中国激光
2023, 50(17): 1714010
中国激光
2023, 50(14): 1400001

Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
2 Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
3 Laser Fusion Research Center and Science & Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, China
As intense, ultrashort, kHz-repetition-rate laser systems become commercially available, pulse cumulative effects are critical for laser filament-based applications. In this work, the pulse repetition-rate effect on femtosecond laser filamentation in air was investigated both numerically and experimentally. The pulse repetition-rate effect has negligible influence at the leading edge of the filament. Clear intensity enhancement from a high-repetition pulse is observed at the peak and tailing edge of the laser filament. As the repetition rate of the laser pulses increases from 100 to 1000 Hz, the length of the filament extends and the intensity inside the filament increases. A physical picture based on the pulse repetition-rate dependent ‘low-density hole’ effect on filamentation is proposed to explain the obtained results well.
clamping intensity cumulative effects femtosecond laser filamentation High Power Laser Science and Engineering
2023, 11(4): 04000e46
1 中国人民解放军国防科技大学 气象海洋学院,湖南 长沙 410073
2 中国人民解放军 31110部队,江苏 南京 211101
为了实现对飞秒光丝内部空间结构特征的精细化描述,通过对光丝诱导形成超声信号的正向传播过程进行精细化模拟,然后采用通用反投影算法(UBP)、延迟叠加算法(DAS)和超优光声非负重构算法(SPANNER)等多种光声层析图像重建算法进行反向重建,理论验证了利用多元线性阵列探测的方式重建飞秒单丝和多丝轴向r-z截面图像的可行性。结果表明,当探测距离为3 mm时,单丝和多丝诱导形成的超声信号最大频率约为5 MHz;光声层析法能够较为准确地实现对单丝位置、r-z截面轮廓等信息的反演,但是不同图像重建算法重建效果差异较大。UBP重建算法对单丝的重建存在较为明显的伪影现象;DAS重建算法由于受到“有限孔径效应”的影响,高估了光丝的直径;SPANNER重建算法由于使用最优理论来改进非线性共轭梯度算子,实现了非负性和各向异性总变分正则化,可有效避免噪声干扰,因而对多丝图像的重建效果最好。该研究结果对于揭示光丝结构特征和促进基于光丝的大气应用研究具有一定的参考价值。
飞秒激光成丝 光声层析 线性阵列探测 图像重建算法 femtosecond laser filamentation photoacoustic tomography linear array detection image reconstruction algorithm 红外与激光工程
2022, 51(8): 20210774

Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
2 Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
3 Laser Fusion Research Center and Science & Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621999, China
The temporal evolutions of electron density and plasma diameter of 1 kHz femtosecond laser filament in air are experimentally investigated by utilizing a pump-probe longitudinal diffraction method. A model based on scalar diffraction theory is proposed to extract the spatial phase shift of the probe pulse from the diffraction patterns by the laser air plasma channel. The hydrodynamic effect on plasma evolution at 1 kHz filament is included and analyzed. The measured initial peak electron density of in our experimental conditions decays rapidly by nearly two orders of magnitude within 200 ps. Moreover, the plasma channel size rises from 90 µm to 120 µm as the delay time increases. The experimental observation is in agreement with numerical simulation results by solving the rate equations of the charged particles.
femtosecond laser filamentation electron density diffraction Chinese Optics Letters
2022, 20(9): 093201