Investigations on optically controlled millimeter wave Gunn oscillators

There is a growing interest in optically controlled millimeter wave oscillators. In this paper, we have investigated the external-circuit impedances of an optically controlled millimeter wave subharmonic Gunn diode oscillator, which is illuminated by GaAs/GaAlAs laser beam. The variation of the external-circuit impedances looking outward from the Gunn diode with respect to the optical injection plasma density are calculated based on a field analysis method. The results give some useful conclusions for optically controlled millimeter wave Gunn diode oscillator design. Experimentally an optical tuning frequency shift of 7MHz is achieved at W-band.     

Comparative analysis of noise characteristics in Ka-band and X-band Gunn oscillators

Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, No. 1, pp. 1284–1287, November, 1990.     

Experimental investigation of low-frequency noise of 8-MM Gunn oscillators

Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 897–904, July, 1989.     

Phaselock system for millimeter-wave Gunn oscillators used in radio astronomy and laboratory spectroscopy

A frequency-agile heterodyne phaselock loop (PLL) system for millimeter-wave Gunn-effect oscillators between 40 and 110 GHz is described. The Gunn oscillators are phase-locked via the bias in an active second-order servo loop. A facility for fast frequency switching with a maximum rate of 10 kHz and a frequency separation up to 80 MHz is provided. Measurements on the spectral characteristics of a phase-locked Gunn oscillator are presented. The described PLL system is used in radio astronomy and laboratory molecular spectroscopy.     

Pulse shaping effects in Q-switched laser oscillators

Numerical calculations based on simple balance equations to obtain the output intensity of Q-switched laser oscillators are replaced by a new approach which also takes account of travelling wave effects inside the cavity. The output intensity is calculated for different gain factors and switching functions.It is demonstrated that the output pulses show a strong modulation for high gain factors which have been realised experimentally recently, This result stands in contradiction to simpler theories where unjustified extensions of the validity range have been assumed.     

Phase-locking effects in a system of nonlinear oscillators

Models for the excitation of collective modes in a system of nonlinear classical oscillators, initially out of phase, are discussed. The oscillators may be coupled in a dissipative or conservative manner. The analysis is based on the results of recent studies dealing with the problem of the free excitation of a coherent pulse, analogous to "superradiance" in two-level quantum systems. Several physical examples from the realms of electrodynamics and acoustics are discussed. The processes discussed here may be thought of as chaos-order transitions, provided that "chaos" is understood not as a stochastic nature of an individual oscillator but as the absence of a coherent component in their collective field.     

Diffractive effects in singly resonant continuous-wave parametric oscillators

I /k_P=0.33and0.50. It is found that the ratio of pump depletion to maximal depletion as a function of the ratio of pump power to threshold power agrees with the plane-wave prediction to within 5%, for a wide range of focusing conditions. The observed trends are explained as resulting from intensity- and phase-dependent mechanisms. Received: 19 January 1998/Revised version: 13 March 1998     

Desynchronization and clustering with pulse stimulations of coupled electrochemical relaxation oscillators

Effects of pulse stimulations on the dynamics of relaxation oscillator populations were experimentally studied in a globally coupled electrochemical system. Similar to smooth oscillations, weakly and moderately relaxational oscillations possess a vulnerable phase, ?_S; pulses applied at ?_S resulted in desynchronization followed by a return to the synchronized state. In contrast to smooth oscillators, weakly and moderately relaxational oscillators exhibited transient and itinerant cluster dynamics, respectively. With strongly relaxational oscillators the pulse applied at a vulnerable phase effected transitions to other cluster configurations without effective desynchronization. Repeated pulse administration resulted in a cluster state that is stable against the perturbation; the cluster configuration is specific to the pulse administered at the vulnerable phase. The pulse-induced transient clusters are interpreted with a phase model that includes first and second harmonics in the interaction function and exhibits saddle type cluster states with strongly stable intra-cluster and weakly unstable inter-cluster modes.     

脉冲激励下环形耦合Duffing振子间的瞬态同步突变现象

研究非周期信号激励下Duffing振子动力学行为变化特征时,发现处于倍周期分岔的环形耦合Duffing振子系统,在一定的参数条件下,脉冲信号能引起其中一个振子与其他振子运动轨迹间出现短暂失同步的现象即瞬态同步突变现象.利用这种现象可以快速检测出强噪声背景中的微弱脉冲信号,从而扩展了现有的Duffing振子对非周期信号的检测范围及应用领域. 关键词： 瞬态同步突变 微弱信号检测 脉冲信号 Duffing振子     

Thermal effects in singly resonant continuous-wave optical parametric oscillators

Stability and tuning characteristics of continuous-wave optical parametric oscillators (CW OPOs) are affected by various thermal effects arising from optical absorption in nonlinear crystals. In this paper, we present an experimental study of such effects in a singly resonant CW OPO. The OPO operates in the 3-μm mid-infrared region and it is based on a MgO-doped periodically poled lithium niobate crystal. We focus our study on two thermally induced phenomena that have been recently reported to exist in singly resonant CW OPOs: optical bi-stability and thermal self-locking. Thermal self-locking effect, which is known to alter the stability and tuning properties of doubly and triply resonant CW OPOs, is shown to be also of importance in singly resonant OPOs. We report the stability and tuning characteristics of a thermally loaded OPO and discuss a simple temperature-tuning method that can be used to scan the OPO idler frequency continuously over several THz.     

天线阻抗特性对开关振荡器输出脉冲的影响

以单锥天线和螺旋天线作为开关振荡器辐射天线为例,采用等效电路模型和商业电磁仿真软件,分别对天线末端电压振荡信号和辐射电场脉冲进行了研究。研究结果表明：采用行波天线或者电长度与振荡器一致的振子天线作为辐射天线,都能够产生中心频率与振荡器本征频率一致的电磁脉冲信号;但采用振子天线时,振荡信号持续时间较短(Q值较低),频谱上能量较分散,带宽较宽,而采用行波天线则脉冲持续时间较长(Q值较高),频谱上能量较集中,带宽较窄。     

天线阻抗特性对开关振荡器输出脉冲的影响

以单锥天线和螺旋天线作为开关振荡器辐射天线为例,采用等效电路模型和商业电磁仿真软件,分别对天线末端电压振荡信号和辐射电场脉冲进行了研究。研究结果表明:采用行波天线或者电长度与振荡器一致的振子天线作为辐射天线,都能够产生中心频率与振荡器本征频率一致的电磁脉冲信号;但采用振子天线时,振荡信号持续时间较短(Q值较低),频谱上能量较分散,带宽较宽,而采用行波天线则脉冲持续时间较长(Q值较高),频谱上能量较集中,带宽较窄。     

Cross-phase-modulation-induced spectral effects in high-efficiency picosecond fiber optical parametric oscillators

We explore the spectral effects due to cross-phase modulation and walk-off in picosecond fiber optical parametric oscillators. The output spectrum exhibits pump-power-dependent broadening, which can be quite asymmetric associated with a redshift or a blueshift depending on pump synchronization. By slightly increasing the cavity length, one obtains a blueshifted spectrum and a conversion efficiency as high as 15%.     

Management of thermal effects in high-repetition-rate pulsed optical parametric oscillators

We report on the investigation of thermal effects in high-repetition-rate pulsed optical parametric oscillators emitting in the mid-IR. We find that the thermal load induced by the nonresonant idler absorption plays a critical role in the emergence of thermally induced bistability. We then demonstrate a significant improvement of the conversion efficiency (more than 30%) when a proper axial temperature gradient is applied to the nonlinear crystal by use of a two-zone temperature-controlled oven.     

Classical and quantum effects in spatially modulated optical parametric oscillators

We study the effects of transverse spatial modulations in a multimode degenerate optical parametric oscillator. Intracavity photonic crystals allow us to tune the instability threshold and improve entanglement above threshold. Here we compare such results with the case in which the modulation is in the injected field profile.     

基于强耦合Duffing振子的微弱脉冲信号检测与参数估计

耦合Duffing振子在检测强噪声中的微弱脉冲信号时具有可检测信噪比低等优点,但目前检测模型还存在系统性能与初始状态有关、只能工作在倍周期分岔状态等缺陷.为此本文构建了一种能克服上述缺点的新的微弱脉冲信号检测模型,通过对两个Duffing振子同时施加较大的恢复力和阻尼力耦合,可使振子间产生广义的"阱内失同步"现象,基于这种现象可实现微弱脉冲信号的检测与恢复.以信噪比改善和波形相似度为衡量指标,研究了周期策动力幅值与周期、耦合系数、计算步长、阻尼系数等参量对模型信号检测与波形恢复效果的影响.对方波、双指数脉冲和高斯导数脉冲进行检测和恢复的实验结果表明,本文所构建的模型能够在较低信噪比条件下有效地检测并恢复出高斯白噪声背景中的微弱脉冲信号,进而改善了现有的Duffing振子对非周期脉冲信号的检测能力并扩展了其应用领域.     

High-power ultrafast thin disk laser oscillators and their potential for sub-100-femtosecond pulse generation

Ultrafast thin disk laser oscillators achieve the highest average output powers and pulse energies of any mode-locked laser oscillator technology. The thin disk concept avoids thermal problems occurring in conventional high-power rod or slab lasers and enables high-power TEM₀₀ operation with broadband gain materials. Stable and self-starting passive pulse formation is achieved with semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs). The key components of ultrafast thin disk lasers, such as gain material, SESAM, and dispersive cavity mirrors, are all used in reflection. This is an advantage for the generation of ultrashort pulses with excellent temporal, spectral, and spatial properties because the pulses are not affected by large nonlinearities in the oscillator. Output powers close to 100 W and pulse energies above 10 μJ are directly obtained without any additional amplification, which makes these lasers interesting for a growing number of industrial and scientific applications such as material processing or driving experiments in high-field science. Ultrafast thin disk lasers are based on a power-scalable concept, and substantially higher power levels appear feasible. However, both the highest power levels and pulse energies are currently only achieved with Yb:YAG as the gain material, which limits the gain bandwidth and therefore the achievable pulse duration to 700 to 800 fs in efficient thin disk operation. Other Yb-doped gain materials exhibit a larger gain bandwidth and support shorter pulse durations. It is important to evaluate their suitability for power scaling in the thin disk laser geometry. In this paper, we review the development of ultrafast thin disk lasers with shorter pulse durations. We discuss the requirements on the gain materials and compare different Yb-doped host materials. The recently developed sesquioxide materials are particularly promising as they enabled the highest optical-to-optical efficiency (43%) and shortest pulse duration (227 fs) ever achieved with a mode-locked thin disk laser.