摘要:
A particle analysis method and apparatus, including a spectrometry- based analysis of a fluid sample (1), comprises the steps of creating a sample light beam S and a probe light beam P with a light source device (10) and periodically varying a relative phase between the sample and probe light beams S, P with a phase modulator device (20), irradiating the fluid sample (1) with the sample light beam S, detecting the sample and probe light beams S, P with a detector device (40), and providing a spectral response of the at least one particle (3), wherein the light source device (10) comprises at least one broadband source, which has an emission spectrum covering a mid-infrared MIR frequency range, and the phase modulator device (20) varies the relative phase with a scanning period equal to or below the irradiation period of irradiating the at least one particle (3, 4).
摘要:
Die Erfindung betrifft einen optischen Resonator (1) mit zumindest einem optischen Element (2), das Laserstrahlung, vorzugsweise gepulste Laserstrahlung, reflektiert oder transmittiert. Aufgabe der Erfindung ist es, eine praxistaugliche Möglichkeit zu schaffen, um gepulste Laserstrahlung aus einem Resonator (1) aus- oder in diesen einzukoppeln. Diese Aufgabe löst die Erfindung dadurch, dass das optische Element (2) schaltbar ist, wobei in einer ersten Schaltstellung die Laserstrahlung in der Weise reflektiert oder transmittiert wird, dass sie in dem Resonator (1) umläuft, und wobei in einer zweiten Schaltstellung die Laserstrahlung aus dem Resonator (1) ausgekoppelt oder die von einer externen Strahlungsquelle emittierte Laserstrahlung in den Resonator (1) eingekoppelt wird.
摘要:
A method of measuring a spectral response of a sample (1) comprises the steps of generating probe light pulses (2) having a primary spectrum with a fs pulse laser source device (10), generating gate light pulses (3) with the fs pulse laser source device (10), wherein the gate light pulses (3) have an adjustable temporal relationship relative to the probe light pulses (2), irradiating the sample (1) with the probe light pulses (2), including an interaction of the probe light pulses (2) and the sample (1), and temporally resolved detecting of the probe light pulses (2) having a modified spectrum, which deviates from the primary spectrum as a result of the interaction of the probe light and the sample (1), said modified spectrum being characteristic of the spectral response of the sample (1), wherein the detecting step comprises electro-optic sampling a temporal shape of the probe light pulses (2) after the interaction with the sample (1), wherein the probe light pulses (2) and the gate light pulses (3) are superimposed with varying temporal relationship in an electro-optic element (21) for sampling the temporal shape of the probe light pulses (2), and the spectral response of the sample (1) is obtained based on the temporal shape of the probe light pulses (2). The fs pulse laser source device (10) comprises a multi color master oscillator (11) including at least one gain medium and generating a first laser pulse train (4) and a second laser pulse train (5), which have different repetition frequencies fr1 and fr2 = fr1 ± Δfr with a repetition frequency difference Δfr, wherein the probe light pulses (2) are generated using one of the first and second laser pulse trains (4, 5) and the gate light pulses (3) are generated using the other one of the first and second laser pulse trains (4, 5), and the temporal relationship of the gate light pulses (3) relative to the probe light pulses (2) is adjusted by setting the repetition frequency difference Δfr. Furthermore, a spectroscopic measuring apparatus (100) for measuring a spectral response of a sample (1) is described.
摘要:
A method of passively enhancing pulsed laser light by coherent addition of laser pulses in an enhancement cavity (20) comprises the steps of generating a sequence of seed laser pulses (1) with a repetition frequency frep and a frequency comb spectrum (3) comprising frequency comb lines (4) with frequency comb line spacings equal to the repetition frequency frep, coupling the seed laser pulses (1) via a first plate-shaped coupling element (25) into an enhancement cavity (20) comprising at least two cavity mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) having metallic surfaces and spanning a cavity beam path (26) with a resonator length L, wherein the enhancement cavity (20) has a fundamental transverse mode TEM00 and higher-order transverse cavity modes TEMnm, each with a series of cavity resonance frequencies (5), and a cavity offset frequency (6), and coherent superposition of the seed laser pulses (1) in the enhancement cavity (20), so that at least one enhanced circulating cavity pulse (2) per cavity length is generated, wherein the frequency comb spectrum (3) is a harmonic frequency comb spectrum (3) with a vanishing seeding comb offset frequency, the enhancement cavity (20) is adjusted such that a round-trip carrier-envelope phase slippage of the circulating cavity pulses 2 is equal to 360°/N for the fundamental transverse mode TEM00, N being an integer number equal to or above (2), and a frequency overlap is provided for a plurality of the cavity resonance frequencies (5) with a plurality of the frequency comb lines (4) along the frequency comb spectrum (3). Furthermore, a laser pulse enhancement apparatus and applications thereof, e. g. in field-resolved spectroscopy, are described.
摘要:
A laser pulse sequence measuring method for measuring a delay between a pair of pulses from two laser pulse sequences (1, 2), comprises the steps of creating a first laser pulse sequence (1) of first laser pulses (1A) and a second laser pulse sequence (2) of second laser pulses (2A), and generating a delay signal (3) which represents the delay between the pair of pulses from the first and second laser pulse sequences (1, 2), wherein the step of generating the delay signal (3) includes creating intra-pulse difference frequency generation (IPDFG) pulses (4) by applying intra-pulse difference frequency generation to the first laser pulses (1A) in a difference frequency generation (DFG) medium (21), providing phase-stable reference waveforms (5) based on the IPDFG pulses (4), and electro-optic sampling (EOS) of the electric field of the phase-stable reference waveforms (5) with sampling pulses (6) in an EOS medium (22), wherein the sampling pulses (6) are created based on the second laser pulses (2A), for generating an electro-optic sampling (EOS) signal (7), wherein the delay signal (3) is obtained from the EOS signal (7). Furthermore, a spectroscopic measuring method, a laser pulse sequence measuring apparatus (100) and a spectroscopic measuring apparatus are described.
摘要:
An interferometer apparatus for an achromatic interferometric superposition of electromagnetic fields, with a dual beam path interferometer, comprises a beam splitter being arranged for splitting an input beam into a first beam propagating along a first interferometer arm (A1) including at least one deflection mirror and a second beam propagating along a second interferometer arm (A2) including at least one deflection mirror, wherein the first and second interferometer arms have an identical optical path length, and a beam combiner being arranged for recombining the first and second beams into a constructive output and a destructive output, wherein reflective surfaces of the beam splitter and the beam combiner are arranged such that, in the first interferometer arm compared with the second interferometer arm, one additional Fresnel reflection at an optically dense medium is provided and a propagation of the electromagnetic fields of the first and second beams, when recombined by the beam combiner, results in a wavelength-independent phase difference of π between the contributions of the two interferometer arms to the destructive output, and the first interferometer arm includes a balancing transmission element being arranged for balancing a chromatic dispersion and Fresnel losses in the first and second interferometer arms. Furthermore, an interferometric measurement apparatus and an interferometric measurement method are described.
摘要:
A method of creating difference frequency (DF) laser pulses (1) by difference frequency generation (DFG) comprises the steps of providing ultrashort laser pulses (2) having a spectral bandwidth corresponding to a Fourier limit of below 50fs and containing first spectral components and second spectral components having larger frequencies than the first spectral components, and driving a DFG process by the ultrashort laser pulses (2) in an optically non-linear crystal (10), wherein the DF laser pulses (1) are generated in the crystal (10) by difference frequencies between the first and second spectral components, resp., said difference frequencies comprising third spectral components being lower in frequency than the first and second spectral components, wherein at least one enhancement cavity (20) with resonator mirrors (Mil to Ml4) spanning a beam path (22) is provided and the crystal (10) is placed in the beam path (22) of the enhancement cavity (20), the ultrashort laser pulses (2) are input coupled and coherently added in the at least one enhancement cavity (20), at least one circulating ultrashort laser pulse (3) is created in the at least one enhancement cavity (20), which drives the DFG process in the crystal (10) for generating the DF laser pulses (1), and the at least one enhancement cavity (20) is adapted for recycling the at least one ultrashort laser pulse (3) passing through the crystal (10). Furthermore, a photonic source (100) for creating DF laser pulses (1) is described, including one or more enhancement cavities.
摘要:
A method of measuring a spectral response of a biological sample (1), comprises the steps generation of probe light having a primary spectrum, irradiation of the sample (1) with the probe light, including an interaction of the probe light and the sample (1), and spectrally resolved detection of the probe light having a modified spectrum, which deviates from the primary spectrum as a result of the interaction of the probe light and the sample (1), said modified spectrum being characteristic of the spectral response of the sample (1), wherein the probe light comprises probe light pulses (2) being generated with a fs laser source device (10). Furthermore, a spectroscopic measuring apparatus is described, which is configured for measuring a spectral response of a biological sample (1).
摘要:
An enhancement resonator (20) being configured for generating intra-resonator laser light (1) by coherent superposition of input laser light, comprises at least three resonator mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) spanning a ring resonator path in one common resonator plane, said resonator path being free of a laser light amplifying medium, wherein the at least three resonator mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) include at least two toroidal mirrors and/or at least one cylindrical mirror. Furthermore, a laser device (100) comprising the enhancement resonator (20) and a method of generating intra-resonator laser light (1) are described.
摘要:
A method of spatially splitting a primary radiation beam (1) with a first radiation component (2) including an optical wavelength and a second radiation component (3) having a wavelength shorter than the first radiation component wavelength, said second radiation component (3) having a second or higher harmonic wavelength relative to the optical wavelength, comprises directing the primary radiation beam (1) onto a deflection mirror (10) having a reflective mirror surface (12) and carrying a refractive plate element (20), reflecting the first radiation component (2) at the reflective mirror surface (12) and reflecting the second radiation component (3) at an exposed plate surface (22) of the refractive plate element (20), wherein the reflected radiation components (4, 5) travel along different beam paths. Furthermore, a method of spatially combining a first beam path of a first radiation component (2) and a second beam path of a second radiation component (3) is described, wherein the beam splitting method is reversed. Furthermore, an optical device for implementing the above methods and applications of the methods are described.