The Spatial Coherence Characteristics of Wavefront of NBUR Nd:YAG Laser Output Beam

NBUR Nd:YAG 레이저 위상파면의 공간적 가간섭성 특성

  • 박대윤 (인하대학교 이과대학 물리학과) ;
  • 최승호 (인하대학교 이과대학 물리학과) ;
  • 이승걸 (인하대학교 공과대학 전자재료공학과)
  • Published : 1995.12.01

Abstract

We have studied about spatial wavefront analysis of a pulsed laser output beam by means of an imaging unstable ring resonator with an infinite Fresnel number. We have constructed a Newtonian telescope type NBUR (Negative Branch Unstable Ring) Nd:YAG laser with 4 plane mirrors. Provided that the NBUR resonator is under self imaging condition, the resonator could be reduced diffraction effects which were occuring to the beam transmitting through the circular aperture of scraper mirror in the resonator. We have observed enhancement in the spatial coherence of wavefronts of laser beam due to the iterative round trips of the self imaging beam inside the ring resonator. The information on the spatial wavefronts was determined by the fringe patterns from Mach-Zehnder interferometer and the fringe analysis by means of the Fourier transform method showed the distortion of wavefronts of less than 0.2), In comparison with a standing wave type resonator, we have confirmed that the spatial coherence of the NBUR Nd:YAG laser output beam was enhanced as much as 75%. s 75%.

무한한 Fresnel number를 갖는 imaging unstable ring resonator에 의한 펄스형 Nd:YAG 레이저 출력 광속의 위상파면을 분석하였다. 본 연구를 위하여 4개의 평면경과 망원경을 포함하는 Negative Branch Unstable Ring Resonator(NBUR) Nd:YAG 레이저를 제작하였다. NBUR 공진기 내에서 증폭되는 광속이 scraper mirror의 원형 투과창을 통해 투과하는 과정에서 발생하는 회절효과는 광학 공진계에 self imaging 조건을 줌으로서 크게 감소시킬 수 있었다. 이러한 self imaging 광속이 고리형 공진계를 반복적으로 진행함으로서 위상파면의 공간적 가간섭성이 향상 되는 것으로 해석 되었다. 레이저 출력 광속의 공간적 위상파면 정보는 Mach-Zehnder 간섭계에 의하여 얻어지는 간섭무늬를 이용하여 얻었으며 이 간섭무늬를 Fourier 변환 방법으로 분석한 결과, 위상파면 왜곡정도가 0.2.lambda.이하 값임을 측정하였다. 이것을 정상파형 레이저 공진기에서의 출력 광속과 비교한 결과 공간적 가간섭성이 75% 정도 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

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