外部光注入混沌激光器产生超宽带微波信号的研究

利用外部光注入混沌激光器产生了完全符合美国联邦通信委员会关于室内无线通信频谱限定的超宽带(UWB)微波信号.基于外部光注入光反馈半导体激光器的速率方程组,理论研究了外部及内部参量对半导体激光器输出混沌UWB脉冲信号的影响.研究表明,UWB信号的-10 dB带宽随着光注入强度、注入失谐量以及线宽增强因子的增大而增大,随着激光器偏置电流的增大而减小.同时,UWB信号的中心频率在5–8 GHz范围内变化.在实验中,通过设定其他参量和调节光注入强度,得到中心频率及带宽可调谐的混沌UWB微波信号,传输速率达到500 Mbit/s.实验结果与理论分析相符合. 关键词： 半导体激光器 混沌激光 光生微波技术 超宽带信号     

光注入提高半导体激光器混沌载波发射机的带宽

外光反馈下的半导体激光器可视为混沌载波发射机.数值研究发现，外部强光注入可以显著提高混沌载波发射机的带宽，带宽提高的程度在一定范围内与注入光的强度成正比.当外部光注入系数k_inj=0.39时，混沌载波的带宽由无光注入时的2.7GHz增大到14.5GHz，提高了5倍多.研究还发现，在相同的注入强度条件下，当注入光的频率比半导体激光器的中心频率高2—4GHz时，可实现最大限度的带宽增强.此外，适当提高半导体激光器的偏置电流也可以在一定程度上提高其产生的混沌载波的带宽. 关键词： 半导体激光器 混沌 带宽     

基于光反馈双模DFB激光器的宽带混沌信号产生

提出并数值验证了一种利用光反馈双模分布式反馈(DM-DFB)半导体激光器产生宽带混沌信号的方法.通过双纵模Lang-Kobayashi方程建立了光反馈DM-DFB半导体激光器的理论模型,探明了宽带混沌信号产生的物理机制为模式拍频,数值分析了模式间隔、偏置电流和反馈系数对混沌带宽的影响.仿真设计了双模激光器,在镜面反馈系统中,高偏置电流和强反馈强度条件下可以产生38.6 GHz的混沌信号.这一结构为宽带集成混沌源提供了一种新思路.     

用半导体环形激光器产生混沌信号

提出了一种由一个分布式反馈激光器为主激光器和一个半导体环形激光器为从激光器组成的主从式激光混沌系统方案,主激光器产生的光单向注入到从激光器中,通过调整注入系数、主从激光器的失谐频率和从激光器的偏置电流,使从激光器工作在混沌状态,输出混沌信号。从基于光注入条件下的环形激光器的速率方程组入手,数值模拟了主从激光器的失谐频率、注入系数和从激光器的偏置电流3个工作参量对从激光器输出动态的影响。研究表明:外光注入条件下,半导体环形激光器可以产生混沌信号。通过分析得出:当失谐频率为3.9 GHz、注入系数为0.07、偏置电流为81 mA时,环形激光器可以产生功率谱平坦、带宽较宽的高质量混沌信号。     

混沌超宽带信号的光学产生及其链路传输

用光反馈半导体激光器产生混沌超宽带(UWB)信号, 搭建了混沌UWB光载无线通信链路, 实现了360, 720 Mbit/s和1.44 Gbit/s三种不同传输速率下混沌UWB脉冲信号的生成和传输. 在未经任何色散补偿处理的情况下, 1.44 Gbit/s的混沌UWB信号在经过10 km单模光纤和0.6 m无线链路传输后, 在天线接收端被成功解调. 由于混沌UWB信号输出的随机性, 对应的UWB信号频谱中未出现任何离散的谱线. 这意味着利用混沌UWB信号实现的光载无线通信链路, 可以完全避免离散谱线对系统传输性能的劣化.     

重构-等效啁啾分布反馈半导体激光器的多信号直调特性

在测量与分析频率响应与动态范围的基础上,研究了重构-等效啁啾分布反馈半导体.直调激光器偏置电流以及调制信号的微波功率对直调结果的影响.将300Mb/s基带信号与1.562 5Gb/s超宽带信号同时直接加载到该激光器上,经过10km单模光纤传输后进行波形、频谱及误码率的检测,结果表明:基带信号与超宽带信号的功率代价分别为1.98dB与0.92dB;该激光器具有良好的多信号直接调制性能,在基于波分复用无源光网络的多业务融合网络中具有重要的应用前景.     

交叉相位调制提高半导体激光器混沌载波发射机带宽方法

提出半导体激光器混沌交叉相位调制(XPM)光反馈提高混沌载波发射机带宽方法,建立了有外腔光纤传输反馈XPM控制下的激光动力学物理模型.理论导出XPM作用下激光双反馈频率失谐公式,指出XPM产生的非线性相移影响了激光器增益和线宽增强因子,其光纤二阶非线性效应使激光振幅和相位变化更加丰富,而非线性相移的出现进一步增加了新的频率分量并使频谱展宽.数值结果表明,XPM使激光器混沌带宽增加到4倍以上,使激光混沌张弛振荡频率增加到2.85倍,其光纤长度、入纤光功率、面镜反射系数、光纤二阶非线性系数等都能影响激光混沌带宽.     

自混沌光相位调制光反馈半导体激光器输出光的混沌特性

混沌光的延时特征(time delay signature, TDS)和带宽是影响混沌激光应用的两个重要参量,常用来表征混沌光的混沌特性.将具有外腔光反馈的半导体激光器(semiconductor laser, SL)作为主激光器,以具有自混沌光相位调制光反馈的SL作为从激光器,并将主激光器输出的混沌光双路注入到从激光器中,构成具有外光双路注入的自混沌光相位调制光反馈的半导体激光器系统.数值研究了外光注入系数和反馈系数等参数对系统输出光TDS的影响,然后将此系统对TDS的抑制效果和具有外光双路注入的光反馈半导体激光器以及具有外光单路注入的自混沌光相位调制光反馈半导体激光器进行对比和分析,从而阐明了本文所提出的方案对TDS的抑制效果较好.在TDS被有效抑制的参数条件下,研究了混沌光的带宽,结果表明:本文提出的方案可以有效提高系统输出混沌光的带宽,获得混沌光的3 dB带宽的最大值约为16 GHz.     

用双滤波反馈半导体激光器产生低延时特征的混沌信号

将两个法布里-珀罗干涉仪作为双外腔构成双滤波反馈半导体激光器,获取低延时特征混沌信号,理论研究了反馈时间、反馈强度、滤波器带宽以及滤波器中心频率与激光器中心频率之间的频率失谐对双滤波反馈半导体激光器混沌输出延时特征的影响.研究结果表明:当两个腔的反馈延迟时间之差约等于激光器弛豫振荡周期的一半时,输出混沌信号的延时特征抑制效果相对较好.在此基础上,通过合理选择反馈强度、滤波器带宽、滤波器中心频率与激光器中心频率之间的频率失谐,双滤波反馈半导体激光器输出混沌信号的延时特征被进一步抑制.最后,绘制混沌延时特征在滤波器带宽和频率失谐构成的参量空间的分布图,确定获取低延时特征的混沌信号所需的反馈参量范围.     

双反馈半导体激光器的混沌特性研究

实验利用双反馈半导体激光器获得了关联维数为3.8的高维混沌光.同时对比分析了双反馈与单反馈两种不同模式产生混沌的区别.结果表明：在反馈强度均为-26 dB时,双反馈产生混沌的关联维数高于单反馈产生混沌的关联维数2.6;双反馈可获得带宽为11 GHz的混沌光,为单反馈产生混沌带宽5.5 GHz的两倍.当双反馈的两个外腔长度不相等时,混沌的自相关曲线能很好的隐藏外腔长度信息,可提高混沌通信的保密性. 关键词： 双反馈 半导体激光器 混沌 带宽     

Photonic ultrawideband signal generator using an optically injected chaotic semiconductor laser

We propose and demonstrate a method to generate ultrawideband (UWB) signals in the optical domain based on the chaotic dynamics of an optically injected semiconductor laser with optical feedback. The chaotic-UWB pulses with a fractional bandwidth of 116% and central frequency of 6.88?GHz are experimentally generated by controlling the injection strength and frequency detuning of the chaotic laser. The spectrum of the UWB signals is in full compliance with the Federal Communications Commission spectral mask, and the experimental results are qualitatively consistent with the simulated results.     

Method to identify time delay of chaotic semiconductor laser with optical feedback

We propose a power spectrum analysis method to directly identify the time delay of a chaotic semiconductorlaser with optical feedback. By measuring the radio frequency (RF) power spectrum of the chaotic laserand performing an inverse Fourier transform, we can easily unveil all the time delay signatures, regardless ofwhether the chaotic output is induced by single or multiple feedback. This method successfully retrieves thetwo time delay signatures from the power spectrum of a semiconductor laser with double-cavity feedback.     

Bandwidth-enhanced chaos synchronization in strongly injection-locked semiconductor lasers with optical feedback

Bandwidth-enhanced chaos synchronization in strongly injection-locked semiconductor lasers with optical feedback is numerically studied based on laser rate equations. The bandwidth of the chaotic carrier frequency in a semiconductor laser with optical feedback is expanded roughly three times by strong optical injection compared with the bandwidth when there is no optical injection. Using a bandwidth-enhanced semiconductor laser as a chaotic transmitter and receiver, we synchronized transmitter and the receiver lasers in a complete chaos synchronization scheme.     

Experimental characterization of DFB and FP chaotic lasers with strong incoherent optical feedback

We have experimentally investigated chaotic power oscillations in single-longitudinal mode DFB and multi-longitudinal mode FP lasers as a function of incoherent optical feedback strengths of up to 42%. We have demonstrated the existence of chaos in the output oscillations of both laser types using classical experimental tools such as RF spectrum, standard deviation, and maximum Lyapunov exponent, which all increase with increasing of feedback strength for both in single-longitudinal mode DFB lasers and multi-longitudinal mode FP lasers. It is also shown that power switching among longitudinal modes of multimode FP semiconductor laser is a considerable portion of the chaotic power oscillations for both strong and weak incoherent optical feedback.     

线宽增强因子对光反馈半导体激光器混沌信号生成随机数性能的影响

基于光反馈半导体激光器产生的宽带混沌信号作为物理熵源生成物理随机数已得到广泛研究.线宽增强因子的存在会导致半导体激光器出现大量不稳定动态特性,因此,本文着重研究半导体激光器的线宽增强因子对生成随机数性能的影响.数值仿真结果表明:随着线宽增强因子的增加,光反馈半导体激光器输出混沌信号的延时峰值逐渐减小、最大李雅普诺夫指数逐渐增大.基于不同线宽增强因子下产生的混沌信号提取随机数,并利用NIST SP 800-22软件对生成随机数的性能进行测试.测试结果表明,选取线宽增强因子较大的半导体激光器产生混沌信号作为物理熵源易于生成性能良好的随机数.     

Chaos dynamics in semiconductor lasers with polarization-rotated optical feedback

By using polarization-rotated optical feedback from the transverse-electric (TE) mode to the transverse-magnetic (TM) mode, chaotic oscillations for both polarization modes are excited in a semiconductor laser. We find different correlations between these chaotic oscillations than those found in previous studies. In this study, the dynamics are strongly dependent on their radio-frequency (RF) components and they are divided into three RF regions. For low-pass filtered signals lower than the laser relaxation oscillation, there is an antiphase correlation between the two polarization modes. On the other hand, the two polarization modes have an in-phase correlation for the RF components of the high-pass filtered signals, which are higher than the relaxation oscillation. However, no correlations were observed between the two modes for the intermediate RF components that include the relaxation oscillation frequency. We also perform numerical calculations for the model and obtain good agreement between the theoretical and experimental results.     

Characterization of 1550 nm sub-picoseconds optical pulse using a gain-switching distributed feedback laser with CW-mode external-injection and pulse-mode self-injection

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrated the 1550 nm short optical pulses generation using a TO-packaged gain-switching distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser driving by 2.5 GHz radio frequency (RF) signals and combining with optical injection techniques. The characteristics of the generated optical pulse by the proposed CW-mode external-injection and pulse-mode self-injection schemes are characterized in the side mode suppression ratio (SMSR), spectrum line-width, pulse-width and root-meansquare (RMS) jitter. In the CW-mode external-injection case, the SMSR of 35.5 dB, line-width of 0.235 nm, pulse-width of 47.69 ps, and RMS jitter of 1.4 ps are obtained when the optical injection ratio of 5 dB. In the pulse-mode self-injection, however, the SMSR of 61.2 dB, spectrum line-width of 0.189 nm, pulse-width of 58.46 ps, and RMS jitter of 1 ps are achieved and its overall performances are better than CW-mode externalinjection one.