高功率激光片状放大器中自发辐射放大研究

 采用理论模拟和实验研究相结合的方法，研究了高功率激光片状放大器中的自发辐射放大(ASE)效应。建立了一套较完整的包含空间和时间的3维ASE模型，分析了不同电压、不同储能分布和不同泵浦时刻、不同增益长度积条件下ASE效应对放大器储能效率和小信号增益系数的影响。对4×2×3组合式放大器的计算结果表明：随着泵浦电压升高，ASE效应明显加强；23kV泵浦电压下，ASE效应造成的平均储能下降210%，小信号增益系数损耗为16.62%，增益不均匀性为7.44%；增益长度积可以作为判断ASE效应的依据，其值越大，ASE效应越强。     

天光一号预放大器中的放大自发辐射效应

 在三维放大自发辐射（ASE）的模拟计算中，计入了侧壁反射效应以及KrF自发辐射的谱线形状（高斯型、洛伦兹型及平顶型）的影响，并对空间网点的影响进行了考察。经过综合分析，给出了ASE对预放大器放大特性影响的上、下限范围。当计入平顶型频谱分布，壁反射系数为 0 .2时，与不计入ASE的情形对比，天光一号预放大器的提取效率下降为35%。     

脉冲储能型重复频率Yb:YAG片状激光放大器ASE效应研究

探讨了脉冲储能型重复频率片状Yb:YAG激光放大器抽运过程中的自发辐射放大（ASE）效应和能量提取过程.在Yb³⁺离子抽运动力学的基础上,建立了抽运过程中的自发辐射放大模型,计算了Yb:YAG晶体中三维含时储能密度分布和全片可提取能量.讨论了不同介质尺寸、掺杂浓度及厚度、介质温度参数下,自发辐射放大对储能的影响.给出了较为优化的设计,将有助于基于Yb激光材料的大能量二极管抽运的固体激光器设计. 关键词： 脉冲储能 Yb:YAG激光放大器 自发辐射放大（ASE）     

光纤放大器放大自发辐射特性与高温易损点位置

在高功率光纤放大器实验中,时常发现增益光纤抽运注入熔接点后10—50 cm处容易发生光纤烧毁现象.为了对该现象进行理论预测,基于光纤激光器速率方程模型和增益光纤的热传导模型,从种子功率、抽运功率和抽运吸收三个方面对掺镱双包层光纤放大器中的放大自发辐射(ASE)和温度特性进行研究.结果表明,在放大倍率较高、ASE较为严重等情况下,光纤放大器中的最高温度点一般不在抽运注入的熔接点处,而在距离熔接点10—50 cm处,与实验中发现光纤烧毁的位置基本符合.从光纤放大器的ASE抑制、最高温度点温度控制角度出发,对光纤放大器在种子功率、抽运功率、抽运吸收、放大倍率和抽运波长等方面的设计给出了指导性的建议.     

L-Band掺铒光纤放大器的优化设计

提出了泵浦分配两段级联,并利用前向ASE推动下一级EDF工作的L-Band放大器的新结构.基于Giles模型并考虑了ASE噪声的影响,运用数值模拟算法系统分析了泵浦光功率分配和铒光纤分配比例对这种EDFA性能的影响.最后优化得到高增益且增益谱平坦的L-Band EDFA,其在输入信号光功率为-20 dBm时,在1571～1608 nm范围内,增益值高达35 dB,增益偏差小于1 dB.     

铋基掺铒光纤放大器中放大自发辐射处理研究

分别设计了一个带光隔离器和一个带光环形器的复合型宽带铋基掺铒光纤放大器(Bi-EDFA),理论上研究了Bi-EDFA中对于后向传输放大自发辐射(ASE)的处理对放大器性能的影响。研究表明,在C+L波段多波长信号同时输入情形下,通过在铋基掺铒光纤中插入一个光隔离器抑制后向传输的ASE,可以提高放大器各波长信号增益,降低噪声系数。利用一个光环形器引导后向传输的ASE去泵浦一段未抽运的低掺杂铋基掺铒光纤,可以显著地提高放大器长波段信号增益,而噪声系数只是略有增加,理论研究与报道的实验结果达到了比较好的一致。研究结果对于新型宽带Bi-EDFA的设计和应用具有一定实际指导意义。     

基于新型长周期光纤光栅的掺铒光纤放大器

报道了基于高频CO₂激光脉冲写入的新型长周期光纤光栅的低噪音掺铒光纤放大器,这种新型长周期光纤光栅是用大约几千Hz的高频CO₂激光脉冲对光纤玻璃热冲击作用而形成的.在铒纤中插入一个长周期光纤光栅,会明显减少掺铒光纤放大器的放大自发辐射(ASE)噪音.报道了两种低噪音掺铒光纤放大器,作为前置放大器和线路放大器,它们的ASE噪音指数分别从4.0 dB减少到3.5 dB和从4.8 dB减少到4.3 dB,并且在作为线放时,其小信号增益从30 dB提高到37 dB,降噪及提高增益效应十分显著.     

高功率掺镱双包层光纤放大器放大特性理论模拟

 运用掺镱双包层光纤放大器的理论模型，分析了连续和脉冲光放大时放大自发辐射(ASE)的计算方法。采用Runge-Kutta方法求解了考虑ASE稳态时掺镱双包层光纤放大器的放大特性，采用有限差分法求解了矩形、高斯和超高斯脉冲的放大特性。结果表明：用3 m长的双包层光纤、10 W的泵浦功率可以将脉宽3 ns、峰值功率为1 W的脉冲信号光峰值功率放大到15 kW左右；在饱和增益情况下，脉冲的波形变尖，宽度变窄；采用短的大模场双包层光纤和后向泵浦方式可以有效地降低ASE，并避免有害非线性效应。     

超短脉冲染料放大器中的参数研究

对超短脉冲染料放大器(DLA)中放大的自发辐射(ASE)随泵浦强度变化的关系进行了实验研究,为了求得具有高储能、低自发辐射背景噪声的染料激光放大器的泵浦强度,我们用速率方程对实验结果进行了解析分析,获得了染料激光放大器的泵浦强度与染料参数(浓度、增益长度等)的近似关系式,以及相应条件下染料激光放大器储能和小信号增益的表达式,并与实验进行了比较.二者符合较好,从而为染料激光放大器的设计提供了参考.     

WDM系统中碲基掺铒光纤放大器泵浦问题的理论研究

依据均匀加宽四能级结构速率方程组和光功率传输方程组, 对WDM系统中碲基掺铒光纤放大器（EDTFA）的泵浦问题进行了理论研究,给出了三种泵浦方式小信号和大信号状态下EDTFA信号增益分布曲线和放大的自发辐射（ASE）噪声功率谱,在此基础上探讨了EDTFA泵浦方式与信号增益、ASE噪声的关系.     

The influences of amplified spontaneous emission,crystal temperature and round-trip loss on scaling of CW thin-disk laser

In this paper, a model is built to explore how the parameters (amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), temperature and round-trip loss) influence the output power in a thin-disk laser. It is found that optical efficiency of the disk laser is reduced with the increase of ASE, temperature or round-trip loss. The parameters are optimized to maximize the output power based on our model. We find that it is necessary to balance the need to lower the temperature with the need to control ASE during the optimization process. But the balance becomes more difficult to achieve with the increase of round-trip loss. We conclude that output power of more than 2.6 MW with a single disk can be achieved, but the necessary disk size (more than 0.5 m) is far beyond the actual technical limits. But it is possible to achieve output power of over a hundred kilowatts using a 10 cm disk in the near future.     

Role of aggregation in the amplified spontaneous emission of [2-methoxy-5-(2′-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] in solution and films

The amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) spectra of the conjugated polymer [2-methoxy-5-(2′- ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV) is investigated under different conditions such as thin film and solution, solvent type and concentration. Results indicate that aggregation has a pronounced effect on ASE spectra. In solution form, as concentration was increased and thus the proportion of aggregates, a decrease in the ASE emission bandwidth and a red shift of the ASE peak was observed. For the thin film samples, the ASE spectra show two emission bands which were assigned to the first and second vibronic transition of the polymer chains.     

Loss prediction of three-level amplified spontaneous emission sources in radiation environment

A model of three-level amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) sources, considering radiation effect, is proposed to predict radiation induced loss of output power in radiation environment. Radiation absorption parameters of ASE sources model are obtained by the fitting of color centers generation and recovery process of gain loss data at lower dose rate. Gain loss data at higher dose is applied for self-validating. This model takes both the influence of erbium ions absorption and photon bleaching effect into consideration, which makes the prediction of different dose and dose rate more accurate and flexible. The fitness value between ASE model and gain loss data is 99.98%, which also satisfies the extrapolation at the low dose rate. The method and model may serve as a valuable tool to predict ASE performance in harsh environment.     

Amplified spontaneous emission and power amplification in high-power DF laser systems

Amplified spontaneous emission （ASE） always occurs in high-power DF laser systems with master oscillator-power amplifier （MOPA） configuration. ASE not only reduces the energy extraction efficiency of the laser system, but also negatively influences its heat management. The interaction between the ASE flux and the coherent laser flux, as well as the effect of ASE on cuboid DF amplifiers, is studied using a finite difference method and an iterative arithmetic. In addition, the influence of ASE on coherent laser amplification is discussed in detail.     

Performance evaluation of path-averaged soliton pulses in loss-managed 10-Gbps soliton transmission link over a long haul

In this paper, the performance evaluation of path-averaged soliton transmission link for various performance measures viz. OSNR, optical power, extinction ratio, bit error rate (BER) and Q factor at different levels of noise figure and values of pulse width (FWHM) has been carried out. The performance of soliton transmission link is studied, taking into account soliton interaction, amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise and noise figure. The model presented considers interaction in a random sequence of solitons and the effect of the ASE noise added in each amplification stage. The influence of ASE noise, noise figure and pulse width with different amplifier spacing on the BER and quality factor has been investigated. It has been shown that these play dominant roles in degrading the performance measures. We have demonstrated the capability of path-averaged (guiding-centre) soliton for a long-haul distance of 17,000 km at a bit rate of 10 Gbps without ASE effect and noise figure in each amplifier span length of 500 km. The average value of quality factor is found to be 16.6 dB and the average BER is of the order of 10⁻¹² over the transmission distance of 17,000 km. Further, it has been investigated that a severe system penalty results on the inclusion of ASE effect and noise figure in order to achieve the same level of performance. Thus, the investigations ascertain that in order to maintain the same level of BER and Q factor, the amplifier spacing and total transmission distance reduce considerably.     

小信号脉冲抽运时掺铒光纤自发辐射的研究

自发辐射(ASE)是掺铒光纤放大器(EDFA)的重要噪声源,对于由EDFA构成的光纤激光器有重要影响。理论与实践证明,它与抽运方式紧密相关,所以研究脉冲抽运时掺铒光纤(EDF)的自发辐射有重要的学术价值。同时,脉冲抽运对于EDFA锁模激光器的研究也有一定意义。从理论和实验两方面研究了小信号脉冲抽运时,抽运脉冲宽度和幅度对于EDF的自发辐射特性的影响,得到了小信号抽运时输出ASE噪声平均值的近似解析解。研究发现,小信号脉冲抽运时输出信号的幅度与抽运脉冲的宽度成正比。这个新现象可用于脉冲宽度的全光检测。     

Impact of ASE noise in WDM systems

The small signal analysis method is presented for the discussion of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise in dispersion and nonlinear transmission fibers in wavelength division multiplex (WDM) systems. Based on it, the complete ASE noise spectra (include the ASE noise, the ASE noise enhanced by parametric gain and the crosstalk caused by ASE noise and parametric gain) are described and the factors impacting on them are discussed. The crosstalk caused by ASE noise and parametric gain in single mode fibers, non-zero dispersion shift fibers and dispersion compensation fibers are analyzed. Taking into account the dispersion effect in the transmission fibers, the three types of ASE noise may decrease.     

Theoretical application of z-dependent gain coefficient to describe amplified spontaneous emission

Based on the geometrical modeling of the unified gain coefficient and the reported amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) output energy measurement ε(ASE) versus amplifying excitation length, l(AMP) in a KrF laser oscillator, we managed, as an example, to explain the ASE output energy behavior both numerically and analytically. In this approach, introducing the ASE gain-coefficient profile for the KrF laser, g(0,KrF)(ASE), was not avoidable. It was found that while the g(0,KrF)(ASE) profile follows the introduced gain-modeling formulation, it is, however, slightly lower than the KrF laser gain profile, g(0,KrF)(exp), deduced from the measurements reported by different researchers. The present approach, up to the present time, is able to explain all of the existing ambiguities on understanding the ASE behavior.