Evaluation of Theoretical Model for Erbium-Doped Silica Fiber Amplifiers

AAmplified spontaneous emission measurements for three types of erbium-doped silica ffibers are presented. The characteristic parameters of these fibers was previously oobtained employing gain and pump power measurements. A theoretical model for eerbium-doped silica fiber amplifiers is evaluated and its scarcities are analyzed bby mmeans of a comparison between experimental and theoretical results for gain and ccopropagating amplified spontaneous emission.     

Evaluation of Theoretical Model for Erbium-Doped Silica Fiber Amplifiers

AAmplified spontaneous emission measurements for three types of erbium-doped silica ffibers are presented. The characteristic parameters of these fibers was previously oobtained employing gain and pump power measurements. A theoretical model for eerbium-doped silica fiber amplifiers is evaluated and its scarcities are analyzed bby mmeans of a comparison between experimental and theoretical results for gain and ccopropagating amplified spontaneous emission.     

Effects of band mixing on the radiative properties of a quantum well

The effect of band mixing and non-parabolicity on quantum well gain and spontaneous emission is studied using k.p theory. Spectra of gain and spontaneous emission are strongly modified but the relation of maximum gain versus nominal current density is not strongly affected.     

Polarized optical gain and polarization-narrowing of heavily oxidized porous silicon

We report on a polarization-sensitive optical gain in a blue-emitting Si/SiO(2) nanocrystalline system having a high degree of emission polarization memory. This system can show a positive optical gain or optical loss depending on the polarization state of the pump and emitted light. Under optical gain conditions, the degree of polarization of the amplified spontaneous emission increases with the pumping fluence. This effect has been attributed to an increase in the stimulated emission efficiency occurring for the linearly polarized emission component characterized by high photon occupation numbers (stimulating photon flux). This finding is independently supported by other experimental observations. The occurrence of polarization dependent stimulated emission strongly indicates the relevance of morphological effects in light emission from ultrasmall elongated silicon nanostructures.     

包含两个半导体光放大器的锁模光纤环形激光器数值研究

采用自再现理论,对一种包含两个半导体光放大器的锁模光纤环形激光器进行了数值研究.研究结果表明：为了提高谐波锁模输出脉冲的质量,调制半导体光放大器应当保持高直流偏置,对自发辐射信号进行调制并提供锁模脉冲克服腔损耗所需的增益,而此时的增益半导体光放大器则被低直流偏置充当增益补偿器维持较窄的净增益窗口;与之相反,为了获得振幅均衡的有理数谐波锁模输出脉冲,调制半导体光放大器则应当偏置在较低的电流上,而增益半导体光放大器应当保持较高的偏置电流以提供足够的常量增益克服腔损耗.此外,还必须提高注入光信号的峰值功率.     

Remotely pumped hybrid double-pass L-band optical amplifier utilizing chirped fiber Bragg

This paper reported an investigation of remotely pumped double pass L-band amplifier with dispersion compensation technique. The proposed design used chirped fiber Bragg grating (CFBG) to reflect the amplified signal back into the active medium, compensate the effect of fiber dispersion and block the recycled forward amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and the residual 1480 nm pump power. The characterization of the design was done experimentally. The gain is 37.5 dB and noise figure is 4 dB with best BER of 10⁻⁵² is achieved when the EDF is placed 150 km away from the transmitter and 48 km before the receiver terminal.     

FEMLAB在模拟掺镱双包层光纤放大器脉冲放大特性的应用1

应用FEMLAB软件模拟掺镱双包层光纤放大器的脉冲放大特性.计算了在915 nm前向抽运下，光纤放大器中的上能级粒子数，抽运光和放大自发辐射在光纤中的稳态分布,以及高斯脉冲和方波脉冲的输出、能量及增益特性.与文献上的结果进行比较证明了该程序的有效性.     

Quantum theory of a free electron laser

Spontaneous emission by electrons moving in a magnetic field constant in time and periodic in space (with circular polarization) is calculated using exact solutions of the corresponding Dirac equation. In addition to the known transitions we find two harmonics connected with spin flip processes, which are, however, strongly suppressed. The gain of the free electron laser is recalculated from the rate for spontaneous emission. The results obtained by classical methods are corroborated.Supported in part by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft     

Relative intensity noise of mode-locked fiber grating external cavity semiconductor lasers

The noise of hybrid soliton pulse source (HSPS) with linearly chirped Gaussian apodized fiber Bragg grating is analyzed by couple-mode equations including spontaneous emission noise when the HSPS is mode-locked. Relative intensity noise is calculated using numerical solutions of these equations. It is shown that transform limited pulses are generated over a wide tuning range around the fundamental mode-locking frequency with low spontaneous noise. However, a high noise level affects the operation of device, and therefore transform-limited pulses are not obtainable over a wide tuning range. It is also shown that noise is extremely sensitive to the RF and DC currents, linewidth enhancement factor, gain saturation parameter and spontaneous coupling factor.     

由半导体激光器端面输出谱确定自发辐射谱

利用射线法和平均载流子分布近似，从理论上预言了用阈值以下半导体激光器的端面输出谱来确定自发辐射谱的可能性。在此基础上，通过实验测得的阈值以下半导体激光器的端面输出谱确定了自发辐射谱，并且对自发辐射谱和增益谱进行了比较和分析。     

Modification of spontaneous emission rate in planar dielectric microcavities – seen as superradiance and subradiance

The modification of the spontaneous emission rate of an atom in a cavity can be seen as superradiance/subradiance induced by virtual image dipoles. This result is used to gain physical insight why the spontaneous emission is enhanced or suppressed in various cavity geometries. A general model for spontaneous emission engineering, which simultaneously handles dispersive and lossy cavities, is derived.     

Noise Figure Reduction in Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers Using Loop Mirror Filter

Noise figure reduction of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier using loop mirror filter is demonstrated. Approximately 0.5-dB noise figure reduction is achieved at input signal power level below - 30dBm. Transferring energy from the amplifier spontaneous emission to the input signal compensates for the insertion loss of the loop mirror filter device. The insertion loss of the device approximately 1 dB.     

Gain clamped L-band EDFA with forward–backward pumping scheme using fiber Bragg grating

The paper proposes a novel two stage L-band erbium doped fiber amplifier with forward–backward pumping scheme for transmission of 32 wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) channels. It is gain clamped with an in-line fiber Bragg grating (FBG) to provide flat gain over 45 nm by restricting and reutilizing amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). We demonstrate that it provides an efficient small signal gain with minimum noise figure of over 20 dB and 5.5 dB, respectively, in the L-band region (1565–1610 nm) by comparing with its forward and backward pumped counterparts with fixed Er³⁺ fiber length of 20 m for −30 dBm/channel input power. We also obtain the gain and noise figure dependence as a function of each of the Er³⁺ fiber lengths, pump power (both 1480 and 980 nm), and temperature. Hence a 10 nm region (1580–1590 nm) has been acknowledged where temperature variations become constricted for 30 °C variations (15–45 °C).     

交叉增益调制型波长转换器噪声特性的研究

对基于半导体光放大器的交叉增益调制型波长转换器相向和同向两种工作方式进行了研究。实验上分别实现了两种工作方式在1550nm波段的波长转换,比较了相同外部条件下两种工作方式的噪声特性,在全面考虑放大自发辐射噪声及其消耗载流子,增益谱的色散性和有源区内部损耗等因素的基础上,运用放大器的分段模型,计算了不同条件下两种方式的输出噪声功率,结果表明：相向型工作方式受放大自发辐射噪声的影响要远大于同向工作方式,输出放大自发辐射噪声功率的大小主要取决于载流子浓度的高低,而载流子空间分布的不均匀程度则决定两种工作方式输出噪声功率的差值大小。     

Gain Stabilization in All-Optical Gain-Clamped Cascade of Praseodymium-Doped Fluoride Fiber Amplifiers

The authors present theoretical results of an analysis of an all-optical gain-clamped (AOGC) praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber amplifier (PDFFA) for protecting surviving channels in an amplified wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) network with six cascaded PDFFAs. The theoretical analysis is based on application of a large-signal numerical model that takes into account propagation of pump, signal, and downstream and upstream amplified spontaneous emission and includes time variation effects in a four-level laser system. It is shown that power excursions caused in an eight-channel WDM network by loss addition of six channels could be lower than 1 dB and free of relaxation oscillations if the AOGC PDFFA is strongly inverted and the total loss of the ring resonator is appropriately set.     

The impact of nonequilibrium gain in a spectral laser diode model

We describe the inclusion of nonequilibrium gain into a self-consistent 2.5D CW spectral laser diode model and report on the use of this model to investigate the origin of gain compression in a 975 nm high-brightness tapered QW laser diode. Nonequilibrium gain is calculated using a dynamic gain model, which simulates the dynamic relaxation of the quantum well carrier energy distributions under the influence of steady-state electrical and optical excitation. Calculated gain and spontaneous emission spectra are included in the laser model via parameterised look up tables. Both simulated and experimentally measured intracavity spontaneous emission spectra show an increased carrier density and a blue-shift of the gain maximum with increasing bias caused by carrier heating and spectral hole burning. The accurate incorporation of nonequilibrium gain compression is therefore vital for the accurate prediction of the operating characteristics of these devices and for the experimental determination of the active region temperature.     

Analysis of the gain and noise characteristics of fibre Brillouin amplifiers

A theoretical analysis is performed of the transfer characteristics, gain, amplified spontaneous emission noise, on/off ratio and nonlinear phase shift of a fibre Brillouin amplifier, taking into account a possible signal detuning from the line centre and the nonlinear pump power depletion effect. Among other features, it is shown that the amplified spontaneous emission noise is reduced at higher signal levels and that detuning the signal reduces the amplifier gain in the linear regime and increases the spontaneous noise power in the saturation regime. As a consequence, the on/off ratio is significantly degraded by such an effect.     

Cooperative spontaneous emission in nonuniform media

The subject of this paper is modification of cooperative spontaneous emission by a nonuniform medium, with nonuniform distributions of electromagnetic field. A brief analysis is presented, and it is postulated that if spontaneous emission from an atom is strongly suppressed, cooperative emission with another atom may be a preferred emission channel and may counteract the suppression.     

Amplitude noise enhancement caused by nonlinear interaction of spontaneous emission field in laser diodes

The amplitude noise spectrum of the total laser output of a nearly single-mode laser diode is enhanced at low frequencies due to the nonlinear interaction between the spontaneous photons and the coherent laser field. This enhancement strongly depends on the spontaneous emission rate, resulting in a dependence of the amplitude noise spectral shape on the spontaneous emission rate. A linearized analytical model which predicts that the amplitude noise spectral shape is independent of the spontaneous emission rate is inadequate. The experimental data are consistent with a numerical simulation of the full nonlinear model.     

PbTe/CdTe量子阱光学性质的研究

PbTe/CdTe量子阱是一类新型异系低维结构材料,实验观察到具有强的室温中红外光致发光现象.建立了理论模型,计算了PbTe/CdTe量子阱的自发辐射率和光学增益.模型中量子阱分立能级的计算采用k·p包络波函数方法和有限深势阱近似,考虑了PbTe能带结构的各项异性和阱层中应变对能级的影响.计算了PbTe/CdTe量子阱自发辐射谱与带间弛豫和注入载流子浓度间的依赖关系,计算结果与实验观察到的光致发光峰相符合.自发辐射谱线峰位随着注入载流子浓度的增加而出现蓝移,当载流子浓度从2×1017cm-3增加到2.8×1018cm-3,基态发射峰从372 meV蓝移到397 meV,而第一激发态发射峰蓝移量为15 meV.上述蓝移现象是由载流子与载流子及载流子与声子间的相互作用引起的.与PbTe体材料相比.PbTe/CdTe量子阱结构具有更高的增益强度(提高近15倍)和更宽的增益区,因而该体系可能是实现室温连续工作的中红外激光器的理想材料.