Laser has the advantages of high brightness and good directionality, which is used to interfere to optical imaging system, causing the sensor department pixels to saturate or damage, resulting in the loss of scene information and a significant reduction in the working ability of the system. In this paper, we used an estimate criterion combining the laser spot property and image feature distribution to evaluate the image with space background. The results show that the score obtained through this criterion are consistent with subjective judgment.
A simulation study on thermal analysis of laser gain medium was reported for resonant pump lasers. On the basis of analyzing the main sources of heat in the gain medium and the essence of reducing quantum losses through resonant pumping mechanism, this study considers the thermal conduction model of laser gain medium and proposes a simulation method for the internal thermal distribution of laser gain medium under resonant pumping mechanism, and compares it with traditional pumping mechanism. The simulation results show that using resonant pumping mechanism and appropriately increasing the pump spot can effectively reduce the thermal effect of the laser, which plays an important role in improving the conversion efficiency and beam quality of the laser. This simulation study is applicable to quasi continuous, Q-switched lasers pumped by semiconductor laser end faces.
A mid-infrared laser switching technology based on a half-wave liquid crystal variable retarder (LCVR) is reported in this paper. The optical path is non-mechanically switched using a combination of LCVR and a polarization beam splitter (PBS), enabling flexible transmission of mid-infrared lasers through mid-infrared transmitting optical fibers. Experimental results demonstrate that the mid-infrared laser switching technology based on LCVR exhibits excellent laser transmission efficiency and strong platform adaptability, offering an effective approach for mid-infrared laser switching and output.
The disturbance of atmospheric turbulence during laser transmission is a major problem in the field of high-energy laser transmission and communication. Fast and real time wavefront sensing is one of the key technologies in adaptive optical systems. For laser emission or communication systems with relatively smaller optical apertures and transmission distances, atmospheric aberration is mainly composed of low-order Zernike modes with weak intensity. Traditional Hartmann wavefront sensor works by regional segmentation and reconstruction of the wavefront plane, which need complicated matrix calculation, inducing considerable time delay. Its application in laser wavefront sensing can be technically sophisticated and redundant. Holographic modal wavefront sensing technology takes advantage of parallel modal detection method to obtain the intensity of specific modes of aberrations carried by the laser directly. With benefits of higher speed, smaller time delay, and compact system structure, it may be more suitable for atmospheric laser wavefront sensing. Here, we carried out simulation research on holographic modal wavefront sensor and its application in atmospheric laser wavefront sensing, the measuring accuracy and validation frontier of this technology are analyzed. The result provided informative support on high speed laser aberration sensing and correction.
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