Keywords

Volume grating, bragg grating, volume bragg grating, chirped grating, chirped volume bragg grating, laser pulse, pulse stretching, pulse compression, diffraction efficiency, reflection coefficient, recording saturation, beam quality, power in the bucket, power in the slit, fourier transform, mathematical fourier transform, physical fourier transform, discrete fourier transform, beam propagation product, forced cooling, forced airflow cooling

Abstract

The theory of stretching and compressing of short light pulses by the chirped volume Bragg gratings (CBG) is reviewed based on spectral decomposition of short pulses and on the wavelength-dependent coupled wave equations. The analytic theory of diffraction efficiency of a CBG with constant chirp and approximate theory of time delay dispersion are presented. Based on those, we performed comparison of the approximate analytic results with the exact numeric coupled-wave modeling. We also study theoretically various definitions of laser beam width in a given cross-section. Quality of the beam is characterized by the dimensionless beam propagation products (?x???_x)?? , which are different for each of the 21 definitions. We study six particular beams and introduce an axially-symmetric self-MFT (mathematical Fourier transform) function, which may be useful for the description of diffraction-quality beams. Furthermore, we discuss various saturation curves and their influence on the amplitudes of recorded gratings. Special attention is given to multiplexed volume Bragg gratings (VBG) aimed at recording of several gratings in the same volume. The best shape of a saturation curve for production of the strongest gratings is found to be the threshold-type curve. Both one-photon and two-photon absorption mechanism of recording are investigated. Finally, by means of the simulation software we investigate forced airflow cooling of a VBG heated by a laser beam. Two combinations of a setup are considered, and a number of temperature distributions and thermal deformations are obtained for different rates of airflows. Simulation results are compared to the experimental data, and show good mutual agreement.

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Graduation Date

2015

Semester

Spring

Advisor

Zeldovich, Boris

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

College

College of Sciences

Department

Physics

Degree Program

Physics

Format

application/pdf

Identifier

CFE0005638

URL

http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0005638

Language

English

Release Date

May 2020

Length of Campus-only Access

5 years

Access Status

Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)

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