Effect of group velocity dispersion on femtosecond pulse evolution in quantum well waveguide structures

The paper deals with the theoretical investigation of ultrafast-pulse evolution in a semiconductor quantum well (QW). Semiconductor Bloch equations are used to obtain the polarization induced in the medium due to incident Gaussian electromagnetic beam. The partial differential equation with finite group velocity dispersion (GVD) is then used to analyze the effect of induced polarization on the pulse. The role of GVD on femtosecond pulse evolution in GaAs/AlGaAs waveguide is studied, giving due consideration to the intensity dependent group velocity of the medium.     

Optical bistability in low-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures under cw pump laser and infrared pulse signals

We have investigated theoretically the optical bistability (OB) and optical multistability in quantum-well (QW) semiconductor heterostructures. The effect of a cw pump laser field and a control infrared pulse signal on OB is discussed. It is found that the OB threshold can be controlled by varying the strength of applied fields. It is also shown that OB can be switched to optical multistability or vice versa just using an appropriate relative phase of applied fields. This investigation may open up some new possibilities for applications in all-optical switching in quantum-well structures.     

Dynamic propagation study of phase-controlled infrared-light pulses in low-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures

We study the propagation effects of the phase-controlled infrared-light pulses in semiconductor quantum-well (QW) heterostructures under realistic experimental conditions. By numerically solving the coupled Bloch–Maxwell equations for electrons and fields simultaneously on numerical grids in time and space, we show that the propagation dynamics can be dramatically modified by varying the relative phase of the applied fields. This opens up the possibility to study optimal control of light propagation in the QW solid materials.     

半圆形波导中的电磁场

利用矩形波导和圆形波导的结论,并结合叠加法和镜象法等工具,从理论上分析给出半圆形波导的TE波模型的电磁场分量.根据金属界面的特殊性质,在一定条件下运用叠加法的延拓求出半圆形波导的电磁场分量.最后通过过渡法对一般情况下半圆形波导的电磁场分量进行求解.     

Transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) X-ray guided modes in a two-layer crystalline heterostructure: A comparison

Polarization effects upon Bragg-case hard X-ray dynamical diffraction in a two-layer crystalline heterostructure waveguide have been investigated with the help of numerical modeling. A difference is shown to exist in both intensities and excitation conditions between TE (transverse electric) and TM (transverse magnetic) X-ray guided modes that are inherent to the waveguide. A comparison of σ- and π-polarized X-ray reflectivity curves from such a waveguide is performed. Possibilities for the experimental excitation of the TE and TM X-ray guided modes are discussed.     

An exciton in a quantum well in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields

An analytical approach to the problem of the Wannier–Mott exciton in a semiconductor quantum well (QW) in the presence of external magnetic and electric fields is developed. The magnetic field is taken to lie in the heteroplanes while the electric field is directed perpendicular to the heteroplanes. Explicit dependencies of the energy levels and wave-functions of the exciton on the magnitudes of the fields for a wide range of the width of the QW are obtained. For the narrow QW, the results are valid for arbitrary electron and hole effective masses. In the case of intermediate and wide QWs, the adiabatic approximation implying the extreme difference of the electron and hole masses is used. In the intermediate QW, the states of the relative motion are the standard Coulomb states affected by the external fields while the states of the centre of mass are the size-quantized states in the QW. We focus particularly on the delocalized states caused by the external electric field and the motion of the excitons centre of mass in the magnetic field. These states are localized far away from the Coulomb centre. A strong influence of the boundaries of the wide QW on the delocalized exciton states is found to occur. Estimates of the expected values are made using typical parameters associated with GaAs QW.     

All-optical set-reset flip-flop based on frequency bistability in semiconductor microring lasers

The electric field of the modes of semiconductor microring lasers (SMRLs) in the presence of bus waveguide reflections are linear combinations of the clock wise (CW) and the counter clock wise (CCW) electric fields. The mode structures can be controlled by the waveguide reflection coefficients. The power ratio and phase difference of the CW and CCW fields of one mode is proportional to the ratio of the reflection coefficients of the left and right waveguides. It is shown that the degenerate CW and CCW modes in the presence of bus waveguide reflections are split into two modes with different frequencies. Employing these new modes, SMRL can be used as an element to design flip-flops used in photonic integrated circuits. For a symmetric structure, the inter-frequencies of CW and CCW waves relating to each mode can be considered as the output of the optical flip-flop. Output of asymmetric mode is zero while the symmetric mode has a nonzero output.     

Anisotropic strain effects on light emission characteristics of CdZnO/ZnO quantum well structures

Anisotropic strain effects by strain relaxation on TE-polarized light emission characteristics of c-plane CdZnO/ZnO quantum well (QW) structures were theoretically investigated by using the multiband effective-mass theory. The CdZnO/ZnO QW structure with anisotropic strain has much larger emission intensity than conventional CdZnO/ZnO QW structure without the strain relaxation. In the case of the strain relaxation along x(or y)-direction, the x(or y)-polarized light emission is observed to be larger than the x(or y)-polarized light emission. In particular, in the case of the strain relaxation along both x- and y-directions, the increase in the spontaneous emission peak is significant. This can be explained by the fact that the internal field is reduced owing to the decrease in the piezoelectric field by the strain relaxation.     

Holography with guided optical waves

This paper deals with “waveguide holograms” recorded in a layer of storage material covering a planar dielectric waveguide. Reference and read-out waves are guided modes of the waveguide. Their field in the storage medium is evanescent. A theory of the diffraction efficiencies of these waveguide holograms is presented fors-polarized wavefields. To calculate the hologram structure the attenuation of the reference wave caused by absorption in the light-sensitive storage material is taken into account. Analytical expressions for the local and the overall diffraction efficiencies and for the intensity profiles of the diffracted fields are derived. The dependence of these quantities on experimental parameters (the waveguide thickness, the mode numbers of the reference and read-out waves, and the angle of incidence of the plane object wave) is presented graphically, i.e., by computer plots. Grating couplers for integrated optics can be made by waveguide holography. We consider this application to be interesting because incoupling efficiencies for Gaussian beams of up to 96% can be achieved theoretically.     

生物传感中平板光波导模式研究

为提高生物传感探测的灵敏度和响应速度,基于平面光波导理论,运用消逝场原理在生物传感领域的应用,在相同条件下比较了平面波导单模和多模2种模式下消逝场区域能量的大小,并且用VC和Matlab工具模拟论证单模能量高于多模。理论计算表明：单模和多模的荧光效率分别为5.83%和1.75%,在此计算中单模的荧光效率比多模的高。因此,在生物传感及其相关应用中,选用平板光波导的单模模式具有一定的优越性,为实际设计提供了理论依据。     

SiO2波导布拉格器件中声表面波及声光相互作用分析

针对SiO2光波导声光布拉格器件,计算了SiO2非对称平板波导TE模式的横向场分布;给出了SiO2/ZnO/Air层状介质结构的性能方程、运动方程和麦克斯韦方程,推导出这种层状结构的特征方程,并结合所满足的边界条件,得到了各层介质的位移及电磁场分布;计算了声表面波所引起的光学相对介质隔离率张量的变化,最后讨论了声光衍射效率和光场与声场的重叠积分、声功率、声频率、声孔径和光波导参数之间的关系。结果表明,在低频范围内光场与声表面波场重叠良好;低阶模的重叠积分始终大于高阶模重叠积分,最低阶模与声表面波相互作用最强,所需声功率最小;当声功率一定时,增加声孔径可以提高衍射效率。     

Analysis of a Metal-Coated Planar Dielectric Waveguide with Chiral Cladding

The propagation characteristics of a metal-coated planar waveguide with chiral media filled in the cladding are presented. The effects of chirality on cutoff, dispersion characteristics and field distributions of the waveguide are studied. The results show that cladding chirality brings phase chopping to the transverse electric field component of those modes with odd mode numbers.     

Effects of Vacuum-Induced Coherence on One- and Two-Photon Absorption Spectra of Transient Process in a Y-Type System

We investigate the influence of the vacuum-induced coherence on one- and two-photon absorption of the transient process in a four-level Y-type atomic system. We find that the one- and two-photon transient absorption and amplification properties are quite sensitive to the vacuum-induced coherence. It is also shown that the one- and two-photon absorption spectra of the transient process can be dramatically affected by modulating the relative phase of the applied fields. By appropriately choosing the relative phase, the amplification of the probe field can be achieved.     

Effect of magnetic field on nonlinear interactions of electromagnetic and surface waves in a plasma layer

Investigation is made for nonlinear interaction between incident radiation and a surface wave in a magnetized plasma layer. Both interacting waves are ofP polarization. We get the generated currents and fields at combination frequencies analytically. Unlike theS-polarized interacting waves, the magnetic field affects the fundamental waves and leads to an amplification of generated waves when their frequencies approach the cyclotron frequency.     

AWG中波导间耦合造成的相位畸变的分析

用(1,1)阶Pad啨近似的广角BPM计算了阵列波导光栅(AWG)中由于阵列波导间耦合造成的相位畸变以及由于相位畸变引起的相位误差分别考虑了光从中心/非中心输入波导入射两种情况结果表明,波导间的耦合会造成显著的相位畸变,但由此引起的相位误差却很小,光从中心输入波导入射时对应的相位误差10-3rad,从非中心输入波导入射时的相位误差约为10-2rad针对波导阵列边缘效应引起的相位畸变,设计AWG结构时,在阵列部分两侧增加了边缘辅助波导结构,从而消除了边缘效应,使得边缘阵列波导对应的相位误差从10-1rad量级减小为10-3(10-2)rad量级.     

Ka波段8路径向波导空间功率分配(合成)器

通过理论研究以及高频仿真相结合的方法分析设计了一款新型Ka波段8路径向波导空间功率分配(合成)器。研发的新结构输入输出段为标准矩形波导结构,代替了传统功率分配(合成)器输入输出段的同轴结构,这种新型全金属结构更加简单紧凑,更易于加工。仿真结果表明:功率分配(合成)器工作带宽达到了34%(12GHz),基本覆盖整个Ka波段;全频带内反射系数S11低于-20dB,各支路的相位差均小于5°。通过在同轴波导渐变段引入切比雪夫渐变结构,在减小了器件尺寸的同时,在整个频带内的网络S参数也不错。这款新型Ka波段8路径向波导功率分配(合成)器将应用于前级固态功率放大器,推动回旋行波管项目研发。     

Analysis of Circular Chiral Dielectric Waveguides

The general eigenequations and the field expressions for circular waveguides containing chiral material in both the core and the cladding are given in a simple formulation. The results indicate that there are two types of field distribution which is related to the operating wavelength and chiral admittance. When the chiral admittance is larger than a critical value, the fields of one kind of circularly polarized wave in the core become exponentially-like damping in the transverse direction. Based on the eigenequations, the characteristics of a circular waveguide with chiral medium filled in the core are investigated. The relation between the cutoff frequency and the chiral admittance, the dispersion curves for some modes with different angular mode number and the transverse distribution of fields are presented. Some features different from the ordinary circular waveguide are resulted.     

Magnetotransport in a dual waveguide coupled by a finite barrier： Energy filter and directional coupler

We propose in this paper that a dual waveguide coupled by a finite barrier be able to serve as an energy filter under a perpendicular magnetic field. In the waveguide direction, the conductance exhibits a periodic square-wave pattern in which the miniband is controlled by the magnetic and potential modulation. The electrons with energies in the miniband can completely transfer along one waveguide while the other electrons undergo filtration. Compared with the coupled waveguide without magnetic modulation, the structure under magnetic field is found to be a good directional coupler. By adjusting the potential barrier and magnetic field, the electrons input from one port of waveguide can transfer to any other ports.     

Amplification without population inversion in a three-level Λ-type system with an external coherent magnetic field

In this Letter, we investigate the amplification without inversion (AWI) in a new scheme, a three-level Λ-type system which the two lower states are coupled by an external magnetic field. We find that, owing to the presence of the external magnetic field, the absorption of the probing field is very sensitive to the relative phase of the probing and the pumping fields. By appropriately choosing the Rabi frequency of the pumping field, the Lamor frequency of the external magnetic field and the relative phase, AWI can be realized.     

光诱导平面波导阵列中离散空间光孤子的相干相互作用

采用Petviashvili迭代法对光诱导平面波导阵列中的一维离散空间光孤子进行求解,利用分步束传播法对离散空间光孤子间的相干相互作用进行了详细的数值模拟.探讨了离散孤子间的相位差、孤子光强、波导阵列写入光的强度和周期以及外加电场对相互作用过程的影响.结果表明：离散孤子间的相位差对相互作用的影响与连续介质中的情况类似,不同相位差情况下的相互作用也表现为吸引、排斥以及能量转移等现象.同时,离散孤子间的相干相互作用过程(如融合距离和排斥间距等)均会受到孤子光强、波导阵列写入光的强度和周期以及外加电场大小的影响 关键词： 光诱导平面波导阵列 离散空间光孤子 相干相互作用