用于共孔径相干合成的衍射光学元件设计

分析了衍射光学元件实现共孔径相干合成的物理过程,建立了基于衍射光学元件的共孔径相干合成数学模型,推导了合成光束复振幅与入射光束和衍射光学元件相位分布之间的关系。提出用合成光束强度分布的均匀性作为评价函数的优化方法,获得了一维衍射合束器的相位分布。与文献报道的衍射光学元件分束器相比,可获得更高的合成效率。采用模拟退火算法结合随机并行梯度下降算法优化合束器设计,提高了计算效率,获得了多束衍射合束器的相位分布和合成效率。分析了单子束失效及合束器像差对合成效率的影响,结果表明:随着合束数量的增加,单子束失效对合成效率的影响逐渐减小;若使合成效率退化小于5%,衍射光学元件的波像差均方根值应控制在λ/28以内。     

Fabrication method for ultra-long optical micro/nano-fibers

Nonlinear optical interactions can be enhanced dramatically by tight light-confinement and long interaction-length. Optical fiber tapers with micro/nano-thickness waists considerably increase light-matter interactions in or near their waists. Here, we propose and demonstrate a novel tapering method of fabricating uniform, low-loss, and ultra-long micro/nano fibers. The technique comprises three steps for conventional flame-brushing and pulling, recalibration, and one-directional pulling. Using the proposed method, two strands of tapered fibers are fabricated, having 0.82-μm/1.6-μm diameters, 220-mm/500-mm uniform lengths with <55-nm/66-nm diameter variances, and high transmittances of 90.2%/91.5%. A figure of merit indicating the nonlinear-optic efficiency is defined and used to compare the results obtained in this study with those for tapered fibers in references. The proposed tapering method will be very useful for the fabrication of tapered fiber devices exploiting nonlinear optic effects, including Brillouin scattering, Raman amplification, and other third-order nonlinearities for supercontinuum generation.     

Non-linear applications of microstructured optical fibres

The enhancement of different non-linear processes in microstructured optical fibres can be achieved through manipulation of the dispersion characteristics of the fibre. This is demonstrated by extending the region of short wavelength operation of high power supercontinuum generation through four wave mixing in a cascaded fibre geometry where the dispersion of each fibre decreased on propagation. The technique is further refined in a demonstration utilizing long lengths of dispersion decreasing tapered microstructured fibres, where the supercontinuum extends to around 300 nm with spectral power densities in excess of 2 mW/nm in the uv. These long length tapers can also be utilized for adiabatic soliton pulse compression in new spectral regions, allowing the compression of 655 fs pulses to 45 fs.     

Multi-focus optical fiber lens based on all-dielectric metasurface

A multi-focus optical fiber lens is numerically demonstrated based on an all-dielectric metasurface structure. The metasurface consists of an array of rectangular silicon resonators with varying widths in order to obtain the required phase distribution. The core diameter of the multimode fiber is large enough to contain sufficient resonance units. The spatial distribution of the dielectric resonators is dictated by spatial multiplexing, including interleaving meta-atoms and lens aperture division, to achieve multi-focus properties. The proposed optical fiber metalens can produce two or three focal points along the longitudinal direction with high focusing efficiency. The size of every focal point is close to the diffraction limit, and the relative intensity on each focus can be controlled by adjusting the number of the respective resonators. The proposed optical fiber lens will have a great potential in the fields of integrated optics and multifunctional micro/nano devices.     

A new kind of compound solid-state quasi-optical power combiner

In this paper, a new kind of solid-state quasi-optical power combiner is presented. It consists of two or more singlecavity multiple-device power combiners and a Fabry-Perot cavity. The experimenal results using six Gunn diodes at X-band show that the total output power is higher than 400 mW, the total combining efficiency is as high as 83%, and the frequency stability is better than 10^–5.     

A smart optical liquid level sensor based on Hg cladding optical waveguide

A smart optical liquid level sensor based on the theory of connected vessels is introduced. The Hg cladding optical waveguide (HCOW) is taken as its probe, and the change of liquid level is presented by the change of the HCOW length. Both the theoretical analysis and experiments show that when the waveguide diameter and the light wavelength are certain, the optical power loss decreased linearly with the increase of the HCOW length. By detecting the power loss of HCOW, optimizing the structure of probe and selecting the appropriate apparatus for detection, the real time detection of liquid level with high precision can be got. The experimental results show that the measurement accuracy is 5.2 mm within 10 m liquid level, and its theoretical precision can be up to 0.02%.     

Demonstration of an all-optical switching operation using an optical fiber grating coupler

An optical fiber grating coupler (FGC) is a fused optical fiber coupler with a tapered region in which refractive index-modulated gratings are written. In the FGC, the light with specific wavelength satisfying the Bragg condition of the grating can be dropped to one output port and other lights are transmitted to another output port when lights with various wavelengths are launched into the input port. The FGC can operate as an all-optical switch by controlling the Bragg wavelength of the grating using a third order nonlinear optical effect caused by a control light that are launched with a signal light. In this paper, an all-optical switching operation due to a third order nonlinear optical effect in an FGC is first demonstrated for a signal light with 1.55 μm-wavelength to be changed from one port of the FGC to another one by the 720 W peak of a control light from a Nd:YAG laser with 1.06 μm-wavelength. The switching efficiency obtained was 7%. It was clarified that a longer pulse length of the control light compared to the grating length is required to obtain a large Bragg wavelength shift for the switching. It was also clarified that the Bragg wavelength shift is caused by a third order nonlinear effect and a photothermal effect. A contribution of the photothermal effect was estimated. We also estimated the switching efficiency for pump power in the FGC switch.     

Optimization of 350× optical zoom lens with diffractive optical element

Through researching and validating, a set of optical designs using a diffractive optical element (DOE) and optimization process has been derived in this paper. We put forward a set of theories to solve the numerous quality issues in imaging and applied it to an optical design. For an optical design to be successful, it must comply with the standards of the optical system. Optical designers must also take into consideration imaging quality, wherein the most influential aspects are chromatic aberration and monochromatic aberration. We complied with systemic standards such as effective focal length and total system length. Diffractive Optical Element, based on the theory of wave phase difference, takes advantage of negative Abbe number, which might significantly eliminate chromatic aberrations of optics. Following the advanced technology applied to micro lens and etching process, precisely made micro DOE element now is possible to be manufactured in a large number. A 350× zoom lens with DOE is demonstrated in the proposal. The results show that regardless of whether chromatic aberration is axial or longitudinal, issues concerning the optical lens's chromatic aberration could be significantly reduced.     

Theoretical analysis and test for off-axis Cassegrain optical antenna

By detailed analysis of Cassegrain optical antenna with inclined optical axis, the receiving antenna power and the curve of power attenuation are obtained for different deflection angles. Three-dimensional images which describe the power distribution of the receive laser beam have been obtained. The coupling efficiency of antenna system is obtained from specific experiment. If the deflection angle is less than 0.1519 rad, the coupling efficiency is beyond 80%. In this case, the optical antenna system can be viewed as in alignment approximately. This research will provide a theoretical base and broad application for achieving precise alignment of optical axis in the field of optical communications and three-dimensional laser radar images.     

在课堂演示实验中引入光学异常透射现象

本文讨论了如何在大学物理单缝的夫琅禾费衍射课堂演示实验中引入当前光学领域研究前沿的一个重要物理现象-亚波长金属缝异常光学透射现象.基于数值模拟,比较了在夫琅禾费衍射实验条件下,纳米尺寸单缝的异常光学透射和微米尺度单缝衍射的特点,讨论并指出纳米单缝的异常透射特征是纳米尺度光与物质强相互作用的反映,而这种强相互作用在微米尺度单缝的夫琅禾费衍射中是不显著的.最后对用于课堂演示的衍射实验装置的设计进行了讨论.     

New glassy liquid crystals for optical data-storage applications

Low-molar-mass liquid crystals consisting of a binary nematic mixture of two-naphthylester which exhibit an anisotropic glassy state at room temperature have recently proven to be a suitable material for erasable optical data-storage applications. Using the holographic-grating technique, it is shown that more than 1000 all-optical write, read and erase cycles can be realized without remarkable loss of reversibility. The recording intensities are of the order of 100 W/cm² and optical erasure can be achieved with about twice that intensity. The times for recording and erasure of the optical gratings range on the millisecond scale and the stored gratings persist several months with a diffraction efficiency of typically 1 %. The spatial resolution has been proven down to 2 µm so far. The obtained results are compared with other reversible recording materials.     

基于卡塞格林系统的红外制冷型长焦分档变倍光学系统的设计

本文基于卡塞格林系统设计了红外制冷型长焦分档变倍光学系统,计算、推导了光学初始参数及组元的光焦度分配。采用了二次成像结构形式,主物镜组采用R-C光学结构用于缩短筒长,使用投影镜组解决冷屏匹配问题,利用调焦镜实现调焦,通过切换投影镜组后组实现变倍,然后对光学系统像差进行了优化设计,分别给出了长焦系统和短焦系统不同视场的成像质量优化结果,0.8视场内光学传递函数在空间频率17 lp/mm时均大于0.4。最后对主要结构进行了相应的精度分析,结果表明该设计能够很好地满足工程实际需要。     

All optical NOR and NAND gate based on nonlinear photonic crystal ring resonators

In this paper we proposed optical NOR and NAND gates. By combining nonlinear Kerr effect with photonic crystal ring resonators first we designed a structure, whose optical behavior can be controlled via input power intensity. The switching power threshold obtained for this structure equal to 2 kW/μm². For designing the proposed optical logic gates we employed two resonant rings with the same structures, both rings at the logic gates were designed such that their resonant wavelength be at λ = 1550 nm. Every proposed logic gate has one bias and two logic input ports. We used plane wave expansion and finite difference time domain methods for analyzing the proposed structures.     

基于衍射光学元件的激光相干合成研究进展

从衍射光学元件的基本原理出发,围绕连续波和脉冲波两大应用领域,综述了国内外基于衍射光学元件实现共孔径相干合成的研究进展。在国内,上海光学精密机械研究所分别实现了连续光和脉冲光的合成,连续光实现了206 W的输出功率,光束质量1.38,合束效率29.6%;脉冲光实现了峰值功率1.02 kW,重复频率2.2 MHz的ns级脉冲相干合成光束,合束效率61%。在国外,连续光方面实现了5 kW量级的合成光输出,合束效率82%;脉冲光方面实现了平均功率150 mW,重复频率100 MHz的fs级脉冲相干合成光束,合束效率83.4%。最后对基于衍射光学元件的激光相干合成技术的未来发展做出了展望,相信在不久的将来,基于衍射光学元件的相干合成技术会不断发展,逐渐突破技术瓶颈,从而为更多的应用领域奠定坚实基础。     

Using Fabry-Perot laser diode and reflective semiconductor optical amplifier for long reach WDM-PON system

In this investigation, we propose and investigate the simple self-injection locked Fabry-Perot laser diodes (FP-LDs) in optical line terminal (OLT); and wavelength-tunable optical network unit (ONU) using reflective optical semiconductor amplifier (RSOA) and FP-LD laser for downstream and upstream traffic in long reach (LR) wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical network (WDM-PON) respectively. The output performance of the proposed two laser sources in terms of power and side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) has been discussed. Here, for the downstream traffic, the proposed optical transmitter can be directly modulated at 2.5 Gb/s on-off keying (OOK) format with nearly 0.4 dB power penalty at bit error rate (BER) of 10⁻⁹ through 75 km single-mode fiber (SMF) transmission. Moreover, the proposed upstream transmitter can be directly modulated at 1.25 and 2.5 Gb/s with nearly 0.5 and 1.1 dB power penalty, respectively, at the BER of 10⁻⁹.     

Boost up of four wave mixing signal in semiconductor optical amplifier for 40 Gb/s optical frequency conversion

The 40 Gb/s optical frequency converter for non-return to zero differential phase shift keying (NRZ-DPSK) signal by using four wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) have achieved sucessfully. The optimized signal-to-pump ratio for NRZ-DPSK by using optimized SOA structure with enhanced FWM effect is also evaluated. The optimum signal-to-pump ratio is 12 dB and 10 dB with Q factor penalty of 0.685 dB and 0.663 dB. The dependence of four wave mixing efficiency and converted signal power on signal input power is studied and it is evaluated that four wave mixing efficiency decreases with increase in the input power. The impact of pump power, signal-to-pump ratio, and SOA parameters with Q factor penalty for 40 Gb/s has been illustrated. It has shown that converted signal power increases up to the saturation power of semiconductor optical amplifier, then decreases. It is observed that for the optimum pump power, OSNR of converted signal varies little with signal input power.     

Nanometer gold-silica composite particles manipulated by optical tweezers

We have studied the behavior of nano or micro size composite particles submitted to optical trapping forces and a comparison was made with homogeneous particles of similar dimension. The forces were measured using the power spectrum signal analysis. Most of the results presented were obtained using a lateral effect position sensitive detector (PSD), which allowed the fluctuations of the particle position in the optical trap to be monitored. A 4-quadrant photodiode was also used for the same purpose. We bring clear experimental evidence that the trapping force was increased by a factor of about 2-3 for composite particles made of a colloidal gold core encapsulated in a silica shell, with respect to homogeneous silica or latex beads. These results were discussed in the frame of the various approaches currently used for modeling optical tweezing forces.     

Optimizing amplifier spacing to improve performance in RZ-rectangular pulse based 10 Gb/s single channel dispersion managed optical communication system

In this paper, we optimize the inter-amplifier spacing in combination with duty cycle of RZ data format and EDFAs power so that link length of system can be maximized. The results for EDFA amplifier placement in 10 Gbps single channel dispersion managed optical communication system have been presented. By increasing the length of standard single mode fiber of dispersion 16 ps/nm/km in proportion to the increase in length of compensating fiber of dispersion −80 ps/nm/km, the pre-, post- and symmetrical-dispersion compensation schemes of the system have been compared. Further, schemes are observed at 8, 10 and 12 dBm values of EDFA power in the link with different duty cycle values of RZ optical pulse in the range of 0.2-0.8 with step size of 0.2 in relation to amplifier spacing to get lower value of bit error rate and timing jitter. The graphical results obtained show strong relationship among duty cycle of RZ optical pulse, EDFA power and, dispersion compensation scheme.     

An investigation of dark soliton behaviors within the nonlinear micro and nano ring resonators

We firstly propose the interesting results of a dark soliton pulse propagating within the nonlinear micro and nano waveguides. The system consists of nonlinear micro and nano ring resonators, whereas the dark soliton is input into the system and traveling within the waveguide. A continuous dark soliton pulse is chopped to be the smaller pulses by the nonlinear effects known as chaos. The nonlinear behaviors such as chaos, bistability and bifurcation are analyzed and discussed. The power amplification is the property that can be used to perform the long distance link, where the security is the dominant reason.     

用于XeF蓝绿激光器的表面放电光泵浦源

基于Al2O3陶瓷、BN陶瓷和聚四氟乙烯三种基底建立了分段表面放电光泵浦源,对比研究了这三种表面放电光泵浦源的电学特性、辐射特性和烧蚀特性。利用放电波形计算了表面放电光泵浦源的等效电感、等效电阻和沉积效率,应用光谱法比较了它们的紫外辐射强度,并采用平均线烧蚀率评估了三种泵浦源的耐烧蚀性能。通过比较研究发现,在充电电压为13.5~26.8kV、间隙长度为8cm、放电室内混合气体气压为100kPa条件下,三种泵浦源中Al2O3陶瓷表面放电光泵浦源的沉积效率最高,大于82%;辐射光谱具有紫外增强效应,紫外辐射最强;平均线烧蚀率最小(小于0.15μm/shot),耐烧蚀性能最好。研究结果表明采用Al2O3陶瓷表面放电光泵浦源作为大功率重频XeF蓝绿激光器的泵浦源,可提高XeF蓝绿激光器的寿命。