English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

The purpose of this doctoral project is the study and mounting of a continuously tunable wavelength laser system generating beams in the near and to middle infrared (IR) spectral region. This work was divided into 3 parts: (i) fundamental mode, polarized Nd:YAG @1064nm laser, (ii) its use in a resonant OPO cavity and (iii) ring cavity laser simulations. A continuous Nd:YAG @1064nm laser was mounted and developed, based on an already tested setup, with the added feature of a polarized beam at the exit. Compared with the non-polarized laser source, it presented high output power, with maximum value of 30W, and an improvement of the beam quality factor such that M2<1,3, close to the ideal value of 1. The application of this polarized Nd:YAG laser as a pump source for a linear Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) was successful, generating tunable Signal and Idler beams (λS, λI) inside the active media (5%MgO:LiNbO3; doped periodically-poled Lithium Niobate crystal, or PPLN). For the idler beam, a maximum power of 1,1W was measured, and 3 slope efficiency values were obtained of 20,8% (TC=100°C) and 23,4% (TC=150°C) for the pulsed pump source, and the value of 11,1% (TC=150°C) for the CW pump source. The knife-edge technique applied in the idler beam (TC=150°C, crystal periodic grating Λ0=31,59m, λC=2470nm) resulted in a beam quality factor of M2=5,75(165). Numerical simulations were performed, aiming at the study and planning of 2 symmetrical ring-cavities to generate continuous tunable beams at their exits. The first cavity contains a PPLN crystal as active media, where Parametric Oscillation occurs generating two beams in the mid IR spectral region. The second cavity contains two crystals inside it, a PPLN for the OPO and a Lithium Triborate (LiB3O5 known as LBO) for Second Harmonic Generation (SHG), with the beam of interest being in the near IR spectral region. The polarized Nd:YAG @1064nm laser shows a simple setup and uses low cost components, reducing the final laser system price, compared with other tunable laser systems. The next steps involve research and development of a single frequency laser pump source, to generate single frequency beams in the projected OPO ring cavities for future applications in spectroscopy.

Simulação e bombeio de cavidade OPO por um laser @1064nm CW multimodo de alta potência e polarizado