正色散激光器中的增益导引孤子

采用非线性薛定谔方程模拟了全正色散介质激光器中实现脉冲锁模输出的动态过程,理论表明,不同于工作于净色散为负的孤子锁模激光器以及腔内具有色散延迟线净色散为正的色散管理孤子和自相似脉冲锁模激光器,在纯正色散介质构成的锁模激光器中,增益饱和和增益窄化对形成稳定的锁模脉冲起重要的作用,在两者的作用下脉冲形成增益导引孤子.采用不同的锁模方式在纯正色散光纤锁模激光器中得到了稳定的增益导引孤子锁模,实验结果与理论模拟一致. 关键词： 锁模 正色散 增益导引孤子     

高能量掺Yb偏振型大模场面积光子晶体光纤孤子锁模飞秒激光器

实验研究了基于掺Yb偏振型大模场面积光子晶体光纤的孤子锁模激光器,获得了高脉冲能量的飞秒激光输出. 激光器基于线形腔结构,利用光栅对补偿腔内色散,并通过半导体可饱和吸收镜实现锁模的自启动. 实验中从振荡级直接获得了平均功率为700mW, 重复频率为47.3MHz(对应于14.8 nJ的单脉冲能量),脉冲宽度为518 fs的稳定锁模脉冲输出. 与普通孤子锁模飞秒光纤激光器相比,输出的单脉冲能量提高了两个数量级. 关键词： 光子晶体光纤 飞秒 光纤激光器 孤子锁模     

大模场面积光子晶体光纤耗散孤子锁模激光器

研制了一种基于掺Yb3+的双包层大模场面积偏振光子晶体光纤的耗散孤子锁模激光器.利用数值模拟分析了光纤激光器中耗散孤子动力学过程,与全正色散锁模激光器相比,脉冲窄化机理更加丰富,半导体可饱和吸收镜(SESAM)的非线性吸收,啁啾脉冲的光谱滤波以及光纤的增益色散同时起作用,这些因素使耗散孤子锁模更加容易实现,并且稳定运行.其中,光谱滤波的耗散过程是稳定锁模机制的主导因素,滤波片能够在频域和时域同时窄化脉冲,并且去除脉冲啁啾,限制脉冲在腔内始终小于1ps.在实验上实现了无色散补偿腔中直接输出脉冲宽度777fs,最高平均功率达到1W,重复频率48·27MHz,对应单脉冲能量20nJ的飞秒激光.     

耗散孤子分裂过程的实时测量研究

色散傅里叶变换技术为研究被动锁模光纤激光器中孤子各种瞬时、复杂、非重复的非线性过程提供了一种强有力的实时测量手段。利用色散傅里叶变换技术研究了基于非线性偏振旋转技术的被动锁模光纤激光器中耗散孤子分裂的整个实时动态过程。研究发现,当泵浦功率为280 mW时耗散孤子发生分裂,耗散孤子分裂前首先由噪声背景脉冲产生单孤子脉冲。与泵浦功率为180 mW时的单孤子锁模状态不同的是,分裂前的单孤子的光谱上有新的光谱成分产生。这个新的频率成分会随着孤子脉冲在谐振腔中循环的圈数不断放大和展宽,并最终演化为一个新的耗散孤子脉冲。本研究对明确被动锁模光纤激光器中耗散孤子的产生和分裂机理有着重要的意义。     

被动锁模光纤激光器多孤子脉冲形成机理

基于非线性耦合薛定谔方程,在非线性偏振技术锁模的掺铒环形光纤激光器中,理论研究多孤子脉冲的形成和演化规律。研究结果表明:随着小信号增益不断增加,光纤激光器的锁模透过率函数影响多脉冲输出,多脉冲产生受色散波和脉冲分裂形成的峰值功率的限制效应和孤子能量量子化的影响,这是增益竞争和非线性偏振旋转引起的损耗之间动态平衡的最终结果。     

抑制相位噪声实现主动锁模光纤激光器稳定工作

腔长漂移是引起主动锁模光纤激光器不稳定的一个主要原因。通过理论分析得出了主动锁模光纤激光器输出脉冲相位噪声和腔长漂移的关系，并采用抑制相位噪声的方法实现了主动锁模光纤激光器长达８小时的稳定工作。     

基于非线性放大环形镜的波长可调谐耗散孤子锁模光纤激光器

报道了一种基于非线性放大环形镜的"8"字形腔波长可调谐锁模掺镱光纤激光器。当泵浦功率为240 mW时,光纤激光器输出中心波长在1 064.1 nm处的耗散孤子,其光谱3 dB带宽为7.7 nm,重复频率为18.8 MHz,输出光信噪比高达71.2 dB,脉冲宽度为867 fs。分别通过调节偏振控制器和泵浦功率实现了锁模光纤激光器在1 032.8～1 065.1 nm以及1 037.4～1 041.9 nm内调谐输出。探究了不同锁模状态下的光谱与脉冲特性,获得了时间带宽积接近傅里叶变换极限的高斯型脉冲。该光纤激光器结构简单,易于调谐,稳定性好,可为实现波长调谐、耗散孤子锁模提供技术参考。     

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     

全正色散耗散孤子掺镱光纤激光器

研究了一种基于非线性偏振旋转被动锁模没有进行色散管理的全正色散掺镱光纤激光器,在无外加滤波器的情况下实验产生了锁模耗散孤子脉冲.耗散孤子的形成是激光器中正光纤色散、非线性效应、腔传输、增益饱和和滤波效应综合作用的结果.实验产生的锁模耗散孤子脉冲能量达1.1nJ.此外,对激光器的数值模拟结果与实验结果相一致,证实了全正色...     

可切换多波长全光纤被动锁模光纤激光器

通过在基于碳纳米管的掺铒锁模光纤激光器中加入啁啾光纤光栅,实现了皮秒和飞秒孤子的可切换多波长锁模脉冲输出。通过调节偏振控制器,分别在1530.8,1549.5,1556.5 nm三个波长处实现了多波长可切换锁模脉冲输出,其中锁模脉冲的宽度分别为833 fs, 7.43 ps和899 fs。以上三个波长的形成是由掺铒光纤的增益谱和啁啾光纤光栅的滤波效应共同决定的。本研究为实现多波长、不同规格脉冲宽度锁模激光器的设计提供了参考。     

Single mode operation of elliptical gain guided and index antiguided fibers

Elliptical gain guiding fibers in which gain guiding effects are dominant compared to conventional index guiding fiber is analyzed by solving Mathieu equations with complex-valued fiber parameters. The properties of mode propagation and single mode operation are evaluated in this elliptical gain guiding fiber with the assumption of a uniform gain distribution in the active core medium. Threshold for lossless mode propagation increases exponentially with the eccentricity of the elliptical cross section. Further, the difference in threshold between the lowest two order modes is constant for arbitrary eccentricity.     

Effects of geometrical parameters on optical characteristics of erbium doped photonic crystal fiber based on FVEIM

In this paper, using the fully vectorial effective index method (FVEIM), dependence of the refractive index of fundamental mode, mode field diameter and normalized frequency of the photonic crystal fiber on geometrical parameters of fiber are investigated. Simulations show that the normalized frequency of the photonic crystal fiber increases gently with increase of the air filling factor. Range of parameters in which erbium doped photonic crystal fiber is single mode at both the pump wavelength and the signal is determined. Wavelength dependence of the normalized frequency implies that single mode region of the signal in the case of using dopants such as ytterbium or erbium is significantly (about 1.6 times) more than the pump. In addition, it is shown that by changing dopant material to obtain a higher gain for an optimum set of geometrical parameters, no considerable change in the area of single mode occurs.     

基于少模光纤的SBS光谱阈值特性分析

受激布里渊散射会影响少模光纤传输系统中的信噪比、传输距离与传输容量,是影响传输系统入纤功率提高的重要因素。对阶跃型少模光纤的受激布里渊散射谱的阈值进行了研究,运用了布里渊散射谱、模式联运谱的数学模型对少模光纤散射特性进行了分析,探讨了少模光纤布里渊散射增益谱、阈值增益系数,以及光纤各参量对少模光纤阈值的影响。分析结果表明：SI-10阶跃型少模光纤中存在五种不同的传播模式,不同模式有各自的传输常数以及有效折射率,各模式相互作用导致模式展宽、增益降低,且布里渊散射谱峰值增益系数为3.9×10-11 m·W-1。阈值增益系数受到光纤传感距离的影响,在相对较短距离传输中阈值急速下降,且其趋势随长度增加渐趋平缓,当光纤长度达到22 km时阈值增益系数趋于常数18.1。少模光纤的阈值因光纤长度的递增而递减,且递减趋势渐缓趋于常数20.5 dBm;少模光纤不同模式受激布里渊散射的阈值也因光纤长度的递增而递减最终趋于常数,且不同模式的阈值因模式阶数的递增而递增;少模光纤的阈值随着光纤衰减系数和纤芯半径的递增而递增,且增加趋势缓慢增大。不同衰减系数的光纤其阈值在不同长度趋于常数,衰减系数越大受激布里渊散射阈值越大越容易趋于一常数。     

Design of sidetap fiber Bragg grating filters

A comprehensive theoretical treatment is presented for bound-mode to radiation mode coupling loss (transmission loss) and for bound-mode to bound-mode Bragg reflection (back reflection) in a sidetap fiber phase grating. The spectra of the reflection and transmission loss in a tilt angle range useful for fiber sidetap filter design is presented for the first time. Important dependencies between the designed wavelength of operation and parameters of the fiber grating, which give a clear understanding of the process of the fiber mode to radiation mode coupling and back reflection is also discussed. A practical procedure for the design of sidetap gain flattening filter is also presented.     

Study of the amplification characteristics of a coaxial EDF with varying coupling conditions

A coaxial erbium doped fiber (EDF) designed to show inherent gain flattening for one of its propagating modes in general supports two or more modes with different gains. In this paper, we show that when such an amplifying coaxial EDF is spliced to a single mode transmission fiber carrying the signal, in general, more than one mode is excited each with its excitation coefficient strongly dependent on wavelength. Due to the interference between these modes, the amplified output coupled to an output single core transmission fiber can be a very sensitive function of the coaxial EDF length, especially around the phase matching wavelength (PMW), and does not show inherent gain flattening. However, due to interference between the two modes, the coaxial fiber acts as a band reject filter at the phase matching wavelength with attenuation and bandwidth depending on fiber parameters. This property can be employed for inherent gain flattening when both modes are excited.     

The Quantum Theory of Optical Pulses Amplification

The propagation of optical signals in optical fiber amplifier is treated with fully quantum mechanics method in this paper. The micro-Hamiltonian of the system with nonlinear effect is derived by combining spatial mode and temporal mode, and propagation equation of optical pulses in a optical fiber amplifier is derived with dispersion relation. The characteristic parameters such as gain, output power and noise figure of the amplifier are analyzed and their quantum mechanics formulas are obtained.     

Parametric amplification of light waves at low-frequency pumping in aperiodic nonlinear photonic crystals

A theory of monochromatic light propagation in a fiber amplifier is developed. It is shown that competition between coherent gain-guided modes is qualitatively different from interaction between incoherent beams. Spatial beating between modes limits the gain of the mode with lower input power even if the corresponding modal gain coefficient is higher. Depending on the input beam parameters, the amplifier output can be dominated by either a single guided mode or their combination. The theory is illustrated by analyzing the gain behavior of a single planar waveguide and arrays of two and three narrow planar waveguides.     

国产纺锤形渐变掺镱光纤实现6 kW宽谱激光输出

高功率高光束质量光纤激光器在工业加工等领域有着广泛的应用,然而光纤中的非线性效应和模式不稳定效应限制着高光束质量光纤激光器的功率提升,采用新型结构大模场增益光纤在同时抑制非线性效应和模式不稳定效应方面具有较大潜力。报道了基于单位自研的纺锤形渐变掺镱光纤激光成功实现6 kW功率、高光束质量激光输出。激光器采用主振荡功率放大结构,放大级采用双向981 nm泵浦纺锤形渐变掺镱光纤,在总泵浦功率为7.68 kW时,输出功率达到6.02 kW,光束质量M2因子约为1.9。通过进一步优化纺锤形掺镱光纤制作工艺及结构参数,有望实现更高功率、近单模光束质量的光纤激光输出。     

高功率脉冲在大模场掺Yb3+光纤中的自相似传输放大特性

分析了高功率脉冲在增益光纤中传输放大时非线性薛定谔方程的自相似解,得出注入光的脉宽和能量满足一定关系时,优化增益光纤的长度,才能满足种子光脉冲在增益光纤中的自相似传输放大.揭示了高功率种子光脉冲在光纤中自相似演化的特征参量.此外,模拟了注入能量为400 pJ,脉宽为200 fs,波形分别为正割、高斯以及3阶超高斯的种子光脉冲在纤芯为30μm的大模场增益光纤中的传输放大特性.结果表明3种波形的种子光脉冲的时间波形与光谱均演化为抛物形,时间波形与光谱均发生展宽,但光谱两侧均发生抖动.自相似传输放大后,脉冲为线性啁啾,易于压缩,对实现全光纤高功率超短脉冲产生系统具有重要意义.     

Simulation of the ultimate characteristics of thulium-doped fiber amplifiers

A completely spatially and spectrally resolved model of a thulium-doped fiber amplifier that, unlike existing models, takes into account the radiation mode structure is proposed. A genetic algorithm is used to optimize the pump scheme parameters in order to achieve the maximum gain or the minimum non-uniformity of the gain spectrum. The ultimate information characteristics of the amplifier are determined.