反馈弥补激光能量传输中部分反射镜反射损失

Using optical feedback to compensate for the reflection loss caused by partially reflecting mirror in laser power beaming

激光能量传输中的光电池表面通常覆盖有一层部分反射镜,用于产生反射光信号,实时控制接收端的光功率大小以及调整发射端和接收端的对准度。部分反射镜会降低能量传输效率,提出了一种反馈式能量传输方式,建立了理论模型,推导了激光器输出功率表达式。从表达式中可以发现反馈激光可降低激光器的阈值电流,提高激光器的输出功率。通过实验测量了反馈和无反馈时激光器的阈值电流和输出功率,实验结果表明相比较于无反馈情况,反馈作用使激光器的阈值电流降低了25%,驱动电流为60 mA时,输出功率提升了10%。实验还比较了反馈情况和无反射镜情况下的输出功率,结果表明,反馈作用将反射镜的反射损失从10%降低到了3%,弥补了反射镜的反射损失,提高了激光能量传输效率。

The photocell is usually covered by a layer of partially reflecting mirror in laser power beaming, which is used to reflect partial laser light, control the light power of receiver in real time and adjust the beam pointing from transmitter to receiver. The partially reflecting mirror will decrease the power transmission efficiency. In this paper a method of optical feedback laser power beaming is presented, the theoretical model is established and the laser output power expression is derived. The expression shows that the optical feedback can reduce the laser threshold current and increase the laser output power. The laser threshold currents and output powers in feedback and non feedback conditions were measured in experiments. The experiment results show that in optical feedback condition the threshold current is reduced by 25% and the output power is increased by 10% at the driving current of 60mA compared with those in non feedback condition. In the experiment, the output powers in the conditions with feedback and without re- flecting mirror were also measured. The results show that the optical feedback can reduce the reflection loss caused by reflecting mirror from 10% to 3%. The optical feedback laser power transmission method compensates the reflection loss of the reflecting mirror and improves the power transmission efficiency.