Photonics (Aug 2024)

High-Precision Temperature Control of Laser Crystals

  • Xiang Zhang,
  • Hang Xu,
  • Liwen Feng,
  • Zhongqi Liu,
  • Tianyi Wang,
  • Jinqiang Xu,
  • Shengwen Quan,
  • Senlin Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11080745
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 8
p. 745

Abstract

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Temperature control is important in second harmonic generation (SHG) based on non-critical phase matching, which is widely used in the accelerator field to generate drive lasers. To further improve the stability of the drive laser for the DC-SRF photocathode electron gun at Peking University, a high-precision temperature control oven for lithium borate (LBO) crystals was developed. The oven’s structure was designed to minimize heat exchange with the external environment. The temperature control circuit uses a thermoelectric cooler to ensure the temperature stability of the sampling circuit. The program utilizes a cascaded proportional-integral-derivative and an anti-saturation integral algorithm to achieve high-precision temperature control. Experiments showed that fluctuation at the working temperature of the LBO crystal in this oven was within ±0.009 °C, corresponding to a root mean square (RMS) jitter of 0.003 °C, and the long-term power fluctuation of the 13.7 W green laser generated with SHG was less than 1%.

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