Entanglement of movable mirror and cavity field enhanced by an optical parametric amplifier

A scheme to generate entanglement in a cavity optomechanical system filled with an optical parametric amplifier is proposed. With the help of the optical parametric amplifier, the stationary macroscopic entanglement between the movable mirror and the cavity field can be notably enhanced, and the entanglement increases when the parametric gain increases.Moreover, for a given parametric gain, the degree of entanglement of the cavity optomechanical system increases with increasing input laser power.     

考虑钕玻璃放大器增益特性的光谱色散匀滑系统性能研究

采用数值方法研究了钕玻璃放大器的增益特性对高功率激光系统中光谱色散匀滑单元性能的影响.分析结果表明,入射光中心波长与放大器增益曲线中心波长不一致时,焦斑强度分布会受到一定的影响,且该影响随放大倍数增大趋于明显,而两个波长一致时,强度分布变化较小.靶面焦斑整体的辐照均匀性则主要取决于经过相位调制后的激光束的带宽,放大器的增益特性对其空间功率谱及均匀性无明显的影响.所得结论为光谱色散匀滑单元在激光系统中的实际应用提供了重要的理论参考.     

An 11-fs, 5-kHz optical parametric/Ti:sapphire hybrid chirped pulse amplification system

We developed a noncollinear optical parametric/Ti:sapphire hybrid chirped pulse amplification system, which consists of a two-pass optical parametric amplifier and multipass Ti:sapphire amplifiers with adaptive phase control. The use of the parametric amplifier instead of a regenerative amplifier broadened the final spectrum significantly, resulting in 11-fs pulses with a peak power of 18 GW at 5 kHz. PACS 42.55.-f; 42.65.Re; 42.65.Yj     

High-repetition-rate femtosecond optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier in the mid-infrared

We discuss a dual-stage optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier generating sub-100-fs pulses in the mid-infrared at a repetition rate of 100 kHz. The system is based on a 1064 nm pump laser and a 3–4 μm difference frequency generation seed source derived from the output of a femtosecond fiber laser amplifier. Both lasers are commercially available, are diode-pumped, compact, and allow for turn-key operation. Here, we focus our discussion on the design and dimensioning of the optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier. In particular, we review the available gain materials for mid-infrared generation and analyze the impact of different stretching scenarios. Timing jitter plays an important role in short-pulse parametric amplifier systems and is therefore studied in detail. The geometry of the amplifier stages is optimized through a full 3-dimensional simulation with the aim of maximizing gain bandwidth and output power. The optimized system yields output pulse energies exceeding 1 μJ and an overall gain larger than 50 dB. The high repetition rate of the pump laser results in an unprecedented average power from a femtosecond parametric system at mid-infrared wavelengths. First experimental results confirm the design and the predictions of our theoretical model.     

Fundamentals of optical amplifiers

The minimum noise figure of linear phase-insensitive amplifiers is 3 dB, according to the constraint of the uncertainty principle. Laser amplifiers, parametric amplifiers and Raman amplifiers obey the general quantum limit in an ideal case. A degenerate parametric amplifier is a phase-sensitive linear amplifier, and thus is a noiseless amplifier with a noise figure of 0 dB. The noise figure degradation in a practical amplifier and the signal-to-noise ratio design of an optical amplifier system are presented. Several other amplifier characteristics, such as signal gain, frequency bandwidth and saturation output power, are also discussed.     

Modeling and Investigation of High-Power Optical-Fiber Transmitters for Lidar Applications

In this work, we develop a high-power optical-fiber transmitter for lidar applications. The device can be utilized for measurements of the methane concentration and determination of the parameters of methane absorption line at wavelengths near 1,650 nm. The transmitter is based on a fiber Raman amplifier with an active fiber length converting the pumping radiation with a wavelength of 1,540 nm to the desired wavelength region of about 1,650 nm. We conduct the theoretical modeling of the Raman amplifier operation and demonstrate the advantage of the two-stage amplifier design over the single-stage design. In the modeling, the total power of a single Raman amplifier in the twostage design is 4.5 W with a pumping power of 5 W and an active fiber length of 1,000 m. Then we experimentally investigate the developed single Raman amplifier and demonstrate a satisfactory agreement between its parameters and the results of the theoretical modeling. The achieved average power of the transmitter at the output stage is over 7 W with two single Raman amplifiers joined in parallel. The distributed-feedback (DFB) master laser utilized in the transmitter is modulated by a linear-frequency signal with simultaneous application of a nonsynchronous high-frequency signal to eliminate the noise due to stimulated Brillouin scattering.     

Multiterawatt laser system based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

A compact multiterawatt laser system based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplification is demonstrated. Chirped pulses are amplified from 20 pJ to 900 mJ by two lithium triborate optical parametric preamplifiers and a final KDP optical parametric power amplifier with a pump energy of 5 J at 532 nm from Nd:YAG-Nd:glass hybrid amplifiers. After compression, we obtained a final output of 570-mJ-155-fs pulses with a peak power of 3.67 TW, which is the highest output power from an optical parametric chirped pulse amplification laser, to the best of our knowledge.     

Simulation research of medium-short distance free-space optical communication with optical amplification based on polarization shift keying modulation

Circular polarization shift keying (CPolSK) modulation technique has many advantages such as excellent BER performance and freedom from the alignment of polarization coordinates of the transmitter and the receiver, etc., and it turns out to be a good choice to FSO system. In this paper, a FSO system using CPolSK modulation is studied by simulation; it is found that the communication performance of the system is excellent in most weather condition. Additionally, three ways of optical signal amplification are proposed, and contrastive analysis on performance of corresponding optical amplification systems is carried out by examining SNR、BER and transmission distance with different specific attenuation. The results show that the system with optical amplifier at the transmitter have the optimum performance, and then the system with optical amplifier at the both ends with the same total gain, it is worst for the system with optical amplifier at the receiver. In addition, the safety factor for high emission power induced by optical amplification is also considered in this paper for practical application. The study above may be utilized in the system design for enhancing performance.     

Energy-scalable pulsed mid-IR source using orientation-patterned GaAs

Coherent mid-IR sources based on orientation-patterned GaAs (OPGaAs) are of significant interest in diverse scientific, medical, and military applications. The generation of long-wavelength mid-IR beams in OPGaAs using optical parametric oscillation exhibits limitations in the obtainable pulse energy and peak power. The master oscillator power amplifier concept is demonstrated in OPGaAs, by which a mid-IR source based on optical parametric oscillation can be scaled to high energy by amplification of the output of the optical parametric oscillator in an optical parametric amplifier (OPA). A fivefold increase in the pulse energy is obtained using this method by amplifying 3.85μm pulses in an OPGaAs OPA pumped by a Th,Ho:YLF Q-switched laser.     

Narrowband, tunable, frequency-doubled, erbium-doped fiber-amplifed transmitter

We report on the development of a fiber-based laser transmitter designed for active remote sensing spectroscopy. The transmitter uses a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) configuration with a distributed feedback diode-laser master oscillator and an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. The output from the MOPA is frequency-doubled with a periodically poled potassium titanium oxide phosphate crystal. With 35 W of single-frequency peak optical pump power, 8 W of frequency-doubled peak power was achieved. The utility of this single-frequency, wavelength tunable, power scalable laser was then demonstrated in a spectroscopic measurement of diatomic oxygen A band.     

Generation of 287 W, 5.5 ps pulses at 78 MHz repetition rate from a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG amplifier seeded by a fiber chirped-pulse amplification system

We generate linearly polarized, 287 W average-power, 5.5 ps pulses using a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG amplifier at a repetition rate of 78 MHz. An optical-to-optical efficiency of 41% is obtained at 700 W pump power. A 6 W, 0.4 nm bandwidth picosecond seed source at 1029 nm wavelength is constructed using a chirped-pulse fiber amplification chain based on chirped volume Bragg gratings. The combination of a fiber amplifier system and a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG amplifier results in good spatial beam quality at large average power. Low nonlinear phase accumulation as small as 5.1 x 10(-3) rad in the bulk Yb:YAG amplifier supports power scalability to a > 10 kW level without being affected by self-phase modulation. This amplification system is well suited for pumping high-power high-repetition-rate optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers.     

嵌入式水声功率放大器设计

功率放大器是水声信号发射机中的核心部件,其发展方向是低功耗、高效率和小体积。论文提出了一种可与匹配网络独立的嵌入式水声功率放大器技术方案,利用数字音频驱动器IRS2092设计并研制了一款高声源级的水声功率放大器样机,并通过水池实验测试了整机性能,验证了方案的可行性和先进性。测试结果表明,该样机在180×60×70mm3体积、24V电池供电和90W平均功率条件下实现了高达187dB的发射声源级,能较好地满足舰载或嵌入式的要求。     

Performance analysis and precoder design for IRS-assisted MIMO system with non-linear power amplifiers

In this work, a point-to-point intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS) assisted single input single output (SISO) model is first developed and later modified to the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) case. For the SISO case, the transmitter or the access point (AP) is assumed to be equipped with a non-linear memory-less power amplifier (PA). A PA is assumed to be present for each data stream at the AP or base station (BS) side for the MIMO case. For both cases, three different types of PAs (A) Soft envelope limiter (SEL), (B) Solid-state power amplifier (SSPA), and (C) Travelling wave tube amplifier (TWTA) are considered. A Bussgang decomposition of the transmitted signal is then utilized for further analysis. A modified channel model is conceived for the AP-IRS-User equipment (UE) link based on the reflecting IRS elements’ radar cross-section (RCS). For the SISO system, both perfect and imperfect geometries of IRS elements with uniformly distributed element size errors are considered. An approximate closed-form expression for the upper bound on the above system’s spectral efficiency (SE) with ideal IRS elements is derived. The expression of the SE for two special cases of (A) Infinitely large IRS and (B) Ideal PA is deduced. Approximate closed-form expressions of various quality parameters for the IRS-assisted MIMO system with ideal and non-ideal PAs are also derived and verified numerically. Maximum ratio transmission (MRT) based precoder for this system is designed assuming that the information about the BS-UE link, BS-IRS-UE link, and the non-linear PA statistics is available at the BS. A closed-form expression for the SE of this system with this precoder is then derived and verified for various parametric situations.     

Saturation behavior of a one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier in the presence of the fourth-order dispersion coefficient and dispersion fluctuation

The influence of the fourth-order dispersion coefficient on the behavior of parametric gain and saturation power of a one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier over a signal wavelength span in the presence of fiber random dispersion fluctuations was investigated. The output signal power for the parametric gain calculation was obtained by numerically solving the three-coupled amplitude equations. Based on the calculations of the parametric gain over a variation of the signal wavelength, it is found that the saturation power behavior is dependent on the behavior of parametric gain. The manipulations of signal wavelength and the fourth-order dispersion coefficient changed the phase-matching condition, thereby affecting the resulting parametric gain and saturation power.     

Near-infrared optical parametric amplifier at 1 MHz directly pumped by a femtosecond oscillator

We demonstrate a high-average-power optical parametric amplifier directly pumped by a cavity-dumped Yb:KYW mode-locked laser oscillator at 1 MHz repetition rate. The two-stage system uses periodically poled lithium niobate crystals both for optical parametric generation and for power amplification. We obtain average powers as high as 190 mW with 220 fs average pulse widths and wavelength tunability in the 1.3-1.6 microm (signal) and 3.1-4.6 microm (idler) range.     

High-conversion-efficiency and tunable phase-stabilized infrared parametric laser source

High-conversion-efficiency and tunable self-phase-stabilized infrared laser pulses have been generated from a two-stage optical parametric amplifier. With a 1 kHz repetition rate 800 nm pump source, the output idler pulses are tunable from 1.2 to 2.4 μm, and the maximum output average power of the idler pulses is >2 W with the total 7.4 W pump power, and the maximum parametric conversion efficiency in the final optical parametric amplifier is near 60%. Due to the differential frequency process, the output idler pulses is self-phase-stabilized, the phase fluctuation can reach 0.374 rad (rms).     

Character analysis of slow light with communication waveband in fiber optical parametric amplifier

The comprehensive characters of delay time and delay bandwidth with distortion, signal wavelength dependence and delay bandwidth product in fiber optical parametric amplifier are investigated theoretically when the pump locates at anomalous dispersion region. The delay character of single pulse, data stream with certain bit pattern and pseudo random data stream are analyzed comprehensively. In this category of fiber optical parametric amplifier, the delay time and delay bandwidth product vary from signal wavelengths and bit rates. For the same nonlinear coefficient, pump power and fiber length, the diverse dependences of bit pattern in different signal wavelengths are found by numerical simulation. The impacts of pump power and fiber length on the delay character and distortion are also discussed. These relations are conductive to the design of slow light based on fiber optical parametric amplifier in telecommunication waveband.     

Strong signal suppression in single-pump optical parametric amplifiers

We show that the combined action of parametric gain and Raman scattering can lead to the complete suppression of an input optical signal in a single-pump parametric amplifier. This suppression is due to an interference between the two parametric gain modes. The interference occurs only at a set of discrete combinations of pump power, phase mismatch, and frequency detuning. Experimentally we are able to demonstrate over 95% (13 dB) suppression of an input signal in an amplifier with a peak parametric gain of only 6 dB.     

4 μJ, 3 ns phase-modulated laser pulse from ytterbium-doped polarization-maintaining large-mode-area fiber amplifier

In the current inertial confinement fusion laser drivers, integrated fiber front-end is widely applied to generate the phase-modulated, linearly polarized laser pulses with an output energy of several nano-joules. In this contribution, we design an amplifier with polarization-maintaining optical components. The amplification of the phase-modulated 3 ns, 0.24 nm pulse is experimentally demonstrated in the ytterbium-doped large-mode-area (11 ??m-diameter) fiber amplifier. The pulse energy is amplified to around 4 ??J which is free of pulse distortion and stimulated Brillouin scattering. The modulation degree after optimal compensation of waveplates is less than 6%. The output mode field is diffraction-limited.     

非共线相位匹配LBO晶体飞秒光参变放大器的研究

对非共线相位匹配LBO晶体飞秒光参变放大器进行了系统地分析和理论研究，用数值方法得出了非共线角、相位匹配角、增益和增益带宽之间的关系，给出了放大器设计的各种最优化参量。研究结果表明，这种参变放大器不仅可以实现较高的参变增益和获得极宽的增益带宽，还具有较大的参变允许角、较小的走离角和小的群速色散。因此这种参变放大器对于以纳秒级高功率激光作为抽运光，利用光参变啁啾脉冲放大（OPCPA）技术高效率参变放大飞秒脉冲产生10^12W甚至10^15W级的超强超短激光脉冲具有重要的意义。建立的理论模型具有普遍意义，也为其他类似的参变过程提供了重要的理论依据。