CN1162684C - Semiconductor side-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope and its electro-optic modulation method - Google Patents
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半导体侧面泵浦固体激光陀螺仪及其电光调制方法,涉及一种半导体泵浦固体激光陀螺仪的结构设计。它主要由环形腔反射镜组,增益介质,泵浦装置,电光晶体,分束板,光学延时器以及读出电路组成,其特点是泵浦装置采用侧面泵浦,所述的侧面泵浦由聚焦耦合透镜,半导体激光器阵列以及半导体激光器温控装置组成。本发明能较好地克服热应力问题,同时环形腔为三角形腔,没有负面积,其结构和气体激光陀螺仪相似,可充分利用其现成工艺。电光抖动采用两块同等参数的电光晶体,使用相位差180°的正弦波信号分别进行调制,能显著地减少陀螺仪锁区。具有体积小、工作稳定和长寿命等优点,能广泛地应用在惯性导航,惯性制导和惯性测量等惯性技术中。
The invention relates to a semiconductor side-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope and an electro-optic modulation method thereof, relating to the structural design of a semiconductor-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope. It is mainly composed of annular cavity mirror group, gain medium, pumping device, electro-optic crystal, beam splitter, optical delay device and readout circuit. It is characterized in that the pumping device adopts side pumping, and the side pumping It consists of focusing coupling lens, semiconductor laser array and semiconductor laser temperature control device. The invention can better overcome the problem of thermal stress, and at the same time, the annular cavity is a triangular cavity without negative area, and its structure is similar to that of a gas laser gyroscope, and its ready-made technology can be fully utilized. Electro-optic dithering uses two electro-optic crystals with the same parameters, and uses sine wave signals with a phase difference of 180° to modulate them respectively, which can significantly reduce the gyroscope lock-in area. It has the advantages of small size, stable operation and long life, and can be widely used in inertial technologies such as inertial navigation, inertial guidance and inertial measurement.
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技术领域technical field
本发明属于半导体泵浦固体激光技术和传感器技术领域,特别涉及一种半导体泵浦固体激光陀螺仪的结构设计。The invention belongs to the field of semiconductor-pumped solid-state laser technology and sensor technology, and in particular relates to the structural design of a semiconductor-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope.
背景技术Background technique
陀螺仪作为惯性测量器件,是惯性导航及制导技术的核心。近十多年来,随着光电技术的发展,光学陀螺已成为传统机械陀螺、机电陀螺强有力的竞争对手,激光陀螺更以其自身的诸多特点而得到航天、航空、航海及地面战车等武器设备的广泛应用。激光陀螺成为重要发展方向之一。As an inertial measurement device, the gyroscope is the core of inertial navigation and guidance technology. Over the past ten years, with the development of optoelectronic technology, optical gyroscopes have become a strong competitor of traditional mechanical gyroscopes and electromechanical gyroscopes. Laser gyroscopes have gained recognition in aerospace, aviation, navigation, and ground combat vehicles due to their many characteristics. Wide application of weapons and equipment. Laser gyro has become one of the important development directions.
从原理上分,光学陀螺可以分为两大类:谐振型和干涉型。前者的代表是以He-Ne气体环形激光器为核心的激光陀螺,它亦是目前广泛应用的导航级光学陀螺。后者的代表是由多圈光纤构成的光纤干涉仪为核心的光纤陀螺(章燕申等。激光陀螺技术报告与论文集,清华大学精仪系,1999年10月)。气体激光陀螺仪尽管是目前光学陀螺中精度最高的,但有着其固有的缺点:①气体激光陀螺的增益介质为He-Ne混合气体,为保证其气体组分、浓度的恒定,需经常换、充气体,所以对腔的密封性要求很高;②增益为混和气体,为保证振荡条件,必须保证气体增益有一定的极限光程,即腔难于小型化,同时气体放电需要高压;③He-Ne气体激光陀螺的工作激光波长较短(633nm),因此对构成其环形谐振腔反射镜的镀膜工艺要求很高,从而使其成本大大增加;④为消除固有的闭锁,气体激光陀螺引入了产生机械抖动的附加部件,不仅增加了陀螺系统的复杂性,同时还给系统带来了额外的噪声;⑤总效率很低,小于<0.01%。由于存在着诸多问题,因而气体激光陀螺仪的精度难以进一步提高。In principle, optical gyroscopes can be divided into two categories: resonant type and interference type. The representative of the former is the laser gyro with He-Ne gas ring laser as the core, which is also a navigation-grade optical gyro widely used at present. The representative of the latter is a fiber optic gyroscope with a fiber optic interferometer composed of multi-turn fibers as the core (Zhang Yanshen et al. Laser Gyro Technical Report and Papers, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, October 1999). Although the gas laser gyroscope is the most accurate among the current optical gyroscopes, it has its inherent disadvantages: ①The gain medium of the gas laser gyroscope is He-Ne mixed gas. In order to ensure the constant gas composition and concentration, it needs to be replaced frequently. Inflatable gas, so the sealing of the cavity is very high; ②The gain is a mixed gas, in order to ensure the oscillation condition, the gas gain must have a certain limit optical path, that is, the cavity is difficult to miniaturize, and the gas discharge requires high voltage; ③He-Ne The working laser wavelength of the gas laser gyroscope is relatively short (633nm), so the coating process of the reflector of the ring resonator is very demanding, which greatly increases the cost; ④ In order to eliminate the inherent lock-up, the gas laser gyroscope introduces a mechanical The additional components of the jitter not only increase the complexity of the gyro system, but also bring additional noise to the system; ⑤ The total efficiency is very low, less than <0.01%. Due to the existence of many problems, it is difficult to further improve the accuracy of the gas laser gyroscope.
光学陀螺仪由于传感信号为激光,不可避免地存在着闭锁现象,即当被测对象的转速低于一定阈值,陀螺仪的输出为非线性或者无输出。传统上减少闭锁的途径有3种:一是给整个陀螺仪加上一固定的转速(Raytheon Co.,USA);二是给环形腔加上周期振动的抖动进行偏频(Honeywell Co.,USA);三是利用磁光效应。Since the sensing signal of the optical gyroscope is laser, there is inevitably a blocking phenomenon, that is, when the rotational speed of the measured object is lower than a certain threshold, the output of the gyroscope is nonlinear or has no output. Traditionally, there are three ways to reduce lockup: one is to add a fixed rotational speed to the entire gyroscope (Raytheon Co., USA); ); The third is to use the magneto-optic effect.
随着固体激光技术的发展,半导体泵浦固体激光器(DPSSL)显示出比灯泵固体激光器(LDSSL)的显著优越性,DPSSL总效率比LDSSL高,结构简单,激光输出稳定。特别是单块集成(monolithic)固体激光技术的进步,窄线宽、高功率激光输出,稳频技术等发展推动了固体激光陀螺技术的研究。与目前其他光学陀螺相比,半导体泵浦固体激光陀螺具有以下优点:①为全固态方案,保证了产品宜长期贮存,宜小型化,生产成本低,温度效应弱;②固体增益介质是应用技术成熟的稀土金属晶体材料,其激射波长长(1.064mm),使得对反射镜的镀膜工艺的要求有所降低,这样可以大大降低陀螺的生产成本;③和目前的He-Ne气体激光陀螺仪一样,半导体激光器泵浦的固体激光陀螺也属有源谐振腔激光陀螺,因此传统的气体激光陀螺所具有的优点也都体现在这类陀螺系统中,从而它将是一种高精度的激光陀螺仪;④在半导体激光器泵浦固体激光陀螺仪系统中,信号采集与处理是利用两路光在输出端合光后产生拍频,它与系统角速度保持线性关系,因此可以大大降低系统信号检测技术的难度。因此,半导体泵浦固体激光陀螺仪引起了人们的注意。1999年Halldorsson等(United States Patent,No.5,960,022)中提出的3自由度半导体泵浦固体激光陀螺仪,使用多个半导体激光器作为泵浦光源,环形腔为单块玻璃的矩形腔,增益介质使用3价稀土金属的晶体(掺Nd3+),激光工作在连续波模式,采用声光移频技术减少测量锁区,其优点是使用固体增益取代了气体增益,采用光学的方法取代机械的方法减少锁区。其缺点是使用声光移频技术产生多普勒效应减少闭锁,结构复杂。文献“Diels,Jean-Claude et al.Progress toward a compact solid stateactive laser gyroscope Proc.SPIE Vol.3616,p.136-142.”中提出了一种半导体泵浦脉冲锁模固体激光陀螺仪,如图4所示,将超短脉冲激光技术应用于激光陀螺技术,采用半导体激光器端面泵浦方式,使用反射镜构成8字型环形腔,以及多量子阱饱和吸收体(MQW)作为锁模器件。由于激光工作在脉冲模式,经过合理的谐振腔设计,腔中反向传播的两路光脉冲不会在构成谐振腔的光学元件上相遇,因而本征地消除了锁区,而不是使用气体激光陀螺仪机械的方法、磁光效应或者声光效应。但由于脉冲光不可避免地在MQW上产生背向散射而发生能量耦合,该激光陀螺仪使用方波调制信号进行电光调制获得偏频效果,减少闭锁。缺点是由于采用半导体端面泵浦方式,因而环形腔很难进一步小型化,并且由于端面泵浦不可避免采用8字型腔,存在负面积,陀螺仪的标定因子将减小,同时端泵方式会引起晶体增益的热应力不均,导致陀螺仪寿命降低,而且需要更多的光学元件,结构复杂。With the development of solid-state laser technology, semiconductor-pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL) has shown significant advantages over lamp-pumped solid-state laser (LDSSL). DPSSL has higher overall efficiency than LDSSL, simple structure, and stable laser output. In particular, the progress of monolithic solid-state laser technology, narrow linewidth, high-power laser output, and frequency stabilization technology have promoted the research of solid-state laser gyro technology. Compared with other current optical gyroscopes, the semiconductor-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope has the following advantages: ①It is an all-solid-state solution, which ensures that the product is suitable for long-term storage, miniaturization, low production cost, and weak temperature effect; ②Solid gain medium is an application technology The mature rare earth metal crystal material has a long lasing wavelength (1.064mm), which reduces the requirements for the coating process of the mirror, which can greatly reduce the production cost of the gyroscope; ③ and the current He-Ne gas laser gyroscope Similarly, the solid-state laser gyro pumped by the semiconductor laser is also an active resonant cavity laser gyro, so the advantages of the traditional gas laser gyro are also reflected in this type of gyro system, so it will be a high-precision laser gyro ④In the semiconductor laser pumped solid-state laser gyroscope system, the signal acquisition and processing is to use the two-way light to generate the beat frequency after combining the light at the output end, which maintains a linear relationship with the system angular velocity, so the system signal detection technology can be greatly reduced. difficulty. Therefore, semiconductor-pumped solid-state laser gyroscopes have attracted people's attention. In 1999, Halldorsson et al. (United States Patent, No.5,960,022) proposed a 3-DOF semiconductor-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope, using multiple semiconductor lasers as the pumping light source, the ring cavity is a rectangular cavity of a single piece of glass, and the gain medium uses Trivalent rare earth metal crystal (doped with Nd 3+ ), the laser works in continuous wave mode, and the acousto-optic frequency shift technology is used to reduce the measurement lock-in area. The advantage is that the solid gain is used instead of the gas gain, and the optical method is used instead of the mechanical method. Reduce lockups. Its disadvantage is that it uses acousto-optic frequency shifting technology to generate Doppler effect to reduce blocking, and the structure is complicated. In the document "Diels, Jean-Claude et al. Progress toward a compact solid stateactive laser gyroscope Proc. SPIE Vol.3616, p.136-142.", a semiconductor-pumped pulse mode-locked solid-state laser gyroscope is proposed, as shown in the figure As shown in 4, the ultrashort pulse laser technology is applied to the laser gyro technology, the semiconductor laser end pumping method is adopted, the mirror is used to form an 8-shaped ring cavity, and the multi-quantum well saturable absorber (MQW) is used as a mode-locking device. Since the laser works in the pulse mode, after a reasonable design of the resonator, the two optical pulses propagating in the cavity will not meet on the optical components that constitute the resonator, thus eliminating the lock-up intrinsically, instead of using a gas laser gyroscope The mechanical method of the instrument, the magneto-optic effect or the acousto-optic effect. However, due to the inevitable backscattering of pulsed light on the MQW and energy coupling, the laser gyroscope uses a square wave modulation signal for electro-optic modulation to obtain a frequency bias effect and reduce latch-up. The disadvantage is that due to the semiconductor end-pumping method, it is difficult to further miniaturize the annular cavity, and because the end-pumping inevitably uses an 8-shaped cavity, there is a negative area, and the calibration factor of the gyroscope will be reduced. At the same time, the end-pumping method will Uneven thermal stress that causes crystal gain reduces gyroscope life and requires more optical components and complex structures.
发明内容Contents of the invention
本发明的目的为了克服上述光学陀螺仪的不足之处,提出一种半导体侧面泵浦固体陀螺仪及其电光调制方法,使其进一步简化结构,较好地克服热应力问题,提高测量精度,减少锁区。The purpose of the present invention is in order to overcome the weak point of above-mentioned optical gyroscope, propose a kind of semiconductor side pump solid gyroscope and its electro-optic modulation method, make it further simplify the structure, overcome thermal stress problem preferably, improve measurement accuracy, reduce lock zone.
本发明的目的是通过如下技术方案实现的:The purpose of the present invention is achieved through the following technical solutions:
一种半导体侧面泵浦固体激光陀螺仪,主要由环形腔反射镜组,增益介质,泵浦装置,电光晶体及其电光调制电路,分束板,光学延时器以及读出电路组成,其特征在于:所述的环形腔为由两个曲面镜和一个平面镜组成的等腰三角形腔,两块同等参数的电光晶体对称地放置于等腰三角形的腰上;所述的泵浦装置采用侧面泵浦,侧面泵浦由聚焦耦合透镜,半导体激光器阵列以及半导体激光器温控装置组成。A semiconductor side-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope, mainly composed of an annular cavity mirror group, a gain medium, a pumping device, an electro-optic crystal and its electro-optic modulation circuit, a beam splitter, an optical delayer and a readout circuit, its characteristics In that: the annular cavity is an isosceles triangular cavity composed of two curved mirrors and a plane mirror, and two electro-optic crystals with the same parameters are symmetrically placed on the waist of the isosceles triangle; the pumping device adopts a side pump The side pump consists of a focusing coupling lens, a semiconductor laser array and a semiconductor laser temperature control device.
所述的半导体激光器温控装置由半导体制冷片、散热片、热敏电阻、温控电路组成。The semiconductor laser temperature control device is composed of a semiconductor cooling chip, a heat sink, a thermistor and a temperature control circuit.
所述平面镜和曲面镜采用镀对波长1064nm反射率不低于99.9%的高反膜的平面镜和曲面镜。The plane mirror and the curved mirror are the plane mirror and the curved mirror coated with a high reflection film with a reflectivity of not less than 99.9% for the wavelength of 1064nm.
所述的电光晶体采用端面镀对波长1064nm反射率不高于0.2%高透膜的铌酸锂电光晶体。The electro-optic crystal adopts a lithium niobate electro-optic crystal whose end surface is coated with a high-transmittance film of 1064nm and whose reflectivity is not higher than 0.2%.
增益介质为掺钕0.5%的钒酸钇(Nd:YVO4),几何形状为板条,输入输出端面镀对1064nm波长反射率不高于0.1%高透膜,远离柱透镜的一面镀对波长1064nm反射率不低于98%的高反膜,紧挨柱透镜的一面镀对波长808nm反射率不高于1%和对波长1064nm反射率不低于98%的双色膜。The gain medium is yttrium vanadate (Nd:YVO4) doped with 0.5% neodymium, and the geometric shape is a slab. The input and output ends are coated with a high-transparency film with a reflectivity of no higher than 0.1% for a wavelength of 1064nm, and the side away from the cylindrical lens is coated with a wavelength of 1064nm. A high-reflection film with a reflectivity of not less than 98%, and a two-color film with a reflectivity of not less than 1% for a wavelength of 808nm and a reflectivity of not less than 98% for a wavelength of 1064nm are coated on the side next to the cylindrical lens.
所述的聚焦耦合透镜采用镀对波长808nm反射率为不高于1%的高透膜的柱透镜。The focusing coupling lens adopts a cylindrical lens coated with a high-transmittance film with a reflectivity not higher than 1% for a wavelength of 808nm.
本发明还提供了一种所述的半导体侧面泵浦固体激光陀螺仪的电光调制方法,该方法利用信号发生器、驱动铌酸锂晶体(LiNbO3)的功率放大器组成的电光调制电路调制电光晶体,产生偏频作用,减少锁区,其特征是:使用相位差180度的正弦波调制信号分别调制对称放置的两块同等参数的电光晶体。The present invention also provides an electro-optic modulation method for the semiconductor side-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope, the method utilizes an electro-optic modulation circuit composed of a signal generator and a power amplifier driving a lithium niobate crystal (LiNbO 3 ) to modulate the electro-optic crystal , to generate frequency bias and reduce locked area, characterized in that two symmetrically placed electro-optic crystals with the same parameters are respectively modulated by a sine wave modulation signal with a phase difference of 180 degrees.
本发明的优点是由于采用半导体激光器阵列侧面泵浦装置,使用半导体激光器阵列和聚焦柱透镜泵浦晶体增益介质,增益介质受光面能量比较均匀,能较好地克服热应力问题,同时环形腔为三角形腔,没有负面积,半导体激光器阵列安装在环形腔的内侧或者安装于垂直于腔平面的位置,便于实现陀螺仪的小型化;同时结构和气体激光陀螺仪相似,充分利用气体激光陀螺仪的现成工艺;采用电光晶体进行电光调制,起到机械抖动相似的效果,但抖动频率却能远高于机械抖动;为减少损耗电光晶体端面镀高透膜;调制信号使用相位差180度的正弦波调制信号分别进行调制,能显著地减少陀螺仪锁区;读出电路采用细分电路,能极大地提高陀螺仪测量精度。The advantage of the present invention is that due to the use of semiconductor laser array side pumping device, semiconductor laser array and focusing cylindrical lens to pump the crystal gain medium, the energy of the light-receiving surface of the gain medium is relatively uniform, and the problem of thermal stress can be better overcome. At the same time, the annular cavity is The triangular cavity has no negative area, and the semiconductor laser array is installed inside the ring cavity or at a position perpendicular to the cavity plane, which facilitates the miniaturization of the gyroscope; at the same time, the structure is similar to that of the gas laser gyroscope, making full use of the gas laser gyroscope Ready-made technology; electro-optic crystals are used for electro-optic modulation, which has a similar effect to mechanical jitter, but the jitter frequency can be much higher than that of mechanical jitter; in order to reduce loss, the electro-optic crystal end face is coated with high-transparency film; the modulation signal uses a sine wave with a phase difference of 180 degrees The modulation signals are modulated separately, which can significantly reduce the locked area of the gyroscope; the readout circuit adopts a subdivision circuit, which can greatly improve the measurement accuracy of the gyroscope.
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图1是本发明提出的半导体侧面泵浦固体激光陀螺仪结构示意图。Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a semiconductor side-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope proposed by the present invention.
图2是本发明的侧泵装置示意图。Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the side pump device of the present invention.
图3是本发明的电光调制结构示意图。Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the electro-optic modulation structure of the present invention.
图4是Diels提出的半导体泵浦脉冲锁模固体激光陀螺仪结构示意图。Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the diode-pumped pulse mode-locked solid-state laser gyroscope proposed by Diels.
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图1是本发明提出的半导体侧面泵浦固体激光陀螺仪实施例结构示意图,它主要由反射镜组1、6、8,增益介质2,聚焦耦合透镜3,半导体激光器阵列4,半导体激光器温控装置5,电光晶体7、13,分束板9,读出电路10,光学延时器11,调制电路12以及压电陶瓷(PZT)14组成。半导体激光器4作为泵浦光源,经过聚焦耦合透镜3耦合后泵浦增益介质2;反射镜组1、6、8构成环形谐振腔;电光晶体7、13用于电光调制,产生偏频作用;双向光15、17经由反射镜8输出,经光学延时器11和分束板9合光后产生拍频,读出电路10读出拍频信号,可以测得与谐振腔固联在一起的被测对象相对于惯性空间的转速。所述的环形腔为由两个曲面镜1、6和一个平面镜8组成的等腰三角形腔,两块同等参数的电光晶体7、13对称地放置于等腰三角形的腰上。Fig. 1 is the embodiment structure schematic diagram of semiconductor side-pumped solid-state laser gyroscope that the present invention proposes, and it mainly consists of
图2是本发明的侧泵装置示意图。本发明采用侧面泵浦(side-pumped)方式,由聚焦耦合透镜3、半导体激光器列阵4以及半导体激光器温控装置5组成侧泵装置:半导体制冷片21装在散热片18上,使用导热硅胶将半导体制冷片21贴在半导体激光器列阵4上进行散热,在半导体激光器列阵4基底内部放置热敏电阻19来测量半导体激光器列阵的温度;热敏电阻19反馈温度至温控电路20。温控电路20驱动半导体制冷片21,从而使得半导体激光器列阵4在恒定温度下工作,防止了泵浦波长的漂移。Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the side pump device of the present invention. The present invention adopts the side-pumped (side-pumped) mode, and the side-pumping device is composed of the focusing
图3是本发明的电光调制结构示意图,由电光调制电路和电光晶体组成。电光晶体没有外电压时,折射率为n。在三角形腔的腰上对称地放置两块同等参数的电光晶体7、13,先在晶体7、13上加上一恒定u0,折射率变成n0;电压调制电压信号使用三角形波或者锯齿形波u(t),也加在电光调制晶体7、13上,其中电光调制晶体7为u(t)、电光调制晶体13上为-u(t),即为相位相反的调制电压。当光束15到达电光晶体7时,调制电压加在电光晶体7上,由于电光效应,电光晶体的折射率将发生改变,变成n0+Δn,其中Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the electro-optic modulation structure of the present invention, which is composed of an electro-optic modulation circuit and an electro-optic crystal. When there is no external voltage, the electro-optic crystal has a refractive index of n. Place two electro-
光束15的光程也将发生变化l·Δn,光束15一部分经过平面镜8输出,一部分继续行进,经过电光晶体13,由于时间极短,此时电光晶体13上的调制电压为-u(t).电光晶体的折射率为n0-Δn,光束15光程变化量-l·Δn,回到了初始相位;相似地,光束17也发生同样地变化,不同的是光束17经过平面镜8输出后光程改变量为-l·Δn,光束15光程改变量为l·Δn,相当于环形腔有一个初始转速Ω0为The optical path of the
其中:l为晶体厚度;r13为电光系数;c为真空中的光速。Among them: l is the crystal thickness; r 13 is the electro-optic coefficient; c is the speed of light in vacuum.
从而产生电光抖动效应。为减少损耗,电光晶体端面镀对波长1064nm反射率不高于0.2%高透膜的铌酸锂。This creates an electro-optical dithering effect. In order to reduce the loss, the end face of the electro-optic crystal is plated with lithium niobate whose reflectivity is not higher than 0.2% for the wavelength of 1064nm.
图4为Diels提出的半导体泵浦脉冲锁模固体激光陀螺仪结构示意图,由半导体激光器,准直透镜,整形棱镜,曲面镜,增益晶体,环形腔平面镜,透镜,饱和吸收体,电光调制晶体。采用8字型腔,使用多量子阱(MQW)作为饱和吸收体,用于产生锁模脉冲激光。半导体激光器为激射波长为808nm的GaAlAs/GaAs激光器,晶体选用了Nd:YVO4,电光转换效率大于50%。由于MQW的背向散射造成闭锁,为了减少闭锁,采用电光晶体LiNbO3进行调制,产生偏频。双向光从反射镜输出,一路光经过光路延时,再进行合光。Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a semiconductor-pumped pulsed mode-locked solid-state laser gyroscope proposed by Diels, which consists of a semiconductor laser, a collimator lens, a shaping prism, a curved mirror, a gain crystal, a ring cavity plane mirror, a lens, a saturable absorber, and an electro-optic modulation crystal. A figure-eight cavity is used, and multiple quantum wells (MQW) are used as saturable absorbers to generate mode-locked pulsed laser light. The semiconductor laser is a GaAlAs/GaAs laser with a lasing wavelength of 808nm, the crystal is Nd:YVO 4 , and the electro-optical conversion efficiency is greater than 50%. Since the backscattering of the MQW causes latch-up, in order to reduce the latch-up, the electro-optic crystal LiNbO3 is used for modulation to generate a bias frequency. Two-way light is output from the reflector, and one path of light is delayed through the optical path, and then combined.
这种侧泵陀螺仪工作原理如下:如图1所示,由半导体激光器阵列4发出的泵浦光λ1=808nm,经过聚焦耦合透镜(采用镀对波长808nm反射率为不高于1%的高透膜的柱透镜),准直聚焦到晶体增益2[掺钕0.5%的钒酸钇(Nd:YVO4)],几何形状为板条,输入输出端面镀对1064nm波长反射率不高于0.1%高透膜,远离柱透镜的一面镀对波长1064nm反射率不低于98%的高反膜,紧挨柱透镜的一面镀对波长808nm反射率不高于1%和对波长1064nm反射率不低于98%的双色膜);晶体增益吸收λ1,发出系列波长的荧光;反射镜1、6、12形成的环形腔构成行波腔,由于模式竞争和谐振腔选模,波长为1.06μm的光波将在腔内形成双向振荡;经输出反射镜8输出;双向光经过分束板9,光学延时器11,在读出电路10上产生谐振,可以获得双向光波的拍频信号,沿着方向16移动光学延时器11,可以调节双向光波的相位差;电光调制晶体7、13用于产生电光抖动,减少陀螺仪的闭锁效应。The working principle of this side pump gyroscope is as follows: as shown in Figure 1, the pumping light λ 1 =808nm sent by the semiconductor laser array 4 passes through the focusing coupling lens (using a plated 808nm reflectance not higher than 1%) Cylindrical lens with highly transparent film), collimated and focused to crystal gain 2 [Yttrium vanadate (Nd:YVO4) doped with 0.5% neodymium], the geometric shape is slab, and the reflectivity of the input and output ends is not higher than 0.1 for 1064nm wavelength % high-transmittance film, the side away from the cylindrical lens is coated with a high-reflection film with a reflectance of no less than 98% for a wavelength of 1064nm, and the side close to the cylindrical lens is coated with a reflectance of no higher than 1% for a wavelength of 808nm and no higher than 1% for a wavelength of 1064nm lower than 98% of the dichroic film); the crystal gain absorbs λ 1 and emits fluorescence at a series of wavelengths; the annular cavity formed by the mirrors 1, 6, and 12 constitutes a traveling wave cavity, and the wavelength is 1.06 μm due to mode competition and resonant cavity mode selection The light wave will form a two-way oscillation in the cavity; output through the output mirror 8; the two-way light passes through the beam splitter 9, the optical delay device 11, and generates resonance on the readout circuit 10, so that the beat frequency signal of the two-way light wave can be obtained, along the Moving the optical delayer 11 in the direction 16 can adjust the phase difference of the two-way light waves; the electro-optic modulation crystals 7 and 13 are used to generate electro-optic jitter and reduce the locking effect of the gyroscope.
实施例:该系统的结构示意图如图1所示。详细说明步骤如下:所用半导体激光器阵列4为GaAlAs/GaAs双异质结激光器阵列6W,峰值波长为810±5nm,固定在半导体制冷器上,并用温控系统控温。增益介质2采用吸收波长与半导体激光器峰值波长相匹配的晶体,我们选用很成熟的Nd:YVO4,没有选用Nd:YAG。Nd:YVO4晶体的掺杂浓度≈0.5%,几何形状为板条,尺寸10×5×5mm,输入输出端面(即2个5×5mm的面)镀对1064nm波长反射率不高于0.1%高透膜,远离柱透镜的一面镀对波长1064nm反射率不低于98%的高反膜,紧挨柱透镜的一面镀对波长808nm反射率不高于1%和对波长1064nm反射率不低于98%的双色膜,晶体用铟箔包裹(以达到良好的热接触)置入铜块内,此铜块用半导体制冷器冷却并可控温。柱面镜为焦距500um,长度13mm。环形腔为由两个曲面镜和一个平面镜组成的等腰三角形腔,腰长为150mm,底边为200mm,反射镜1、6为直径20mm、曲率半径200mm、镀有R>99.9%@1064nm(入射角24°)膜系的曲面镜,平面镜8为直径20mm、镀有R>99.9%@1064nm(入射角42°)膜系,形成环形腔。光学延时器11镀对波长1.06μm高反的膜系,用于光学延时以及合光。分束板9镀λ=1.06μm,T=50%,也用于合光。读出电路10用于读出信号。电光调制所用电光晶体为两块同等参数的电光晶体,采用端面镀对波长1064nm反射率不高于0.2%高透膜的铌酸锂电光晶体,几何尺寸3×3×5mm(与行波运行方向重合的y光轴上长度5mm),对称地放置于等腰三角形的腰上。此系统可以测量物体相对于惯性空间的转速,并可以显著地减少锁区。Embodiment: The structure diagram of this system is shown in Figure 1. The detailed steps are as follows: the
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