Optical damages, which severely degrade the output energy performance of Nd:glass regenerative amplifiers, are discussed in detail in this paper. By a series of experiments, it has been confirmed that these damages result from laser-induced contamination. Based on this work, several improvements are made to boost output energy performance of the regenerative amplifier. The output energy of the regenerative amplifier after improvements declines 4% after 1000 h of operation, much less than it used to, 60% after 560 h of operation.
This paper presents a method for the automatic adjustment of the laser defocusing amount in micro-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. A microscopic optical imaging system consisting of a CCD camera and a 20× objective lens was adopted to realize the method. The real-time auto-focusing of the system was achieved by detecting the effective pixels of the light spot generated by the laser pointer. The focusing accuracy of the method could achieve 3 μm. The element concentrations of Mn and Ni in low-alloy steels were analyzed at a crater diameter of about 35 μm using the presented method. After using the presented method, the determination coefficients of Mn and Ni both exceeded 0.997, with the root-mean-square errors being 0.0133 and 0.0395, respectively. Scanning analysis was performed on the inclined plane and the curved surface by means of focusing control and non-focusing control. Ten characteristic spectral lines of Fe were selected as the analysis lines. With the focusing control, the average relative standard deviations obtained on the inclined plane and curved surface were both less than 5%, and much less than the values without focusing control, 14.6% and 40.39%.
The laser diode pumped two-frequency solid-state laser with tunable frequencydifference is investigated, the medium is a 1at% doped 2-mm thick Nd:YAG chip. The condition of stable two-frequency oscillation operation is analyzed, the polarization is calculated by Jones matrix in different locations at the resonator. It is proved that the two-frequency electric field vectors are orthogonally polarized everywhere, the frequency difference tuning can be realized by changing the angle between the fast axes of two quarter-wave plates. In the experiment, single-frequency oscillation was obtained with the help of an etalon, then longitudinal mode frequency splitting resulted in the two-frequency oscillating operation by inserting two quarter-wave plates. The obtained maximum frequency difference was 1.3GHz, the minimal was 50MHz because of the strong mode competition. Due to the loss anisotropy of the etalon, the output power is not very stable when tuning the frequency difference, 85mW two-frequency output power was obtained with 100MHz beat note.
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