Effect of spontaneous frequency fluctuations on the emission line of a semiconductor laser with pseudorandom modulation of the pump current

The effect of random frequency fluctuations due to spontaneous emission and generation-recombination noise on the shape of the emission line of a semiconductor laser with pseudorandom modulation of the pump current is studied numerically. The roles of spontaneous emission and chirp modulation in forming the lasing spectrum are separated out. The dependence of the output spectral characteristics of the laser on the parameters and type of modulation is analyzed.     

Effect of chromatic dispersion on nonlinear phase noise

We consider the combined effects of amplified spontaneous emission noise, optical Kerr nonlinearity, and chromatic dispersion on phase noise in an optical communication system. The effect of amplified spontaneous emission noise and Kerr nonlinearity were considered previously by Gordon and Mollenauer [Opt. Lett. 15, 1351 (1990)], and the effect of nonlinearity was found to be severe. We investigate the effect of chromatic dispersion on phase noise and show that it can either enhance or suppress the nonlinear noise amplification. For large absolute values of dispersion the nonlinear effect is suppressed, and the phase noise is reduced to its linear value. For a range of negative values of dispersion, however, nonlinear phase noise is enhanced and exhibits a maximum related to the modulation instability found in amplitude fluctuations. Nonlinear phase noise is quenched by these effects even in dispersion-compensated systems; the degree of suppression is sensitively dependent on the dispersion map. We demonstrate these results analytically with a simple linearized model.     

用速率方程分析垂直腔面发射激光器的噪声

采用一种合理的噪声模拟方法，用速率方程对垂直腔面发射激光器的噪声特性进行了数值分析，在单模情况下计算了器件的自发辐射因子、输出功率、注入电流、阈值电流等参数与相对强度噪声、频率噪声以及线宽等特性的关系，计算结果与实验基本相符，对优化垂直腔面发射激光器的结构设计和应用条件有所裨益. 关键词：     

Fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber

Broadband noise on supercontinuum spectra generated in microstructure fiber is shown to lead to amplitude fluctuations as large as 50% for certain input laser pulse parameters. We study this noise using both experimental measurements and numerical simulations with a generalized stochastic nonlinear Schr?dinger equation, finding good quantitative agreement over a range of input-pulse energies and chirp values. This noise is shown to arise from nonlinear amplification of two quantum noise inputs: the input-pulse shot noise and the spontaneous Raman scattering down the fiber.     

自发辐射对量子级联激光器发光噪声的影响

为得到量子级联激光器特有的光噪声特性,通过在速率方程中引入Langevin噪声源以及自发辐射因子的方法,在单模与线性增益的情况下讨论了自发辐射因子及与偏置电流等参数与光噪声的强度及带宽等特性之间的关系,计算结果表明,增大自发辐射因子能降低光噪声的强度,增宽光噪声的3-dB截止频率,进一步的研究也表明,自发辐射因子对光噪声的影响与激光器的偏置电流有密切关系,这种影响在偏置电流较小时比较明显,但当偏置电流很大时自发辐射因子对光噪声的影响将变得很弱。     

光纤1/f热噪声的实验研究

光纤热噪声是限制光纤传感、测量系统性能的最终因素.但是低频区域呈1/f谱特性的光纤热噪声的形成机制迄今仍然存在争论.实验研究了光纤1/f热噪声水平与光纤内杂质离子浓度和光纤施加张力的关系,验证了这类热噪声来源于光纤内部的机械耗散引起的长度自发抖动,符合热机械噪声的理论假设.     

Thin disk laser—Energy scaling

A time resolved numerical model of the interaction between pump absorption, excitation and amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) for the Thin Disk laser design was developed. The model accounts for the spectral distribution of the spontaneous emission, the spectral and spatial distribution of emission and absorption and the spectral and angular transmission of surfaces or coatings.     

Amplified spontaneous emission in electron-beam-pumped surface-emitting semiconductor lasers

The deterioration of gain in electron-beam-pumped semiconductor lasers with increase in the diameter of the pumped region has been attributed to a reduction in the degree of inversion caused by amplified spontaneous emission. Theories of amplified spontaneous emission in such surface-emitting lasers are advanced in which spatial and spectral inhomogeneities of gain are taken into account. Experiments to determine the dependence of laser threshold and differential efficiency on the diameter of an excited circular region demonstrate good agreement with the threshold predictions of the linear theory; however, the lack of agreement in differential efficiency suggest that a nonlinear phenomenological theory be considered. Data for such calculations are provided from experiments on saturation of spontaneous emission. The resultant nonlinear theory is shown to account well for the observed dependence of differential efficiency on the diameter of the excited region.     

Noise squeezing in a semiconductor laser with an inhomogeneously broadened gain line

This paper is a theoretical analysis of the noise produced by a single-mode semiconductor laser. We allow for spectral hole-burning in the gain line and for the nonlinear dependence of the carrier spontaneous recombination rate on the number of carriers in the active area. We show that these processes do not inhibit the squeezing of the outgoing photon flux noise below the shot noise level at high pump currents but that the degree of squeezing decreases considerably. Finally, we establish that these processes also considerably narrow the squeezing bandwidth. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 112, 429–440 (August 1997)     

光电负反馈下垂直腔表面发射激光器偏振开关特性研究

基于扩展的自旋反转模型, 对光电负反馈下垂直腔表面发射激光器的偏振开关特性进行了数值仿真和理论分析. 研究结果表明: 对于不同的自旋反转率, 反馈强度和延迟时间对激光器偏振开关特性产生较大影响.在慢自旋反转率下运行时, 随着反馈强度的增加, 开关点电流呈线性增加, 导致X偏振模被压缩, 这与报道的基于各向同性光反馈的情景相反, 产生这一现象的原因是由于光电负反馈提高了X偏振模的阈值; 延迟时间对开关点电流的影响随反馈强度的变化而不同.在快自旋反转率下运行时, 反馈强度对开关点电流的影响与慢自旋反转率时的情形不同, 开关点电流经历先增加后减小的过程, 开关点电流受反馈强度的影响更加敏感; 而延迟时间的影响规律和慢自旋反转率时相似. 此外, 还发现自发辐射噪声对激光器偏振开关特性有较大影响. 关键词： 垂直腔表面发射激光器 偏振开关 光电负反馈 自发辐射噪声     

Amplification and wave mixing of induced and spontaneous emission in semiconductor laser amplifiers

We theoretically describe and experimentally investigate the spatio-spectral wave mixing of induced and spontaneous emission in large-area InGaAs-semiconductor laser amplifiers. The dynamic light-matter-coupling is described by a spatially resolved theory based on Maxwell–Bloch–Langevin equations, taking into account many-body-carrier interactions, energy transfer between the carrier and phonon systems and, in particular, the spatio-temporal interplay of stimulated and amplified spontaneous emission and the noise caused by spontaneous emission. Our numerical model reveals the fundamental physical processes which are responsible for the spectral power distribution of the amplified laser light and predicts the emission properties of high-power semiconductor laser amplifiers, such as emission spectra and input power–output power characteristics. Received:30October2002/Revisedversion:21November2002 / Published online: 12 February 2003 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. Fax: +49-711/6862-349, E-mail: Edeltraud.Gehrig@dlr.de RID="**" ID="**"Also at: Institute of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 692, FIN-33101, Tampere, Finland RID="***" ID="***"Present address: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Speyerer Strasse 6, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany RID="****" ID="****"Present address: Lightbit Corporation, 411 Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA     

The impact of nonequilibrium gain in a spectral laser diode model

We describe the inclusion of nonequilibrium gain into a self-consistent 2.5D CW spectral laser diode model and report on the use of this model to investigate the origin of gain compression in a 975 nm high-brightness tapered QW laser diode. Nonequilibrium gain is calculated using a dynamic gain model, which simulates the dynamic relaxation of the quantum well carrier energy distributions under the influence of steady-state electrical and optical excitation. Calculated gain and spontaneous emission spectra are included in the laser model via parameterised look up tables. Both simulated and experimentally measured intracavity spontaneous emission spectra show an increased carrier density and a blue-shift of the gain maximum with increasing bias caused by carrier heating and spectral hole burning. The accurate incorporation of nonequilibrium gain compression is therefore vital for the accurate prediction of the operating characteristics of these devices and for the experimental determination of the active region temperature.     

Partial-coherence method to model experimental free-electron laser pulse statistics

A general numerical approach is described that allows obtaining model sets of temporal pulse shapes of free-electron lasers (FELs) operating in the self-amplified spontaneous emission mode. Based on a random partial-coherence approach, sets of pulse shapes can be calculated that satisfy statistical criteria of FEL light predicted by established FEL theory. Importantly, the numerically retrieved sets of pulses reproduce the experimentally accessible FEL light characteristics as measured at the Free-electron LASer at Hamburg (FLASH), such as the average spectrum, single-shot spectral shape, and pulse duration. The high-precision agreement with the experimental average spectral shape, without further knowledge of FEL machine parameters, makes this approach a convenient tool for the analysis and theoretical modeling of nonlinear optical or pump-probe experiments with FEL light.     

Diode-laser noise conversion in an optically dense atomic sample

We report on oscillating complex noise spectra obtained when a diode-laser beam passes through a resonant dense Doppler-broadened cesium-vapor cell. Atomic coherence converts the laser phase noise into amplitude noise in the transmitted beam. We have found that the level of amplitude noise is orders of magnitude above the intrinsic laser noise. As a function of laser detuning, this noise extends over several inhomogeneous widths, depending on the spectral frequency. Numerical calculations based on a simple theory remarkably mimic the details of the experimental noise spectra.     

The spatiotemporal evolution of sinusoidal phase modulated laser and its competitions with noise perturbed laser during small-scale self-focusing

Smoothing by spectral dispersion (SSD) is employed to smooth the laser irradiation in inertial confinement fusion and its effectiveness can be affected by nonlinear effects because of some special modulation of itself. In the paper, the spatial evolution dependent on the time period of the sinusoidal phase modulated laser from SSD is investigated theoretically and numerically when the modulated laser is affected by the small-scale self-focusing(SSSF). Although the effects of SSSF for SSD's modulation and noise can be eliminated by temporal average, the time-dependent modulation intensity of laser with SSD or noise will increased quickly. The results show that the low-frequency spatial modulation from SSD sometimes can affect beam quality bigger than the small-scale noise because of its controlled small initial amplitude. The simulation results agree with the theoretical analysis.     

Influence of the nonlinear propagation effect on the optical signal-to-noise ratio of 400G optical fiber communication systems

The influence of the nonlinear propagation effect on three 400 Gb/s/ch(400G)optical fiber communication systems with typical modulation formats,dual-carrier 16-quadrature amplitude modulation(16QAM),single-carrier 16QAM(single-16QAM),and four-carrier quadrature phase-shift keying,are investigated.The received optical signal-to-noise ratio(OSNR),affected by the nonlinear interference noise together with the amplified spontaneous emission noise,are compared with three 400G systems and a standard 100 Gb/s/ch system by numerical simulations.Both single channel and multichannel cases are considered.Single-16QAM is found to have the best OSNR among those modulation formats.     

Nonlinear optical absorption and NIR to blue conversion in highly stable polymeric dye rod

A simple method for preparing transparent crack-free solid polymeric matrices is presented. Different dopants may be hosted in the polymeric matrix. The method is applied to prepare Glycidyl-methacrylate polymeric rods doped with solutions of coumarin 500 laser dye (ethanol and chloroform). The solvent??s effect has appeared as a shift in the absorption and photoluminous spectral bands of the laser dye in the solid polymeric host. The prepared solid samples showed nonlinear optical response on excitation with 532?nm of nanosecond laser pulses using the open aperture z-scan technique. Each sample shows different nonlinear behavior in response to the irradiating laser beam. The theoretical fitting of the experimental data indicates that the dominant mechanism of nonlinear absorption is the two-photon absorption process. Visible amplified spontaneous emission is reported in both polymeric dye rods by NIR pumping. High photostability is reported for the samples.     

高功率全正色散锁模掺Yb3+双包层光纤飞秒激光器

以芯径为30 μm的掺Yb³⁺双包层光纤为增益介质, 利用非线性偏振旋转技术以及光栅-小孔结构组成的光谱滤波器提供有效的振幅调制, 实现了稳定的全正色散耗散孤子锁模运转. 激光器直接输出重复频率为76.6 MHz、平均功率达6.3 W的超短脉冲, 单脉冲能量可达82 nJ. 直接输出脉冲宽度为1.33 ps, 经腔外压缩后的宽度为377 fs. 通过调节光栅角度还实现了输出脉冲中心波长在1025—1078 nm范围内的调谐.     

利用共振无源腔分析和抑制飞秒脉冲激光噪声的理论和实验研究

理论分析了共振无源腔对飞秒脉冲激光的强度和相位噪声的转化模型,分析表明,通过测量无源腔透射场或者反射场相对于输入场强度噪声的变化,可以间接得到输入场飞秒脉冲激光的相位噪声.在此基础上设计了精细度约为1500、自由光谱区为75 MHz的八镜环形共振无源腔,并测量了钛宝石锁模激光经过该共振无源腔后透射场和反射场强度噪声的变化.实验观察到,飞秒脉冲激光经过无源腔透射后,强度噪声特性得到较好改善,在探测频率2 MHz附近达到散粒噪声极限.同时,结合共振无源腔对激光强度和相位噪声的转化模型,间接给出了钛宝石锁模激光的相位噪声及无源腔对相位噪声的有效抑制作用.