2μm波段双波长间隔可调谐光纤激光器

提出并实验研究了一种2μm波段全光纤间隔可调双波长光纤激光器.该激光器采用传统的环形腔设计,以最大输出功率33dBm的1 565nm光纤激光器为泵浦源,4m单模掺铥光纤为增益介质,腔内为嵌入多模干涉滤波器的Sagnac环的复合滤波结构.该复合滤波器可实现间隔可调谐,高边模抑制比的双波长激光信号输出.通过泵浦功率的控制和对复合滤波器中偏振控制器的调节,实现双波长3nm到80nm间隔可调的激光输出,边模抑制比为60dB,线宽为0.2nm,功率稳定度为±1.5dB/h,双峰能量差小于4dB.     

基于多模光纤滤波器的可调谐掺铒光纤激光器

研究了一种新型、全光纤、宽带可调谐环形腔掺铒光纤激光器。该激光器利用由单模-多模-单模光纤组成的滤波器实现波长可调谐及激光器的全光纤结构。该滤波器将多模光纤缠绕在偏振控制器上,两端分别与一段单模光纤相连,通过调整偏振控制器的状态,实现了中心波长1542～1560nm的不同激光输出。单波长连续可调谐激光器的波长可调范围为18nm,边模抑制比大于40dB,3dB线宽为0.096nm;进一步调整偏振控制器的状态和抽运功率,实验同时得到了连续可调谐的双波长、三波长等多波长激光输出。对于可调谐的多波长激光器,通过调整偏振控制器的状态,可实现波长间隔及输出中心波长两者可调。     

间隔0.173nm的可调谐多波长布里渊掺铒光纤激光器

使用四端口环行器和可调谐滤波器,设计了一种间隔为双倍布里渊频移的多波长布里渊掺铒光纤激光器.该光纤激光器中使用的四端口环形器可以限制奇次阶斯托克斯光在腔内循环并耦合输出初始泵浦光和偶次阶斯托克斯光,而可调滤波器抑制环形腔所形成的自激振荡模,增加了激发多波长激光的功率,从而增加多波长输出个数及其调谐范围.在布里渊泵浦功率为8dBm、980nm泵浦功率为279mW时,实验获得波长间隔为0.173nm的6个波长的激光输出,输出激光的可调谐范围为28nm.     

基于多模干涉滤波器和双折射滤波器的四波长可开关光纤激光器

设计了一种基于多模干涉滤波器和双折射滤波器的四波长可开关光纤激光器,理论分析了多模干涉滤波器和双折射滤波器及其级联结构的滤波特性.双折射滤波器能有效地抑制多模干涉滤波器的不规则边模.保偏掺铒光纤同时作为增益介质和滤波元件,优化多模光纤长度和保偏掺铒光纤长度保证了波长间隔的最佳匹配,级联滤波器的滤波周期为4.89 nm.调节偏振控制器,光纤激光器实现了单波长、双波长、三波长以及四波长可开关激光输出,输出激光的边模抑制比均大于40 dB,1h内波长波动均小于0.1 nm.     

基于多模干涉滤波器和双折射滤波器的四波长可开关光纤激光器（英文）

设计了一种基于多模干涉滤波器和双折射滤波器的四波长可开关光纤激光器,理论分析了多模干涉滤波器和双折射滤波器及其级联结构的滤波特性.双折射滤波器能有效地抑制多模干涉滤波器的不规则边模.保偏掺铒光纤同时作为增益介质和滤波元件,优化多模光纤长度和保偏掺铒光纤长度保证了波长间隔的最佳匹配,级联滤波器的滤波周期为4.89nm.调节偏振控制器,光纤激光器实现了单波长、双波长、三波长以及四波长可开关激光输出,输出激光的边模抑制比均大于40dB,1h内波长波动均小于0.1nm.     

可编程带宽波长独立可调光纤光栅滤波器

研究了一种基于线性啁啾光纤布拉格光栅(LCFBG)和热光相移技术的可编程带宽波长独立可调光纤光栅滤波器,透射峰数目、带宽、中心波长及波长间隔独立可调。由于热光效应,对LCFBG局部区域进行加热便可在加热处引入相移,使LCFBG透射禁带上产生透射峰。采用可编程的热打印头作为数字化加热单元,精确加热光纤光栅的特定位置,通过控制加热区域的数目和加热区域的间隔来分别确定透射波长的数目和透射波长的间隔;通过改变LCFBG被加热区域的宽度,实现可变带宽滤波。此可编程带宽波长独立可调光纤光栅滤波器的透射峰带宽调谐范围为0.07～1.55nm,透射峰中心波长调谐范围为1547.44～1558.64nm,两透射峰间距最小为0.95nm。     

基于级联直径蚀刻光纤声光光栅的双波长可调谐滤波器（英文）

提出级联直径蚀刻光纤法实现双波长滤波器的动态调节.采用耦合模理论和分段传输矩阵法进行理论推导和仿真,研究级联声光光栅可调双波长的直径蚀刻光纤滤波器,分析光纤蚀刻对声光光栅传输谱中旁瓣效应的抑制效果.结果表明光纤蚀刻法可以有效抑制旁瓣效应,旁瓣比从0.265下降到0.031;通过调节级联光栅的间隔保证双波长滤波器的两个对称谐振损耗峰的稳定性,间隔增加时左谐振波长峰值减小,右谐振波长峰值增大;双谐振峰的谐振波长由声频信号的频率和光纤级数调节,波长随周期变大而增大,在270μm到282μm内接近线性,当光纤段数增加时波长漂移量变大.     

可用于产生微波信号的间隔可调双波长光纤激光器

为了获得不同间隔双波长信号输出,提出一种基于受激布里渊效应产生双波长激光的实验装置,利用不同间隔双波长输出信号进行拍频实验可获得可调的微波信号输出;利用一段10 km长普通单模光纤（SMF）作为布里渊增益介质,一个线宽为5 kHz分布反馈激光器（DFB）作为布里渊抽运源,一段未泵浦的保偏掺铒光纤用作饱和吸收体抑制边模,通过改变未泵浦保偏掺铒光纤的长度,可获得不同间隔输出的双波长光纤激光器,实验获得波长间隔为0.170 nm和0.085 nm的激光信号输出,分别对应20 GHz和10 GHz的微波信号。     

环形腔被动锁模掺饵光纤激光器

通过在非线性偏振旋转环形腔内引入一种可旋转的在线起偏器,在保证装置的全光纤化结构的前提下,简化了被动锁模光纤激光器的结构.通过联合调节可旋转的在线起偏器、1/2波片和1/4波片的角度实现了掺饵光纤锁模脉冲20 nm间隔的双波长调谐输出,调谐过程中观察到了锁模脉冲双波长状态.另外,从装置中去掉1/2波片后,仅调谐可旋转的在线起偏器和1/4波片也能够实现锁模脉冲的单波长稳定输出.     

环形腔被动锁模掺饵光纤激光器

通过在非线性偏振旋转环形腔内引入一种可旋转的在线起偏器,在保证装置的全光纤化结构的前提下,简化了被动锁模光纤激光器的结构.通过联合调节可旋转的在线起偏器、1/2波片和1/4波片的角度实现了掺饵光纤锁模脉冲20nm间隔的双波长调谐输出,调谐过程中观察到了锁模脉冲双波长状态.另外,从装置中去掉1/2波片后,仅调谐可旋转的在线起偏器和1/4波片也能够实现锁模脉冲的单波长稳定输出.     

Novel discretely tunable narrow linewidth fiber laser with uniform wavelength spacing

A novel configuration of the tunable fiber laser with uniform wavelength spacing in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) application is proposed. The ring type tunable fiber laser consists of an all-fiber comb filter which determines the wavelength spacing, and a piece of adjustable fiber grating to select the discrete lasing wavelength for WDM application. The proposed all-fiber ring type tunable laser has potential application in the DWDM and other optical systems due to its advantages such as narrow linewidth, easy tuning, uniform wavelength interval, etc..     

Multi-wavelength fiber source with equal frequency spacing

A optical filter based on Sagnac interferometer was proposed to be acted as a comb filter with equal frequency spacing and good signal to noise ratio (SNR), which was composed of an 8.14 m stress-induced Hi-Bi (high-birefringence) PM (polarization-maintaining) fiber. Using this multi-wavelength Sagnac comb filter and a gain flattening Sagnac filter that made the output spectra flattening at different pump powers, a 25-channel multi-wavelength all-fiber source were successfully generated with channel spacing of 0.8 nm with respect to the center wavelength at 1550 nm and flattened gain about ±1 dB peak deviation. The channel spacing can be further reduced to 0.4 nm to produce a DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) source, simply by increasing the Hi-Bi fiber to be 16.28 m. It can be used in many applications such as WDM (wavelength division multiplexing), optical amplifiers with a high SNR, narrow band filters and optical sensors.     

A reconfigurable multiwavelength fiber laser with switchable wavelength channels and tunable wavelength spacing

We report the experimental demonstration of a reconfigurable multiwavelength fiber laser source with switchable wavelength channels and tunable wavelength spacing by spectrum slicing a broadband light source using a tunable comb filter. The tunable comb filter is based on a thermally-induced linearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating (LCFBG). As an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, two wavelength channels with various wavelength spacings and eight wavelength channels with ∼1.6 nm wavelength spacing were experimentally demonstrated. All the wavelength channels have rejection ratios of greater than 20 dB, and very small 3-dB linewidths of ∼10 pm. The multiwavelength optical source has such unique advantages as simple all-fiber structure, switchable wavelength channels, tunable wavelength spacing, very narrow linewidths, and stable room-temperature operation.     

波长可选择高双折射光纤干涉滤波器

为了实现具有全光纤结构和波长可选择滤波器,设计并从理论上计算和分析了一种基于双折射光纤的干涉滤波器.该滤波器具有很好的选频特性,不同的偏振角自由组合使得该滤波器具有更灵活的调节性.该滤波器提高了双折射光纤的使用效率,用12 m高双折射光纤可以产生等同于在Sagnac环形腔中用16 m同样光纤时的滤波效果.这种高效波长可选择滤波器还具有较好的光频隔离效果,并很容易用光纤或光波导制作出来.     

Tunable and switchable all-fiber comb filter using a PBS-based two-stage cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer

We propose and demonstrate a novel tunable and switchable all-fiber comb filter by employing a polarization beam splitter (PBS)-based two-stage cascaded Mach-Zehnder (M-Z) interferometer. The proposed comb filter consists of a rotatable polarizer, a fiber PBS, a non-3-dB coupler and a 3-dB coupler. By simply adjusting the polarization state of the input light, the dual-function of channel spacing tunable and wavelength switchable (interleaving) operations can be efficiently obtained. The theoretical analysis is verified by the experimental results. A comb filter with both the channel spacing tunable from 0.18 nm to 0.36 nm and the wavelength switchable functions is experimentally demonstrated.     

Transmission characteristics of Mach–Zehnder interferometer comb filter based on thermal operation

We propose and experimentally demonstrate switchable and tunable transmission characteristics of a Mach–Zehnder interferometer comb filter based on thermal operation. Its temperature characteristics are investigated to reveal a shift in the peak wavelength position from 0.003 to 0.004 nm/°C and a tunable range of wavelength spacing of 0.76–0.90 nm for maximum and minimum effective lengths, respectively. This configuration provides the unique advantages of an all-fiber structure, tunable wavelength spacing, switchable spectral peaks, independent tuning of the center wavelength and wavelength spacing of the spectral peaks, and low polarization sensitivity. It is relatively simple to fabricate and expected to have applications in temperature fiber optic sensors and multiwavelength fiber laser sources.     

Programmable all-fiber structured waveshaper based on linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating and digital thermal controller

We proposed and experimentally demonstrated an all-fiber structured programmable optical bandpass filter (waveshaper) based on a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating and a digital-controlled thermal array. The key parameters of this filter such as the number of transmission channels, passing bandwidth per channel, central wavelength as well as the channel spacing can be reconfigured independently and flexibly by a program-controlled circuit. We have achieved in experiments the tunable passing bandwidth ranging from < 0.04 to 1.55 nm, adjustable central wavelength ranging from 1,547.16 to 1,558.64 nm, and a minimum wavelength spacing of 0.91 nm. The insertion loss of the whole device and the sideband rejection ratio are about 1.76 and 28 dB, respectively.     

Switchable triple-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser using a single fiber Bragg grating in polarization-maintaining fiber

A stable and narrow wavelength spacing multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser is proposed and demonstrated. The laser can produce simultaneous dual- and triple-wavelength lasing oscillations with a narrow wavelength spacing of less than 0.1 nm via using a single fiber Bragg gratings written in polarization-maintaining (PM) fiber. By adjusting polarization controller, the wavelength spacing of dual-wavelength lasing oscillations can be tuned to as small as 0.032 nm. The maximum amplitude variation for every lasing wavelength is less than 0.5 dB. The room-temperature operation principle is based on the polarization hole burning and deeply saturated effect in an ordinary erbium-doped fiber ring laser (EDFRL). The laser has the advantages of simple all-fiber configuration, low cost, high stability and operating at room temperature.     

Thermally switchable and discretely tunable comb filter with a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel switchable and discretely tunable comb filter based on a thermally induced linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating. Experimentally we achieved a thermally induced optical bandpass filter that has eight switchable passband peaks with peak separations of 1.6 and 3.2 nm, a very narrow bandwidth (as small as 10 pm) of each peak, a tunable range of 16.5 nm, and a greater than 25 dB rejection ratio. Two spectral peaks separated by only 0.8 nm were also obtained with this comb filter. This filter provides the unique advantages of an all-fiber structure, switchable spectral peaks, independent tuning of the center wavelength and wavelength spacing of the spectral peaks, low polarization sensitivity, simple structure, ease of fabrication, and low cost.     

All-fiber birefringent filter with fine tunability and changeable spacing

A novel all-fiber birefringent filter has been proposed and demonstrated. Simulation results show that the birefringence fiber filter with one section of polarization-maintenance fiber (PMF) can be finely tuned with its free spectrum range, and the filter with two sections of PMFs can generate changeable wave-length spacing. Experiment agrees well with simulation. This filter has potential applications for flexible multiwavelength fiber laser.