基于Sagnac原理的单轴分布式光纤传感系统偏振态分析

针对Sagnac干涉型单轴分布式光纤传感器中使用单模光纤作为传感器件时,由于传输光偏振态在双折射影响下所带来的干涉信号“偏振诱导衰落”问题,运用琼斯矩阵分析法,建立了该型传感器系统在传感光纤双折射和外部事件共同作用下,传输光的偏振态对系统功率传输系数影响的数学模型;仿真分析了在传感光纤线性双折射和圆双折射共同作用下,传输光的偏振态对系统功率传输系数的影响;提出了使用法拉第旋转镜提高系统抗偏振能力的改进方法.仿真结果表明,该方法能很好地消除光纤线性双折射和圆双折射.     

基于SOA全光偏振调制的双信道光传输系统的仿真与分析

仿真并分析了基于半导体光放大器全光偏振调制的双信道光传输系统模型.该系统分别利用两级半导体光放大器的交叉偏振调制效应(XPolM),将两路独立的强度调制的抽运光变换到一路探测光的两个正交的偏振态上,实现双通道偏振复用的全光数据传输.首先对单个半导体光放大器的动力学过程进行了理论分析,数值计算了具有不同抽运光功率的半导体光放大器对探测光偏振态的影响,进而对双半导体光放大器偏振复用系统的调制/解调原理进行了分析,模拟仿真了双半导体光放大器的双通路偏振复用的调制及解调过程,仿真结果与实验结果相符.     

频率调制强吸收光谱中残余幅度调制的理论分析

由电光调制器(EOM)中双折射效应及线偏光不完全沿EOM调制方向诱发的残余幅度调制(RAM)使频率调制(FM)光谱技术在微量气体检测中的应用受到极大的限制。基于光场与晶体相互作用及光学干涉原理推导出存在RAM时FM光谱的线型表达式,确定出输入线偏光角度、EOM中双折射效应、FM系数等是影响线型的主要因素,且当入射EOM光的偏振角度偏离调制方向越大,双折射效应引起的特征偏振方向相位差越大,线型扭曲越严重;同时在FM色散光谱中存在一个受两者影响的直流偏置;最后给出通过伺服控制这两过程可以达到抑制RAM的目的。这些现象及线型的分析将为基于光纤器件的FM光谱提供必要的理论支持。     

行波半导体光放大器的偏振特性研究

以有源法布里－珀罗谐振腔的增益特性为基础，研究了行波半导体光放大器的偏振特性。对行波半导体光放大器的偏振灵敏度与端面反射率、增益系数、光场限制因子等诸因素之间的关系进行了理论分析和实验研究。在此基础上，讨论了改善行波半导体光放大器偏振灵敏度的若干方法，并提出了新的偏振不灵敏行波半导体光放大器结构。     

半导体光放大光纤环形激光器的偏振混沌与相干性

研究了基于半导体光放大器(SOA)的光纤环形激光器的偏振混沌光的特性及其相干性。实验采集激光器的输出功率和偏振度,得到了基于半导体光放大器的光纤环形激光器的输出从自发辐射到受激辐射、再到偏振态混沌激光辐射的演化过程。利用马赫-曾德尔(M-Z)干涉仪验证了混沌激光的相干性,并发现混沌干涉只有零级。测量不同光程差时干涉仪的输出功率,计算相应的干涉条纹可见度,进一步算得混沌激光的相干时间约为40 ps。这一结果与根据光谱计算的该混沌激光的相干时间43 ps基本一致。实验还测得该混沌激光的相干性与半导体光放大器的电流无关。并指出了混沌激光相干应用于低相干光源探测领域的灵敏度和分辨力优势。     

硅基二氧化硅光波导器件偏振特性的理论分析

从理论上分析了硅基二氧化硅光波导器件的芯区尺寸、相对折射率差、内应力和弯曲径对器件偏振特性的影响,得出结论：小折射率差的正方形波导的双折射系数小;内应力对双折射的影响比几何参数大;弯曲半径较小时,双折射系数较大,弯曲损耗也较大。     

一种新型光交错复用器的设计

提出了一种偏振光干涉型光交错复用器的新结构。其核心元件双折射模拟波片等效于双折射晶体波片，可以获得比一般双折射晶体大得多的等效双折射。该光交错复用器除了具有一般偏振光干涉型光交错复用器的稳定性好、可靠性高的特点外，特别具有隔离度更高和更容易实现各种大小频率间隔的优点。利用该结构设计了用于50GHz频率间隔波分复用信号的奇偶分离的光交错复用器，通带和阻带的平坦宽度均大于1／5周期，隔离度为～30dB。同时，对该器件在实际应用中的几个基本参量，如插入损耗、偏振相关损耗和成本等也作了分析和讨论。     

基于Sagnac/双Mach-Zehnder原理的分布式光纤传感系统的偏振态分析

运用琼斯矩阵分析法,建立了该分布式传感器系统在传感光纤双折射和外部事件共同作用下,传输光的偏振态对系统功率传输系数影响的数学模型.仿真分析了在传感光纤线性双折射和圆双折射共同作用下,传输光的偏振态对系统功率传输系数的影响,并提出了利用偏振控制器对输入偏振态进行控制,从而改善干涉信号输出的方法.     

光波导覆层热膨胀系数对应力双折射影响的分析

用有限元方法计算了硅基光波导器件的应力，得到由应力引起的双折射，从理论上分析了内应力对器件偏振特性的影响。得出结论：硅基与其它层材料热膨胀系数的不同，是引起芯区双折射的主要因素，通过掺杂、调整覆层的热膨胀系数，可以得到双折射系数较小的光波导。     

基于半导体光放大器垂直双泵浦对偏振复用正交相移键控信号波长变换的性能研究

针对偏振复用相位调制信号的全光波长变换特性问题,基于半导体光放大器中四波混频效应,建立了对偏振复用正交相移键控信号的全光波长变换理论模型.根据理论分析,建立了仿真系统,仿真结果表明:泵浦光与信号光之间的频率间隔、偏振复用信号中的一个信号与一号泵浦光的偏振夹角对系统转换效率和信号质量有影响;波长转换过程中交叉相位调制产生的相位噪音会对信号质量有影响,且当泵浦光功率较大、泵浦光功率远大于信号光功率时,交叉相位调制效应的影响较小,仿真结果与理论分析一致.本文研究方法和相关结论对其它偏振复用信号基于半导体光放大器四波混频效应的波长变换研究有一定的参考价值.     

Modeling and simulation of polarization errors in Sagnac fiber optic current sensor

Sagnac fiber optic current sensor (S-FOCS) is a kind of optical interferometer based on Sagnac structure, optical polarization states of sensing light wave in Sagnac fiber optic current sensor are limited. However, several factors induce optical polarization error, and non-ideal polarized light waves cause the interference signal crosstalk in sensor, including polarizer, quarter-wave retarder, splice angular, birefringence and so on. With these errors, linearly polarized light wave in PM fiber and circularly polarized light wave in sensing fiber become elliptically polarized light wave, then, nonreciprocal phase shift induced by magnetic field of the current is interrupted by wrong polarization state. To clarify characteristics of optical polarization error in fiber optic current sensor, we analyze the evolution process of random optical polarization state, linear optical polarization state and circular optical polarization state in Sagnac fiber optic current sensor by using Poincare sphere, then, build optical polarization error models by using Jones matrix. Based on models of polarization state in Sagnac fiber optic current sensor, we investigate the influence of several main error factors on optical polarization error characteristics theoretically, including extinction ratio in polarizer, phase delay in quarter-wave retarder, splice angular between quarter-wave retarder and polarization maintaining fiber. Finally, we simulate and quantify nonreciprocal phase shift to be detected in fiber optic current sensor related with optical polarization errors. In the end, we demonstrate S-FOCS in test. The results show that transfer matrix errors are induced by inaccurate polarization properties during polarization state conversion, then, the stability and accuracy of the S-FOCS are affected, and it is important to control the polarization properties at each step of the polarization state conversion precisely.     

Magneto-optic fiber Sagnac modulator based on magnetic fluids

A magneto-optic modulator with a magnetic fluid film inserted into an optical fiber Sagnac interferometer is proposed. The magnetic fluid exhibits variable birefringence and Faraday effect under external magnetic field that will lead to a phase difference and polarization state rotation in the Sagnac interferometer. As a result, the intensity of the output light is modulated under the external magnetic field. Moreover, the modulator has a high extinction ratio and can easily be integrated in a single-mode fiber system. The performance of the modulator is not affected by ambient temperature variation from room temperature to 40 °C.     

Optical nonlinearities in semiconductor optical amplifier and electro-absorption modulator: their applications to all-optical regeneration

Semiconductors have large optical nonlinearity with response speed in the several tens of picosecond range, making them ideal use as all-optical regenerators and wavelength converters. We theoretically and experimentally investigated optical nonlinearities induced by carrier dynamics both in forward biased semiconductor waveguide (SOA) and in reverse biased semiconductor waveguide (EAM). We made a detailed theoretical study of carrier dynamics in semiconductor waveguides by using the newly developed time-dependent transfer matrix method. To confirm the simulation results, we propose utilizing a polarization discriminating delayed interferometer (PD-DI) configuration as a simple technique for measuring optical nonlinearities such as cross gain modulation (XGM), cross absorption modulation (XAM), and cross phase modulation (XPM). In the first part of the paper, we reviewed SOA-based regenerators. As expected from the simulation results, we confirmed that injection of the transparent assist light was very effective in reducing of the SOA gain recovery time of down to a few tens of picoseconds. We further demonstrated 40 Gbit/s regeneration using an SOA-one-arm MZI (so-called UNI) configuration. The superior regeneration capability of two-stage UNI was successfully confirmed by a recirculating loop experiment up to 30,000 km with 150 regenerations. In the latter part of the paper, we reviewed all-optical regenerators using EAM. A bit-synchronized rf-driven XAM 3R regenerator consisting of only one EAM for both gating and timing correction was demonstrated at 20 Gbit/s. An EAM in conjunction with delayed interferometer configuration, which utilizes XPM as well as XAM in the EAM, has structurral simplicity and fast regeneration operability up to 100 Gbit/s. The fast response of EAM allows the optical regeneration with a small pattern word effect.     

Novel automatic control for the optimum optical gain and phase differences in SOA-MZI wavelength converter: Theory and experiment

We have proposed, simulated, and experimentally verified the novel automatic control method and apparatus to automatically adjust and constantly maintain the optimum optical gain and phase differences in order to achieve the automatically optimized semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) wavelength converter (WC) with wide input power dynamic range (IPDR) and maximum extinction ratio (ER). Our automatic control algorithm is proposed through the results of simulation and its validity is confirmed through the experiment.     

Berry phase magnification in optical microcoil resonators

We have studied the effects of the Berry phase on the linear transmission properties of optical microcoil resonators and analyzed the resonant behavior for different input polarizations and coil geometries. Contrary to previous expectations, we find that on resonance the size of the Berry phase shift can be magnified significantly, leading to a measurable polarization rotation for some geometries. Our model also considers other polarization effects including elasto-optic bend birefringence and the polarization dependent coupling coefficients, which were also previously neglected, and we still find that observable Berry phase effects persist. For example, in a three turn microcoil with a diameter of 0.2 mm, close to 100% of an initially x polarized light will be coupled into the orthogonal y polarization, due to the optical activity arising from the cumulative effects of Berry phase on resonance. More generally, the cross-polarization coupling also significantly influences the resonance extinction ratio and quality factor.     

Matrix-Based Polarization Analysis and Application of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

Employing the Mueller matrix method with polar decomposition, we analyse the polarization rotation (PR) effects in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and demonstrate that the PR angle is linear to the birefringence dependent gain while the average PR coefficient is about 0.625 for the employed SOA. It is further evident that the current and optical intensity dependent PRs rotate reversely around the same axis. Thus we propose an optical-electric synchronous control scheme to obtain orthogonal polarization states with power-equalization, and implement it by a polarization-sensitive SOA. The polarization duration time is about 10 ns which is applicable to high-speed polarization state generation.     

八边形晶格双芯光子晶体光纤偏振分束器

分别以碲玻璃和SF6玻璃作为基质材料,设计制作了一种基于双折射效应的新型八边形晶格双芯光子晶体光纤偏振分束器。应用全矢量有限元法（FEM）分析了碲玻璃和SF6两种双芯光子晶体光纤中结构参数对双折射和相对耦合长度特性的影响,数值模拟了碲玻璃和SF6两种偏振分束器的性能。结果表明：在碲玻璃和SF6两种双芯光子晶体光纤中,增大椭圆率可同时增加结构的双折射和相对耦合长度,与SF6玻璃偏振分束器相比较,碲玻璃偏振分束器具有更高的消光比和更大的带宽,即在工作波长为1.55 μm处,消光比达到最小值-53.46 dB,且消光比小于-20 dB的带宽为120 nm。     

高消光比多偏振态光源系统设计

在现代工程测量中,由于工程的各项技术指标要求越来越高,相应地对光源也提出了更高的要求。依据晶体双折射和晶体相位延迟对光偏振态的影响以及光的折射角与光振动方向有关的原理,设计了高消光比多偏振态光源系统,并设计测试方案对该系统实现的偏振态和消光比进行了验证。该光源系统通过计算机精密控制电机旋转设计的转盘结构很方便快捷地实现了S偏振态、P偏振态和圆偏振光的输出,并且系统中设计了平移和旋转装置自动控制偏振棱镜,获得了高消光比的偏振光,出射光消光比小于等于510-6。     

Heterodyne Interferometers Using Orthogonally Polarized and Two-Frequency Shifted Light Sources with Super-high Extinction Ratio

This paper describes heterodyne interferometers using orthogonally polarized and two-frequency shifted light sources of two types with super-high extinction ratio to reduce non-linearity of the interferometer due to polarization cross-talk. The acousto-optic modulators are used to shift light frequency. In the first interferometer the light source with Glan-Thomson prisms of very high extinction ratio (50 dB) is used to make the polarization cross-talk very small. In the second interferometer the light source of two-frequency shifted beams with small crossing angle (2.5 rnrad-10 mrad) is used to completely exclude non-linearity of the interferometer due to polarization cross-talk. By measuring the thickness of vacuum evaporation film, it was demonstrated that the interferometers are useful to measure thickness of a thin film in nanometer order.     

Q-factor assessment of SOA-based ultrafast nonlinear interferometer

The performance of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI) gated by an ultra high speed pseudorandom binary sequence is theoretically analyzed. For this purpose, a comprehensive model formed by a set of equations that describe the gain and phase evolution inside a SOA deployed as the nonlinear element in an interferometric switch is appropriately applied to this particular configuration. By undertaking a detailed numerical simulation, the impact of the SOA and input data key parameters on the Q-factor is thoroughly investigated and assessed enabling to extract useful design rules for their proper selection so as to optimize this metric. The calculations confirm the experimental evidence that the main technical limitation is imposed by the SOA carrier lifetime, which must be reduced below the bit period in order to avoid the deleterious consequences of the pattern effect on the switched-out pulses. Provided that this condition is satisfied and the rest of the parameters fulfill their specified requirements, the output amplitude fluctuations can be effectively eliminated resulting in a high quality eye diagram and error-free operation. The adopted model can be exploited for studying more sophisticated all-optical circuits and subsystems of enhanced functionality that rely critically on the SOA-based UNI as switching module.