基于泌尿外科应用的350 W蓝光半导体激光器合束技术研究

Research on the beam combining technique of a 350 W blue semiconductor laser for urological applications

泌尿外科临床激光治疗的传统光源主要是掺铥激光、掺钬激光和掺钕倍频绿激光等。近年来,随着蓝光半导体激光单管功率逐渐提升,450 nm蓝光逐步被应用于膀胱肿瘤切除手术,具有切割干净、出血少、邻近组织无不良凝血等特点。本文针对泌尿外科应用所急需的高稳定性光纤耦合输出的蓝光激光器需求,研究了350 W光纤耦合蓝光半导体激光器,采用4个100 W阵列式蓝光单元作为光源,分析了多发光点阵列的光场传输特性,光强远场分布为双峰结构,峰值角为arcsin(5λ/4γd);基于空间合束技术,实现慢轴光束交叉叠加,消除发光死区;使用偏振合束技术,让一束光的偏振态由P光变为S光后与另一束P光垂直叠加,实现快轴光束的间距压缩,提高光束亮度;准直结构分别将光束快慢轴发散角缩小为0.6981 mrad和1.0123 mrad,快轴用1.2倍扩束系统将输出光斑变换为正方形。研究结果表明,所研发的激光器蓝光功率为358 W,输出光纤200μm/NA 0.22,合束效率为89.5%,电光转换效率31.3%,功率波动小于0.4%。选用通水光纤作为输出端,为泌尿外科临床治疗提供了更高功率的激光医疗方案。

The main light sources used in the clinical treatment of urological surgery are thulium-doped laser,holmium-doped laser,and green laser via the double-frequency from neodymium-doped laser,etc.In recent years,with the improvement of the output power of blue semiconductor laser diodes,450 nm blue light has attracted growing attention and been applied in bladder tumor resection surgery,offering advantages such as clean cutting,minimal bleeding,and no adverse coagulation of adjacent tissues.This work focuses on the solution for a high-stability fiber-coupled output blue laser source for urological surgery applications.A 350 W fiber-coupled blue semiconductor laser is built by utilizing four 100 W arrayed blue laser units as the light source.The optical field transmission characteristics of the multi-emitter array are analyzed,and the far-field distribution of optical intensity exhibits a dual-peak structure with a peak angle of arcsin(5λ/4γd).By applying the spatial beam combining technique,we have successfully achieved the cross-interference of the slow-axis beams,thereby obliterating the emission dead zone.A polarization beam combining scheme is performed to rotate the polarization state of one beam from P-polarized to S-polarized,and then combine it orthogonally with another P-polarized beam,resulting in compression of the spacing between fast-axis beams and improved beam brightness.The collimating structure reduces the divergence angles of the fast and slow axes to 0.6981 mrad and 1.0123 mrad,respectively.The fast axis is expanded by a factor of 1.2 to transform the output beam profile into a square shape.Finally,we obtain a blue laser with a power of 358 W,an output fiber of 200μm/NA 0.22,a beam combining efficiency of 89.5%,an electro-optical conversion efficiency of 31.3%,and power fluctuation less than 0.4%.Using the water-cooled fiber to couple out the light beam,this high-power laser source may serve as an ideal medical solution for clinical treatment in urological surgery.