We propose and demonstrate an coherent imaging technique by using defocus grating. For the imaging system, the defocus grating combined with lens with short focal length is used to realize multiplane imaging on the lens' focal plane, simultaneously. Based on these multiplane images, Gerchberg-Saxton (GS) algorithm is used to reconstruct the complex amplitude distribution of the input imaging beam. By using computational imaging and digital wavefront distortion correction with stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm, this technology can be used for joint estimation of both pupil aberrations and an high resolution image of the object, successfully.
We propose and demonstrate the adaptive conversion of input beam with unsymmetrical intensity distribution into a near-diffraction-limited flattop beam with desired parameters in the near field based on a combination of dual phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulators (LC-SLMs) and the stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm. One phase-only LC-SLM redistributes the intensity of the input beam to the desired distributions at the other phase-only LCSLM plane, and the other phase-only LC-SLM compensates the wavefront of the output beam. The SPGD algorithm adaptively optimizes the phase distributions of dual phase-only LC-SLMs to reduce the variance between the actual beam shape and the target beam shape. The experimental results on a prefabricated unsymmetrical input beam show that the technique is capable of adaptively creating near-diffraction-limited flattop beams with desired parameters.
Quantum communication is a high secure and high efficiency communication method. The received laser beam in the quantum communication system must be coupled into the fibers, by which the communication signal can be detected, amplified and processed for the latter devices. However, atmospheric turbulence will degrade the spatial coherence of the laser beam and limits the fiber- coupling efficiency. In the paper, the propagation model of the laser beam through atmospheric turbulence is established and the fiber-coupling efficiency for the laser beam distorted by atmospheric turbulence is evaluated, and the optimal coupling geometry parameter a=1.12 is given, with which the theoretical maximal coupling efficiency is reached. Then the relationship between the atmospheric coherence constant r0 and the fiber-coupling efficiency is analyzed. The simulation also indicates that the fast steering mirror (FSM) can reduce the influence of the atmospheric turbulence and improve the coupling efficiency distinctly.
In a high-energy laser, the thermal aberrations degrade the beam quality and reduce the laser’s output power. Adaptive optics (AO) technique based on a stochastic parallel gradient (SPGD) algorithm can be used to compensate for the distortions in real time to clean up the laser beam. Such a beam clean-up system was simulated and experiments were conducted to study the optimization of the parameters of the gain coefficient and the amplitude of the perturbation. The results show that the convergence property of the SPGD algorithm is improved after the parameters being optimized.
We present research on high-order Gaussian laser beam cleanup by using adaptive optics (AO)
technique. A 64-element adaptive optics beam cleanup simulation system based on Stochastic
Parallel-Gradient-Descent (SPGD) Algorithm was set up. The far-filed energy centrality of TEM10 mode was
advanced and the evaluation function increased more than a factor of 4.6 when the system evolves from
open-loop into close-loop state. The experiments results indicate the feasibility of Adaptive Optics in mode
transform system.
Thermal aberrations in high-power solid-state lasers degrade the beam quality and cause diffraction losses that reduce the
output power. Adaptive optics system can be used to compensate for the wavefront distortions in real time to clean up
the beam. But the conventional adaptive optics system based on wavefront sensing can't work well with the high-power
laser beam cleanup because of the presence of branch points in the phase and the amplitude scintillation. However the
other kind of adaptive optics system based on model-free optimization of a scalar beam-quality metric provides an
attractive approach to perform the beam cleanup in smaller packages. Such an adaptive optics system with iteration rate
of 100 Hz was built up. In this system a stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm is implemented in a
computer to control a deformable mirror for wavefront correction. Beam cleanup experiments with the SPGD AO system
were conducted. The high-power laser beam was simulated by transmitting a low-power high-quality laser beam through
an Nd: YAG-crystal power amplifier. The thermal aberrations of the beam could be changed by adjusting the pumping
current of the power amplifier. The experimental results on the convergence and stability of this adaptive system for
various conditions of dynamic aberrations are presented.
The feasibility of realizing beam cleanup of high power lasers using stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD)
wavefront control method has been demonstrated numerically. The numerical model of an adaptive optics system
comprising a 44-element deformable mirror and a far-field system performance metric sensor is first setup which
operates with the SPGD wavefront control method. The system is then used to correct for the dynamic aberrations of a
laser beam where the phase screens of the beam are constructed from the simulation data of a high power laser system
and are introduced into the light wave time sequentially according to the iteration rate of the SPGD wavefront controller.
The correction results show that the beam cleanup system investigated here can effectively compensate for the dynamic
aberrations of the laser beam involved.
Coherent beam combination of fiber laser arrays plays an important role in realizing high power, high radiance fiber laser
systems. The stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm is a newly developed optimization method using the
technique of parallel perturbation and stochastic approximation and it is expected that this algorithm can reduce the cost
and complexity of a high power fiber laser system when incorporated in its beam combination scheme. In this paper, a
numerical simulation model about the fiber laser beam combination system is then established based on beam-quality-metric optimization method. The SPGD algorithm is introduced and used to realize the beam-quality-metric
maximization, leading to the maximum output power of the fiber laser system. The results of numerical simulation
indicate that the far-field beam intensity optimization method using SPGD algorithm can realize coherent beam
combination of fiber laser arrays effectively.
Thermal blooming is one of the most important factors, which make the beam diffused and cause the decline of laser intensity on the object. This paper presents a method to reduce thermal blooming of high-energy laser (HEL) in the beam tube and compares two models describing the thermal blooming. Helium has the qualities of low absorption coefficient, high thermal conductivity and low index of refraction, and can be used as the medium through which HEL beam propagates. The condensations of thermal conduction model and acoustic wave model are evaluated respectively. Results show the method is practicable, and two models' applicable ranges are got.
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