双零色散光子晶体光纤中可见及红外宽带高效色散波

利用Ti宝石激光器生成的飞秒激光脉冲入射高非线性双零色散光子晶体光纤,进行非线性光谱实验.抽运脉冲的中心波长为800nm,位于接近零色散点的反常色散区,在正常色散区观测到双零色散光子晶体光纤产生的超宽带连续光谱输出,相对于单零色散光子晶体光纤,转换效率更高、谱带稳定而平滑,不仅获得了高效宽带蓝移色散波,还获得了长波段正常色散区的宽带红移色散波.实验结果与理论分析的相位匹配条件一致,阐明了色散波产生的物理机理.随泵浦功率的增大,长波段红移色散波发生明显红移,可见波段蓝移色散波强度显著增长,当泵浦功率为0.68 W时,泵浦光几乎全部转化,蓝移色散波与残余泵浦的输出功率之比大于257∶1,光谱转换效率极高,达到99.6%以上.蓝移色散波的宽带达到了309nm,近红外波段的红移色散波与孤子波相连,形成超连续谱,带宽可达628nm.实验结果对超短脉冲激光频率转换和宽带光源的研究具有参考价值.     

光子晶体光纤超连续谱产生过程中色散波的孤子俘获研究

基于光子晶体光纤中脉冲演化遵循的非线性薛定谔方程, 用数值模拟的方法分别研究了飞秒脉冲在单零色散点和双零色散点光子晶体光纤中超连续谱的产生和色散波的孤子俘获现象. 结果表明: 与单零色散点光子晶体光纤相比, 双零色散点光子晶体光纤产生的超连续谱既包含了蓝移色散波, 又包含了红移色散波, 且当满足群速度匹配时, 孤子通过四波混频不仅能俘获蓝移色散波, 而且能俘获红移色散波, 从而产生新的俘获波频谱成分. 为了清楚地观察脉冲传输的时频特性, 通过模拟交叉相关频率分辨光学开关技术, 得到了孤子俘获色散波的演化过程. 关键词： 超连续谱 色散波 孤子俘获 光子晶体光纤     

光子晶体光纤四波混频光谱中相位匹配特性的研究

与传统光纤不同,光子晶体光纤可以具有多个零色散波长,在四波混频光谱中,具有更丰富的相位匹配特性。目前很多文献报道了光子晶体光纤非线性光学特性的实验结果,但对其产生机理及光谱的变化规律缺乏详细的理论分析。为此对光纤中四波混频原理进行了分析,给出了高增益的相位匹配条件。利用多极法计算了光子晶体光纤的非线性系数及色散特性。对具有多个零色散波长光子晶体光纤的相位失配特性进行了分析,得到了相位匹配波长随泵浦波长及泵浦功率的变化规律。给出了相位匹配曲线,分析了不同色散曲线的相位匹配波长特点,两个零色散波长光子晶体光纤,在四波混频光谱中将激发出四个新的波长。实验得到了两个零色散波长光子晶体光纤的四波混频光谱,与理论分析一致,验证了相位匹配理论的可靠性。多个零色散波长光纤,能产生丰富的相位匹配曲线,会出现更多的四波混频波长,可以有效的控制光孤子及超短脉冲的四波混频及共振散射产生的光谱特性。为光子晶体光纤中基于四波混频的波长变换及超连续谱的研究提供了理论指导。     

双折射光子晶体光纤中基于孤子分裂的超连续光谱产生

利用亚纳焦量级、脉冲宽度为100 fs的激光脉冲在双折射光子晶体光纤中获得了450—1050 nm 的超连续光谱,且超连续光谱具有明显的分立峰状结构.分析了光谱中分立峰状结构产生的物理机制,抽运光波长处于接近零色散波长的反常色散区,形成高阶光孤子,由于高阶非线性和高阶色散的影响,高阶孤子分裂成多个基孤子,使初始光谱上演化出红移的光孤子成分和蓝移的色散波成分.理论模拟了飞秒激光脉冲在光纤中的色散特性和传输特性,较好地解释了实验结果. 关键词： 光子晶体光纤 超连续光谱产生 孤子分裂 脉冲俘获     

高非线性光子晶体光纤中飞秒脉冲的传输特性和超连续谱产生机制的实验研究及模拟分析

用实验和数值模拟两种方法研究了高非线性光子晶体光纤中飞秒激光脉冲的传输特性和超连续谱的产生机理，给出了抽运脉冲在三种不同中心波长情况下输出光谱展宽并形成超连续谱的实际测量及理论模拟结果.研究表明：在零色散波长抽运时，光谱展宽以自相位调制为主，同时三阶色散的影响明显，传输脉冲在时域内出现振荡次峰.而在反常色散区抽运时，光谱展宽的初期以自相位调制为主，随后根据抽运功率的不同孤子自频移、高阶光孤子的裂变和四波混频效应会逐渐增强，进而成为光谱展宽的主要原因.与此相应，在时域中能明显看到孤子的形成和红移，飞秒传输脉 关键词： 光子晶体光纤 高非线性光子晶体光纤 飞秒脉冲激光 超连续谱     

双折射光子晶体光纤中超连续谱产生的实验研究

研究了30 fs激光在双折射光子晶体光纤中传输时,泵浦光功率和偏振态对超连续谱产生的影响。实验结果表明:随着泵浦光功率增加,光谱宽度显著增加,出现红移的光孤子和蓝移的色散波;当泵浦光的偏振态分别平行于光子晶体光纤长轴和短轴时,二者都有红移的光孤子和蓝移的色散波,但前者色散波波长更短;当泵浦光偏振态介于长轴与短轴之间,可能在色散波之外出现了交叉相位波,产生的超连续谱最强,且其近场光斑最大且最亮。     

飞秒泵浦不同锥长微结构光纤超连续谱的产生

对飞秒脉冲泵浦下,不同锥长及锥腰直径的微结构光纤的超连续谱产生进行了实验研究。采用“快速低温拉锥方法”,在保持d/Λ不变的情况下,对实验室自制的空气孔间距Λ=6.53 μm,归一化孔径d/Λ=0.79的微结构光纤进行了拉锥,分别得到6,8,10 mm等不同锥长微结构光纤。理论计算表明,随着锥长变长,锥腰直径变小,锥腰处零色散波长向短波移动：未拉锥及6,8和10 mm锥微结构光纤锥腰处零色散波长分别为1 129,885,806和637 nm。利用中心波长为810 nm,重复频率76 MHz,脉宽120 fs的钛蓝宝石飞秒激光器对拉锥后微结构光纤进行了实验研究：锥长为6 mm时,泵浦光中心波长位于整根光纤的正常色散区,锥腰的零色散点附近,内脉冲拉曼散射和级联四波混频是光谱初始展宽的主要因素。泵浦功率达到450 mW时,在可见波段390～461 nm及红外波段1 134～1 512 nm形成-5 dB的平坦宽带连续光谱。泵浦功率达到500 mW时,出现366～2 450 nm覆盖紫外、可见、近红外、中红外的超连续谱,其光谱红蓝移边缘已经接近实验用微结构光纤的传输带宽。锥长为8 mm、泵浦功率为450 mW时,在群速度匹配和群加速度失配的共同影响下,连续谱蓝移边缘达到366 nm,比6 mm锥时蓝移9 nm;锥长为10 mm时,由于锥腰处零色散点移动到可见光区域,可见区光谱仍能满足相位匹配条件。通过级联四波混频效应,在可见区域实现了频率上转换及光谱蓝移。泵浦光功率达到500 mW时,在382～412 nm得到谱宽仅为30 nm,转换效率达到27.7%的频率上转换。     

双零色散光子晶体光纤中超连续谱的产生及控制

通过数值模拟飞秒脉冲在具有双零色散波长的光子晶体光纤中的传输过程,详细分析了超连续谱的产生和控制机制.结果表明:中心波长处于反常色散区的泵浦脉冲在高阶非线性和高阶色散等作用的调制下,将演化为基孤子和正常色散区的两个色散波;该色散波进而经与之相位匹配的基孤子相干加强而使频谱展宽形成超连续谱,同时两个色散波上出现了干涉引起的振荡现象.进一步对比三种结构的光子晶体光纤中超连续谱的特点,定量分析了两色散波对超连续谱的限制作用,阐述了结构参量对超连续谱的影响.基于上述结论,结合对色散波的中心波长与光子晶体光纤的色散曲线、结构参量之间关系的分析,提出了设计光子晶体光纤的结构来控制超连续谱的方法.作为例证,通过优化光子晶体光纤结构理论上实现了频谱分量覆盖可见光区的平坦超连续谱.     

双零色散光子晶体光纤中超连续谱的产生及控制

 通过数值模拟飞秒脉冲在具有双零色散波长的光子晶体光纤中的传输过程,详细分析了超连续谱的产生和控制机制.结果表明：中心波长处于反常色散区的泵浦脉冲在高阶非线性和高阶色散等作用的调制下,将演化为基孤子和正常色散区的两个色散波|该色散波进而经与之相位匹配的基孤子相干加强而使频谱展宽形成超连续谱,同时两个色散波上出现了干涉引起的振荡现象.进一步对比三种结构的光子晶体光纤中超连续谱的特点,定量分析了两色散波对超连续谱的限制作用,阐述了结构参量对超连续谱的影响.基于上述结论,结合对色散波的中心波长与光子晶体光纤的色散曲线、结构参量之间关系的分析,提出了设计光子晶体光纤的结构来控制超连续谱的方法.作为例证,通过优化光子晶体光纤结构理论上实现了频谱分量覆盖可见光区的平坦超连续谱.     

低损耗宽带近零色散高非线性光子晶体光纤设计

提出了一种兼具低损耗、宽带近零色散和高非线性的光子晶体光纤结构,该结构光纤包层空气孔直径从纤芯向外层方向渐进增加;应用多极法,通过改变包层空气孔间距Λ、各层空气孔直径和空气孔层数N_r,对光子晶体光纤色散、损耗和非线性特性进行分析,获得了各特性随包层结构参数变化的规律,并最终设计出最佳结构参数。计算结果表明,该结构光纤存在3个零色散点,在1.25～1.55 μm较宽的波长范围内,色散值波动小于0.27 ps·nm?1·km?1,色散斜率小于0.008 ps·km?1·nm?2,1.55 μm波长处损耗为0.021 dB/km,在常用的飞秒激光泵浦波长0.8,1.06,1.55 μm处非线性系数分别达到78.6,60.4,38.2 W?1·km?1。     

光子晶体光纤包层可见光及红外宽带色散波产生

对光子晶体光纤包层3个空气孔之间节区的传光特性进行了分析, 对比了纤芯与包层节区传光的模场面积、非线性系数及色散特性, 得到光子晶体光纤包层节区具有小芯、高非线性的特点.在包层空气孔较大的情况下, 得到了双零色散曲线.根据色散曲线, 分析了色散波产生的相位匹配特性, 得到了色散波中心波长随抽运波长及功率的变化规律.制备出了所设计的光子晶体光纤, 实验得到了在可见光及红外大于300 nm的宽带色散波, 并给出了色散波随抽运波长及功率的变化规律.实验和理论分析结果一致, 为波长变换及超连续宽带光源的研究奠定了基础. 关键词： 光子晶体光纤 色散波 相位匹配 非线性     

Combined nonlinear effects for UV to visible wavelength generation in a photonic crystal fiber

We experimentally study the combined nonlinear effects,including four-wave mixing,stimulated Raman scattering,soliton dynamics,and cross-phase modulation by coupling femtosecond pulses around 850 nm into the normal dispersion region near the zero-dispersion wavelength in the fundamental mode of a homemade silica photonic crystal fiber. The nonlinear optical dynamics at different stages are demonstrated,and the discrete ultraviolet(UV) to visible wavelengths widely separated from the pump wave are generated by the interaction of several nonlinear effects involved. The UV to visible wavelengths can be used as short pulse sources for multiphoton ionization,fluorescence spectroscopy,and biochemical imaging.     

掺杂光子晶体光纤产生光孤子所需泵浦功率的研究

在光纤纤芯中掺入适量GeO₂有利于增加纤芯非线性折射率,提高光纤的非线性系数。利用有限元法设计了一种带宽为1.45 μm的宽反常色散掺杂光子晶体光纤,其光纤可以利用低泵浦功率产生任意波长的光孤子。分析结果显示,当脉冲脉宽T_FWHM取300 fs时,产生基阶光孤子需要的最高平均泵浦功率为0.001 695 W,而产生五阶光孤子需要的最高平均泵浦功率仅0.042 38 W。     

Nonlinear copropagation of two optical pulses of different frequencies in photonic crystal fibers

A theoretical investigation of the nonlinear copropagation of two optical pulses of different frequencies in a photonic crystal fiber is presented. Different phenomena are observed depending on whether the wavelength of the signal pulse is located in the normal or the anomalous dispersion region. In particular, it is found that the phenomenon of pulse trapping occurs when the signal wavelength is located in the normal dispersion region while the pump wavelength is located in the anomalous dispersion region. The signal pulse suffers cross-phase modulation by the Raman shifted soliton pulse and it is trapped and copropagates with the Raman soliton pulse along the fiber. As the input peak power of the pump pulse is increased, the red-shift of the Raman soliton is considerably enhanced with the simultaneous further blue-shift of the trapped pulse to satisfy the condition of group velocity matching. PACS 42.65.Tg; 42.81.Dp     

Linear and nonlinear properties of multicomponent glass photonic crystal fibers

Processes resulting in supercontinuum generation in multicomponent glass photonic crystal fibers are reviewed in this paper. Multicomponent glass photonic crystal fibers are shown to have a broad transmission range, extending up to 4.5 μm in selected cases. Pumping with a 1240-nm femtosecond pulse at very low sub-nJ energies resulted in soliton formation and dispersive wave generation in a multicomponent PCF sample having a double-core square-lattice structure. These processes were described using a phase-matching model derived from the simulated dispersive properties of the fiber. Third-harmonic generation was observed in the radiation modes of a different cobweb sample with the simultaneous formation of a soliton in the NIR.     

Generation of mid-infrared supercontinuum by designing circular photonic crystal fiber

A circular photonic crystal fiber (C-PCF) based on As₂Se₃ is designed, which has three zero dispersion wavelengths and flat dispersion. Using this fiber, a wide mid-infrared supercontinuum (MIR-SC) can be generated by launching a femtosecond pulse in the first anomalous dispersion region. The simulation results show that the MIR-SC is formed by soliton self-frequency shift and direct soliton spectrum tunneling on the long wavelength side and self-phase modulation, soliton fission on the short wavelength side. Further, optical shocking and four-wave mixing (FWM) are not conducive to the long-wavelength extension of MIR-SC, while the number and intensity of fundamental solitons have a greater effect on the short-wavelength extension of MIR-SC. The generation of optical shocking waves, FWM waves and fundamental solitons can be obviously affected by changing the fiber length and input pulse parameters, so that the spectrum range and flatness can be adjusted with great freedom. Finally, under the conditions of 4000 W pulse peak power, 30 fs pulse width, 47 mm fiber length, and 0 initial chirp, a wide MIR-SC with a coverage range of 2.535 μm-16.6 μm is obtained. These numerical results are encouraging because they demonstrate that the spread of MIR-SC towards the red and blue ends can be manipulated by choosing the appropriate incident pulse and designing optimized fiber parameters, which contributes to applications in such diverse areas as spectroscopy, metrology and tomography.     

Supercontinuum generation at 1.55μm using highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber for telecommunication and medical applications

In this paper, we present a theoretical calculation of a highly nonlinear germanium (Ge) doped photonic crystal fiber with all-normal group velocity dispersion to design a supercontinuum (SC) light source at 1.55 μm. By doping 3% higher refractive index Ge inside the host silica, the nonlinear coefficient is increased to a value as large as 60.5 W^?1 km^?1 at 1.55 μm. A 10 dB bandwidth of a 120 nm SC spectrum for a 2.5 ps input optical pulse and a 10 dB bandwidth of a 190 nm SC spectrum for a 1.0 ps input optical pulse have been found using the same fiber length of 200m and input optical power of 18 W. The coherent lengths of the generated SC light sources are found to be 8.8 μm for a 2.5 ps input optical pulse and 5.6 μm for a 1.0 ps input optical pulse. Therefore, the highest longitudinal resolution at 1.55 μm is found to be about 4.0 μm for biological tissues.     

Soliton and rogue wave statistics in supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibre with two zero dispersion wavelengths

Stochastic numerical simulations are used to study the statistical properties of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal fibre with two zero dispersion wavelengths. For picosecond pulse excitation, we examine how the statistical properties of solitons generated on the long wavelength edge of the supercontinuum (``optical rogue waves") are modified by energy transfer to dispersive waves across the second zero dispersion wavelength. The soliton statistics (characterized in terms of peak power, wavelength and pulse duration) are shown to be strongly modified by the mechanism of dispersive wave generation, with the detailed form of the probability distribution depending strongly on input pulse energy.     

Route to broadband blue-light generation in microstructured fibers

We explore theoretically the possibility of generating broadband blue light by copropagating a short soliton pump pulse and a broader signal pulse in a microstructured fiber with a zero-dispersion wavelength located between the center wavelength of the pump and the signal pulses. We show that the unique properties of microstructured fibers should allow for broadening of the signal pulse's spectrum by as much as a factor of 50 through the conjugate action of cross-phase modulation and a soliton self-frequency shift. The physical mechanism that leads to this large spectral broadening is analyzed by use of an extended nonlinear Schr?dinger equation.