Electron self-injection and acceleration driven by a tightly focused intense laser beam in an underdense plasma

A scheme for electron self-injection in the laser wakefield acceleration is proposed. In this scheme, the transverse wave breaking of the wakefield and the tightly focused geometry of the laser beam play important roles. A large number of the background electrons are self-injected into the acceleration phase of the wakefield during the defocusing of the tightly focused laser beam as it propagates through an underdense plasma. Particle-in-cell simulations performed using a 2D3V code have shown generation of a collimated electron bunch with a total number of 1.4 x 109 and energies up to 8 MeV. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.

Design of adjustable superresolving filters based on birefringent crystals

A two-mode adjustable superresolving filter based on a birefringent filter is proposed. This kind of filter has superresolution in two modes of adjustment. One is rotation of the binary pupil filter on the optical axis of the system and the other is the tilt of the filter away from the pupil plane on axis parallel or perpendicular to the optical axis of the crystal. The filters act as complex amplitude filters in the former mode, and as pure phase filters in the latter. By analyzing two superresolving parameters, we obtain the optimal design parameters that ensure a large field of view, a large superresolving range, and a high setting accuracy. This kind of filter can provide more flexibility in practical applications. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.

高重复率紧凑型微脉冲全固态激光器

本文设计并实现了一台高重复率，紧凑型微脉冲全固态激光器。YAG晶体， Nd:YAG晶体和Cr4+:YAG晶体键合为一个单块晶体作为谐振腔。优化计算了Cr4+:YAG晶体的初始透过率，耦合输出透射率和泵浦光斑大小。对激光器的性能进行了测试，结果表明该激光器适合于空间激光测距。

铬镱铒共掺磷酸盐玻璃光谱和激光性质研究

测定了Cr14—05铬镱铒共掺磷酸盐玻璃的主要热光参数，并测试了吸收、荧光光谱和激光性能等。结果表明该玻璃具有较好的光谱和热光性质，其激光输出性能可满足人眼安全激光测距光源应用的要求。