双芯光子晶体光纤中的模式干涉

应用全矢量超格子叠加模型分析了双芯光子晶体光纤(PCF)的模式特征.双芯PCF的基模和二次模分别由偏振方向不同的两个偶模和两个奇模组成，讨论了这四个模式的模式电场奇偶性.基于对双芯PCF模式电场奇偶性的认识，讨论了光纤中的矢量模式干涉问题.分析表明，不同偏振态模式的干涉不会引起芯间的功率转移，双芯PCF的芯间功率耦合是由相同偏振模式的干涉引起的.在相同偏振模式干涉过程中，光功率在两个芯子中呈余弦振荡，光纤的两个芯子一般存在约π／2的相位差.还讨论了两个不同偏振方向的耦合系数与波长的关系. 关键词： 光子晶体光纤 双芯光纤 模式 干涉 耦合     

光子晶体光纤拉制中工艺参数的控制

分析了光子晶体光纤拉制中各工艺参数之间的相互影响,建立了工艺参数与最终光纤结构之间的对应关系.在温度和送料速度的协调控制下,通过调节气压参数可有效控制气孔结构.实验拉制出孔径孔距比分别为0.45和0.8的单模以及高占空比光子晶体光纤.在制备非均匀孔径光子晶体光纤时,仅靠调控工艺参数往往难以拉制出理想结构,本文以一种单偏振单模PCF结构为例,对预制棒结构进行了优化设计.计算表明可由此拉制出满足要求的光子晶体光纤. 关键词： 光子晶体光纤 工艺参数 气压控制 气孔结构     

一种基于模间干涉的亚波长直径光纤气体折射率传感

设计了一种基于模间干涉的亚波长直径光纤气体折射率传感方案,并分析了其测量灵敏度.将标准单模光纤和一段仅传输基模与二阶模的无包层亚波长直径光纤结合形成传感头,通过分析传感头外气体折射率的变化对两个模式干涉谱峰值移动的影响,研究了这种传感器的折射率测量灵敏度.结果表明,这种传感器的灵敏度高于利用折射率引导型光子晶体光纤的基于模间干涉的折射率传感器.因为没有气体向微孔扩散的过程,这种基于模间干涉的亚波长光纤折射率传感器可用于实时探测.     

一种基于模间干涉的亚波长直径光纤气体折射率传感

设计了一种基于模间干涉的亚波长直径光纤气体折射率传感方案,并分析了其测量灵敏度.将标准单模光纤和一段仅传输基模与二阶模的无包层亚波长直径光纤结合形成传感头,通过分析传感头外气体折射率的变化对两个模式干涉谱峰值移动的影响,研究了这种传感器的折射率测量灵敏度.结果表明,这种传感器的灵敏度高于利用折射率引导型光子晶体光纤的基于模间干涉的折射率传感器.因为没有气体向微孔扩散的过程,这种基于模间干涉的亚波长光纤折射率传感器可用于实时探测.     

大模场光子晶体光纤激光器研究获得新进展

大模场光子晶体光纤(Photonic Crystal Fiber,PCF)是通过设计光子晶体光纤的微结构来获得大模场单模面积的一种新型特种光纤．目前PCF的模场面积可以做1500μm^2以上,比传统单模光纤的模场面积大一个数量级,因此大模场PCF可以承受和传输更高的激光功率,并且具有高转换效率、高亮度、高光束质量等优点．同时利用PCF的微结构可设计特性,把大模场PCF的包层设计成高数值孔径的双包层结构,可大大提高泵浦耦合效率．     

基于光纤拉锥模场匹配技术的光子晶体光纤低损耗熔接

光子晶体光纤(PCF)与普通单模光纤(SMF)的低损耗熔接技术是光子晶体光纤走向实用化必须解决的关键技术问题。提出一种基于光纤拉锥模场匹配技术的光子晶体光纤低损耗熔接的新方法,利用熔融拉锥机对模场不匹配的两类PCF进行预处理,结合常规电弧放电熔接技术对三种不同类型的PCF与SMF的熔接损耗进行实验研究。在实验中通过精确控制熔融拉锥机各种参数,实现了不同模场直径PCF和SMF的模场匹配,该方案同时通过优化各种电弧放电参数,使熔接后的损耗降到了0.3dB以下,实现了PCF-SMF之间低损耗、高强度的熔接,满足了不同模场PCF实际应用的要求,具有很好的潜在应用价值。     

热激法光子晶体光纤光栅制备工艺中热传导特性研究

研究了基于结构性改变的光子晶体光纤光栅的热激法制备工艺,理论分析了此种工艺的成栅原理,采用热传导理论和有限元法研究了制备过程中光子晶体光纤中的温度场分布,以及包层空气孔结构和激光参数对成栅效果的影响.研究结果表明,利用光子晶体光纤包层空气孔周期性塌缩可以形成光栅;采用两点热激法时,能够实现能量在光纤径向均匀分布,轴向近似于高斯分布;包层气孔结构加速了成栅过程,相同光斑尺寸下,光纤塌缩所需激光功率随气孔层数和气孔半径的增大而减小;最后,对包层空气孔结构为1层到7层的光子晶体光纤热激过程进行仿真,得到了空气填 关键词： 光纤光栅 光子晶体光纤 热激法 有限元法     

基于锥形光子晶体光纤马赫-曾德尔干涉的曲率传感器实验研究

提出了一种基于锥形光子晶体光纤(TPCF)马赫-曾德尔干涉的曲率传感器。它是通过将光子晶体光纤(PCF)两端与普通单模光纤(SMF)电弧熔接,并对PCF进行拉锥构成的SMF-TPCF-SMF结构,总长度为20 mm。在传感器制备过程中,通过调节熔接机的相关参数,使得熔接点处PCF空气孔完全塌陷,以便更好地激发包层模式,同时通过选择合适的PCF长度和拉锥长度使得传感器具有较高的曲率灵敏度。实验结果表明,随着传感器曲率的不断增大,其传输光谱出现明显蓝移现象。在0~1.16 m-1的曲率范围内,其曲率灵敏度为-5.39297 nm/m-1,且具有较好的线性度。该传感器具有结构简单、易于制造、灵敏度高等优点,且与其他结构传感器相比,能够消除温度的交叉敏感问题,可用于桥梁、建筑、道路等曲率传感领域。     

大模场掺镱双包层光子晶体光纤内包层新型结构研究

制备了掺镱多组分硅酸盐光子晶体光纤纤芯材料。其折射率为1.586,有效荧光半高宽为85.3 nm,荧光寿命为1.30 ms。分析了光纤结构参数对光子晶体光纤的归一化频率（单模截止条件）、数值孔径、有效模面积、非线性效应和限制损耗等参数的影响。设计了以该材料为纤芯,内包层为八边形、五层空气孔的新型结构光子晶体光纤。用有限元法对该光子晶体光纤性能进行了数值模拟。结果表明,该光纤有效模场面积为1 150 μm²;当空气孔直径为21.6 μm、孔间距为60 μm时,内包层数值孔径达到0.45。     

混合导光机制光子晶体光纤双芯耦合研究

提出了一种同时基于全内反射和光子带隙效应两种导光机制的双芯光子晶体光纤(PCF),并采用全矢量有限元法对其耦合特性进行了分析。该种光子晶体光纤双芯间的耦合不同于基于单一导光机制的双芯光子晶体光纤,出现了超模交替截止、耦合长度存在极大值等现象,光纤两纤芯间高折射率柱的谐振在双芯间的耦合过程中起着重要的作用。通过改变光纤中空气孔的大小及间距可以显著改变光纤的耦合长度,而改变高折射率柱的折射率可对耦合长度极大值的位置进行调节。     

Photonic crystal fiber interferometer composed of a long period fiber grating and one point collapsing of air holes

We present an all-fiber interferometer fabricated with a single piece of an endless single-mode photonic crystal fiber (PCF) by an electric arc discharge. By forming a long period grating (LPG) at a point and collapsing the air holes at another point along the PCF, the simple but effective interferometer could be implemented. The LPG made a strong wavelength selective mode coupling between the core and cladding modes in the interesting wavelength range, while the air-hole collapse induced wavelength independent mode couplings. By cascading them, we could implement the all-fiber interferometer. As a potential application of the proposed all PCF interferometer, strain sensing is experimentally demonstrated.     

Design of highly birefringent chalcogenide glass PCF: A simplest design

In this article, a new simplified structure of a highly birefringent chalcogenide As₂Se₃ glass photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is designed and analyzed by using fully vectorial finite element method. The effective indices, confinement loss, birefringence, and chromatic dispersion of fundamental polarized mode are calculated in the proposed PCF for a wide wavelength range. To maintain the polarization in chalcogenide As₂Se₃ glass PCF, we enlarged two of the central air holes and reduced two transverse air holes for achieving high birefringence. This helps in creating an effective index difference between the two orthogonal polarization modes. It is also shown that As₂Se₃ glass PCF provides lower chromatic dispersion and less confinement loss compared to silica PCF of the same structure in wavelength range 1.3 to 1.8 μm and hence such chalcogenide As₂Se₃ glass PCF have high potential to be used in dispersion compensating and birefringence application in optical communication systems. In addition to this, the polarization mode dispersion (PMD) result of the proposed PCF is also reported.     

Temperature-independent curvature sensor based on tapered photonic crystal fiber interferometer

A temperature-independent highly-sensitive curvature sensor by using a tapered-photonic crystal fiber (PCF)-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. It is fabricated by sandwiching a tapered-PCF between two standard single mode fibers (SMFs) with the air holes of the PCF in the fusion splicing region being fully collapsed. The tapering of PCF is found to enhance the sensitivity significantly. Large curvature sensitivities of 2.81 dB/m⁻¹ and 8.35 dB/m⁻¹ are achieved in the measurement ranges of 0.36-0.87 m⁻¹ and 0.87-1.34 m⁻¹, respectively, with the resolution of 0.0012 m⁻¹ being guaranteed. The proposed sensor also shows negligible temperature sensitivity less than 0.006 dB/°C.     

Numerical investigation of a broadband coherent supercontinuum generation in Ga8Sb32S60 chalcogenide photonic crystal fiber with all-normal dispersion

All normal dispersion (ANDi) and highly nonlinear chalcogenide glass photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is proposed and numerically investigated for a broad, coherent and ultra-flat mid-infrared supercontinuum generation. The proposed PCF consists of a solid core made of Ga₈Sb₃₂S₆₀ glass surrounded by seven rings of air holes arranged in a triangular lattice. We show by employing the finite difference frequency domain (FDFD) method that the Ga₈Sb₃₂S₆₀ PCF dispersion properties can be engineered by carefully adjusting the air holes diameter in the cladding region and ANDi regime is achieved over the entire range of wavelengths with a zero chromatic dispersion around 4.5?μm. Moreover, we demonstrate that injecting 50?fs width and 20?kW peak power laser pulses (corresponding to a pulse energy of 1.06?nJ) at a pump wavelength of 4.5?μm into a 1?cm long ANDi Ga₈Sb₃₂S₆₀ PCF generates a broad, flat-top and perfectly coherent SC spectrum extending from 1.65?μm to 9.24?μm at the 20?dB spectral flatness. These results make the proposed Ga₈Sb₃₂S₆₀ PCF an excellent candidate for various important mid-infrared region applications including mid-infrared spectroscopy, medical imaging, optical coherence tomography and materials characterization.     

Dispersion Properties of Photonic Crystal Fiber: Comparison by Scalar and Fully Vectorial Effective Index Methods

The development of analysis and simulation of propagation characteristics of photonic crystal fiber (PCF) using scalar and fully vectorial effective index methods are described. As a result, we report how the fundamental space filling mode, guided mode and dispersion of the PCF depends on its structural parameters like its normalized air hole spacing, center-to-center spacing of the air holes in the photonic crystal or pitch and radius of the unit cell. Normalized frequency parameter V_eff as a function of normalized wavelength for various relative air hole sizes is obtained to estimate the dispersion characteristics of PCF. It is observed that wavelength of zero dispersion, ultraflattened dispersion response and high negative dispersion remarkably differ from two different effective index methods.     

太赫兹正六边形光子晶体光纤的液体传感

设计了一种分别填充水、酒精和苯炔等边三角形空气孔纤芯、包层空气孔排列为正六边形结构、以环烯烃共聚物作为基底材料的光子晶体光纤,利用有限元法模拟了0.3~1.5 THz频带内的液体传感特性。结果表明,设计的光子晶体光纤的灵敏度系数很高,当纤芯空气孔直径d₁=2.4 μm、包层空气填充比为0.3时,苯炔在频率0.3 THz的相对灵敏性系数最高为37.63%,在1.5 THz,限制损耗的数量级可以降至10^-7。     

Investigation of intermodal interference of LP01 and LP11 modes in the liquid-core optical fiber for temperature measurements

The intermodal interference of the LP₀₁ and LP₁₁ modes and determination of the equalization wavelength in the liquid-core optical fiber is presented. Theoretically was described the weakly guiding optical fiber with the constant core radius, where equalization wavelength is a function of the refractive indices of core and cladding. The dependence of equalization wavelength on refractive indices is employed for measurement of temperature. Temperature sensitivity using intermodal interference of modes LP₀₁ and LP₁₁ was documented in the liquid-core optical fiber consisted of fused silica as cladding and medicinal oil as a core. In the investigated temperature range the intermodal interference allows the temperature measurement with resolution of about 0.02 °C.     

Bending sensor based on intermodal interference properties of two-dimensional waveguide array fiber

We propose a highly sensitive bending sensor based on the intermodal interference properties of a strongly coupled two-dimentional waveguide array fiber (WAF). The interference resonance peaks formed by the SMF-WAF-SMF Mach-Zehnder interferometer are intrinsically the result of interference between the LP(01)-like supermode and other higher order supermodes, displaying supernormal sensitivity to bending in a wide curvature range. The bending sensitivity of the intermodal MZI is a quadratic function of curvature, and the resonance wavelength shift is up to 100 nm within a curvature range 0-10 m(-1). The fabrication reveals briefness, and temperature response shows little impact on the bend sensing precision. The high bending sensitivity and wide sensing range can make this device a candidate for bending discrimination and measurement in widespread areas.     

Temperature-independent refractometer based on fiber-optic Fabry–Perot interferometer

A miniature fiber-optic refractometer based on Fabry–Perot interferometer (FPI) has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The sensing head consists of a short section of photonics crystal fiber (PCF) spliced to a single mode fiber (SMF), in which the end-face of the PCF is etched to remove holey structure with hydrofluoric (HF) acid. A Fabry–Perot interference spectrum is achieved based on the reflections from the fusion splicing interface and the end-face of the core of PCF. The interference fringe is sensitive to the external refractive index (RI) with an intensity-referenced sensitivity of 358.27 dB/RIU ranging from 1.33 to 1.38. The sensor has also been implemented for the concentration measurement of λ-phage DNA solution. In addition, the dip intensity is insensitive to the ambient temperature variation, making it a good candidate for temperature-independent bio-sensing area.