匹配高斯光束在耗散晶体中的孤波演化及偏转特性

研究了匹配的高斯光束在加外电场的耗散型光伏光折变晶体中的动态演化及其偏转特性.结果表明，对于给定的耗散系统，若该系统能支持某一特定的耗散全息屏蔽光伏明孤子，也可能找到与之相匹配的高斯光束，则该匹配的高斯光束能在此给定的耗散系统中演化成稳定的屏蔽光伏空间孤子.同时，考察了扩散效应对此匹配的高斯光束的影响，结果显示，扩散效应将造成此匹配的高斯光束孤波在演化过程中产生偏转现象，而且其偏转过程与之相对应的明孤子的偏转过程具有极其类似的特征.通过比较研究匹配的高斯光束与耗散全息屏蔽光伏明孤子的偏转特征曲线，我们发现，对于匹配的高斯光束，其空间偏转的数值计算结果与明孤子偏转的解析计算结果非常接近.总之，在耗散系统中，匹配的高斯孤波的动态演化特性(包括偏转过程)与耗散全息屏蔽光伏明孤波的演化特性是相符合的.因此，人们往往可直接用匹配的基模高斯光束代替耗散全息屏蔽光伏明孤波，为理论分析和实验研究提供了便利.     

基于光折变双光束耦合的刚性全息明孤子的温度依赖特性研究

研究了基于双光束耦合的光折变耗散系统中全息明孤子的温度演化特性.数值计算结果表明，晶体温度与刚性全息孤子的稳定性密切相关.在一定温度下，全息孤子能在晶体中传播足够远的距离；当晶体温度漂移不大时，入射孤子能演化成稳定的全息孤子继续传播；而当晶体温度变化足够大时，孤子波强度随传播距离增加或减小，入射孤子不能以稳定的全息孤子态传播.讨论了将刚性全息孤子的温度特性应用于光学衰减、中继器件的可能性. 关键词： 空间光孤子 光折变非线性光学 耗散系统 全息聚焦     

全正色散多波长被动锁模耗散孤子掺镱光纤激光器

报道了一种带有周期性双折射光纤滤波器的全正色散多波长被动锁模耗散孤子掺镱光纤激光器. 通过数值模拟发现加入滤波器后激光器能输出多波长耗散孤子脉冲, 调节滤波器带宽大小可以得到不同波长个数和波长间隔的多波长锁模耗散孤子脉冲. 在激光器产生的四波长和五波长耗散孤子脉冲中观察到了耗散孤子分子, 并且通过调节滤波器参数和饱和功率可以改变多波长脉冲中耗散孤子分子的个数和波长. 这是在被动锁模光纤激光器中首次实现包含有耗散孤子分子的多波长脉冲. 另外还在实验上实现了全正色散双波长被动锁模耗散孤子的产生. 关键词： 全正色散 耗散孤子 多波长脉冲 孤子分子     

Diffusion-induced deflection and the effect of two-wave mixing gain on dissipative photovoltaic solitons

In an open-circuit dissipative photovoltaic (PV) crystal, by considering the diffusion effect, the deflection of bright dissipative photovoltaic (DPV) solitons has been investigated by employing numerical technique and perturbational procedure. The relevant results show that the centre of the optical beam moves along a parabolic trajectory, while the central spatial-frequency component shifts linearly with the propagation distance; furthermore, both the spatial deflection and the angular derivation are associated with the photovoltaic field. Such DPV solitons have a fixed deflection degree completely determined by the parameters of the dissipative system. The small bending cannot affect the formation of the DPV soliton via two-wave mixing.     

闭路光伏暗空间孤子的自偏转特性研究

通过考虑扩散效应的影响,采用数值方法,研究了一维稳态闭路光伏暗空间孤子的自偏转特性。结果表明,在扩散项的影响下,光伏暗空间孤子光束的中心沿一个抛物线轨迹在光折变晶体光轴方向上产生偏转;孤子中心偏转距离随光伏场以及入射孤子波强度的增加而单调增加。光伏暗空间孤子与明孤子的自偏转规律有明显不同。     

基于耗散孤子种子的啁啾脉冲光纤放大系统输出特性

以不同滤波器带宽下获得的全正色散光纤激光器耗散孤子作为啁啾脉冲放大(CPA)系统的种子脉冲, 研究了光栅对和光纤展宽器CPA系统输出脉冲的可压缩性. 结果表明, 对于大能量耗散孤子种子脉冲, 当CPA系统采用正色散光纤展宽器时, 光纤群速色散与自相位调制之间的相互作用不仅可抑制耗散孤子脉冲光谱调制的影响, 还可使脉冲在光纤展宽器中自相似演化, 从而可提高CPA输出脉冲的可压缩性. 通过优化光纤展宽器长度, 对于耗散孤子种子源, 采用光纤展宽器的CPA系统输出脉冲可压缩性与主脉冲所占脉冲总能量之比均优于采用光栅对展宽器时的情况.     

Three-dimensional dissipative optical solitons

A brief overview of recent theoretical results in the area of three-dimensional dissipative optical solitons is given. A systematic analysis demonstrates the existence and stability of both fundamental (spinless) and spinning three-dimensional dissipative solitons in both normal and anomalous group-velocity regimes. Direct numerical simulations of the evolution of stationary solitons of the three-dimensional cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation show full agreement with the predictions based on computation of the instability eigenvalues from the linearized equations for small perturbations. It is shown that the diffusivity in the transverse plane is necessary for the stability of vortex solitons against azimuthal perturbations, while fundamental (zero-vorticity) solitons may be stable in the absence of diffusivity. It has also been found that, at values of the nonlinear gain above the upper border of the soliton existence domain, the three-dimensional dissipative solitons either develop intrinsic pulsations or start to expand in the temporal (longitudinal) direction keeping their structure in the transverse spatial plane. Presented at 9-th International Workshop on Nonlinear Optics Applications, NOA 2007, May 17–20, 2007, Świnoujście, Poland     

Holographic solitons in photorefractive dissipative systems

A new kind of holographic soliton is proposed for a photorefractive dissipative system consisting of a biased photorefractive crystal and a strong pump beam with a uniform spatial distribution in both transverse dimensions. The self-trapping beam in the system can evolve into a spatial soliton when it couples coherently with the pump beam by two-wave mixing. Unlike the holographic solitons recently proposed by Cohen et al. [Opt. Lett. 27, 2031 (2002)], the most unique features of the present solitons are that they have a fixed amplitude and width that are determined completely by the system parameters and that their existence conditions are independent of the polarity of the bias field. Numerical simulations show that these solitons are stable relative to small perturbations.     

温度对双光子亮光伏空间孤子演化特性的影响

基于扩散效应及暗辐射强度对温度的依赖关系,研究了温度对双光子光伏光折变介质中亮光伏空间孤子动态演化及自偏转特性的影响。将亮孤子作为入射孤子波,采用数值方法求解孤波演化方程,结果表明:在给定温度下,双光子光折变介质中可以形成稳定的亮光伏空间孤子,当介质的温度变化不大时,孤子将克服较小的扰动而保持稳定的孤子传播,当温度变化足够大时,孤子将变得不稳定甚至崩溃;在一定温度范围内,孤子中心的自偏转距离随着温度的升高而增加,在特定温度下达到最大值,之后随着温度的升高而减小。     

温度对闭路光伏明空间孤子演化和自偏转的影响 (英文)

通过考虑扩散效应的影响，采用数值方法研究了温度对光伏光折变介质中的明空间孤子演化和自偏转的影响。结果表明，当晶体温度变化时，明孤子可以呈现为稳定态、较大周期的压缩和膨胀态，或塌陷态。同时，明空间孤子中心偏转距离随温度增加而增加，在一个特定温度处达到最大值，之后随温度增加而减小，在高温和低温区域此偏转距离趋于零。孤子的最大偏转距离和对应的特定温度随入射孤子波强度的增加而增加。进一步采用微扰方法研究了明孤子自偏转过程，其结果与数值方法获得的结果一致。     

The temperature properties of spatial optical solitons in biased photorefractive crystal

The effect of temperature on the evolution and the self-deflection of bright screening solitons has been investigated using numerical methods and the perturbation technique. The numerical study shows that a bright solitary beam could be stable, exhibit larger cycles of compression and expansion or break up when the crystal temperature changes. It is also found that the bending distance of the solitary beam centre increases, reaching its maximum value at a characteristic temperature, and then decreases as the temperature increases, approaching zero at low and high temperatures. Both the maximum value of the bending distance and the characteristic temperature increase with the input power density. The self-deflection of the bright solitary beam is further studied by the perturbation technique, and the results are found to be in good agreement with that obtained from the numerical method. The crystal proposed here is strontium barium niobate (SBN: 60).     

Regular and stochastic motion of dissipative optical solitons

Investigations of the motion of dissipative optical solitons and their complexes in wide-aperture nonlinearly optical (with coherent pump radiation) and laser (with incoherent pump radiation) systems have been reviewed. An important characteristic of dissipative solitons is the topology of the energy fluxes, which determines the internal structure of individual solitons and makes it possible to certainly separate the cases of the weak and strong interactions between the solitons. It has been shown that the character of the regular motion of dissipative soliton structures in a homogeneous system is determined by the symmetry of the transverse distributions of the intensity and energy flux; the motion of asymmetric structures is curvilinear. This is also valid for complexes of three-dimensional dissipative optical solitons, “laser bullets.” The extreme possibilities of localization of solitons are determined by quantum noises. The corresponding Brownian motion of the center of the dissipative optical soliton is characterized by a much lower level of the statistic dispersion of the coordinates of its center and velocity than that in the case of conservative solitons.     

有耗孤子的最小作用量原理及其在二维光子带隙结构中的应用

采用变分方法对于二维矩形光子带隙结构中X点孤子的耗散以及相干作用进行了动力学分析.通过对由作用量原理得到的孤子参量联立方程组的分析可知，除了耗散作用导致孤子的幅度衰减，并引起孤子横向的展宽以外，同向孤子的相互作用负势函数为耗散作用所减弱，从而使得孤子在x方向的束缚态被削弱.孤子中心间距随x的增加呈现出增幅变化且波动周期增大，当纵向距离增大到一定值后，孤子中心间距将一直增大下去.     

Self-deflection of steady-state bright spatial solitons in biased photorefractive crystals

The self-bending process of steady-state bright spatial solitons in biased photorefractive media is investigated by taking into account diffusion effects. By integrating numerically the nonlinear propagation equation, it is found that the soliton beam evolution is approximately adiabatic. The self-deflection process is further studied using perturbation analysis, which predicts that the center of the optical beam moves on a parabolic trajectory and, moreover, that the central spatial frequency component shifts linearly with the propagation distance. Relevant examples are provided.     

Midband dissipative spatial solitons

We show dissipative spatial solitons in nonlinear optical microresonators in which the refractive index is laterally modulated. In addition to "normal" and "staggered" dissipative solitons, similar to those in spatially modulated conservative systems, a narrow "midband" soliton is shown, having no counterparts in conservative systems.     

Conservative and dissipative fiber Bragg solitons (a review)

We present a comparative review of two classes of optical solitons—conservative and dissipative solitons—propagating in single-mode optical fibers in which refractive-index gratings are induced such that their period is comparable with the radiation wavelength. Fibers that have the Kerr nonlinearity and negligibly small losses and that do not gain radiation (conservative system) are described by traditional equations of the approximation of slowly varying amplitudes, and effects caused by the nonlinearity of the medium, such as nonlinear switching, optical bistability, and formation of conservative Bragg solitons are considered. It is shown that the passage beyond the scope of the approximation of slowly varying amplitudes makes it possible to describe new important effects, including localization of soliton centers near maxima of the refractive-index grating. Bright and dark conservative solitons are demonstrated, which are formed when the Kerr nonlinearity is replaced by the nonlinearity of two-level atomic systems. The properties of conservative solitons in resonance semiconductor Bragg structures with quantum wells are considered. Results of experimental studies of nonlinear effects in fibers with Bragg gratings are presented. For an active single-mode fiber with a Bragg refractive-index grating and nonlinear gain and absorption, dissipative solitons are described using the approximation of slowly varying amplitudes and inertialess nonlinearity. It is shown that the dissipative factors qualitatively change the properties of solitons compared to the conservative case. Using the Maxwell-Bloch equations, it is demonstrated that the ratio between the gain and absorption relaxation times significantly affects the stability of localized structures. The interaction of dissipative optical Bragg solitons is described. It is shown that, beyond the scope of the approximation of slowly varying amplitudes, the average velocity of propagating dissipative Bragg solitons acquires only discrete values, and formation of pairs of solitons with two values of the phase difference becomes possible. For a birefringent fiber, dissipative vector optical Bragg solitons are demonstrated.     

Properties of pulsating solitons in dissipative systems

<正>In this paper,a set of detailed numerical simulations of pulsating solitons in certain regions,where the pulsating solitons exist,have been carried out.The results show that the transformation between pulsating soliton and fronts can be realized through a series of period-doubling bifurcations,while there exist many kinds of special solutions.The complete transformation diagram has been obtained when the value of nonlinear gain varies within a definite range.The detailed analysis of the diagram reveals that the pulsating soliton experiences period-doubling bifurcations for smaller values of the nonlinear gain.For larger values of it,the pulsating solitons show chaotic behaviour and complex pulse splitting except for some special bifurcations.With the value of nonlinear gain increasing further,the pulse profiles resume pulsating,but the pulse energy is much higher than before and the pulse centre may move along the propagation direction.     

Observation of a discrete family of dissipative solitons in a nonlinear optical system

We report on the observation of a discrete family of spatial dissipative solitons in a simple optical pattern forming system, which is based on a modified single-mirror feedback arrangement. After a pitchfork bifurcation the system possesses two (nearly) equivalent coexisting states of different polarizations. The spatial solitons correspond to excursions from one of the two states serving as a background state towards the other one. The members of the soliton family differ in the number of high-amplitude radial oscillations. The observations are in good agreement with numerical simulations and general expectations for dissipative solitons.     

Quasistable bright dissipative holographic solitons in photorefractive two-wave mixing system

The dynamical evolution of both signal and pump beams are traced by numerically solving the coupled-wave equation for a photorefractive two-wave mixing system. The direct simulations show that, when the intensity ratio of the pump beam to the signal beam is large enough, the pump beam presents a common decaying behaviour without modulational instability (MI), while the signal beam can evolve into a quasistable spatial soliton within a regime in which the pump beam is depleted slightly. The larger the ratio is, the longer the regime is. Such quasistable solitons can overcome the initial perturbations and numerical noises in the course of propagation, perform several cycles of slow oscillation in intensity and width, and persist over tens of diffraction lengths. From physical viewpoints, these solitons actually exist as completely rigorous physical objects. If the ratio is quite small, the pump beam is apt to show MI, during which the signal beam experiences strong expansion and shrinking in width and a drastic oscillation in intensity, or completely breaks up. The simulations using actual experimental parameters demonstrate that the observation of an effectively stable soliton is quite possible in the proposed system.     

All-fiber erbium-doped dissipative soliton laser with multimode interference based on saturable-reserve saturable hybrid optical switch

Reverse saturable absorption is essential for the realization of dissipative solitons. In this paper, we introduce reverse saturable absorption by using nonlinear multimode interference (NL-MMI), for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, and obtain a stable dissipative soliton operation. By adjusting the coupling efficiency from multimode fiber to single mode fiber, the absorption properties of NL-MMI can be switched between saturation and reverse saturation. The dissipative soliton can be obtained with pulse width of 975 fs in the experiment, the 3-dB bandwidth at 1555 nm is 16 nm, and the maximum output power is 11.48 mW. The nonlinear absorption optical modulation and high damage threshold characteristics of the NL-MMI based ultrafast optical switch provide a new idea for realizing dissipative solitons.