We experimentally demonstrate a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator(OPO) synchronously pumped by a home-made solid-state mode-locking Yb:YCOB laser, which is capable of laser pulse as short as 102 fs and average power of 620 m W at the central wavelength of 1052 nm. By using a periodically poled lithium niobate with tuning of the grating periods from 28.5 to 31.5 μm as the nonlinear gain crystal, tunable femtosecond pulses from 1444 to 1683 nm are realized by conveniently adjusting the OPO cavity length with 76.8 MHz repetition rate. The maximum average output power is 152 m W at 1568 nm, corresponding to an idler power of 75 m W at 3197 nm as well as 36.6% total extraction efficiency.
The two-photon double ionization(TPDI) dynamics of helium by chirped attosecond pulses are theoretically studied by solving the two-electron time-dependent Schr o¨dinger equation in its full dimensions. We show that both the differential and the total double ionization probability can be significantly controlled by adjusting the chirp. The dependence of the TPDI on the chirp can be quite different for different photon energies, relying on the central photon energy being in the sequential region, nonsequential region, or translation region. The physics which lead to the chirp dependence for different photon energies are addressed. Present findings are well reproduced by a model based on the second-order time-dependent perturbation theory.
研究了在紧聚焦实验条件下,采用5 fs激光脉冲与氩气相互作用产生的高次谐波特性.通过优化系统色散、气体靶气压与位置等参数,观察到在60—73 e V波段范围内高次谐波光谱接近一个量级的增强.进一步通过对单原子模型和传播方程的数值求解及模拟相位匹配实验参数下高次谐波的产生过程,发现相位匹配在所观察到的实验现象中起着关键作用,得到了理论上与实验规律一致的结果.
High-order harmonic generation(HHG) driven by two non-collinear beams including a fundamental and its weak second harmonic is numerically studied. The interference of harmonics from adjacent electron quantum paths is found to be dependent on the relative delay of the driving pulse, and the dependences are different for different harmonic orders.This frequency dependence of the interference is attributed to the spatial frequency chirp in the HHG beam resulting from the harmonic dipole phase, which in turn provides a potential way to gain an insight into the generation of high-order harmonics. As an example, the intensity dependent dipole phase coefficient α is retrieved from the interference fringe.
We theoretically investigate the low energy part of the photoelectron spectra in the tunneling ionization regime by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrdinger equation for different atomic potentials at various wavelengths.We find that the shift of the first above-threshold ionization(ATI) peak is closely related to the interferences between electron wave packets,which are controlled by the laser field and largely independent of the potential.By gradually changing the short-range potential to the long-range Coulomb potential,we show that the long-range potential's effect is mainly to focus the electrons along the laser's polarization and to generate the spider structure by enhancing the rescattering process with the parent ion.In addition,we find that the intermediate transitions and the Rydberg states have important influences on the number and the shape of the lobes near the threshold.
Stable 68 fs pulses with the average power of 1.5 W is directly generated from a multimode diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CYA laser by separating the gain medium and Kerr medium. The repetition rate is about 50 MHz, resulting in a single pulse energy of 30 n J and a peak power of 0.44 MW. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest single pulse energy ever produced from a mode-locked Yb:CYA oscillator. Our experimental results show that Yb:CYA crystal is an excellent candidate for multiwatt, sub-100 fs pulse generation in diode-pumped all-solid-state lasers. It is believed that the output power can be scalable to multi-W while the pulse duration is maintained with this simple method.
We demonstrated a robust power-scalable Kerr-lens mode-locked(KLM) operation based on a Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator.15-W,272-fs pulses were realized at a repetition rate of 86.7 MHz with an additional Kerr medium and a 2.5 mm hard aperture in the cavity.247-fs pulses with an average power of 11 W could also be obtained by using a 2.4 mm hard aperture.Based on this shorter pulse,high efficient second-harmonic generation(SHG) was performed with a 1.7-mm-long Li B3O5(LBO) crystal.The SHG laser power was up to 5 W with the power fluctuation RMS of 1% measured over one hour.
随着激光器技术的发展,实验室中可获得的激光场强度不断增大,可以观测到各种高度非线性的实验现象,比如原子分子中的电子可以从强激光场中吸收比克服电离能需要的光子数更多的光子而发生电离,被称为阈上电离.这些非线性现象向量子力学的微扰理论提出了挑战,而精确求解含时薛定谔方程的方法只局限在少数的简单原子或分子,并且计算复杂.在这种情形下,基于电子轨迹的半经典理论由于其物理过程清晰、计算简单等优点应运而生,在强场光电离领域已经广泛应用.本文从原子分子电离的经典描述出发,介绍了半经典理论的发展.半经典理论结合了量子力学隧穿效应、电子经典的轨道描述以及量子的相位信息,能够很好地解释在强场隧穿区的各种实验现象.文中重点介绍两种已经发展得较为成熟的半经典方法,即量子轨道蒙特卡罗方法 (quantum trajectory Monte Carlo)和库仑修正下的强场近似方法 (Coulomb-corrected strong field approximation).这两种方法的优点在于同时考虑了电子轨迹的库仑势作用以及电子轨迹之间的干涉效应,能够通过追踪电子的运动轨迹对电离电子动量谱中各种结构的形成给出直观清晰的解释.
