七芯光子晶体光纤中百瓦量级超连续谱的产生

采用平均功率为141.6 W的皮秒光纤激光泵浦一段国产七芯光子晶体光纤,获得了平均功率为104.2 W、连续光谱覆盖范围从750至1700 nm以上的超连续谱输出.详细研究了超连续光谱随泵浦功率增加的演变过程,并对基于该七芯光子晶体光纤的超连续谱光源的光谱拓展和功率提升潜力进行相关的分析和讨论.该研究结果对高功率超连续谱光源的发展具有一定的参考价值.     

基于空芯光子晶体光纤的单程高效氘气转动拉曼激光光源

报道了一种基于空芯光子晶体光纤中氘气转动受激拉曼散射的单程高效光纤气体激光光源。因空芯光子晶体光纤具有特殊的传输谱,增益相对较大的振动受激拉曼散射被很好地抑制,使得泵浦激光能够高效地向转动斯托克斯光转化。采用自行搭建的1540nm纳秒脉冲光纤放大器,泵浦一段长为20m、充高压氘气的空芯光子晶体光纤,在单程结构中实现了高效的1645nm拉曼激光输出。当气压为2 MPa时,最大平均输出功率约为0.8 W(单脉冲能量约为1.6μJ),激光光源斜率效率约为71.4%。研究结果为1.7μm波段光纤激光的实现提供了一条简单有效的新途径。     

多芯光子晶体光纤高功率超连续谱光源

分析基于单芯光子晶体光纤的超连续谱光源在提升平均输出功率时所面临的问题,指出采用多芯光子晶体光纤作为超连续谱产生介质是一种实现高功率超连续谱产生的潜在方案。使用自制皮秒光纤激光器泵浦一段国产多芯光子晶体光纤,实现了光谱范围750~1700 nm,平均功率42.3 W的全光纤化高功率超连续谱输出。     

一种高效率的L波段掺铒光纤ASE宽带光源

利用双程双向泵浦单级掺铒光纤的结构实现高效率的L波段掺铒光纤放大自发辐射输出，同时选择1480nm半导体激光器作为泵浦源，高掺杂铒光纤为增益介质，通过优化铒光纤长度，获得了在1566-1604 nm（38 nm），自发辐射谱功率高于－16 dBm，总输出功率13.7 dBm的L波段掺铒光纤放大自发辐射光源.该光源结构相比于双程前向泵浦结构的L波段掺铒光纤放大自发辐射光源，其泵浦效率从11.8%提高到23.4%.     

基于高浓度掺铒光纤的平坦宽带光源设计

为了实现高平坦的自发辐射输出,提出并设计了一种基于974nm泵浦源和高掺杂浓度掺铒光纤的平坦宽带光源。系统以泵浦波长974nm的激光二极管作为泵浦源,先将泵浦光分为两路对掺铒光纤分级泵浦,再将铒离子产生的自发辐射光合并输出,并调节铒纤长度和泵浦功率对输出光谱进行优化。仿真结果表明：泵浦功率为160mW,两段掺铒光纤长度分别为7m和2m时,可以在1530～1610nm得到带宽为80nm,功率为20.348mW,平坦度为±1.268dB的光谱输出。该系统在不额外增加滤波器且光纤总长小于10m的前提下,实现平坦宽带输出,有望在光纤传感系统中得到应用。     

基于空芯光纤中氢气受激拉曼散射的1.7μm光纤激光光源研究

报道了一种基于空芯光子晶体光纤中氢气受激拉曼散射的新型1.7μm光纤激光光源。建立了仅包含泵浦光和一阶斯托克斯光的简单稳态耦合波方程,并进行了仿真计算。采用自制的1550 nm纳秒脉冲光纤放大器,泵浦一段长约3 m、充高压氢气的商用空芯光子晶体光纤,利用氢气分子的转动受激拉曼散射实现了1705 nm斯托克斯波的有效转换。气压为1.2 MPa时,最大平均输出功率约0.5 W(单脉冲能量约为2.5μJ),最大光光转换效率约为32%(相对总的泵浦功率)。研究结果为实现高功率1.7μm波段近红外激光输出提供了一条有效的新途径。     

高非线性光子晶体光纤深紫外超连续谱的研究

光子晶体光纤作为光学非线性良好介质,对超连续谱产生具有重要作用。深紫外超连续谱光源在许多应用中有急切的需求,然而由于实验条件和光纤参数等方面的影响,利用高非线性光子晶体光纤产生深紫外(<280 nm)超连续谱的报道较少。通过理论和实验研究了高非线性光子晶体光纤在深紫外区的频率变换,并分析其产生的物理机理。使用钛宝石飞秒激光器将实验室自制的光子晶体光纤在反常色散区泵浦,研究了不同泵浦功率和泵浦波长对深紫外区超连续谱的影响,结果表明：泵浦波长固定为860 nm时,深紫外频率光谱展宽范围随泵浦功率的增加而逐渐展宽;泵浦功率固定为0.4 W时,泵浦波长的增加不仅展宽超连续谱范围而且极大的提高了深紫外区光谱的转换效率。当泵浦波长为870 nm,泵浦功率为0.4 W,实验所用光子晶体光纤长度为1.45 m,零色散波长为825 nm时,光子与色散波的交叉相位调制使深紫外基模超连续谱扩展到最短波长212 nm。     

芯泵浦高功率宽带谱平坦长波段光纤光源

为了获得高功率、宽带宽及谱平坦的长波段掺铒光纤光源,基于2级双程芯泵浦,应用偏振复用技术实现泵浦瓦级供给,在泵浦总功率和光纤总长度都不变的情况下,数值分析了4种光源结构的输出特性受泵浦和光纤分配比例的影响。结果表明,4种结构基本都能工作于L波段（1 565 nm~1 610 nm）,带宽受结构影响较小,但只有双程后向+双程后向结构可同时拥有高输出功率和高平坦度。其在总泵浦功率750 mW,第一级泵浦功率为300 mW,第二级泵浦功率为450 mW时,和光纤总长度21 m,第一级光纤长度为18 m,第二级光纤长度为3 m时,可实现输出功率314 mW,带宽32.41 nm,中心波长1 584.84 nm,平坦度2.23 dB的L波段超荧光光源。     

光子晶体光纤中超连续谱产生的理论与实验研究

研究了光子晶体光纤中超连续激光光源的产生机理.利用非线性偏振旋转技术产生的中心波长为1 556.0 nm的飞秒光脉冲作为泵浦光源,在69 m长的高非线性光子晶体光纤中,得到了20 dB带宽约为140 nm的超连续谱;采用实验和数值模拟方法,研究了不同泵浦功率下超连续谱形成的过程.结果表明,在不同的泵浦功率下,超连续谱的形成机理不同,在各种非线性效应的共同作用下,泵浦光脉冲的峰值功率越高,得到超连续谱的带宽越宽,实验与数值模拟结果一致.另外,要想获得平坦的宽带超连续谱,必须选择合适的光纤长度.     

基于掺铒光子晶体光纤超荧光光源的实验研究

为了改进传统掺铒光纤超荧光光源的输出稳定性,提出基于掺铒光子晶体光纤的超荧光光源。构建了单程后向结构掺铒光子晶体光纤超荧光光源,研究了这种新型光源的输出特性。分析了掺铒光子晶平均波长体光纤长度和抽运功率对光源输出功率、光谱谱宽和平均波长的影响。结果表明,通过优化选取光纤长度28m和抽运功率220mW,获得了单程后向结构超荧光光源输出如下:输出功率45.74mW、光-光转换效率20.79%、谱宽31.5nm和平均波长1548.003nm。该实验结果为进一步研究掺铒光子晶体光纤超荧光光源在不同环境下的稳定性奠定了基础。     

微结构光纤次芯中的四波混频过程

利用Ti:sapphire飞秒激光脉冲在微结构光纤包层的次芯中通过参量四波混频效应获得480—550nm的反斯托克斯波,转换效率可高达28%. 通过改变输入光的偏振方向可以调节反斯托克斯波的中心波长. 理论模拟了飞秒激光在次芯中的模式特性和色散特性,较好地解释了实验结果. 关键词： 微结构光纤 飞秒激光脉冲 参量四波混频过程     

Tuning the frequency of ultrashort laser pulses by a cross-phase-modulation-induced shift in a photonic crystal fiber

Femtosecond pulses of fundamental Cr:forsterite laser radiation are used as a pump field to tune the frequency of copropagating second-harmonic pulses of the same laser through cross-phase modulation in a photonic crystal fiber. Sub-100-kW femtosecond pump pulses coupled into a photonic crystal fiber with an appropriate dispersion profile can shift the central frequency of the probe field by more than 100 nm, suggesting a convenient way to control propagation and spectral transformations of ultrashort laser pulses.     

Different supercontinuum generation processes in photonic crystal fibers pumped with a 1064-nm picosecond pulse

Picosecond pulse pumped supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber is investigated by performing a series of comparative experiments. The main purpose is to investigate the supercontinuum generation processes excited by a given pump source through the experimental study of some specific fibers. A 20-W all-fiber picosecond master oscillator-power amplifier （MOPA） laser is used to pump three different kinds of photonic crystal fibers for supercontinuum generation. Three diverse supercontinuum formation processes are observed to correspond to photonie crystal fibers with distinct dis- persion properties. The experimental results are consistent with the relevant theoretical results. Based on the above analyses, a watt-level broadband white light supercontinuum source spanning from 500 nm to beyond 1700 nm is demonstrated by using a picosecond fiber laser in combination with the matched photonic crystal fiber. The limitation of the group velocity matching curve of the photonic crystal fiber is also discussed in the paper.     

All fiber supercontinuum light source using photonic crystal fibers pumped by nanosecond fiber laser pulses

A novel compact supercontinuum (SC) source using the single mode photonic crystal fibers (PCF) pumped with an all fiber MOPA fiber laser is demonstrated experimentally. A bandwidth of 700 nm is achieved by operating the pumping fiber laser at a wavelength of 1064 nm, pulse duration of 10 ns, repetition rate of 50 kHz and peak power of 1 kW. The SC generation is initiated through modulation instability (MI) which breakups the nanosecond pump pulses into picosecond or femtosecond pulses, and further broadened through nonlinear effects of PCF.     

Enhanced violet Cherenkov radiation generation in GeO2-doped photonic crystal fiber

We demonstrate the generation of highly efficient Cherenkov radiation (CR) in the fundamental mode of a GeO₂-doped two zero dispersion wavelengths photonic crystal fiber (PCF). Using a high power femtosecond Yb-doped PCF laser emitting 100 fs pulses as the pump source, CR with an efficiency of >40 % and a bandwidth of 38 nm is obtained in the visible-wavelength range when the average power of pump light is 1.27 W. It is that injecting the pump light in deep anomalous dispersion regime contributes to such an efficient spectrally isolated CR. The mechanism during the forming of CR is discussed and the experimental results are in good agreement with the calculation.     

Tunable light source for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microspectroscopy based on the soliton self-frequency shift

We present a photonic crystal fiber (PCF)-based light source for generating tunable excitation pulses (pump and Stokes) that are applicable to coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microspectroscopy. The laser employed is an unamplified Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser oscillator. The CARS pump pulse is generated by spectral compression of a laser pulse in a PCF. The Stokes pulse is generated by redshifting a laser pulse in a PCF through the soliton self-frequency shift. This setup allows for probing up to 4000 cm(-1) with a spectral resolution of approximately 25 cm(-1). We characterize the stability and robustness of CARS microspectroscopy employing this light source.     

High-power intracavity frequency doubling of a Ti:sapphire femtosecond oscillator

We demonstrate intracavity frequency doubling of a standard femtosecond Ti:sapphire oscillator. The cavity is extended with a pair of focusing mirrors and a 0.5-mm-thick BBO crystal. We achieve a repetition rate of 50 MHz and simultaneously generate 22 mW of 55-fs pulses at 810 nm and 200 mW of 73-fs pulses at 405 nm, which corresponds to 4 nJ per pulse. We create a total of 330-mW, 405-nm light when pumping the Ti:sapphire crystal with 5.7 W from an Ar-ion laser, corresponding to a conversion efficiency of 5.7%. No saturation is found, which implies that higher outputs can be achieved with higher pump rates. Preliminary results from the use of blue pulses as pump in an optical parametric amplifier seeded by pulses from a photonic crystal fiber are presented. Received: 27 January 2003 / Revised version: 27 March 2003 / Published online: 12 May 2003 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. Fax: +45-861/96199, E-mail: tva@chem.au.dk     

Generation of wideband tunable femtosecond laser based on nonlinear propagation of power-scaled mode-locked femtosecond laser pulses in photonic crystal fiber

We implement an experimental study for the generation of wideband tunable femtosecond laser with a home-made power-scaled mode-locked fiber oscillator as the pump source.By coupling the sub-100 fs mode-locked pulses into a nonlinear photonic crystal fiber(NL-PCF),the exited spectra have significant nonlinear broadening and cover a spectra range of hundreds of nm.In experiment,by reasonably optimizing the structure parameters of NL-PCF and regulating the power of the incident pulses,femtosecond laser with tuning range of 900-1290 nm is realized.The research approach promotes the development of femtosecond lasers with center wavelengths out of the traditional laser gain media toward the direction of simplicity and ease of implementation.     

Generation of femtosecond anti-stokes pulses through phase-matched parametric four-wave mixing in a photonic crystal fiber

Phase-matched parametric four-wave mixing in higher-order guided modes of a photonic crystal fiber is shown to result in an efficient decay of 40-fs 800-nm Ti:sapphire laser pump pulses into an anti-Stokes signal with a central wavelength around 590-600 nm and a Stokes signal centered at 1.25 microm. The photonic crystal fiber is designed in such a way as to minimize the group-velocity dispersion at the pump wavelength, phase match the parametric four-wave-mixing process, and reduce the group delay between the pump and the anti-Stokes pulses. The duration of the anti-Stokes pulse under these conditions, as shown by cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical gating measurements, is less than 200 fs.     

飞秒激光在光子晶体光纤中产生超连续光谱机制的实验研究

报道了利用零色散在780nm处的光子晶体光纤与纳焦耳量级的飞秒激光脉冲相互作用的实验结果.实验使用35fs，中心波长810—840nm，单脉冲能量可达14nJ的飞秒激光光源获得了超过一个倍频程的平坦超连续光谱（500—1100nm）.在不同功率、不同中心波长、不同啁啾和有无直流成分的多种飞秒脉冲激光的条件下，研究了超连续光谱的产生情况.并对一系列现象进行了对比，分析了超连续光谱产生的机制. 关键词： 光子晶体光纤 飞秒脉冲激光 超连续光谱