Vortex volume grating (VVG) has advantages of high diffraction efficiency (DE), excellent angular selectivity, broad spectral band, and flexible design, making it a good candidate as an orbital angular momentum (OAM) generator in high power laser system.. In our research, a vortex volume grating with a relative diffraction efficiency of 84.58% and an angular spectrum of 1.864 mrad at 1064 nm is fabricated, and the refractive index modulation (RIM) is retrieved.
In a previous study, the temperature-rise of a spectral beam combining grating was analyzed theoretically and experimentally. It was concluded that the temperature of a grating can be effectively reduced by increasing the substrate thickness or by using a substrate material with higher thermal conductivity. In this study, yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) was used as the substrate material to fabricate a spectral beam combining grating. The temperature, distortion, and far-field beam quality of the YAG-substrate-grating were analyzed theoretically and experimentally. It is concluded that, compared with the traditional quartz-substrate-grating, not only can the YAG-substrate-MDG withstand higher power, but the beam quality of the diffraction laser is also better.
Spectral beam combining (SBC) laser systems are rapidly advancing the output power scaling for high-average-power beam-combined fiber lasers with near-perfect beam quality. Grating as the dispersive element requires high diffraction efficiency (DE) and broad bandwidth (BW) for improving the combined output power scaling. A broad BW high DE polarization-independent reflective multilayer dielectric (MLD) grating is designed. The -1st order DE of the designed grating exceeds 99.84% at 1053nm central wavelength. The BW of the grating with the -1st order DE higher than 99% is up to 99 nm for non-polarized incident light. This MLD grating can be used as a reliable combiner in the SBC system.
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