光子晶体光纤中受激布里渊散射慢光研究

基于受激布里渊散射的慢光在全光通信中具有重要的应用前景。传统的光纤作为慢光介质,具有较低的延迟效率,对光纤长度和抽运功率要求较高,而高非线性光子晶体光纤作为慢光介质应用于慢光系统,可以提高系统的延迟效率。实验选用一段70m长的高非线性光子晶体光纤作为慢光介质,在抽运功率101mW情况下,50ns脉冲信号获得了33dB的布里渊增益,脉冲延迟了30ns,延迟效率达到了0.0046ns/(mW.m),是普通单模光纤的13.7倍。该光纤应用于受激布里渊散射慢光系统可以有效缩短光纤长度和降低对抽运功率的要求,具有潜在的应用前景。     

光纤中双宽带抽运SBS慢光及其脉冲展宽减小的理论研究

提出了一种单模光纤中采用双宽带抽运实现宽带受激布罩渊散射(SBS)慢光的方法.给出了双宽带抽运的SBS慢光及其脉冲展宽的理论模型.色散分析发现,两抽运光间存在一个最佳的频率间隔,可有效地减少由于群速度色散所引起的脉冲展宽.理论计算表明,该方案所获得的SBS增益带宽和信号脉冲群延迟分别提高到了相同条件下单宽带抽运的1.7倍和2倍.     

受激布里渊散射光脉冲波形的研究

从实验和理论上研究了受激布里渊散射(SBS)光脉冲波形.在Nd∶YAG调Q激光器中实验研究了SBS光脉冲波形随抽运光参数、结构参数和介质参数的变化规律，并利用SBS理论模型进行了数值模拟，实验与数值模拟结果的变化趋势基本一致.结果表明，抽运光能量越小，透镜焦距越短，镜-池间距越长，介质声子寿命越长，SBS光脉冲波形就越不容易出现调制现象.分析和讨论了抽运光参数、结构参数和介质参数对SBS光脉冲波形的影响机理. 关键词： 受激布里渊散射 脉冲波形 抽运光参数 结构参数     

高非线性微结构光纤中基于受激布里渊散射的慢光延迟

全光连续可调的慢光技术在全光网络和光信息处理等领域具有重要的应用前景. 利用自行设计并拉制的高非线性微结构光纤, 实验研究了基于受激布里渊散射的可调谐慢光延迟. 采用单抽运光和单级延迟方案, 当抽运光功率为162.6 mW时, 在长度为120 m的高非线性微结构光纤中获得了最大76 ns的延迟量, 相当于0.76个脉冲宽度. 通过调节抽运光功率的大小, 可以实现对慢光延迟量的可调谐.该慢光延迟方案具有延迟量大、 全光可调谐及与现有光通信系统兼容等优势. 关键词： 慢光 微结构光纤 受激布里渊散射     

掺铒光纤中方波信号高次谐波的快慢光特性

光纤中方波信号的慢光技术在全光通信和光纤传感等领域具有重要的应用前景. 提出了谐波相对延时量的度量方法, 分别采用速率方程和相干布居振荡理论, 对掺铒光纤中方波信号的基波和高次谐波的快慢光特性进行了研究. 在无抽运光输入情况下, 改变入射光功率, 入射探测光的基波最大相对延时量能达到20%, 且存在实现最大相对延时量的入射光功率为8 mW; 在有抽运光输入的情况下, 改变信号光增益, 入射探测光的基波相对超前量同样能达到-20%, 且随着信号光增益的增大而增加. N次谐波(N=1, 3, 5, 7, …)在频率f/N(f为基波信号最大延时量对应的调制频率)处有最大相对延时量, 且它们的最大延时量相同, 频率处于相干布居振荡引起的光谱烧孔带宽内.     

并联结构微光纤双结谐振器中的慢光效应

为了研究基于微光纤的谐振器中的慢光效应,设计并制作了并联结构的微光纤双结谐振器.基于环形谐振器和方向耦合器理论,提出并联结构微光纤双结谐振器的理论模型,分析了该谐振器中光场传输和耦合的方向,推导了该谐振器中输出光场与输入光场之间的数学解析式和群延时表达式.通过数值模拟,给出了有关该谐振器的透射光谱和群延时,分析了群延时与透射光谱中谐振波长的对应关系.数值结果表明在该谐振器中,大的群延时能够在具有大消光比的谐振波长处产生.实验制作了一个并联结构的微光纤双结谐振器,测得的透射光谱与理论模拟相一致,验证了该谐振器理论分析的正确性.利用示波器上脉冲延时的方法,搭建了慢光延时测量系统,测得该谐振器中大约75 ps的群延时,远大于现有文献中的值.该谐振器可用于微纳光学的数据延时线、光学开关和光学存储等.     

两种基于交叉相位调制的光脉冲压缩方案

基于交叉相位调制的时间透镜可实现精确的二次相位调制, 但是它在光脉冲压缩领域的应用受到了抽运光脉冲的峰值功率过高的限制. 对该峰值功率的表达式进行了推导, 提出使用带有正色散的传输介质来实现输出段色散, 从而降低了抽运光脉冲的峰值功率.并进一步指出, 可以将基于交叉相位调制的时间透镜应用于4f系统, 来实现光脉冲压缩, 从而更有效地降低了抽运光脉冲的峰值功率. 推导了该系统的抽运光脉冲的峰值功率和分辨率的表达式, 并进行了光脉冲压缩的仿真分析.研究结果表明, 在基于交叉相位调制的4f系统中, 可以利用峰值功率较低的抽运光脉冲产生飞秒量级超短光脉冲; 随着压缩系数的提高, 输出光脉冲的脉冲宽度主要受到4f系统分辨率的限制, 并对4f系统分辨率的提高进行了讨论.     

半导体激光器输出混沌光的延时特性和带宽

提出一个新的方案用于抑制半导体激光器输出混沌光的延时特性并研究其带宽.在该方案中,将由伪随机信号驱动的相位调制器加到具有双路光反馈的半导体激光器的两个反馈腔中,从而构成具有双路相位调制光反馈的分布反馈半导体激光器系统.数值研究了延迟时间和反馈系数等参数对该系统输出混沌光的延时特性的影响,用自相关函数曲线中的延时特征峰的最大值表示延时特性.然后将该系统对延时特性的抑制效果和具有双路光反馈的分布反馈半导体激光器系统以及具有单路相位调制光反馈的分布反馈半导体激光器系统进行比较,结果表明本文所提出方案的抑制效果最好.进而基于能有效抑制延时特性的参数条件研究了具有双路相位调制光反馈的分布反馈半导体激光器输出混沌光的带宽,结果表明,抽运因子的增大和反馈系数的增加都能使系统输出混沌光的带宽变大.     

光纤中基于双宽带抽运的受激布里渊散射增益谱展宽及慢光传输中脉冲失真减小的理论研究

分析了单模光纤中双宽带抽运的受激布里渊散射 （stimulated Brillouin scattering,SBS） 光速减慢效应.模拟了两高斯型宽带抽运光同时作用下的SBS增益谱和损耗谱,提出了一种获得均匀增益谱的方法.由于较强抽运光增益谱的中心频率与较弱抽运光损耗谱的中心频率相重合,通过调节较弱抽运光的功率和谱宽,能够部分地抵消掉较强增益谱的顶部从而构建出平坦的增益谱.研究了该平顶增益情形下信号脉冲畸变的性质.与单宽带抽运下脉冲畸变的对比表明,这种产生平顶增益谱的方法能有效地减小脉冲畸变. 关键词： 慢光 受激布里渊散射（SBS） 单模光纤 脉冲失真     

非线性光纤环镜在受激布里渊散射慢光级联系统中的可行性研究

基于非线性光纤环镜(NOLM)的脉冲压缩特性,分析了NOLM在基于受激布里渊散射(SBS)慢光级联系统中对延迟脉冲的影响.利用环形结构来模拟多次级联,有效地降低了系统的复杂度,得到了在不同抽运光功率和级联次数下脉冲的延迟输出特性.理论分析表明,NOLM可以有效地抑制SBS慢光级联系统中延迟脉冲的展宽,抽运光功率决定了展宽因子的变化趋势及最终稳定值的大小,展宽因子在级联4次时趋于稳定值,恰当选取抽运光功率可实现脉冲的零展宽延迟;改变抽运光功率和级联次数可以实现延迟量的连续可调,且延迟量理论上不受限制;增大抽 关键词： 慢光 脉冲压缩 非线性光纤环镜 受激布里渊散射     

Phase conjugation in biharmonically pumped two-photon resonant systems

Phase conjugation through four-wave mixing is considered in a two-photon resonant medium pumped by two distinct-frequency counter-propagating beams. This configuration eliminates the formation of stationary spatial holes. The relative magnitude of the pump intensities plays an important role and the phase-conjugation efficiency is found to be maximum for unequal values of the pump intensities.     

Threshold reduction of stimulated Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fiber

A simple configuration for the reduction of stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold in photonic crystal fiber is presented. The threshold reduction is contributed by the bidirectional pumping scheme through the reflection of transmitted Brillouin pump back to the gain medium. The pump recycling scheme has greatly reduced the Brillouin threshold of a 200-m long of photonic crystal fiber from 50 to 30 mW of Brillouin pump power.     

Analytical modelling of end thermal coupling in a solid-state laser longitudinally bonded by a vertical-cavity top-emitting laser diode

The intrinsic features involving a circularly symmetric beam profile with low divergence, planar geometry as well as the increasingly enhanced power of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have made the VCSEL a promising pump source in direct end bonding to a solid-state laser medium to form the minimized, on-wafer integrated laser system. This scheme will generate a surface contact pump configuration and thus additional end thermal coupling to the laser medium through the joint interface of both materials, apart from pump beam heating. This paper analytically models temperature distributions in both VCSEL and the laser medium from the end thermal coupling regarding surface contact pump configuration using a top-emitting VCSEL as the pump source for the first time. The analytical solutions are derived by introducing relative temperature and mean temperature expressions. The results show that the end contact heating by the VCSEL could lead to considerable temperature variations associated with thermal phase shift and thermal lensing in the laser medium. However, if the central temperature of the interface is increased by less than 20~K, the end contact heating does not have a significant thermal influence on the laser medium. In this case, the thermal effect should be dominated by pump beam heating. This work provides useful analytical results for further analysis of hybrid thermal effects on those lasers pumped by a direct VCSEL bond.     

Directivity influence of signals propagation through EDFA gain medium of Brillouin-erbium fiber laser

We experimentally demonstrate a multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser in two configurations; uni-directional and bi-directional propagation of Brillouin pump and Brillouin Stokes signals through an Erbium-doped fiber gain. The influence of these configurations on the performance of the output parameters in terms of lasing threshold, output channel generation and tuning range of the generated output channels are investigated. We discovered that there is a trade-off between these two fiber laser configurations. The uni-directional amplifier configuration provides greater tuning range of 46.8 nm against 23 nm at maximum Brillouin pump power of 2 mW and 1480-nm pump power of 130 mW. On the other hand, the bi-directional amplifier configuration provides 13 output channels against 6 output channels obtained from the uni-directional amplifier configuration at the same pumping powers. Nevertheless, the bi-directional amplifier configuration requires much lower pump power to initiate lasing.     

Edge multi-facet pumping configuration for thin gain lasers

In this article an edge-facet and multi aperture pumped thin gain laser with highly efficient and simple pump optics is reported. The crystal configuration is a symmetrical hexagonal Composite Yb:YAG/YAG with slanted sides. Three diodes are placed outside the hexagonal shape disk, and the emitting light is coupled via three lens ducts through its three slanted edges and propagates through the disk along the zigzag path and repeatedly passes the gain medium, thus pump uniformity and absorption efficiency are improved. A comprehensive numerical model is utilized in the laser designing process. 192 W output power with good beam quality was achieved from this laser configuration.     

Speckle interferometry methods for displacement and strain measurements using photorefractive crystal

Photorefractive crystals offer several attractive features such as high resolution and in situ processing. As the images are erasable, these crystals are suitable for read–write applications and hence find potential use in speckle photography, image processing and holography. The barium titanate (BaTiO₃) crystal as recording medium has been extensively used as a novelty filter for real-time in-plane displacement measurements employing two-beam coupling configuration. This paper presents new optical configurations in speckle shear photography to measure in-plan displacement and the strain in real time using BaTiO₃ crystal as recording medium. Speckle photography studies are made using a simple two-beam coupling configuration. In speckle shear photography, a diffused object illuminated with two parallel narrow laser beams is imaged inside the crystal, and a pump beam is added at this plane. The speckle patterns due to each beam and the pump beam produce index gratings. When the object is deformed, the speckle patterns shift consequently. We now have four speckle fields: two generated from the interaction of pump beam with the index gratings and two pertaining to deformed states directly transmitted through the crystal. Thus, the fields from respective points on the object interfere after passage through the crystal and produce the Young's fringe patterns. Due to strain, the fringes in each pattern are of different width and orientation, resulting in the generation of a Moiré pattern. The strain is obtained from the width and orientation of the fringes in the Moiré pattern. The experiments are conducted on a specimen with a notch, which is subjected to tensile loading. The in-plane displacement is measured separately in another experiment. The above studies are carried out at Nd–Yag laser.     

Dynamics of the Stokes pulse in a Brillouin amplifier

We show that the output Stoke pulse from a continuously (CW) pumped stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) amplifier is the sum of the transmitted input Stokes pulse, which propagates undistorted through the medium without amplification and additional delay, and of a Stokes shifted pump signal reflected by the electrostrictively induced acoustic wave, which contributes to the Stokes output signal with a delay determined by the time required for build up of the acoustic wave.     

复合结构掠入射板条放大器热效应的模拟分析

为了研究复合结构掠入射板条放大器的热效应,采用在Nd:YVO4晶体抽运面上键合具有高热导率性能的蓝宝石的复合结构,并建立了相应的热力学模型,对激光介质的温度场分布、光程差（OPD）和热透镜效应进行了详细的理论分析,利用有限元分析软件COMSOL模拟了晶体内部的温度、应变、光程差（OPD）及热焦距的分布情况。结果表明,板条厚度为2 mm、键合层厚度1 mm、抽运功率60 W时,复合结构相对于单一结构最高温度下降了约50 K,晶体中的最大形变量降低超过了1/3,极大地降低了介质中的热效应。     

利用染料片吸收控制受激布里渊散射功率限幅波形

理论研究了受激布里渊散射过程中功率限幅响应特性.采用高斯型入射脉冲，数值模拟了抽运参数(抽运峰值功率密度、抽运脉冲宽度)，介质参数(增益系数、声子寿命)和结构参数(聚焦透镜焦距、介质池长)等物理参数影响限幅输出波形中剩余峰的特性规律.对如何控制剩余峰进行了理论分析.研究表明，声子寿命较小、增益系数大的布里渊介质光限幅响应较好，声子寿命较大、增益系数小的布里渊介质光限幅响应较差；无法单纯通过控制布里渊介质参数来完全消除剩余峰.实验上采用染料片吸收剩余峰，获得接近平顶的限幅输出波形.     

用双光源相位共轭型非相干光时间延迟简并四波混频测量超快速过程

本文提出用双光源相位共轭型非相干光时间延迟简并四波混频测量失相时间和布居弛豫时间的理论,并对其应用进行了讨论.