In the past decade,boron neutron capture therapy utilizing an accelerator-based neutron source(ABNS)designed primarily for producing epithermal neutrons has been implemented in the treatment of brain tumors and other ...In the past decade,boron neutron capture therapy utilizing an accelerator-based neutron source(ABNS)designed primarily for producing epithermal neutrons has been implemented in the treatment of brain tumors and other cancers.The specifications for designing an epithermal beam are primarily based on the IAEA-TECODC-1223 report,issued in 2001 for reactor neutron sources.Based on this report,the latest perspectives and clinical requirements,we designed an ABNS capable of adjusting the average neutron beam energy.The design was based on a 2.8 MeV,20 mA proton beam bombarding a lithium target to produce neutrons that were subsequently moderated and tuned through a tunable beam shaping assembly(BSA)which can modify the thicknesses and materials of the coin-shaped moderators,back reflectors,filters,and collimators.The simulation results demonstrated that epithermal neutron beams for deep seated tumor treatment,which were generated by utilizing magnesium fluoride with lengths ranging between 28 and 36 cm as the moderator,possessed a treatment depth of 5.6 cm although the neutron flux peak shifts from 4.5 to 1.0 keV.When utilizing a thinner moderator,a less accelerated beam power can meet the treatment requirements.However,higher powers reduced the treatment time.In contrast,employing a thick moderator can reduce the skin dose.In scenarios that required relatively low energy neutron beams,the removal of the thermal neutron filter can raise the thermal neutron flux at the beam port.And the depth of the dose rate peak could be adjusted between 0.25 and 2.20 cm by combining magnesium fluoride and polyethylene coins of different thicknesses.Hence,this device has a better adaptability for the treatment of superficial tumors.Overall,the tunable BSA provides greater flexibility for clinical treatment than common BSA designs that can only adjust the port size.展开更多
A reflective faceted structure is proposed to reshaping an incoherent light beam into two focalized spots-To obtain the desired irradiance distribution on a detector,custom optimization function is written,and the two...A reflective faceted structure is proposed to reshaping an incoherent light beam into two focalized spots-To obtain the desired irradiance distribution on a detector,custom optimization function is written,and the two dimensional tilt angles of each facet are optimized automatically in a pure non-sequential mode in Zemax OpticStudio 16.The result is also confirmed inside LightTools&2 from Synopsys.For measuring the quality of the optimization result in the case of two spots focalization,four factors including efficiency on the detector,uniformity,the root mean square error and the correlation coefficient are calculated.These four factors are used to evaluate the influence of several parameters on the irradiance distribution.These parameters include the incidence angle,the divergence angle,the facet size,the source type and the resolution of the facet angular positions.Finally,an analysis of those parameters is made and the performance of this type of component is demonstrated.展开更多
The generation of terahertz(THz) waves by focusing a femtosecond pulsed laser beam at a distance is able to overcome the strong absorption properties of air and has rapidly attracted the attention of industry. However...The generation of terahertz(THz) waves by focusing a femtosecond pulsed laser beam at a distance is able to overcome the strong absorption properties of air and has rapidly attracted the attention of industry. However, the poor directionality of the THz wave radiation generated by this method is not conducive to THz wave applications. By controlling the morphology of the ultrafast laser-excited plasma filament and its electron density distribution through coherent beam combining technology, we achieve direct THz beam shaping and are able to obtain THz wave radiation of Gaussian or arbitrary transverse distribution. The novel experimental approach proposed in this paper opens up the research field of direct THz wave shaping using plasma. Moreover, it innovates multi-parameter convergence algorithms and, by doing so, has the potential to find beam patterns with higher energy conversion efficiency and break the energy limit of THz waves emitted by lasers at high power.展开更多
An optimized setup for fiber optic injection of a kilowatt peak power laser diode stack emitting in the SWIR spectral range is proposed. Starting from a fast axis collimated (FAC) and slow axis collimated (SAC) 15 bar...An optimized setup for fiber optic injection of a kilowatt peak power laser diode stack emitting in the SWIR spectral range is proposed. Starting from a fast axis collimated (FAC) and slow axis collimated (SAC) 15 bars, 19 emitters off the shelf laser diode stack, the beam is transformed using spatial beam combining and polarization coupling. Both techniques integrated in a compact design enable to couple the kilowatt level beam into a standard 600 μm core, 0.22 numerical aperture (NA) multimode optical fiber. An application in the field of long range SWIR laser illuminator for gated viewing is presented. A comparison between two illuminators is realized both based on the same laser diode stack but one using beam parameter product (BPP) reduction and one without. It could be demonstrated that BPP reduction is the best way for efficient, narrow divergence and compact semi-conductor based laser illuminators design and realization. The global laser illuminator efficiency could be improved by 75% for the narrowest divergences thanks to this approach.展开更多
A general solution is obtained to a canonical problem of the reflection and refraction of an arbitrary shaped beam by using a uniaxially anisotropic chiral slab.The reflected,internal as well as refracted shaped beams...A general solution is obtained to a canonical problem of the reflection and refraction of an arbitrary shaped beam by using a uniaxially anisotropic chiral slab.The reflected,internal as well as refracted shaped beams are expanded in terms of cylindrical vector wave functions,and the expansion coefficients are determined by using the boundary conditions and method of moments procedure.As two typical examples,the normalized field intensity distributions are evaluated for a fundamental Gaussian beam and Hermite-Gaussian beam,and some propagation properties,especially the negative refraction phenomenon,are discussed briefly.展开更多
To control the temporal profile of a relativistic electron beam to meet requirements of various advanced scientific applications like free-electronlaser and plasma wakefield acceleration,a widely-used technique is to ...To control the temporal profile of a relativistic electron beam to meet requirements of various advanced scientific applications like free-electronlaser and plasma wakefield acceleration,a widely-used technique is to manipulate the dispersion terms which turns out to be one-to-many problems.Due to their intrinsic one-to-many property,current popular stochastic optimization approaches on temporal shaping may face the problems of long computing time or sometimes suggesting only one solution.Here we propose a real-time solver for one-to-many problems of temporal shaping,with the aid of a semi-supervised machine learning method,the conditional generative adversarial network(CGAN).We demonstrate that the CGAN solver can learn the one-to-many dynamics and is able to accurately and quickly predict the required dispersion terms for different custom temporal profiles.This machine learning-based solver is expected to have the potential for wide applications to one-to-many problems in other scientific fields.展开更多
Coherent combination of laser beam is an important and challenging area of high power laser science. And how to evaluate the high power laser by coherent beam combination is a new research spot. Formulas for the radia...Coherent combination of laser beam is an important and challenging area of high power laser science. And how to evaluate the high power laser by coherent beam combination is a new research spot. Formulas for the radiated intensity distributions of coherent combined Gaussian beam array are derived via Fraunhofer scalar diffraction model by utilizing representations of the cross-spectral density of the far field. Effects of beam array numbers and separate distances etc. on far field radiated profiles are shown and analyzed. A new conception named power in the bucket of the main lobe (PIMm) is advanced to measure the beam quality of combined beams. This evaluation method is useful for efficiently determining the peak irradiance and power in the bucket for single emitting apertures of general shape.展开更多
Aiming for suppressing side-mode and spectrum broadening,a slit beam-shaping method and super-Gaussian apodization processing for femtosecond laser point-by-point(PbP)inscription technology of fiber Bragg gratings(FBG...Aiming for suppressing side-mode and spectrum broadening,a slit beam-shaping method and super-Gaussian apodization processing for femtosecond laser point-by-point(PbP)inscription technology of fiber Bragg gratings(FBGs)are reported here.High-quality FBGs,featuring narrow bandwidth of less than 0.3 nm,high reflectivity above 85%,low insertion loss(0.21 dB),and low cladding loss(0.82 dB),were obtained successfully.By a semi-automatic PbP inscription process,an array consisting of six FBGs,exhibiting almost no side-mode peaks with high suppression ability and narrow bandwidth,was fabricated along three independently developed single-mode fibers with an interval of 20 mm.展开更多
The diffraction-limited resolution of light focused by a lens was derived in 1873 by Ernst Abbe.Later in 1952,a method to reach sub-diffraction light spots was proposed by modulating the wavefront of the focused beam....The diffraction-limited resolution of light focused by a lens was derived in 1873 by Ernst Abbe.Later in 1952,a method to reach sub-diffraction light spots was proposed by modulating the wavefront of the focused beam.In a related development,super-oscillating functions,that is,band-limited functions that locally oscillate faster than their highest Fourier component,were introduced and experimentally applied for super-resolution microscopy.Up till now,only simple Gaussian-like sub-diffraction spots were used.Here we show that the amplitude and phase profile of these sub-diffraction spots can be arbitrarily controlled.In particular,we utilize Hermite–Gauss,Laguerre–Gauss and Airy functions to structure super-oscillating beams with subdiffraction lobes.These structured beams are then used for high-resolution trapping and manipulation of nanometer-sized particles.The trapping potential provides unprecedented localization accuracy and stiffness,significantly exceeding those provided by standard diffraction-limited beams.展开更多
Cylindrical vector beams and vortex beams,two types of typical singular optical beams characterized by axially symmetric polarization and helical phase front,possess the unique focusing property and the ability of car...Cylindrical vector beams and vortex beams,two types of typical singular optical beams characterized by axially symmetric polarization and helical phase front,possess the unique focusing property and the ability of carrying orbital angular momentum.We discuss the formation mechanisms of such singular beams in few-mode fibers under the vortex basis and show recent advances in generating techniques that are mainly based on long-period fiber gratings,mode-selective couplers,offset-spliced fibers,and tapered fibers.The performances of cylindrical vector beams and vortex beams generated in fibers and fiber lasers are summarized and compared to give a comprehensive understanding of singular beams and to promote their practical applications.展开更多
Propagation of light in multimode optical fibers usually gives a spatial and temporal randomization of the transmitted field similar to the propagation through scattering media.Randomization still applies when scatter...Propagation of light in multimode optical fibers usually gives a spatial and temporal randomization of the transmitted field similar to the propagation through scattering media.Randomization still applies when scattering or multimode propagation occurs in gain media.We demonstrate that appropriate structuration of the input beam wavefront can shape the light amplified by a rareearth-doped multimode fiber.Profiling of the wavefront was achieved by a deformable mirror in combination with an iterative optimization process.We present experimental results and simulations showing the shaping of a single sharp spot at different places in the output cross-section of an ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier.Cleaning and narrowing of the amplifier far-field pattern was realized as well.Tailoring the wavefront to shape the amplified light can also serve to improve the effective gain.The shaping approach still works under gain saturation,showing the robustness of the method.Modeling and experiments attest that the shaping is effective even with a highly multimode fiber amplifier carrying up to 127 modes.展开更多
We develop a method for completely shaping optical vector beams with controllable amplitude, phase, and polarization gradients along three-dimensional freestyle trajectories. We design theoretically and demonstrate ex...We develop a method for completely shaping optical vector beams with controllable amplitude, phase, and polarization gradients along three-dimensional freestyle trajectories. We design theoretically and demonstrate experimentally curvilinear Poincaré vector beams that exhibit high intensity gradients and accurate state of polarization prescribed along the beam trajectory.展开更多
Advances in thin film light-emitting devices have fueled the rapid growth of a new class of solid-state lighting devices,featuring low fabrication cost,high quantum efficiency,broadband spectrum coverage,etc.In contra...Advances in thin film light-emitting devices have fueled the rapid growth of a new class of solid-state lighting devices,featuring low fabrication cost,high quantum efficiency,broadband spectrum coverage,etc.In contrast to the conventional inorganic semiconductors that rely on lattice matched high crystalline quality substrate,solution processable thin films eliminate the dependence on the substrate,which is highly desired for the ease and versatility of integrations with foreign medium.By taking this advantage,this work developed an ultracompact solution to control the directionality of thin film emitters using integrated dielectric metasurface through one step spin-coating process.As a proof of concept,directional emissions from perovskite nanocrystal thin film,including collimated light emissions and two-dimensional beam steering,are experimentally demonstrated.Notably,our approach,where light emitters were integrated on the back side of substrate after the fabrication of metasurface,judiciously avoids any potential degradation of material optical quality caused by the multi-step nanofabrication.Therefore,it can serve as a generalized scheme to engage the advantageous properties of dielectric metasurface,including the compactness,high efficiency,beam controllability with the emerging thin film light-emitting diodes(LEDs),which is applicable to a wide range of solution processable materials,including organic light-emitting diodes,quantum-dot light emitting diodes,polymer LEDs,and perovskite LEDs,opening up new pathways to develop low-cost and ultra-compact solid state light sources with versatile beams characteristics.展开更多
We propose and demonstrate the use of random phase plates(RPPs)for high-energy sub-picosecond lasers.Contrarily to previous work related to nanosecond lasers,an RPP poses technical challenges with ultrashort-pulse las...We propose and demonstrate the use of random phase plates(RPPs)for high-energy sub-picosecond lasers.Contrarily to previous work related to nanosecond lasers,an RPP poses technical challenges with ultrashort-pulse lasers.Here,we implement the RPP near the beginning of the amplifier and image-relay it throughout the laser amplifier.With this,we obtain a uniform intensity distribution in the focus over an area 1600 times the diffraction limit.This method shows no significant drawbacks for the laser and it has been implemented at the PHELIX laser facility where it is now available for users.展开更多
We have developed high damage threshold filters to modify the spatial profile of a high energy laser beam. The filters are formed by laser ablation of a transmissive window. The ablation sites constitute scattering ce...We have developed high damage threshold filters to modify the spatial profile of a high energy laser beam. The filters are formed by laser ablation of a transmissive window. The ablation sites constitute scattering centers which can be filtered in a subsequent spatial filter. By creating the filters in dielectric materials, we see an increased laser-induced damage threshold from previous filters created using ‘metal on glass' lithography.展开更多
In this paper,we propose an effective method to compensate for the performance degradation of optically addressed spatial light modulators(OASLMs).The thermal deposition problem usually leads to the on-off ratio reduc...In this paper,we propose an effective method to compensate for the performance degradation of optically addressed spatial light modulators(OASLMs).The thermal deposition problem usually leads to the on-off ratio reduction of amplitude OASLM,so it is difficult to achieve better results in high-power laser systems.Through the analysis of the laser-induced temperature rise model and the liquid crystal layer voltage model,it is found that reducing the driving voltage of the liquid crystal light valve and increasing the driving current of the optical writing module can compensate for the decrease of on-off ratio caused by temperature rise.This is the result of effectively utilizing the photoconductive effect of Bi_(12)SiO_(20)(BSO)crystal.The experimental results verify the feasibility of the proposed method and increase the laser withstand power of amplitude-only OASLM by about a factor of 2.5.展开更多
基金supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China(No.1210050454)the program of Chinese Scholarship Council(No.202106280126)。
文摘In the past decade,boron neutron capture therapy utilizing an accelerator-based neutron source(ABNS)designed primarily for producing epithermal neutrons has been implemented in the treatment of brain tumors and other cancers.The specifications for designing an epithermal beam are primarily based on the IAEA-TECODC-1223 report,issued in 2001 for reactor neutron sources.Based on this report,the latest perspectives and clinical requirements,we designed an ABNS capable of adjusting the average neutron beam energy.The design was based on a 2.8 MeV,20 mA proton beam bombarding a lithium target to produce neutrons that were subsequently moderated and tuned through a tunable beam shaping assembly(BSA)which can modify the thicknesses and materials of the coin-shaped moderators,back reflectors,filters,and collimators.The simulation results demonstrated that epithermal neutron beams for deep seated tumor treatment,which were generated by utilizing magnesium fluoride with lengths ranging between 28 and 36 cm as the moderator,possessed a treatment depth of 5.6 cm although the neutron flux peak shifts from 4.5 to 1.0 keV.When utilizing a thinner moderator,a less accelerated beam power can meet the treatment requirements.However,higher powers reduced the treatment time.In contrast,employing a thick moderator can reduce the skin dose.In scenarios that required relatively low energy neutron beams,the removal of the thermal neutron filter can raise the thermal neutron flux at the beam port.And the depth of the dose rate peak could be adjusted between 0.25 and 2.20 cm by combining magnesium fluoride and polyethylene coins of different thicknesses.Hence,this device has a better adaptability for the treatment of superficial tumors.Overall,the tunable BSA provides greater flexibility for clinical treatment than common BSA designs that can only adjust the port size.
基金supported by Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,China(No.ZR2019BF033).
文摘A reflective faceted structure is proposed to reshaping an incoherent light beam into two focalized spots-To obtain the desired irradiance distribution on a detector,custom optimization function is written,and the two dimensional tilt angles of each facet are optimized automatically in a pure non-sequential mode in Zemax OpticStudio 16.The result is also confirmed inside LightTools&2 from Synopsys.For measuring the quality of the optimization result in the case of two spots focalization,four factors including efficiency on the detector,uniformity,the root mean square error and the correlation coefficient are calculated.These four factors are used to evaluate the influence of several parameters on the irradiance distribution.These parameters include the incidence angle,the divergence angle,the facet size,the source type and the resolution of the facet angular positions.Finally,an analysis of those parameters is made and the performance of this type of component is demonstrated.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12074272 and 61905271)the National Defense Science and Technology Innovation Special Zone Project of China (Grant No. 20-163-02-ZT-008-009-01)Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2020A1515011083)。
文摘The generation of terahertz(THz) waves by focusing a femtosecond pulsed laser beam at a distance is able to overcome the strong absorption properties of air and has rapidly attracted the attention of industry. However, the poor directionality of the THz wave radiation generated by this method is not conducive to THz wave applications. By controlling the morphology of the ultrafast laser-excited plasma filament and its electron density distribution through coherent beam combining technology, we achieve direct THz beam shaping and are able to obtain THz wave radiation of Gaussian or arbitrary transverse distribution. The novel experimental approach proposed in this paper opens up the research field of direct THz wave shaping using plasma. Moreover, it innovates multi-parameter convergence algorithms and, by doing so, has the potential to find beam patterns with higher energy conversion efficiency and break the energy limit of THz waves emitted by lasers at high power.
文摘An optimized setup for fiber optic injection of a kilowatt peak power laser diode stack emitting in the SWIR spectral range is proposed. Starting from a fast axis collimated (FAC) and slow axis collimated (SAC) 15 bars, 19 emitters off the shelf laser diode stack, the beam is transformed using spatial beam combining and polarization coupling. Both techniques integrated in a compact design enable to couple the kilowatt level beam into a standard 600 μm core, 0.22 numerical aperture (NA) multimode optical fiber. An application in the field of long range SWIR laser illuminator for gated viewing is presented. A comparison between two illuminators is realized both based on the same laser diode stack but one using beam parameter product (BPP) reduction and one without. It could be demonstrated that BPP reduction is the best way for efficient, narrow divergence and compact semi-conductor based laser illuminators design and realization. The global laser illuminator efficiency could be improved by 75% for the narrowest divergences thanks to this approach.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61771385)the Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Shaanxi Province,China(Grant No.2020JC-42)+1 种基金the Fund from the Science and Technology on Solid-State Laser Laboratory,China(Grant No.6142404180301)the Science and Technology Research Plan of Xi’an City,China(Grant No.GXYD14.26).
文摘A general solution is obtained to a canonical problem of the reflection and refraction of an arbitrary shaped beam by using a uniaxially anisotropic chiral slab.The reflected,internal as well as refracted shaped beams are expanded in terms of cylindrical vector wave functions,and the expansion coefficients are determined by using the boundary conditions and method of moments procedure.As two typical examples,the normalized field intensity distributions are evaluated for a fundamental Gaussian beam and Hermite-Gaussian beam,and some propagation properties,especially the negative refraction phenomenon,are discussed briefly.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11922512)Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.Y201904)National Key R&D Program of China(No.2016YFA0401900).
文摘To control the temporal profile of a relativistic electron beam to meet requirements of various advanced scientific applications like free-electronlaser and plasma wakefield acceleration,a widely-used technique is to manipulate the dispersion terms which turns out to be one-to-many problems.Due to their intrinsic one-to-many property,current popular stochastic optimization approaches on temporal shaping may face the problems of long computing time or sometimes suggesting only one solution.Here we propose a real-time solver for one-to-many problems of temporal shaping,with the aid of a semi-supervised machine learning method,the conditional generative adversarial network(CGAN).We demonstrate that the CGAN solver can learn the one-to-many dynamics and is able to accurately and quickly predict the required dispersion terms for different custom temporal profiles.This machine learning-based solver is expected to have the potential for wide applications to one-to-many problems in other scientific fields.
文摘Coherent combination of laser beam is an important and challenging area of high power laser science. And how to evaluate the high power laser by coherent beam combination is a new research spot. Formulas for the radiated intensity distributions of coherent combined Gaussian beam array are derived via Fraunhofer scalar diffraction model by utilizing representations of the cross-spectral density of the far field. Effects of beam array numbers and separate distances etc. on far field radiated profiles are shown and analyzed. A new conception named power in the bucket of the main lobe (PIMm) is advanced to measure the beam quality of combined beams. This evaluation method is useful for efficiently determining the peak irradiance and power in the bucket for single emitting apertures of general shape.
基金supported by the Sichuan Provincial Natural Science Foundation(No.23NSFSC4751)。
文摘Aiming for suppressing side-mode and spectrum broadening,a slit beam-shaping method and super-Gaussian apodization processing for femtosecond laser point-by-point(PbP)inscription technology of fiber Bragg gratings(FBGs)are reported here.High-quality FBGs,featuring narrow bandwidth of less than 0.3 nm,high reflectivity above 85%,low insertion loss(0.21 dB),and low cladding loss(0.82 dB),were obtained successfully.By a semi-automatic PbP inscription process,an array consisting of six FBGs,exhibiting almost no side-mode peaks with high suppression ability and narrow bandwidth,was fabricated along three independently developed single-mode fibers with an interval of 20 mm.
基金the Israel Science Foundation(ISF)Grant No.(1310/13)Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,Tel Aviv University for their financial support.
文摘The diffraction-limited resolution of light focused by a lens was derived in 1873 by Ernst Abbe.Later in 1952,a method to reach sub-diffraction light spots was proposed by modulating the wavefront of the focused beam.In a related development,super-oscillating functions,that is,band-limited functions that locally oscillate faster than their highest Fourier component,were introduced and experimentally applied for super-resolution microscopy.Up till now,only simple Gaussian-like sub-diffraction spots were used.Here we show that the amplitude and phase profile of these sub-diffraction spots can be arbitrarily controlled.In particular,we utilize Hermite–Gauss,Laguerre–Gauss and Airy functions to structure super-oscillating beams with subdiffraction lobes.These structured beams are then used for high-resolution trapping and manipulation of nanometer-sized particles.The trapping potential provides unprecedented localization accuracy and stiffness,significantly exceeding those provided by standard diffraction-limited beams.
基金This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0303800)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11874300,11634010,61575162,61805277,61675169,91950207)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(3102017AX009,3102019PY002,3102019JC008)the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi(2018JM6013,2019JQ-447).
文摘Cylindrical vector beams and vortex beams,two types of typical singular optical beams characterized by axially symmetric polarization and helical phase front,possess the unique focusing property and the ability of carrying orbital angular momentum.We discuss the formation mechanisms of such singular beams in few-mode fibers under the vortex basis and show recent advances in generating techniques that are mainly based on long-period fiber gratings,mode-selective couplers,offset-spliced fibers,and tapered fibers.The performances of cylindrical vector beams and vortex beams generated in fibers and fiber lasers are summarized and compared to give a comprehensive understanding of singular beams and to promote their practical applications.
基金funding from the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche in the frame of the POMAD project(14-CE26-0035-01)。
文摘Propagation of light in multimode optical fibers usually gives a spatial and temporal randomization of the transmitted field similar to the propagation through scattering media.Randomization still applies when scattering or multimode propagation occurs in gain media.We demonstrate that appropriate structuration of the input beam wavefront can shape the light amplified by a rareearth-doped multimode fiber.Profiling of the wavefront was achieved by a deformable mirror in combination with an iterative optimization process.We present experimental results and simulations showing the shaping of a single sharp spot at different places in the output cross-section of an ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier.Cleaning and narrowing of the amplifier far-field pattern was realized as well.Tailoring the wavefront to shape the amplified light can also serve to improve the effective gain.The shaping approach still works under gain saturation,showing the robustness of the method.Modeling and experiments attest that the shaping is effective even with a highly multimode fiber amplifier carrying up to 127 modes.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 91750202, 11922406, and 91750114)the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos. 2018YFA0306200 and 2017YFA0303700)+1 种基金the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures of Chinathe Collaborative Innovation Center of Solid-State Lighting and Energy-Saving Electronics of China。
文摘We develop a method for completely shaping optical vector beams with controllable amplitude, phase, and polarization gradients along three-dimensional freestyle trajectories. We design theoretically and demonstrate experimentally curvilinear Poincaré vector beams that exhibit high intensity gradients and accurate state of polarization prescribed along the beam trajectory.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11804335,61904017,12074045,and 62174079)Science,Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality(Projects Nos.JCYJ20210324120204011 and KQTD2015071710313656)+1 种基金P.N.N.acknowledges the support of H2020 Research and Innovation Program(Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual FellowshipAgreement No.101027383).
文摘Advances in thin film light-emitting devices have fueled the rapid growth of a new class of solid-state lighting devices,featuring low fabrication cost,high quantum efficiency,broadband spectrum coverage,etc.In contrast to the conventional inorganic semiconductors that rely on lattice matched high crystalline quality substrate,solution processable thin films eliminate the dependence on the substrate,which is highly desired for the ease and versatility of integrations with foreign medium.By taking this advantage,this work developed an ultracompact solution to control the directionality of thin film emitters using integrated dielectric metasurface through one step spin-coating process.As a proof of concept,directional emissions from perovskite nanocrystal thin film,including collimated light emissions and two-dimensional beam steering,are experimentally demonstrated.Notably,our approach,where light emitters were integrated on the back side of substrate after the fabrication of metasurface,judiciously avoids any potential degradation of material optical quality caused by the multi-step nanofabrication.Therefore,it can serve as a generalized scheme to engage the advantageous properties of dielectric metasurface,including the compactness,high efficiency,beam controllability with the emerging thin film light-emitting diodes(LEDs),which is applicable to a wide range of solution processable materials,including organic light-emitting diodes,quantum-dot light emitting diodes,polymer LEDs,and perovskite LEDs,opening up new pathways to develop low-cost and ultra-compact solid state light sources with versatile beams characteristics.
基金European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement number 633053。
文摘We propose and demonstrate the use of random phase plates(RPPs)for high-energy sub-picosecond lasers.Contrarily to previous work related to nanosecond lasers,an RPP poses technical challenges with ultrashort-pulse lasers.Here,we implement the RPP near the beginning of the amplifier and image-relay it throughout the laser amplifier.With this,we obtain a uniform intensity distribution in the focus over an area 1600 times the diffraction limit.This method shows no significant drawbacks for the laser and it has been implemented at the PHELIX laser facility where it is now available for users.
文摘We have developed high damage threshold filters to modify the spatial profile of a high energy laser beam. The filters are formed by laser ablation of a transmissive window. The ablation sites constitute scattering centers which can be filtered in a subsequent spatial filter. By creating the filters in dielectric materials, we see an increased laser-induced damage threshold from previous filters created using ‘metal on glass' lithography.
基金supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDA25020303)the financial support of the Self Deployed Projects of Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,Chinese Academy of Sciences.
文摘In this paper,we propose an effective method to compensate for the performance degradation of optically addressed spatial light modulators(OASLMs).The thermal deposition problem usually leads to the on-off ratio reduction of amplitude OASLM,so it is difficult to achieve better results in high-power laser systems.Through the analysis of the laser-induced temperature rise model and the liquid crystal layer voltage model,it is found that reducing the driving voltage of the liquid crystal light valve and increasing the driving current of the optical writing module can compensate for the decrease of on-off ratio caused by temperature rise.This is the result of effectively utilizing the photoconductive effect of Bi_(12)SiO_(20)(BSO)crystal.The experimental results verify the feasibility of the proposed method and increase the laser withstand power of amplitude-only OASLM by about a factor of 2.5.
