This paper focuses on the continuous melting technology of neodymium laser glass carried out by Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2005. It describes the research progress and some achievements of the technology. The continuous melting processing of N31 laser Nd glass is given
continuous melting of phosphate glass is simulated and a lots of experiments on the design
establishment
improvement and verification of the continuous melting line are carried out. A series of key technologies of continuous melting such as hydroxylation removal
Pt-inclusion removal
and transition metal impurity control
large size casting and birefringence control in lehr annealing are solved and the mass production of N31 laser glass is realized. The experimental achievements show that the fluorescent lifetime
laser attenuation at 1 053 nm
optical homogeneity and other properties of the continuous melted laser glass meet the requirements of the Shenguang facility. The comparison experiments show that the optical parameter homogeneity and absorption coefficient at 400 nm of the continuous melted laser glass are superior to those of the pot melted glass. Moreover
the absorption coefficient at 3 333 nm and larger laser damage threshold caused by platinum inclusion of the N31 laser glass are better than those of LHG-8 glass used in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States.
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