Single-modeness of short large mode area fibers: An experimental study

We experimentally investigated the limits to the endlessly single-modeness of large mode area photonic crystal fibers. We analyzed two versions of a commercial large mode area fiber with equal structural parameters but five or seven confining rings, and in both cases we found that the single mode regime becomes critical for short (<1 m) lengths. In these cases we report on the excitation of a second-order mode, whose microphotographed structure is very well reproduced by the results of numerical simulations. The multimodal behavior is further confirmed by polarization measurements. Also we found that the single-modeness is maintained in longer (>1 m) fibers. The same results were observed in large mode area fibers with different core sizes.     

Gain ripple minimization in fiber Raman amplifiers based on variational method

In this paper, the variational method is employed for minimizing the gain ripple of multi-wavelength fiber Raman amplifiers. The variance of gain spectrum of the fiber Raman amplifier is regarded as the cost function, restriction on total pump power and average gain is given as the constraints of the minimization problem. It is shown that the minimization problem with any necessary constraints on the pump powers, average gain and signal to noise ratio, is reduced to a two-point boundary value problem. The method gives the entire possible local and global solutions. The method is applied to different examples of fiber Raman amplifiers with different lengths from 25 km to 100 km and different numbers of pumps from 4 to 20 to determine the pump powers and wavelengths for minimum gain ripple. It was obtained for a 100 km fiber Raman amplifier the gain ripple can be about 0.1 dB with on-off gain more than 20 dB.     

光源谱宽对法布里-珀罗干涉式光纤传感器工作灵敏度的影响

对干涉式光纤传感器来说,光源的谱宽直接影响着传感器的工作特性。从法布里—珀罗干涉式光纤传感器出发,推导其灵敏度的理论表达式,并用MathCAD软件进行了数学分析。讨论了光源谱宽对传感器灵敏度的影响。介绍了具有温度反馈功能的法布里—珀罗光纤干涉实验系统,给出了用该实验系统拍摄的谐振曲线照片。从该系统进行的两个重要的实验(不同干涉腔长的灵敏度对比实验和不同干涉长度的光源实验)表明,法布里—珀罗干涉式光纤传感器的灵敏度与光源谱宽的理论表达式是正确的,理沦公式与实验结论能很好地吻合。最后指出了该方法可以用于分析其他类型的干涉式光纤传感器的灵敏度问题,为光源的选择提供了参考。     

New approach to the measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of short (<25 m) lengths of silica and erbium-doped fibers

The nonlinear refractive index n2 of silica fiber (24 m) and erbium-doped fiber (10 m) is measured to within an accuracy of 5% by use of time-delayed photorefractive beam coupling of intense 53-ps, 1.064-microm pulses that experience self-phase modulation in the fibers. The resultant induced grating autocorrelation response yields a value of n2/A(eff) and a calibration standard for the fiber. A phase shift of the order of 0.19pi can be detected and is limited only by laser amplitude fluctuations. A unique advantage of this technique is its ability to measure n2 accurately in short lengths (z < or = 25 m) of fiber, whereas other approaches typically use much longer lengths of fiber (z > or = 100 m).     

Fabry-Perot interference-based fiber-optic sensor for small displacement measurement

A simple fiber-optic sensor based on Fabry-Perot interference for small displacement measurement is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. A broadband light source is coupled into a Fabry-Perot cavity formed by the surfaces of a sensing fiber end and the measured object. The interference signals from the cavity are reflected back into the same fiber. A small displacement via changes in cavity length can be obtained by measuring the wavenumber spacing of the interference fringes. The experimental data meet with the theoretical values very well. Given the light source bandwidth of 40 nm and the initial distance of 30 μm, the proposed displacement sensing system could achieve high resolution measurement of 16 nm.     

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.     

Simulations on false gain in recombination-pumped soft-X-ray lasers

-1 in the case of plasmas with short active medium lengths. The false gain in the case of fiber targets is found to be of equal magnitude to that for slabs in the case of plasmas with less than 0.1 cm active medium lengths. Calculations for slab targets predict that adopting a tolerance of ±1 cm^-1 for gain will severely restrict the time and the active medium length of the plasma that can be used for error-free observations, while those for fiber targets are found to be considerably relaxed. The effects of false gain in the 54.2 Å Na Balmer α laser is also investigated, again revealing the importance of this phenomena under optimum gain conditions. Received: 10 December 1996/Revised version: 12 March 1997     

塑料光纤微分模延迟的频域相移法研究

塑料光纤的微分模延迟数据对研究塑料光纤的色散特性具有非常重要的意义。采用频域相移法测量了不同长度的两种折射率分布塑料光纤：阶跃型塑料光纤(SI—POF)和渐变型塑料光纤(GI—POF)的微分模延迟曲线。实验结果表明,由于短光纤可以忽略模式耦合和模式损耗,1m塑料光纤的微分模延迟测量值与理论计算值吻合得非常好。因此,频域相移法可以简单、方便、精确地测量塑料光纤的微分模延迟。此外,通过比较不同长度塑料光纤的微分模延迟曲线的变化,可在一定程度上分析光纤中存在的模式耦合。     

Strength considerations of optical waveguide fibers

An important aspect of optical waveguide fiber made of glass is whether it will break under a wide variety of service and manufacturing conditions. This paper covers some of the testing in which stress, length, time, and environment were vaned. The use of Weibull statistics with these data indicates that a statistically predictable behavior exists for populations of glass fibers. Extrapolation from short lengths and short times to very long lengths and very long times must be based on an understanding of the “constants” in the prediction equation. That is, these “constants” can be shown to vary when the three basic parameters cover orders of magnitude in range.     

Attenuation of vehicle noise over short grass

Field experiments to investigate the attenuation of noise from single vehicles over short grass indicate that for a microphone height of 1·2 m and a source/receiver distance <30 m, the rate of attenuation is 4·8 dB(A) per doubling of distance. Some evidence is presented to suggest that for source/receiver distances >30 m the rate of attenuation increases with distance.     

Efficient operation of diode-pumped single-frequency thulium-doped fiber lasers near 2 micro m

Efficient operation of diode-pumped single-frequency fiber lasers at wavelengths from 1740 to 2017 nm has been demonstrated by using a very short piece of newly developed single-mode active fiber, i.e., heavily thulium-doped germanate glass fiber. At 1893 nm, the single-frequency fiber laser has a pump threshold of 30 mW, a slope efficiency of 35%, and maximum output power of 50 mW with respect to the launched power of single-mode pump diodes at 805 nm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest lasing efficiency achieved in single-frequency fiber lasers operating near 2 micro m. Frequency noise of the single-frequency fiber laser at 1893 nm has been characterized and compared with that of single-frequency fiber lasers at 1 and 1.55 micro m.     

渐变折射率传感气室中干涉噪声的数值模拟与分析

在直接红外吸收式光纤气体传感器中，由渐变折射率（Graduated Refractive Index，GRIN）棒透镜构成的微型传感气室有着广泛的应用。分析了GRIN气室中的干涉噪声信号和甲烷信号，并利用MATLAB对干涉噪声信号的幅值与分布反馈式半导体激光器（DFBLD）的频率调制幅度之间的关系以及干涉噪声对气体检测灵敏度的影响进行了数值模拟与分析。当前谐波检测技术是气体检测的一种非常重要的技术，这种技术需要检测气体吸收信号的一次、二次或更高次谐波。而GRIN气室的二次干涉噪声对浓度信号有很大的影响，研究发现当频率调制幅度达到某些特定频率值时，二次干涉噪声信号的幅值变为零，通过调整气室参数和DFBLD的调制频率可以削减干涉噪声的影响从而提高谐波检测技术的检测灵敏度。     

Measurements of roughness noise

Experiments have been performed on the roughness noise produced by a two-dimensional turbulent wall jet boundary layer flowing over short fetches of sandpaper roughness. A range of rough surface sizes were studied from hydrodynamically smooth through fully rough. Velocity measurements were made to document the form of the wall jet boundary layer and the influence of the roughness upon it. Acoustic measurements showed background noise levels to be very low so that the sound produced by the rough surfaces could be clearly detected with signal to noise ratios as large as 20 dB. Even hydrodynamically smooth roughness was found to produce noise, conclusively indicating the presence of scattering as a source mechanism. Variations of the roughness noise spectra with flow speed and roughness size are found to be inconsistent with any simple parameter scaling. Boundary layer wall pressure fluctuation measurements made within the roughness fetches reveal a spectral form quite different than the roughness noise, and fluctuation levels some 50-70 dB higher. Despite these differences the wall pressure and roughness noise are found to be very simply related, at least at lower frequencies (<6 kHz). The roughness noise spectrum varies closely as the product of the wall pressure spectrum, the frequency squared, and the mean-square roughness height. This is the scaling predicted by scattering theory and implies a major simplification to the problem of roughness noise prediction for stochastic surfaces.     

Single-mode excitation of multimode fibers with ultrashort pulses

Single-mode excitation of step-index multimode fibers with light sources with short temporal coherence lengths is demonstrated. Multimode fiber designs with reduced microbending-induced mode coupling are described that allow the propagation of the fundamental mode over long lengths with negligible mode coupling even in the presence of tight fiber bends. At a wavelength of 1.56microm a fiber with a core diameter of 45microm can preserve the fundamental mode for a propagation length of ~20m . Such fibers allow coiling with a coil diameter as small as 7cm.     

Range Technique in Scattering Medium Using a Needle-Fiber Optical Coherence Tomography System

A needle-fiber optical coherence tomography (OCT) system designed for guiding epidural anesthesia to a target is presented. In the preliminary experiment, a desired target in tofu as a strong scattering medium can be monitored over a sufficient range of several millimeters within a short measuring time. The axial resolution is 21 μm. In order to investigate the ranging performance, the relation between background noise levels and focus-scattering properties in a confocal optical system is numerically studied by use of Monte Carlo technique. Numerical results indicate that an appropriate focal length of the lens attached to the fiber should be used to separate the OCT signal from strong noise in strongly scattered medium.     

光纤生物传感器在HER3抗体药物定量检测中的应用

为了实现对生物分子间相互作用过程的实时、灵敏、快速监测,获得生物分子的有无、浓度与相互作用的动力学参数信息,本文设计了基于光纤生物传感器的生物亲和性检测方法。首先,针对光干涉生物亲和性传感检测系统的光学传输系统"Y"型分叉光纤与光纤探针之间的耦合问题,提出了自聚焦透镜与石英光纤耦合结构,该耦合结构偏心公差能够达到0.02 mm,倾斜公差能够达到0.1°;针对干涉光谱信号的高频噪声问题,采用一种改进的经验模态分解干涉光谱信号处理方法,有效避免了干涉光谱曲线滤波处理后极值点位置的偏移;同时采用局部拟合极值点计算生物分子膜层厚度的方法,将生物分子膜层厚度的分辨率提高到50 pm。利用所搭建的光干涉生物亲和性检测系统,建立了HER3-IgG1抗体药物利用金纳米粒子进行信号放大,实现对其浓度进行定量检测的新方法,检测过程中无需清洗,不产生交叉污染。实验结果表明：系统检测限能达到0.082 6 μg/mL,该系统具有检测时间短,测量准确、精度高、成本低廉等特点,能够应用于药代动力学研究中。     

Modal phase-matching second harmonic generation in Bragg fiber

Modal phase-matching second harmonic generation in uniformly poled Bragg fiber is theoretically proposed. The very low group velocity of the modes in Bragg fiber near the in-band cutoff frequencies leads to high nonlinear conversion efficiency comparable to that of the periodically poled conversional fiber. The subsequence phase-matched bandwidth reduction by slow light can be retrieved in a certain degree through structure parameters optimization.     

High frequency fiber laser emission generated by pump spiking

A stable and short pulse train of ∼100 MHz repetition frequency was obtained from an erbium doped fiber laser excited by a “continuous” semiconductor laser and by using a linear cavity defined by a Bragg grating pair. The operation frequency of the fiber laser was greater (∼5-15 times) than the cavity round-trip frequency. Emission properties obtained from the erbium doped fiber laser were correlated with those taken from the pump laser, which presented a particular optical noise (very short pulses) added to the continuous emission. From the temporal and radio-frequency analysis of both systems, we conclude that the pump emission characteristics are the responsible of the fiber laser pulsed behaviour.     

Adaptive upstream optical power adjustment depending on required power budget in PON access

According to the present passive optical network (PON) standard, the fiber transmission lengths are from 500 m to 20 km between the optical line terminal (OLT) and different optical network units (ONUs). It will result in difference power losses (ΔP_loss) from 4 to 5 dB. Hence, we propose to adjust adaptively the output optical power of the upstream laser diode (LD) depending on the different fiber lengths. With the different fiber transmission lengths, we can properly adjust the bias current and modulation index of upstream LD for energy-saving. We characterize and analyze experimentally the relationship of output optical power and modulation amplitude Vamp under different fiber transmissions in PON access. Moreover, due to the adaptive power control of upstream signal, the optical upstream equalization also can be retrieved with power variation of 1.1 dB in this experiment.     

基于外差法的光纤激光器相干合成

采用波长1064 nm,功率为1 W的种子激光实现了两路光纤激光的相干合成,采用了两只保偏光纤准直器接收两路光干涉信号,与利用透镜直接把干涉信号会聚在探测器上相比,这种耦合方式得到的光干涉信号的条纹对比度更高。对相位噪声以及相位噪声的带宽进行了研究,结果表明,相位噪声由电信号串扰以及环境扰动产生。通过人为拨动光纤来增加相位噪声带宽,当相位噪声带宽增加时,相位控制精度下降。提出了提高相位控制精度的方法,实验获得了桶中功率为21.3%、斯特列尔比为79%、相位控制精度为0.008的相干合成效果。