啁啾脉冲激光放大中的自相位调制效应

利用光与物质相互作用的半经典理论建立了啁啾脉冲激光放大的输运方程,数值分析了多程放大过程中自相位调制对啁啾脉冲时域特性和频域特性的影响研究结果表明,由于自相位调制引起附加频率啁啾产生,啁啾脉冲瞬时频率发生变化,放大特性受到影响.通过对增益饱和状态下自相位调制效应的研究,提出利用入射脉冲的线性频率啁啾抑制自相位调制的影响. 关键词：     

利用ND-DDF放大器获得更佳线性啁啾抛物线脉冲

基于在正常色散渐减光纤（ND-DDF）或者正常色散光纤放大器，获得线性啁啾抛物线脉冲，提出并分析了利用ND-DDF放大器获得线性啁啾抛物线脉冲的优化方案．数值研究结果表明：与用ND-DDF或者正常色散光纤放大器获得线性啁啾抛物线脉冲的方案相比，利用ND-DDF放大器获得的抛物线脉冲的线性啁啾更为明显；研究还发现，增益影响着线性啁啾的大小和质量．计算表明，利用ND-DDF放大器产生的抛物线脉冲经啁啾补偿后可获得更大的压缩因子和更高的峰值功率．     

三角形光脉冲在正色散光纤中产生的实验研究

利用一种无源非线性脉冲整形方法, 实现了在普通正色散(ND)光纤中产生三角形光脉冲, 此方法依赖于脉冲预啁啾和脉冲在ND光纤中传输时群速度色散与自相位调制的相互作用. 实验研究表明, 在较宽的脉冲预啁啾值范围内, 通过优化脉冲输入功率和脉冲传输的ND光纤长度, 均可得到典型的三角形光脉冲: 脉冲时域形状前后沿的变化率接近恒定、整个脉冲具有线性频率啁啾. 另外, 在不同的脉冲预啁啾下, 要得到高质量的三角形光脉冲, 均需要较高的脉冲输入功率; 并且脉冲预啁啾较大时, 三角形脉冲的形成对ND光纤长度和脉冲输入功率有较大的容差, 易获得三角形光脉冲.     

硅基光波导中啁啾高斯脉冲在反常色散区的传输特性

本文利用激光脉冲在硅基光波导(SOI)中传播时满足的非线性薛定谔方程,采用分步傅里叶变换,数值模拟了硅基光波导中啁啾高斯脉冲在反常色散区的传播特性.通过模拟发现,三阶色散正负主要决定了脉冲的振荡波形性质,克尔效应与双光子吸收对脉冲波形起调制作用,自由载流子效应则可以忽略.初始啁啾参数的正负存在影响了脉冲的振荡强弱变化和脉冲中心的漂移的趋势,并且无论是正啁啾还是负啁啾,脉冲振荡与漂移都随着啁啾的增大而更加剧烈,同时啁啾正向增大与负向增大,都将导致脉冲展宽越严重致主峰峰值越低.     

利用色散渐减光纤获得线性啁啾抛物线脉冲的研究

以利用双曲渐减的正常色散渐减光纤(ND-DDF)获得啁啾抛物线脉冲为基础,进一步利用对称分布傅立叶的数值方法,研究了其它色散渐减的ND-DDF获得啁啾抛物线脉冲的情况.数值研究的结果表明:在采用不同的色散渐减时,如线性、指数、高斯、余弦、双曲等,最终输出的脉冲均具有较好的线性啁啾,且基本符合抛物线形状,这说明在利用ND-DDF获得啁啾抛物线脉冲时色散渐减方式可灵活选择;同时结果还显示,色散渐减的方式导致所得脉冲的啁啾强度、以及脉冲宽度和峰值功率会有所差异;文章最后给出了不同情况下抛物线脉冲经啁啾补偿后的输出脉冲形状和压缩因子.     

高阶色散效应常系数Ginzburg-Landau方程自相似脉冲演化的解析分析

采用自相似分析方法,基于常系数高阶色散的Ginzburg-Landau方程,通过分离变量法得出了高阶色散效应自相似脉冲演化的解析解,给出了自相似脉冲的振幅、相位、啁啾以及脉冲宽度的一般表达式.研究表明,在增益光纤的二阶正常色散区域,同时考虑高阶色散和增益色散双重效应影响下演化的自相似孤子脉冲仍然保持线性啁啾;振幅解析解的三阶色散效应显著.这与数值计算的结果非常一致. 关键词： 三阶色散 Ginzburg-Landau方程 自相似脉冲 二阶正常色散     

连续线性温度梯度场对啁啾脉冲放大系统中啁啾光纤光栅的色散调节效应

利用啁啾光纤光栅的温度可调谐效应,提出了一种新型的色散补偿方法.该方法使啁啾光纤光栅处于一个连续的线性温度梯度场中,通过调节啁啾光纤光栅两端的温度差,改变其色散量,实现在以啁啾光纤光栅为展宽器和以体光栅为压缩器的超快激光系统中对输出脉宽的连续精密调节,并通过实验验证这一方法的可行性.实验结果表明:沿着啁啾光纤光栅应用连续的温度梯度场,当温差从0℃到50℃变化时,可以连续地调节啁啾光纤光栅的色散参数.展宽器和压缩器之间的色散失配可以通过调节线性温度场的温度梯度得到补偿,避免了繁琐的脉宽优化步骤.本文是以啁啾体光栅为压缩器的光纤啁啾脉冲放大系统中通过调节施加在展宽器上的连续线性温度场的梯度,实现对啁啾脉冲系统中的色散失配进行精密调制的技术方案.     

飞秒啁啾孤子在线性色散平坦光纤中的相互作用

采用分步傅里叶方法数值研究了在线性色散平坦光纤反常色散区等幅同相孤子脉冲相互作用受高阶色散、拉曼效应、光纤损耗和啁啾参量C等的影响规律。多孤子脉冲在线性和凸形色散平坦光纤中传输100个孤子周期后仍具有孤子特性。在线性色散平坦光纤,多孤子脉冲相互作用受三阶色散影响较严重,三阶色散使各脉冲产生较大的色散波和线性时延;更高阶色散的影响可以忽略;拉曼效应使脉冲产生较大的非线性时延;啁啾加强了脉冲间相互作用;光纤损耗减弱了脉冲间相互作用。     

基于光纤光参量放大的光脉冲压窄技术的研究

在高重复频率的光窄脉冲源中,为了获得更窄的脉冲,需要增加泵浦功率|但泵浦功率的提高会使光放大器的增益趋于饱和,放大的自发辐射噪音增强,脉冲光信噪比下降.为此,提出了利用啁啾管理和光纤光参量放大相结合的脉冲压窄方案.将强度调制后的泵浦光通过相位调制引入线性负啁啾,由于经参量过程后在新的闲频光上啁啾会加倍,从而进一步增大了信号的谱宽,并通过色散补偿介质实现了光脉冲压缩.实验给出了10 GHz速率下的结果,通过泵浦光的相位调制在0.5 W平均泵浦光功率条件下得到了脉宽19 ps的光脉冲,结果与理论分析基本吻合.     

单模光纤正常色散区零色散波长附近的啁啾演变特性

利用傅里叶变换法,首次推出了单模光纤正常色散区中二阶、三阶色散共同决定群速度色散效应时,所致啁啾的解析表达式.利用数位解法,模拟了零色散波长附近群速度色散效应和自相位调制效应共同导致的啁啾演变过程.计算结果表明:啁啾为非线性的,且有极值,因而导致脉冲形状的畸变.     

Numerical simulation for characterizing femtosecond optical pulses with the SPIDER algorithm

In this article based on the spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER), the femtosecond pulses with various phase characters are numerically simulated. The spectral phases and amplitudes of the transform-limited pulse, the linear chirped pulse, the cubic dispersion pulse, the quartic dispersion pulse, the self-phase modulation pulse and the pulses with the combination of different chirped characters are retrieved. These characterized pulses are applicable to the real-time measurement as samples for diagnosing the chirped characters of pulses quickly.     

Direct time-response measurement of high-speed optical modulators based on stretched-pulse interferometry

A simple technique for the direct measurement of the complex temporal response of a high-speed electro-optic (EO) modulator is proposed. This technique recovers the amplitude and phase temporal profiles of an instantaneous modulation over the duration of a chirped pulse (obtained by linear dispersion) using Fourier-transform interferometry, and it exploits the time-to-frequency mapping induced by the pulse dispersion process. The method can be implemented by using either time- or frequency-domain interferometric detection, allowing the characterization of modulation bandwidths in the tens-of-gigahertz range. The concept is demonstrated by accurately measuring the complex temporal response of a 2.5 Gbps intensity EO modulator.     

相敏式激光啁啾色散光谱技术在高吸收度情况下的应用

研究了相敏式激光啁啾色散光谱法在高吸收度情况下的应用.用窄频半导体激光器作为光源,利用一工作于载波抑制模式的铌酸锂电光强度调制器调制单频激光,在单频激光两侧产生两个边频分量,并通过两边频分量产生外差干涉信号.利用外差干涉的相位波动来测量甲烷气体位于1653.7 nm附近的折射率波动,通过气体折射率与吸收系数之间的Kramers-Kronig关系计算甲烷气体浓度.传统的波长调制光谱法受限于郎伯-比尔定律,在应用于高吸收度的情况时,存在灵敏度下降的问题,甚至出现随气体浓度上升输出信号反而下降的现象.实验结果显示,相同实验条件下,波长调制光谱法的线性测量范围为38.1—1500 ppm·m,线性测量的动态范围仅为16 d B;而相敏式激光啁啾色散光谱法在很大的吸收度范围内均具有线性输出,检出限低至47.3 ppm·m,线性测量范围上限为174825 ppm·m,具有超过35 d B的动态范围.     

Third- and fourth-order active dispersion compensation with a phase modulator in a terabit-per-second optical time-division multiplexed transmission

Broadening of the pulse waveforms by the higher-order dispersion of a transmission line is a critical limiting factor in achieving terabit-per-second optical time-division multiplexed (OTDM) transmission with femtosecond pulses. We show that the third- and fourth-order dispersion of a transmission line can be simultaneously compensated for by use of a phase modulator. In this method, sinusoidal phase modulation applied to the linearly chirped pulse before transmission compensates for the phase shift caused by the third- and fourth-order dispersion of the transmission line. The pulse broadening of a 380-fs pulse after a 70-km transmission in a 1.28-Tbit/s OTDM experiment was as small as 20 fs.     

小宽带堆积啁啾脉冲传输放大特性

 采用啁啾脉冲堆积的方法可获得ns量级宽带整形激光脉冲,对堆积啁啾脉冲时间波形的影响因素及传输放大后脉冲波形与光谱形状的特性进行了研究。结果表明：在传输过程中脉冲的演化规律与窄带脉冲的演化规律基本一致,而且传输放大过程也不会改变脉冲的调制结构,但光谱形状在传输放大过程中发生了变化,初步认为是由非线性效应造成的;小宽带堆积啁啾脉冲具有与窄带脉冲基本一致的的增益水平。     

Parabolic pulse generation by use of a dispersion-decreasing fiber with normal group-velocity dispersion

We propose a new method for generating a parabolic pulse by use of a dispersion-decreasing fiber with normal group-velocity dispersion. When a hyperbolic dispersion-decreasing structure is employed, the pulse evolves into a linearly chirped pulse with an exact parabolic intensity profile without radiating dispersive waves. The highly linear chirp in the parabolic pulse allows for efficient and high-quality pulse compression.     

非线性双折射色散光纤中极化调制不稳定性分析

利用光脉冲在光纤中传播时所遵守的相干非线性薛定谔耦合方程,研究了线偏振光在光纤中的传输特性.结果表明:由于线性双折射、非线性效应和色散的相互作用,导致光的偏振状态发生变化,产生交叉相位调制(XPM),从而导致调制不稳定性.这一调制不稳性不仅在反常色散区产生,在正常色散区也能产生,并且线性双折射发生变化时,增益谱也随之发生变化.     

Generation of long bursts of high-repetition-rate arbitrarily shaped optical pulses using time lens

A technique for the generation of long ultrahigh-speed bursts of optical pulses with arbitrary shapes is proposed. A laser pulse is temporally chirped by a time lens and then passes through a filter with a reconfigurable periodic spectral response, which produces time-delayed replicas of the chirped pulse and recombines them. As a result of the temporal interference between the replicas, the chirped pulse is broken up into short pulses with the shape determined by the chosen filter response. It is demonstrated that the filter acts on a long chirped optical pulse as a temporal modulator with a periodic modulation function. The modulation frequency and bandwidth of the modulator can be much higher than for commercially available high-frequency modulators. The additional advantage of this modulator is the arbitrary shape of the modulation function. A 2.4 ns burst of nearly flat-top pulses with a repetition rate of about 400 GHz is obtained in numerical simulations. In addition, the technique proposed can act as a pulse repetition rate multiplier and a pulse compressor. A repetition rate of 1.589 THz and an individual pulse width of 212 fs are achieved in simulations for a 9.7 ns sinusoidally phase modulated pulse burst.     

Study of nonlinear propagation of chirped optical pulses in laser amplifying medium

In chirped pulse amplification, the amplification of an optical pulse in laser amplifying medium is a very important link. After considering dispersion, Kerr nonlinear effect, gain distribution and loss of the medium, the physical model that the optical pulse propagates in the medium has been established, which is suitable for the general situation where the optical pulse propagates in the amplifying medium. Using a split-step Fourier method, the propagation state of a chirped optical pulse in the amplifying medium has been numerically simulated, and the influences of the gain dispersion of the medium and the frequency detuning of the pulse on the optical pulse have been discussed emphatically. The results show that, with the amplification and propagation of the ultrashort chirped pulse in the amplifying medium, gain saturation and Kerr nonlinear effect of the medium will cause distortion of the optical pulse. For the optical pulse with a wideband spectrum, gain dispersion will cause the gain narrowing effect, so it is equivalent to a loss mechanism. The frequency detuning of the optical pulse will cause distortion of the pulse, which can be used to weaken the impact of gain saturation, thus reshaping the optical pulse.     

Spatial light modulator with an over-two-octave bandwidth from ultraviolet to near infrared

We developed a 1-pixel ultraviolet-to-near-infrared (UV-to-NIR) liquid-crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM) and clarified its phase modulation properties in detail, for the first time to our knowledge. The employed liquid crystal is transparent over 260-1100 nm. A phase modulation capability of 55.8 rad at 305 nm and 14.0 rad at 1000 nm is enough to compensate for UV-to-NIR nonlinear chirped pulses. The LC-SLM driving parameters of a period T=13 ms and an applied voltage V(DD)=7.0 V were determined. The 648-pixel extension of this new device will permit us to realize the high-power generation of single subcycle optical pulses and the direct UV-to-NIR pulse shaping.