Selective Alignment of D2 Induced by Two Ultrashort Laser Pulses

The dynamics of molecular rotational wave packets of D2 induced by ultrashort laser pulses was investigated numerically by solving the time-dependent SchrSdinger equation. Results show that an ultrashort pulse can manipulate a coherent rotational wave packet of D2 se- lectively. In the calculation, a first laser pulse was used to create a coherent rotational wave packet from an initial thermal ensemble of D2 at the temperature of 300 K. The second laser pulse was used to manipulate the rotational wave packet selectively around the first quarter and the three quarters revival. The alignment parameter and its Fourier transform amplitude both illustrate that the relative populations of even and odd rotational states in the final rotational wave packet of D2 can be manipulated by precisely selecting the time delay between the first and the second ultrashort pulse.

Adaptive split-step Fourier method for simulating ultrashort laser pulse propagation in photonic crystal fibres

In this paper, the generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation （GNLSE） is solved by an adaptive split-step Fourier method （ASSFM）. It is found that ASSFM must be used to solve GNLSE to ensure precision when the soliton selffrequency shift is remarkable and the photonic crystal fibre （PCF） parameters vary with the frequency considerably. The precision of numerical simulation by using ASSFM is higher than that by using split-step Fourier method in the process of laser pulse propagation in PCFs due to the fact that the variation of fibre parameters with the peak frequency in the pulse spectrum can be taken into account fully.

Theoretical investigation on generating terahertz radiation from gas plasma induced by three-color ultrashort lasers

Generation of intense broadband terahertz(THz) waves from gas plasma induced by tri-color ultrashort(fundamental(ω), second harmonic(2ω), and third harmonic(3ω)) laser pulses is theoretically investigated. Simulation results show that the 3ω laser pulse can greatly enhance or suppress the generation of THz wave at different values of relative phase(θ 3) between the 3ω and ω fields. Moreover, the polarities of the generated THz waves can be controlled by changing θ 3,with the relative phase θ 2(between the 2ω and ω fields) fixed to be a certain value. All of our results show that θ 3 plays a key role in the generation process, which promises to control the intensity as well as the polarity of gas plasma-induced THz radiation.

Control of photoassociation reaction F＋H →HF with ultrashort laser pulse

The laser-induced vibrational state-selectivity of product HF in photoassociation reaction H＋F→HF is theoret- ically investigated by using the time-dependent quantum wave packet method. The population transfer process from the continuum state down to the bound vibrational states can be controlled by the driving laser. The effects of laser pulse parameters and the initial momentum of the two collision atoms on the vibrational population of the product HF are discussed in detail. Photodissociation accompanied with the photoassociation process is also described.

Single-wavelength size focusing of ultra-intense ultrashort lasers with rotational hyperbolic mirrors

Compressing all the energy of a laser pulse into a spatiotemporal focal cube edged by the laser center wavelength will realize the highest intensity of an ultra-intense ultrashort laser,which is called theλ^(3) regime or theλ^(3) laser.Herein,we introduced a rotational hyperbolic mirror—an important rotational conic section mirror with two foci—that is used as a secondary focusing mirror after a rotational parabolic mirror to reduce the focal spot size from several wavelengths to a single wavelength by significantly increasing the focusing angular aperture.Compared with the rotational ellipsoidal mirror,the first focal spot with a high intensity,as well as some unwanted strong-field effects,is avoided.The optimal focusing condition of this method is presented and the enhanced tight focusing for a femtosecond petawatt laser and theλ3 laser is numerically simulated,which can enhance the focused intensities of ultra-intense ultrashort lasers for laser physics.

Anisotropic dewetting polydimethylsiloxane surface fabricated using ultrashort laser pulses

Anisotropic dewetting polydimethylsiloxane （PDMS） surfaces, which consist of groove-like micro/ nanostructures （so-called hierarchical structures）, are fabricated using an ultrashort pulsed laser. The contact angles （CAs） are measured parallel to the microgrooves, which are always larger than those measured perpendicular to the microgrooves, exhibiting a superhydrophobic anisotropy of approximately 4°on these fabricated PDMS surfaces at optimized parameters. These pulsed-laser irradiated surfaces exhibit enhanced hydrophobicity with CAs that increase from 116°to 156°while preserving the anisotropic dewetting. Additionally, the wettability of the surfaces with different morphologies is investigated. The temporal evolution of the wettability of the pulsed-laser irradiated PDMS surface is also observed within the first few hours after pulsed laser irradiation.

Molecular wakes for ultrashort laser pulses

The molecular wake-assisted interaction between two collinear femotosecond laser pulses is investigated in air,which leads to the generation of a controllable 1.8 mJ super-continuum pulse with an elongated self-guided channel due to the cross-phase modulation of the impulsively aligned diatomic molecules in air. For two parallel launched femtosecond laser pulses with a certain spatial separation,controllable attraction and repulsion of the pulses are observed due to the counter-balance among molecular wakes,Kerr and plasma effects,where the molecular wakes show a longer interaction distance than the others to control the propagation of the intense ultrashort laser pulses.

Coulomb expansion of deuterated methane clusters irradiated by an ultrashort intense laser pulse

The simulations of three-dimensional particle dynamics show that when irradiated by an ultrashort intense laser pulse, the deuterated methane cluster expands and the majority of deuterons overrun the more slowly expanding carbon ions, resulting in the creation of two separated subelusters. The enhanced deuteron kinetic energy and a narrow peak around the energy maximum in the deuteron energy distribution make a considerable contribution to the efficiency of nuclear fusion compared with the ease of homonuelear deuterium clusters. With the intense laser irradiation, the nuclear fusion yield increases with the increase of the cluster size, so that deuterated heteronuelear clusters with larger sizes are required to achieve a greater neutron yield.

Spectrum Blueshifting of Ultrashort UV Laser Pulse Induced by Ionization of Supersonic He and Ar Gas Jets

The predominant spectral blueshifting of a sub-picosecond UV laser pulse induced by ultrafast ionization of noble gases was investigated. Spectral measurements were made at various gas densities. Typical quasi-periodic structures in the blueshifted spectrum were obtained. The observations were in connection with the so-called self-phase modulation of laser pulses in the ultrafast ionization process which was simply simulated with an ADK （Ammosov-Delone-Krainov） ionization model. Some quantitative information can be deduced from the measurements and calculations.

Double Ionization Dynamics of Molecular Hydrogen in Ultrashort Intense Laser Fields

We experimentally investigate the double ionization pulses. The total kinetic energy release of the two of molecular hydrogen subjected to ultrashort intense laser coincident H＋ ions, which provides a diagnosis of different processes to double ionization of H2, is measured for two different pulse durations, i.e., 25 and 5 fs, and various laser intensities. It is found that, for the long pulse duration （i.e., 25 fs）, the double ionization occurs mainly via two processes, i.e., the charge resonance enhanced ionization and recollision-induced double ionization. Moreover, the contributions from these two processes can be significantly modulated by changing the laser intensity. In contrast, for a few-cycle pulse of 5 fs, only the recollsion-induced double ionization survives, and in particular, this process could be solely induced by the first-return reeollision at appropriate laser intensities, providing an efficient way to probe the sub-laser-cycle molecular dynamics.

Classical model of interaction of 1-D helium with an inte nse ultrashort laser pulse

The dynamical process of interaction of one-dimensional helium with an intense ultrashort laser pulse has hen studied with a classical theory. Using the ensemble average method in the classical theory, the probability evolutions of the single and double ionization for the helium are simulated and the simulation results are analyzed.

Accurate reconstruction of electric field of ultrashort laser pulse with complete two-step phase-shifting

This paper presents a complete two-step phase-shifting(TSPS) spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction(SPIDER) to improve the reconstruction of ultrafast optical fields. Here, complete TSPS acts as a balanced detection that can not only remove the effect of the dc term of the interferogram, but also reduce measurement noises,and thereby improve the capability of SPIDER to measure the pulses with narrow spectra or complex spectral structures.Some prisms are chosen to replace some environment-sensitive optical components, especially reflective optics to improve operating stability and improve signal-to-noise ratio further. Our experiments show that the available shear can be decreased to 1.5% of the spectral width, which is only about 1/3 compared with traditional SPIDER.

Effects of second-order dispersion of ultrashort laser pulse on stimulated Raman scattering

The influence of second-order dispersion(SOD)on stimulated Raman scattering(SRS)in the interaction of an ultrashort intense laser with plasma was investigated.More significant backward SRS was observed with the increase of the absolute value of SOD(|ψ2|).The integrated intensity of the scattered light is positively correlated to the driver laser pulse duration.Accompanied by the side SRS,filaments with different angles along the laser propagation direction were observed in the transverse shadowgraph.A model incorporating Landau damping and above-threshold ionization was developed to explain the SOD-dependent angular distribution of the filaments.

Stimulated Emission of Gamma Photon from Ultrashort Pulse Intense Laser—Solid—Target Interaction

The efficient production of energetic γ photons is a significant physical process in the relativistic ultrashortpulse laser-plasma inducing photonuclear action. Based on the interaction of laser-solid-target, an analytical theory onstimulated γ photon emission from a hot electron firing the target-nucleus is developed by a relativistic full quantummethod. The emitting power or probability of γ photon in arbitrary space direction can be calculated for laser irradiatingsolid-target normally. It is valid only if the scatter-centre is immovable or its motion can be neglected compared withthat of the scattered electrons.

A Novel Nanotube-Based Fiber Laser for Ultrashort Pulse Generation and Fast Measurements

We propose a nanotube-based erbium-doped fiber laser that can deliver conventional soliton (CS) and stretched pulse (SP) based on D-shaped fiber saturable absorber (DF-SA) where evanescent-field interaction works. The novel Nanotube-based Fiber Laser can generate SP or CS by tuning pump power and polarization controller (PC) properly. The net cavity dispersion of laser is slightly negative. In our experiment, by optimizing the PC in the cavity, CS and SP can be obtained at the central wavelengths of 1530.6 nm and 1530.3 nm due to on carbon nanotubes and the spectral filtering effect induced by nonlinear polarization rotation. Although the acquired CS and SP nearly have the same central wavelengths, they show distinct optical spectra, 3-dB bandwidths. The proposed fiber laser with switchable CS and SP is attractive for ultrashort pulse generation and fast measurements in practical applications.

光丝诱导大气等离子体化学反应生成的一氧化氮测量

大气等离子体会诱导化学反应,一氧化氮(NO)是大气化学反应的主要产物之一,对其大气浓度的准确测量有助于揭示其大气化学反应机理并优化大气等离子体应用。在静态密闭反应池中,利用脉冲宽度35 fs、工作波长800 nm的脉冲激光生成光丝等离子体并诱导大气化学反应,进而采用中红外激光吸收光谱技术,实时测量了NO浓度随空气气压、反应时间的变化。在不同气压下,NO浓度随反应时间的增加而增加直至保持稳定,但NO达到稳定浓度所需要的反应时间随空气气压增加而延长。受到三体复合反应的影响,NO的累积体积比浓度从低气压时的400×10^(-6)以上减小到常压时(一个大气压)的120×10^(-6)左右。

SESAM锁模全保偏皮秒脉冲光纤激光器输出特性

搭建了基于半导体可饱和吸收镜(SESAM)锁模的全保偏皮秒脉冲光纤激光器,对比分析了以多量子阱和体材料作为可饱和吸收层的SESAM对锁模激光器输出特性的影响。实验结果表明,多量子阱和体材料SESAM均可实现稳定的自启动锁模。随着量子阱周期数的增加,SESAM调制深度增大,激光器输出脉冲宽度变窄,具有更高的输出功率和更大的锁模区间。但量子阱周期数过高的SESAM具有较大非饱和损耗,使得相同泵浦功率下输出功率降低。在相同调制深度下,体材料SESAM的非饱和损耗偏大,降低了输出功率和光光转化效率,但对脉冲的窄化作用更显著。SESAM对输出脉冲的波长和光谱宽度无显著影响,主要受光纤布拉格光栅(FBG)控制。本文对SESAM的设计与选型具有一定指导意义。

超短脉冲激光在掺Er^(3+)磷酸盐玻璃中制备光波导的实验研究

超短脉冲激光通过非线性吸收调制光学材料折射率提供了一种高效制备集成三维光子器件的途径.掺Er^(3+)磷酸盐玻璃由于其优异的特性以及在1.55μm通信波段附近的发射光谱,成为了集成光学主动增益材料中的研究热点.实验采用重复频率1 kHz,中心波长800 nm,脉冲宽度120 fs的钛宝石飞秒激光放大系统作为制备波导的光源,系统研究了加工参数对激光写入形貌、波导形成及光学特性的影响.实验结果表明,在狭缝整形辅助短焦物镜横向刻写条件下,写入脉冲能量为1.8μJ时,光波导可以在写入速度为10μm/s-160μm的较宽范围内形成;写入速度为40μm/s时,光波导写入脉冲能量参数窗口为1.6μJ-2.0μJ;波导写入深度在125μm-200μm范围时,波导横截面对称性较好且折射率修改明显;近场强度测量结果显示所制备波导近场强度分布对称,导光特性良好.通过有限差分法反推波导区域折射率修改分布,结果显示最大折射率修改为Δn=6.6×10^(-4).截断传输损耗测量结果显示所制备波导的传输损耗低至0.91 dB/cm.

Standing Ultrashort Relativistic Solitons in Overdense Plasmas

By using a one-dimensional self-consistent relativistic fluid model, an investigation is made numerically on relativistic electromagnetic solitons with a high intensity in cold overdense plasmas with an electrons＇ initial velocity opposite to the laser propagating direction. Two types of standing solitons with zero group velocity are found at the given electrons＇ initial velocities. One is single-humped with a weakly relativistic intensity; the another is multi-humped with a strong relativistic amplitude. The properties of these two types of solitons are presented in detail.

超短脉冲激光加工技术在半导体制造中的应用

随着集成电路高集成度、高性能的发展,对半导体制造技术提出更高要求。超短脉冲激光加工作为一种精密制造技术,正逐步成为半导体制造的重要工艺。阐述了超短脉冲激光加工技术特点和激光与材料相互作用过程,重点介绍了超快激光精密加工技术在硬脆半导体晶体切割、半导体晶圆划片中的应用,并提出相关技术提升方向。