固体布里渊增益介质是目前实现高稳定、高重复频率受激布里渊散射（SBS）的重要光学元件，能够产生高光束质量的相位共轭光。然而，不同于被广泛研究的液体布里渊增益介质，目前针对固体布里渊增益介质如何产生高效率高能量的SBS尚无成熟的研究。近日，笔者团队以块状熔融石英作为布里渊增益介质，在高强度纳秒激光脉冲泵浦下，围绕熔融石英中的SBS能量转换效率和损伤阈值与泵浦光纵模的关系开展了研究，实现了最高单脉冲能量183.1 mJ、反射率为81.0%、斜效率高达85.8%的相位共轭光输出。该研究结果对于实现高功率全固态的SBS相位共轭镜，进而提升脉冲激光器的输出功率水平、获得高稳定高效率的SBS运转具有重要的指导意义。

受激布里渊散射是一种三阶非线性光学过程，具有完全背向散射的相位共轭特性，利用这种特性，可以补偿高能高功率激光系统中强泵浦而引起的相位畸变，从而实现高光束质量激光输出。过去几十年开展了大量理论和实验研究以提升受激布里渊散射相位共轭镜（SBS-PCM）的作用效果，一部分研究集中在研究适合高功率激光系统应用的液体介质和介质纯化，一部分集中在SBS-PCM的结构优化（包括双池结构、结构参数优化、旋转楔板结构等）。回顾了影响SBS-PCM作用效果的主要因素，以及SBS-PCM在高功率激光系统中的应用，总结了近年来的一些应用成果，为SBS-PCM的实验研究提供了参考。

Stimulated Raman-scattering-based lasers provide an effective way to achieve wavelength conversion. However, thermally induced beam degradation is a notorious obstacle to power scaling and it also limits the applicable range where high output beam quality is needed. Considerable research efforts have been devoted to developing Raman materials, with diamond being a promising candidate to acquire wavelength-versatile, high-power, and high-quality output beam owing to its excellent thermal properties, high Raman gain coefficient, and wide transmission range. The diamond Raman resonator is usually designed as an external-cavity pumped structure, which can easily eliminate the negative thermal effects of intracavity laser crystals. Diamond Raman converters also provide an approach to improve the beam quality owing to the Raman cleanup effect. This review outlines the research status of diamond Raman lasers, including beam quality optimization, Raman conversion, thermal effects, and prospects for future development directions.

We report the measurements of Brillouin gain coefficients in FC-770, FC-40, FC-43, and FC-70 using a Brillouin oscillator and amplifier system. In contrast to the traditional way, the novel method provides direct measurements of these coefficients with the medium electro-strictive coefficient or with the phonon lifetime absent. Additionally, the Brillouin gain coefficient of FC-70 in this experiment is different from the theoretical work.

We obtain the output of a 284 ps pulse duration without tail modulation based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) pulse compression pumped by an 8 ns-pulse-duration, 1064 nm-wavelength Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. To suppress the tail modulation in SBS pulse compression, proper attenuators, which can control the pump energy within a rational range, are added in a generator-amplifier setup. The experimental result shows that the effective energy conversion efficiency triples when the pump energy reaches 700 mJ to 51%, compared with the conventional generator-amplifier setup.

A 100-J-level Nd:glass laser system in nanosecond-scale pulse width has been constructed to perform as a standard source of high-fluence-laser science experiments. The laser system, operating with typical pulse durations of 3–5 ns and beam diameter 60 mm, employs a sequence of successive rod amplifiers to achieve 100-J-level energy at 1053 nm at 3 ns. The frequency conversion can provide energy of 50-J level at 351 nm. In addition to the high stability of the energy output, the most valuable of the laser system is the high spatiotemporal beam quality of the output, which contains the uniform square pulse waveform, the uniform flat-top spatial fluence distribution and the uniform flat-top wavefront.