Induced modulational instability in EDFAs in the presence of higher-order nonlinear and dispersive effects

We derive the dispersion equation for erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), assuming the supplementary effects of time-derivative nonlinearities including intrapulse Raman scattering and self-steepening incorporated with third order dispersion and product of gain and square of dipole relaxation time parameter, in the extended form of nonlinear Schrödinger equation and investigate their impacts on gain and cut-off frequency of modulational instability (MI) in EDFAs. Also, the influences of those effects on instability of steady-state amplitude, in the form of generation of terahertz pulse train of femtosecond solitons from a weak-modulated signal by induced MI, are numerically simulated and discussed within EDFAs in normalized form.     

饱和非线性正折射异向介质中的调制不稳定性

直接从异向介质中包含饱和非线性、自陡峭和二阶非线性色散效应的非线性扩展传输方程出发,采用线性稳定性分析法,导出了调制不稳定性的色散关系、不稳定条件、无量纲的临界扰动频率和增益谱。计算和讨论了异向介质正折射区无量纲的增益谱随归一化角频率和入射功率密度的变化关系。结果表明,在异向介质正折射区,随归一化角频率和入射功率密度的不同,增益谱将会出现扰动频率大于零、扰动频率大于某个非零临界值、扰动频率大于零而小于某个非零临界值3种形式。在归一化角频率较小时,调制不稳定性可能出现阈值入射功率密度;且在较小的入射功率密度时,调制不稳定性只能出现在大于某个临界频率时。     

含负折射介质的反向定向耦合器的时空不稳定性研究

研究含负折射介质的不对称反向定向耦合器中的时空调制不稳定性(MI),探讨了输入功率、前向波和后向波功率比和通道间的耦合系数等对时空MI的影响。结果表明:在这种新型耦合器中只有当横向波数超过一定阈值时才会产生MI,增加输入功率或减少前向波和后向波的功率比都会扩大MI增益谱的范围并最终使MI区域重合,而降低耦合器通道间的耦合系数可减少MI的增益峰值但拓宽增益谱的范围。负折射介质的电磁参数可调谐特性为实现MI的主动调控和孤子的形成提供了新的方法和手段。     

自陡对光纤耦合器调制不稳定性的影响

当考虑自陡效应时,从光纤耦合器的耦合模方程出发,用偶奇超模对其进行了重写。讨论了当输入条件使奇偶超模的其中之一被单独激发时光纤耦合器中的自陡效应对调制不稳定性的影响。结果表明:在光纤耦合器中不论是正常色散区还是反常色散区,当输入功率一定时,随着自陡参数的增大,调制不稳定性增益谱较多地显示出了强度变弱和宽度变窄,最终导致光纤耦合器的超模发生畸变。     

Modulation instability in silicon optical waveguide considering linear loss

Taking into account the linear loss of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide, modulation instability (MI) induced by combined effects of self-phase modulation and waveguide dispersions is investigated. The impacts of various parameters to gain spectra of MI are analyzed theoretically, and direct numerical simulation of nonlinear Schroedinger equation is performed as well. Results show that strong MI takes place even in the existence of low light power. The linear loss of waveguide obviously impacts gain spectra of MI, even within ultra-short propagation distance. The peak gain frequency and bandwidth of gain spectra decrease to 41.683% and 41.6879% of their maximum at propagation distance z = 5 mm, respectively.     

光纤中扰动的小信号增益

从非线性薛定谔方程出发,在小信号近似下,推导并求解了光纤中扰动相位和幅度的演化方程,利用得到的扰动相位及功率增益的表达式,研究了初相位和频率对传输过程中扰动增益的影响。研究表明：扰动的初相位对扰动增益的初值和初始阶段的演化规律有重要影响;取决于扰动初相位,任何一个频率的扰动增益都有可能达到一个共同的最大值;在被认为无调制不稳定的正色散区和扰动频率大于截止频率的负色散区,扰动增益随距离是振荡的;在被认为有调制不稳定的扰动频率小于截止频率的负色散区,频率相同而初相位不同的扰动增益将经历不同形式的演化后趋于同一正值。     

Generation of time-dependent ultra-short optical pulse trains in the presence of self-steepening effect

Starting from the extended nonlinear Schr?dinger equation in which the self-steepening effect is included, the evolution and the splitting processes of continuous optical wave whose amplitude is perturbed into time related ultra-short optical pulse trains in an optical fibre are numerically simulated by adopting the split-step Fourier algorithm. The results show that the self-steepening effect can cause the characteristic of the pulse trains to vary with time, which is different from the self-steepening-free case where the generated pulse trains consist of single pulses which are identical in width, intensity, and interval, namely when pulses move a certain distance, they turn into the pulse trains within a certain time range. Moreover, each single pulse may split into several sub-pulses. And as time goes on, the number of the sub-pulses will decrease gradually and the pulse width and the pulse intensity will change too. With the increase of the self-steepening parameter, the distance needed to generate time-dependent pulse trains will shorten. In addition, for a large self-steepening parameter and at the distance where more sub-pulses appear, the corresponding frequency spectra of pulse trains are also wider.     

Modulation instability of femtosecond pulses in fibres with slowly decreasing dispersion

In this paper,we investigate the modulation instability for generating femtosecond pulses in fibres with slowly decreasing dispersion.Higher-order dispersion and higher-order nonlinear effects are taken into account when the continuous wave or quasi-continuous wave evolves into sub-picosecond and femtosecond pulses by modulation instability in the optical fibres.Our research results show that the gain spectrum of the dispersion-decreasing fibres is much wider than that in conventional fibres.The third-order dispersion effect has no contribution to gain spectrum,while the self-steepening effect reduces the maximum value and gain bandwidth,and the Raman self-scattering effect widens the extent to which the modulation instability occurs.     

Modulation instability in lossy silicon optical waveguide

Taking into account the small linear loss of silicon-on-insulator(SOI) waveguide, conditions and gain spectra of modulation instability(MI) induced by combined effects of self-phase modulation and waveguide dispersions are investigated. The impacts of various parameters to gain spectra of MI are analyzed theoretically. Results show that strong MI takes place even in the existence of low light power. The MI peak gain is 2 to 3 orders of magnitude larger than that achieved in optical fibers with the same light power. The linear loss of waveguide impacts gain spectra of MI, even within ultra-short propagation distance. The peak gain, peak gain frequency and bandwidth of gain spectra decrease to 66.828%, 41.683% and 41.6879% of their maxima at propagation distance z = 5mm, respectively.     

Study of modulation instability in a temporally incoherent photorefractive ring resonator below the threshold with incoherent light

Modulation instability (MI) and evolution of pattern formation inside a passive non-linear photorefractive ring resonator having cavity-length longer than the coherence length of the light circulating in the resonating cavity has been theoretically analyzed. Dynamics of the system below the threshold conditions have also been analyzed, numerically using linear perturbation theory for the Kerr-type non-linearity. The process of modulation instability in a temporally incoherent cavity below the cavity threshold and the influence of various parameters such as the cavity-length, intensity feedback of the perturbed wave field, amplitude of the incoming beam and spatial frequency on the gain factor and the spatial spectral density have also been studied. For the perturbed wave field, it has been found that the growth rate of MI increases with increase in the intensity feedback as well as the spatial frequency. It has also been found that increasing the intensity feedback of the perturbed wave field, for a given value of the spatial frequency, the spatial spectral density of the perturbation at the output of the non-linear medium increases with the shifting peak positions to the higher spatial frequency side.     

色散条件下各向同性光纤中拉曼增益对光脉冲自陡峭的影响

基于光脉冲所满足的慢变函数,详细推导了包含拉曼增益的高阶非线性薛定谔方程,在考虑色散的条件下,运用分步傅里叶方法对其数值分析,进而模拟仿真了拉曼增益对高斯脉冲在各向同性光纤中传播时自陡峭效应的影响,并与不考虑拉曼增益的自陡峭效应作比较,从而得出拉曼增益在不同条件下对高斯脉冲自陡峭效应的具体影响方式.结果表明,拉曼增益会影响高斯脉冲的展宽、脉冲峰值衰减以及在前后沿的振荡,其影响程度与具体的自陡峭参数、脉冲功率和色散系数的大小有关.     

Modulation Instability in Non-Kerr-like Optical Fibers near the Zero Dispersion Point

Modulation instability (MI) in non-Kerr-like optical fiber near the zero dispersion point is analyzed. Taking into account the fourth order dispersion, new regions of MI are found. The action of the self-steepening is not the same for each region of MI and critical modulation frequency.     

Characteristics of gain spectrum of modulation instability in soft matter

We investigate the spatial modulation instability in colloidal suspension based on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. By a standard linear stability analysis, we obtain the expression for instability gain and identified the relationship between the measurable instability characteristic parameters and the particle radius, the optical beam width. It is shown that the modulation growth rate, the maximum growth rate, cut-off frequency and the fastest growth frequency increase as the particle radius decreases and (or) the beam width increases if the optical intensity is constant. Moreover, the ultimate values of the cut-off frequency and the fastest growth frequency are proportional to the beam width, while are independent of the sphere radius. The results provide a new approach to measure the sphere radius and to control the characteristic parameters of modulation instability through the beam width.     

Pressure dependent modulation instability in photonic crystal fiber filled with argon gas

By using the designed photonic crystal fiber filled with argon gas, the effect of gas pressure on modulation instability(MI) gain is analyzed in detail. The MI gain bandwidth increases gradually as the argon gas pressure rises from 1 P_0 to 400 P_0(P_0 is one standard atmosphere), while its gain amplitude slightly decreases. Moreover, the increase of the incident light power also results in the increase of MI gain bandwidth in the Stokes or anti-Stokes region when the incident power increases from 1 W to 200 W. Making use of the optimal parameters including the higher argon gas pressure(400 P_0) and the incident light power(200 W), we finally obtain a 100 nm broadband MI gain. These results indicate that controlling the MI gain characteristic by changing the argon gas pressure in PCF is an effective way when the incident light source is not easy to satisfy the requirement of practical application. This method of controlling MI gain can be used in optical communication and laser shaping.     

色散缓变光纤中飞秒光脉冲的调制不稳定性研究

研究了色散缓变光纤中飞秒光脉冲的调制不稳定性 ,发现当色散缓变光纤的色散参量满足一定关系式时 ,增益谱的谱宽最宽 ,获得了增益谱的表达式 ;三阶色散对调制不稳定性不起作用 ;自变陡效应使增益谱的谱宽变窄 ,振幅的增长速度减漫 ;拉曼效应改变了调制不稳定性的产生区域。     

级联放大光纤传输中的调制不稳定性

本文在考虑光纤损耗和级联放大器的情况下,推导出了调制不稳定性的产生条件和增益的普适解析表达式,并利用分立步傅里对数值方法对非线性传输进行了仿真,证明了本文的解析结论的正确性.     

Impacts of higher-order dispersions and saturable nonlinearities on modulation instability in negative-refractive metamaterials

On the basis of the standard linear stability analysis and Drude electromagnetic model,the impacts of higher-order dispersions and three kinds of typical saturable nonlinearities on modulation instability(MI) have been analyzed and calculated for negative-refractive metamaterials(MMs).Our results show that the MI gain spectra consist of only one spectral region instead of one or two regions in ordinary materials,which may be close to or far from the zero point.Particularly,the spectrum far from the zero point has a high cut-off frequency but a narrow spectral width,which is obviously beneficial to the generation of high-repetition-rate pulse trains.Moreover,MI characteristics here will vary with the normalized angular frequency which can be modified by adjusting the structures of negative-refractive MMs,signifying the controllability of bistable solitons and MI based applications.The effects of saturable nonlinearities are similar to those in ordinary materials.     

拉曼散射与自陡峭效应对皮秒孤子传输特性的影响

通过求解包含拉曼增益和自陡峭效应的高阶非线性薛定谔方程, 运用MATLAB模拟了拉曼增益和自陡峭效应共同作用对孤子脉冲在各向同性光纤中传输特性的影响, 结果表明, 自陡峭效应会导致孤子产生时域位移, 而且会使高阶孤子产生孤子分裂现象. 与此同时, 拉曼增益改变了孤子的传输特性, 抑制了自陡峭效应, 从而导致脉冲宽度增大、脉冲偏移程度减弱、高阶孤子分裂成基阶孤子所需的传输距离增大.     

Modulation instability in metamaterials with fourth-order linear dispersion,second-order nonlinear dispersion,and three kinds of saturable nonlinearites

The linearized nonlinear propagation equation and its coefficients, gain spectrum of modulation instability (MI) in metamaterials (MMs) with fourth-order linear dispersion, second-order nonlinear dispersion, and three kinds of saturable nonlinearites, are analytically deduced by utilizing the linear stability analysis and Drude electromagnetic model. Then variations of gain spectra of MI with the normalized angular frequencies and the optical power densities are calculated in real units. In the negative refractive region, two kinds of gain spectra are discovered. The first (second) one is close to (far from) the zero perturbation frequencies and it corresponds to the lower (higher) normalized angular frequencies. Moreover, the second one has higher cutoff frequency, which is obviously beneficial to generation of high-repetition-rate pulse trains. While in the positive refractive region, only the first kind of gain spectra is found. With increase of the optical power densities, the peak gains and the spectral widths of MI increase before decrease, but they vary the most rapidly (slowly) for the exponential (conventional) saturable nonlinearities. The MI characteristics and their corresponding applications can be adjusted by several methods.     

增益色散和双光子吸收对光纤放大器中自相似脉冲的影响

以包含增益色散、增益饱和、三阶色散、自陡峭、自频移等高阶效应的光纤放大器为研究对象,对其产生渐近抛物型自相似脉冲的条件及传输特性进行了详细的讨论.结果表明,合理选择系统参数,在渐近约束条件下,可以获得不同振幅和脉宽大小的自相似脉冲;此外,非线性增益(或吸收)与非线性谱宽限制在自相似脉冲存在的范围内近似成线性比例关系,且脉冲的有效脉宽,功率,峰值振幅及能量的大小及增长速度也将随参数的变化面变化.相关结果将为实验中调节光纤放大器以及系统参数的选择提供一定的理论参考.