150 em pulsos de 20 ps, produzindo pulsos com potência de pico de 0,5 TW. Também foi apresentada uma nova técnica para medida do limiar de ablação por pulsos ultracurtos, e sua teoria analítica foi desenvolvida. Esta técnica foi utilizada na determinação do limiar de ablação de cristais de Cr:LiSAF no regime de 20 ps. / We have developed and built a pumping cavity for a Cr:LiSAF rod, pumped by two flashlamps, in order to operate it as an ultrashort laser pulse amplifier at the highest possible repetition rate, under reduced thermal load. The pumping cavity and the gain medium were characterized under laser and ultrashort pulse amplifier operation. Operating as a laser, 30 Hz repetition rate and 20 W average power were obtained for the first time at a maximum gain per pass of 1.5. Changing the pumping characteristics, the laser provided 16 W at 8 Hz repetition rate, at a maximum gain of 3.6. The cavity, in the highest gain configuration, was integrated and synchronized to a Ti:Sapphire Chirped Pulse Amplification system, conceived and built to comprise the Cr:LiSAF amplifier. The amplifier provided amplification by a factor 150 to the 20 ps stretched pulses, resulting in pulses with 0.5 TW of peak power. Also, a new technique to measure ultrashort pulses ablation threshold was presented, and its analytical theory was developed. This technique was used to determine the ablation threshold for Cr:LiSAF crystals in the 20 ps regime.

Chen Fei. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-92). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / List of publications --- p.ii / Abstract (In English) --- p.iii / Abstract (In Chinese) --- p.v / Table of contents --- p.vii / List of figures --- p.x / List of tables --- p.xiv / Chapter Chapter I --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter II --- Sol-gel channel waveguides --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- General sol-gel process --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Dye-doped sol-gel zirconia and zirconia-ORMOSIL materials --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3 --- Fabrication of sol-gel channel waveguides --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- General process of the photolithographic technique --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Channels in glass substrates by using photolithographic wet etching technique --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Channels in fused silica substrates by using photolithographic dry etching technique (Inductive-coupled plasma etching) --- p.24 / Chapter Chapter III --- Coupled-wave theory and experimental setup of distributed feedback channel waveguide lasers --- p.27 / Chapter 3.1 --- Coupled-wave theory of distributed feedback lasers --- p.27 / Chapter 3.2 --- Experimental setup --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter IV --- One-dimensional and two-dimensional optical waveguide analysis --- p.37 / Chapter 4.1 --- 1-D planar waveguide analysis --- p.37 / Chapter 4.2 --- 2-D channel waveguide analysis using the Marcatili method --- p.39 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- The Eypq modes: Polarization in the y direction --- p.42 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- The Eypq modes: Polarization in the x direction --- p.46 / Chapter 4.3 --- 2-D channel waveguide analysis using the effective index method --- p.48 / Chapter Chapter V --- Distributed feedback channel waveguide lasers tunable in the visible --- p.50 / Chapter 5.1 --- Rhodamine 6G-doped zirconia planar and channel waveguides --- p.51 / Chapter 5.2 --- Results and discussion --- p.56 / Chapter 5.3 --- Summary --- p.66 / Chapter Chapter VI --- Near infrared distributed feedback channel waveguide lasers --- p.68 / Chapter 6.1 --- LDS dye-doped zirconia-ORMOSIL planar and channel waveguides --- p.68 / Chapter 6.2 --- Results and discussion --- p.72 / Chapter 6.3 --- Summary --- p.80 / Chapter Chapter VII --- Summary --- p.81 / References --- p.86

by Tong Wai Yin Alex. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 55). / by Tong Wai Yin Alex. / Acknowledgement / Biographical Sketch / Abstract / Table of contents / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Nonlinear Optics in dye-doped solid --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Nonlinear Optics --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Photophysics of dye molecules --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3 --- Nonlinear effect in dye-doped solid --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Sol-Gel Silica --- p.11 / Chapter 3.1 --- The formation of dye-doped sol-gel silica --- p.11 / Chapter 3.2 --- The physical properties --- p.15 / Chapter 3.3 --- The optical properties --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Saturation Absorption --- p.18 / Chapter 4.1 --- Saturation Absorption in Fluorescein 548 dye-doped solid --- p.18 / Chapter 4.2 --- Experimental Details --- p.19 / Chapter 4.3 --- Results and Discussion --- p.19 / Chapter 4.4 --- Conclusion --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Optical Phase Conjucation --- p.31 / Chapter 5.1 --- OPC Theory --- p.31 / Chapter 5.11 --- The Distortion Correction Theorem --- p.32 / Chapter 5.12 --- The Proof of the Distortion Theorem --- p.32 / Chapter 5.13 --- The generation of Phase Conjucate Waves --- p.34 / Chapter 5.2 --- Degenerate Four Wave Mixing --- p.35 / Chapter 5.21 --- Geometries of DFWM --- p.35 / Chapter 5.22 --- DFWM Theory --- p.37 / Chapter 5.23 --- DFWM in Absorbing Media --- p.40 / Chapter 5.3 --- Experimental Details --- p.44 / Chapter 5.4 --- Results and Discussion --- p.46 / Chapter 5.5 --- Conclusion --- p.53 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion and Suggestions for future work --- p.54 / Reference

Wang Jun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-79). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / List of publications --- p.ii / Abstract (In English) --- p.iii / Abstract (In Chinese) --- p.v / Table of contents --- p.vii / List of figures --- p.x / List of tables --- p.xiv / Chapter Chapter I --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter II --- Dye-doped sol-gel zirconia and zirconia-organically modified silicate waveguides --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- General sol-gel process --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Dye-doped sol-gel zirconia and zirconia-ORMOSIL waveguides --- p.7 / Chapter Chapter III --- Basic theory and experiment setup of distributed feedback waveguide lasers --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1 --- Coupled-wave theory of distributed feedback lasers --- p.13 / Chapter 3.2 --- Introduction on the theory of planar optical waveguide --- p.16 / Chapter 3.3 --- Experiment setup design of DFB waveguide lasers --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter IV --- Zirconia and zirconia-organically modified silicate distributed feedback waveguide lasers tunable in the visible --- p.23 / Chapter Chapter V --- Tunable multi-wavelength distributed feedback zirconia waveguide lasers --- p.35 / Chapter 5.1 --- Brief introduction on multi-wavelength lasers --- p.35 / Chapter 5.2 --- R6G-doped zirconia multi-mode waveguides --- p.36 / Chapter 5.3 --- Experimental results and discussion --- p.39 / Chapter 5.3.1. --- Dual- and quadruple-wavelength DFB waveguide lasers --- p.39 / Chapter 5.3.2. --- The dispersion characteristics of multi-wavelength DFB waveguide lasers --- p.44 / Chapter 5.3.3. --- Determination of waveguide parameters by the DFB technique --- p.48 / Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter VI --- Distributed feedback laser action in sol-gel glass symmetric waveguides --- p.53 / Chapter 6.1 --- The fabrication of dye-doped glass symmetric waveguides --- p.54 / Chapter 6.2 --- Experimental results and discussion --- p.56 / Chapter 6.2.1. --- DFB laser action in sol-gel glass symmetric-asymmetric waveguide --- p.56 / Chapter 6.2.2. --- Dispersion characteristics of DFB symmetric and asymmetric waveguide lasers --- p.61 / Chapter 6.3 --- Summary --- p.65 / Chapter Chapter VII --- Summary --- p.69 / References --- p.74

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Graduation date: 1993

Two-dimensional thermal, mechanical and optical simulations are carried out to investigate the effect of Nd3+ concentration on thermal, mechanical and optical behavior of Nd:YAG ceramic laser materials under continuous wave laser operation. In the analyses, rods are pumped longitudinally with laser diodes, in three, six, nine and twelve fold structures. Rods having diameters of 3 and 6 mm are pumped with 808 nm and 885 nm sources separately having Nd+3 concentrations of 0.6, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 at. %. Total absorbed pump power are kept constant for all rods. Absorbed pump power distribution are obtained for each rod using ray tracing method and Beer&amp / #8217 / s Law. In the analysis, temperature dependent material properties are incorporated. Nonlinear numerical solutions of thermal and stress equations have been performed. Temperature and stress results are obtained to investigate the effect of Nd concentration on the optical properties of ceramic YAG laser material. Analysis results reveal that, increase in Nd3+ concentration of YAG ceramic laser material, decreases the temperature and stress developed during optical pumping. Rods pumped with 808 nm source have large temperature and stress values compared to 885 nm pumped ones. Optical path difference (OPD) of each ray passed trough the material is calculated using thermal and elastic strain results together with photo-elastic constants of Nd:YAG material. Focal length and depolarization of each rod is calculated numerically from OPD results. Focal length of each rod is found to increase, in contrary depolarization is found to decrease with increase in the dopant concentration.

Yb-ion doped gain media have become the material of choice for reliable generation of ultrashort pulses at wavelength around 1 μm. At present, however, operation at high average power (>1 W) with sub-100 fs pulses still remains challenging. The efforts of developing an Yb-ion oscillator towards this goal, therefore, are the main focus of this thesis. In this work, the Yb:KGd(WO4)2 (Yb:KGW) crystals were chosen to serve as the gain media. To achieve high power operation, two fundamental issues have been carefully considered: 1) a new pumping scheme was proposed to alleviate the thermal issues in the Yb:KGW crystals; 2) a new method was introduced to characterize intracavity losses in the broadband Yb-ion oscillators. As a side effect observed during the optimization of the CW operation, simultaneous two-wavelength emission was also discussed. With the knowledge and experimental understanding of the fundamental issues in laser oscillators operated in the continuous-wave regime, the next step of this work demonstrated their operation in a pulsed regime. The dual action of the Kerr-lens and saturable absorber (KLAS) mode locking was proposed in this work and resulted in greatly enhanced laser performance. The laser delivered pulses with 67 fs duration at a repetition rate of 77 MHz. The average output power reached 3 W, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the highest average output power produced to date from the Yb-ion based bulk lasers with such a short pulse duration. The scalability of pulse energy and peak power was also demonstrated by reducing the repetition rate to either 36 MHz or 18 MHz. The cavity with the latter repetition rate produced 85 fs pulses with the pulse energy up to 83 nJ, which corresponds to a peak power as high as 1 MW. As required by many biomedical applications, the wavelength of the generated pulses (~1 μm) can be tuned in the near-infrared region by coupling them into an optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The feasibility of this approach was demonstrated in the last part of this thesis, through a thorough theoretical analysis of two OPO materials suitable for excitation at 1.04 μm.

Thesis (M.S. in Applied Physics)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005. / Thesis Advisor(s): William B. Colson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81). Also available online.

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