The 266-nm ultraviolet-beam generation of all-fiberized super-large-mode-area narrow-linewidth nanosecond amplifier with tunable pulse width and repetition rate

We report on a compact, stable, all-fiberized narrow-linewidth(0.045 nm) pulsed laser source emitting laser beam with a wavelength of 266 nm, and tunable pulse width and repetition rate. The system is based on all-fiberized nanosecond amplifier architecture, which consists of Yb-doped fiber preamplifiers and a super-large-mode-area Yb-doped fiber power amplifier. The fiber amplifier with a core of 50 μm is used to raise the threshold of the stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS) effect and to obtain high output power and single pulse energy. Using lithium triborate(LBO) crystal and betabarium borate(BBO) crystal for realizing the second-harmonic generation(SHG) and fourth-harmonic generation(FHG),we achieve 17 μJ(1.73 W) and 0.66 μJ(66 mW), respectively, at wavelengths of 532 nm and 266 nm and a repetition rate of 100 kHz with pulse width of 4 ns. This source has great potential applications in fluorescence research and solar-blind ultraviolet optical communication.

Wavelength-Tunable Rectangular Pulses Generated from All-Fiber Mode-Locked Laser Based on Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror

The wavelength-tunable rectangular mode-locking operation is demonstrated in an all-fiber laser based on semi- conductor saturable absorber mirror. As the dissipative soliton resonance signature, the pulse duration varies from 5SOps to 2.1 ns as a function o~ the increasing pump power. Correspondingly, the maximum pulse energy is 9.11 n3. Moreover, it is found that the wavelength tunable operation with a range of approximately 10 nm could be obtained by properly adjusting the polarization controllers. The characteristics of the rectangular pulses at different wavelengths are similar to each other. The demonstration of the wavelength tunable rectangular pulses would be beneficial to some applications for many fields such as spectroscopy and sensing research.

All-fiberized very-large-mode-area Yb-doped fiber based high-peak-power narrow-linewidth nanosecond amplifier with tunable pulse width and repetition rate

We demonstrate an all-fiberized narrow-linewidth nanosecond amplifier with high peak power,tunable pulse width,and repetition rate.A fiber-coupled narrow-linewidth laser diode operating at 1064.1 nm is employed as the seed source,which is gain-switched to generate nanosecond pulses with tunable pulse widths of 1-200 ns and tunable repetition rates of10 Hz-100 kHz.By utilizing a very-large-mode-area Yb-doped fiber with a core diameter of 50 μm in the power amplifier,thresholds of the stimulated Brillouin scattering at different pulse widths and repetition rates are increased.The maximum average power reaches 30.8 W at the pulse width of 4 ns and a repetition rate of 100 kHz,corresponding to an optical-tooptical conversion efficiency of ~55.2%.Pulse energy and peak power are calculated to be 0.2 mJ and 50 kW,respectively,which are limited by stimulated Brillouin scattering.The 3-dB spectral linewidth remains around 0.05 nm during the power scaling process.The stimulated Brillouin scattering limited output powers at different pulse widths and repetition rates are investigated.Peak power of 47.5 kW(0.19 mJ) is obtained for the 4 ns pulses at a repetition rate of 50 kHz,which is nearly the same as that of 4 ns pulses at 100 kHz.When the pulse width of the seed source is increased to 8 ns,peak powers/pulse energies are decreased to 19.6 kW/0.11 mJ and 13.3 kW/0.08 mJ at repetition rates of 50 kHz and 100 kHz,respectively.

High-energy femtosecond Yb-doped all-fiber monolithic chirped-pulse amplifier at repetition rate of 1 MHz

A high-energy femtosecond all ytterbium fiber amplifier based on a chirped-pulse amplification（CPA） technique at a repetition rate of 1 MHz seeded by a dispersion-management mode-locked picosecond broadband oscillator is studied.We find that the compressed pulse duration is dependent on the amplified energy,the pulse duration of 804 fs corresponds to the maximum amplified energy of 10.5 μJ,while the shortest pulse duration of 424 fs corresponds to the amplified energy of 6.75 μJ.The measured energy fluctuation is approximately 0.46% root mean square（RMS） over 2 h.The low-cost femtosecond fiber laser source with super-stability will be widely used in industrial micromachines,medical therapy,and scientific studies.

Optimal Matching of Magnetic Pulse Compressor

Energy transmission efficiency in the magnetic pulse generators varies with saturated time of magnetic switch. An optimal matching time exists and depends on the compression ratio, under which, the energy transmission efficiency can reach approximate 100%. The equation of required magnetic core volume is obtained by taken into account the optimal matching mode. It indicates that a great reduction on the volume is feasible under the optimal matching mode. The circuit simulation code-PSPICE is also introduced to simulate a 3-stage magnetic pulse compressor, and the results are in accordance with those of equivalent circuit analyses.

Analytic RF design of a linear accelerator with a SLED-Ⅰ type RF pulse compressor

This study presents the RF design of a linear accelerator(linac)operated in single-bunch mode.The accelerator is powered by a compressed RF pulse produced from a SLED-I type RF pulse compressor.The compressed RF pulse has an unflattened shape with a gradient distribution which varies over the structure cells.An analytical study to optimize the accelerating structure together with the RF pulse compressor is performed.The optimization aims to maximize the efficiency by minimizing the required RF power from the generator for a given average accelerating gradient.The study shows that,owing to the compressed RF pulse shape,the constant-impedance structure has a similar efficiency to the optimal structure using varying iris apertures.The constant-impedance structure is easily fabricated and is favorable for the design of a linac with a pulse compressor.We utilize these findings to optimize the RF design of a X-band linac using the constant-impedance accelerating structure for the Tsinghua Thomson X-ray source facility.

Design and study of a C-band pulse compressor for the SXFEL linac

A C-band RF pulse compressor is in development at SINAP It comprises of two resonant cavities,two mode convertors and a 3 dB power divider.TE_(0.1.15)mode is selected for obtaining higher quality factor Q_0 of the RF pulse compressor cavities,so that the power gain factor can be 3.2,which is supposed to multiply the RF power from 50 MW to 1 60 MW.In this paper,we report our work on C-band RF pulse compressor,namely the design simulation and cold test results.

Q-switched giant pulsed erbium-doped all-fiber laser with V_(2)ZnC MAX phase saturable absorber

MXenes,drawn from MAX phases,are special two-dimensional substances with numerous advantages in nonlinear optics,specifically in giant and ultrashort pulsed-laser applications.Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)and Ti_(2)CT_(x)nanosheets however rapidly deteriorate under ambient conditions,limiting their applications.This paper demonstrates how excellent modulation depth of one of the MAX phase compounds vanadium zinc carbide(V_2ZnC)makes it a brilliant saturable absorber(SA)in passively Q-switched all-fiber pulsed lasers,integrated such that a 16.73-μm V_(2)ZnC-polyvinyl alcohol(PVA)thin film acts as SA in the laser.Saturable and non-saturable absorptions were found to be 13.2%and 10.47%,while saturation optical intensity and modulation depth were 6.25 k W/cm^(2)and 12.43%,respectively,illustrating the optical nonlinearity.The superiority of MAX-PVA,fabricated in four distinct ratios,was demonstrated by the fact that it self-starts a giant pulsed laser at pump power as low as 22.5 mW and firmly accomplished 120.6 kHz repetition rate with a pulse width of 2.08μs.It is a fine SA for the use of pulsed-laser production using all-fiber laser due to fabrication simplicity and great optical,thermophysical,and mechanical qualities.

Towards all-fiber structure pulsed mid-infrared laser by gas-filled hollow-core fibers

We report here on a diode-pumped pulsed mid-infrared laser source based on gas-filled hollow-core fibers(HCFs)towards an all-fiber structure by the tapering method. The pump laser is coupled into an acetylene-filled HCF through a tapered single-mode fiber. By precisely tuning the wavelength of the diode to match different absorption lines of acetylene near 1.5 μm, mid-infrared emission around 3.1–3.2 μm is generated. With 2 m HCFs and3 mbar acetylene gas, a maximum average power of 130 m W is obtained with a laser slope efficiency of ~24%.This work provides a potential scheme for all-fiber mid-infrared fiber gas lasers.

Generation of 8.5-nJ pulse from all-fiber dispersion compensation-free Yb-doped laser

We report the generation of an 8.5-nJ chirped pulse from a mode-locked all-fiber Yb-doped laser. Mode- locking is achieved through nonlinear polarization evolution （NPE） along with spectral filtering. The laser delivers 135 mW of average output power with positively chirped 10.9-ps pulses. The pulse repetition rate is 15.9 MHz, which results in an energy of 8.5 nJ per pulse. The externally dechirped pulse duration is 223 fs, and the pulse energy is 6 n J, which corresponds to the peak power of -27 kW.

All-fiber pulsed laser Doppler vibrometer development based on time-domain chopping techniques

A 1550 nm all-fiber pulsed laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) based on time-domain chopping techniques is developed to overcome demodulation failures caused by multipath interference. The system adopts an adjustable configuration on pulse duration and pulse repetition frequency according to the distance. An experiment is carried out at a 25 m standoff with pulse duration of 80 ns, single pulse energy of 0.4 nJ, and pulse repetition frequency of 1 MHz. A waveform and spectrogram of the demodulated voice show that the pulsed LDV system has a good performance in long-range voice listening.

High-power all-fiber 1.0/1.5μm dual-band pulsed MOPA source

The simultaneous dual-band pulsed amplification is demonstrated from an Er/Yb co-doped fiber（EYDF）, and consequently a high-power all-fiber single-mode 1.0/1.5 μm dual-band pulsed master oscillator power amplifier（MOPA） laser source is realized for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, based on one singlegain fiber. The simultaneous outputs at 1061 and 1548 nm of the laser source have the maximum powers of 10.7 and 25.8 W with the pulse widths of 9.5 ps and 2 ns and the pulse repetition rates of 178 and 25 MHz, respectively. This EYDF MOPA laser source is seeded by two separate preamplifier chains operating at 1.0 and 1.5 μm wavebands. The dependence of the laser output powers on the length of the large-mode area EYDF, the ratio of the powers of the two signals launched into the booster amplifier, and the wavelength of the 1 μm seed signal are also investigated experimentally.

Development of a linear compressor for two-stage pulse tube cryocoolers

A valveless linear compressor was built up to drive a self-made two-stage pulse tube cryocooler. With a designed maximum swept volume of 60 cm3, the compressor can provide the cryocooler with a pressure volume (PV) power of 400 W. Preliminary measurements of the compressor indicated that both an efficiency of 35%～55% and a pressure ratio of 1.3～1.4 could be obtained. The two-stage pulse tube cryocooler driven by this compressor achieved the lowest temperature of 14.2 K.

High efficiency linear compressor driven pulse tube cryocooler operating in liquid nitrogen temperature

The inertance tube is one of the key components of a pulse tube cryocooler. It has great influence not only on the efficiency of the pulse tube cryocooler, but also on the efficiency of the linear compressor. Meanwhile, it is very difficult to predict the impedance of an inertance tube because of the turbulent flow. In this paper, using a quasi-turbulent model, the inertance tube is optimized to match a linear compressor driven pulse tube cryocooler. Experimental results show that this model can predict the impedance quite well. With 127 W input electric power, the pulse tube cryocooler obtains 9.4 W cooling power at a temperature of 77 K. The relative Carnot efficiency of the whole system reaches 19.8%.

RF study of a C-band barrel open cavity pulse compressor

This paper focuses on the RF study of a C-band barrel open cavity （BOC） pulse compressor. The operating principle of BOC is presented and the technical specifications are determined. The main parts of BOC such as the cavity, the matching waveguide, the coupling slots and the tuning rings were numerically sinmlated by 3-D codes software HFSS and CST Microwave Studio （MWS）. The ＂whispering gallery＂ mode TM6,1,1 with an unload Q of 100000 was chosen to oscillate in the cavity. An energy multiplication factor of 1.99 and a peak power gain of 6.34 was achieved theoretically.

Design and simulation of a C-band pulse compressor

The design and optimization procedure of a pulse compressor is presented. A C-band （5712 MHz） pulse compressor using a TE0,1,15 mode cylindrical cavity with dual side-wall coupling irises has been designed. Also the coupling coefficient, position of the short plane and size of the bottom groove have been optimized by using HFSS.

Design,fabrication,and cold-test results of C-band spherical RF pulse compressor prototype

Purpose Pulse compressor is a useful and common RF structure for Free Electron Laser and Linear Collider Facilities, whichcan improve the input power of accelerating structures significantly.Methods In this study, we designed, fabricated and tested a prototype of a compact C-band spherical pulse compressor.This pulse compressor utilizes one high Q0 spherical RF resonant cavity that works with two degenerated TE1,1,3modes anda dual-mode polarized coupler. The cavity and coupler were designed and machined separately and then brazed together.The prototype was tested carefully using vector network analyzer, and a cold-test system was set up to check the workingconditions of the spherical pulse compressor with inversed input powerResults Associated with the C-band high-gradient accelerating structures, the peak power gain and energy multiply factorcan be as high as 6.1 and 1.85, respectively, in theory. The average power gain is 3.8 in the first 0.372 μs after the phasereverse, which is the accelerator filling time. During the cold test, a peak power multiply factor of 6.04 and an energy multiplyfactor of 1.83 were achieved.Conclusions The test results agreed with the design well. The prototype was successfully made as a pre-research for thefuture energy multiplying scheme of SXFEL.

RF design of an S-band spherical cavity pulse compressor

The pulse compressor plays an important role in accelerators by enhancing the RF peak power.An S-band(2856 MHz)spherical cavity pulse compressor consisting of a special 3 dB coupler and a single spherical energy storage cavity has been developed in Institute of High Energy Physics.The special 3 dB coupler converts the TE10 mode in rectangular waveguide to two polarization degenerated TE11 modes in cylindrical waveguide.It is also a circular polarizer and its general scattering matrix is given for the first time.The magnitude and the phase difference of the two TE11 modes are−3.016,−3.005 dB and 90.02◦in HFSS,while it is−3.01,−3.01 dB and 89.79◦in CST.The simulated S parameters show agreement with the general scattering matrix.The TE114 mode with an unloaded Q factor of 190,000 has been chosen to resonate in the spherical cavity.An energy multiplication factor of 1.75 and a peak power gain of 5.75 were obtained for the whole pulse compressor,which agrees with the design requirements.A good pulse compression performance is also proved by the CST time-domain simulation.In addition,the scheme for tuning and detuning is designed and given in detail.Compared to the traditional SLED type,the spherical cavity pulse compressor uses only one spherical cavity to realize the pulse compression,which makes it compact as a whole.

Analysis and simulation of a coupled-cavity pulse compressor

An equivalent circuit model is built for a coupled-resonator pulse compressor. Based on the circuit, the general second order differential equation is derived and converted into the first order equation to save computing time. In order to analyze the transient response and optimize parameters for the pulse compressor, we have developed a simulation code. In addition, we have also designed a three-cavity pulse compressor to get the maximum energy multiplication factor. The size of the cavities and coupling apertures is determined by HFSS.

环形磁芯磁开关设计

在同时考虑磁芯与绕组间绝缘距离和磁芯横截面磁场非均匀的条件下,推导出了环形磁开关磁芯体积计算公式,并以此为基础,提出了获得最小磁芯体积的优化设计方法.利用所提出的最小磁芯体积设计方法,对一个具体的环形磁开关实例进行了计算和设计,当绝缘距离由15mm(径向和轴向绝缘距离相等)增加到45mm时,磁芯体积增长了1 2倍;径向绝缘保持15mm不变,轴向绝缘距离由15mm增加到45mm时,磁芯体积增加了20%.计算结果表明:绝缘距离是影响磁芯大小的重要因素,采取良好的绝缘方法,减小绝缘距离是降低磁开关磁芯体积的一条重要途径.