基于太赫兹光非对称解复用器结构的低开关能量、高线性度全光采样门实验研究

利用多量子阱结构的非线性半导体光放大器(SOA)构建的太赫兹光非对称解复用器(TOAD), 实验实现了一个开关能量低至25 fJ, 线性度高达0.99的全光采样门. 详细分析了采样脉冲功率和非对称偏移量分别对采样窗口形状、宽度和幅度的影响, 并研究了不同采样窗口宽度下TOAD的开关能量及线性度的变化规律.     

Optimizing the performance of TOAD by changing the wavelength and power of control pulse

The performance of terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) has been studied by modelling the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) in which the intraband effects had been taken into account. Numerical results are coincident with the experiment results. We interpret why there are three peaks in the switching window, which has never been reported before. In addition, we put forward the definition of the flatness of the switching window of TOAD for the first time By analysing the different phase of clockwise and counter clockwise signal pulse changed by SOA, appropriate peak power of control pulse and wavelength of signal and control pulse have been calculated in order to obtain large output power and flat switching window of TOAD.     

Clock recovery from 40 Gbps optical signal with optical phase-locked loop based on a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer

10 GHz clock recovery from 40 Gbps optical time-division-multiplexed (OTDM) signal pulses is experimentally demonstrated using optical phase lock loop based on a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) with a local-reference-oscillator-free electronic feedback circuit. The clock pulse that was used as the control pulse had energy of 800 fJ and the SNR of the time-extracted 10 GHz RF signal to the side components was larger than 40 dB.     

Periodicity Characteristic of TOAD''''s Switching Window

1 IntroductionThere are a variety of all-optical demultiplexing schemes for OPtical time divisionmultiplexing (OvuM) system, such as nonlinear optical loop horror (NOLM)[IJ,terahertz optical asyrnxnetric demultiplexer (TOAD)[2], four wave ndking (aaM) offiber or semiconductor optical amplifier (~)[3'4), etc. Axnong them, the terahertzoptical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) has advantages of requirement for shorterlength of fiber and lOWer energy of control pulse, no dispersion and walk…     

控制光和信号光频差对太赫兹光非对称解复用器性能的影响

讨论了半导体光放大器中的带间效应，及载流子热效应、谱烧孔效应、双光子吸收以及超快非线性折射等带内效应对半导体光放大器的动态特性的影响，讨论了两种情况：1)保持控制光波长不变而改变信号光频率，2)保持控制光和信号光频率相同而同时改变它们的频率下半导体光放大器的增益、相位动态特性以及太赫兹光非对称解复用器的开关窗口特性。数值结果表明，为了得到较为平坦而窄的开关窗口，控制光波长应与信号光波长相同，且其与半导体光放大器增益谱中心波长的差值应该大一些。     

Periodicity Characteristic of TOAD's Switching Window

The periodicity characteristic of switching window of a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) using numerical simulation was investigated. The results show that the switching window width of TOAD changes periodically with the time asymmetry of TOAD and the period is one half of the period of control pulses. The theoretical results agree with the experimental results very well.     

Energy limits imposed by two-photon absorption for pulse amplification in high-power semiconductor optical amplifiers

We study the combined effects of dynamic gain saturation and two-photon absorption on the amplification of short pulses in semiconductor optical amplifiers and show that two-photon absorption can saturate the amplifier gain and limit the output pulse energies even for amplifiers with large gain saturation energies. We discuss the upper limits for the pulse energies obtainable from semiconductor optical amplifiers in the presence of two-photon absorption and show that for single transverse mode waveguide amplifiers these upper limits can range from values as small as a few picojoules to several hundred picojoules for pulse widths in the 0.5 ps to 20 ps range, respectively.     

High repetition rate optical switch using an electroabsorption modulator in TOAD configuration

A novel optical switch featured with high repetition rate, short switching window width, and high contrast ratio is proposed and demonstrated for the first time by placing an electroabsorption modulator (EAM) in a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) configuration. The feasibility and main characteristics of the switch are investigated by numerical simulations and experiments. With this EAM-based TOAD, an error-free return-to-zero signal wavelength conversion with 0.62 dB power penalty at 20 Gbit/s is demonstrated.     

钇铝石榴石对撞增强型相位共轭腔的研究

报道了一种新型的相位共轭腔——对撞型钇铝石榴石受激布里渊散射相位共轭激光腔,实验结果发现该腔具有较低的启动阈值和100mJ以上的输出能量,它能输出稳定的20ns左右的自调Q脉冲,发散角为1．3mrad。在一定范围内,抽运电压越高,输出脉宽越窄;相位共轭腔越长,输出脉宽越宽;聚焦透镜对输出脉宽也有影响,焦距越短,脉宽越窄;焦距与介质池相对长点,输出能量相对高,远场发散角相对小些。实验给出了不同条件下的输出能量、脉冲宽度和光束发散角的情况。     

Highly sensitive, single-shot characterization for pulse widths from 0.4 to 85 ps using electro-optic shearing interferometry

Single-shot characterization using electro-optic shearing interferometry (EOSI) is shown for pulse widths ranging from their transform limit (0.4 ps) to 200x their limit (85 ps). In EOSI, the spectral phase is reconstructed by interfering two spectrally sheared replicas of the pulse under test, where the shear is produced by applying linear temporal-phase modulation. We present a new reconstruction algorithm for accurately characterizing chirped pulses, even if the pulse extends beyond the linear region of the phase modulation. Furthermore, since EOSI does not rely on nonlinear optical processes, it requires only 1 nJ pulse energies for all pulse widths, corresponding to a single-shot sensitivity 1000x higher than previously demonstrated.     

All-optical parallel data and address recovery scheme

In this paper, we have presented a parallel system model to recover data and address based on terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD)/semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-assisted Sagnac gate. The architecture is based on a system which has its input information containing data and address. Here, we first convert the original data into a coded form with the help of input address. Then the coded information is transmitted through the optical routing channel. At the receiver end, the model simultaneously extracts data and address at any point of the routing channel. The operations of the circuits are studied theoretically and analyzed through numerical simulations. The variation of contrast ratio, amplitude modulation, extinction ratio and bit error rate with control pulse energy and switching crosstalk with gain ratio has been thoroughly investigated.     

超短激光脉冲对宽带光学物质的微加工

通过讨论超快飞秒激光脉冲和长脉冲宽度的激光脉冲紧导致宽能隙透明电介质的损伤机理和比较超短激光脉冲与长激光脉冲对宽能隙透明电介质的损伤程度，得出超短激光脉冲是一种可对透明宽带电介质进行加工的有效工具的结论。当波长为800nm，脉冲宽度为150fs的激光脉冲紧聚焦到不同的宽能隙透明电介质（K9玻璃和ZK6玻璃）体内时，可制作不同光栅常数的光栅，并在波长为635nm的He-Ne连续激光的垂直照射下，对光栅的远场相对衍射效率和光栅的衍射效率进行了测量。     

基于瞬态光栅频率分辨光学开关法测量飞秒脉冲的研究

超宽光谱的飞秒脉冲测量一直是超快激光领域的重要研究方向之一.常规的飞秒脉冲自相关方法是通过测量自相关倍频信号来获得,而倍频信号具有波长选择性,不同中心波长的飞秒脉冲测量需要更换不同的倍频晶体,十分不方便.因此,提出了一种改进型的瞬态光栅频率分辨光学开关(TG-FROG)方法用于测量飞秒脉冲.该方法结合四波混频和频率分辨光学开关方法,其基本过程是将待测脉冲分为三束,其中两束脉冲经过精密的延时控制并聚焦在光学介质上达到时空重合,利用三阶非线性效应产生稳定的瞬态光栅作为开关光;另一束脉冲作为探测光与产生的瞬态光栅进行相互作用产生一个信号光,使用光谱仪对该信号光的光谱与延迟时间进行测量,并通过反演迭代算法处理而获取待测飞秒脉冲的光谱与电场信息.该方法只需要待测光的功率密度达到三阶非线性效应就可以实现测量,因此可以应用于任意中心波长的飞秒脉冲测量.利用该方法对中心波长分别为800 nm, 400 nm的飞秒脉冲,以及超连续亚10 fs的周期量级超宽光谱飞秒脉冲进行了测量,并与常规的干涉自相关仪器测量结果进行了比较,所得测量结果基本一致.实验结果表明,建立的基于TG-FROG方法对不同中心波长,不同脉冲宽度的飞秒脉冲测量是十分有效的.     

光参量振荡器的模型仿真

在傍轴近似条件下建立了OPO的数学模型,通过引入三波混频中时间与空间关系,采用分步傅里叶算法模拟了纳秒级脉冲和连续光波在谐振腔内的三波混频过程。理论模型中考虑了不同频率光波之间的色散关系,可以在高转换效率情况下分析不同泵浦脉冲功率、脉冲时长、腔镜透反射比以及不同种子光输入等情况下的输出波形、功率以及OPO阈值等特性。实验中采用掺杂MgO的周期性极化铌酸锂晶体（MgO∶PPLN）为非线性介质,在输入1.06 m泵浦激光脉冲能量为0.4 mJ时,产生3.8 m闲频光超过0.07 mJ输出,与数值模拟结果0.08 mJ较为符合。     

Energy level offset analysis of lead atom in laser plasma

The optical emission spectra of the plasma generated by a 1064 nm laser irradiation of lead target in air were recorded and analyzed. Temporal evolvement trait of spectral lines was investigated. The Stark width and line shift were measured at different delay time and laser energies. The electron densities were determined using Stark-broadening parameters of spectral lines. The atomic energy level offset in plasma surroundings was explored by analyzing the line shift. The experimental data of Stark widths and line shifts were analyzed using the regularity of the Stark parameters’ dependence on effective ionization potential. However an inverse experimental result was found compared with the theoretical calculation. In addition, the change of the Stark widths and line shifts with the delay time and laser energies was discussed.     

CdS_xSe_（1－x）半导体微晶掺杂玻璃在抗共振环APM激光器中不能压窄脉

本文对具有较大非线性系数，较快非线性响应和回复时间的ＣｄＳ＿ｘＳｅ＿（１－ｘ）半导体微晶掺杂玻璃能否在挽共振环（亦称为非谐振环）ＡＰＭ激光器中有效地压缩脉宽等问题做了详尽的理论与实验的切耐与分析。理论计算与实验研究的结果均表明：在抗共振环ＡＰＭ激光器中，应用ＣｄＳ＿ｘＳｅ＿（１－ｘ）半导体微晶掺杂玻璃不能使超短光脉冲宽度被压窄．     

Cr^4＋：YAG调Q特性的理论和实验研究

从理论和实验两个方面研究Ｃｒ＾４＋：ＹＡＧ的调Ｑ特性，测量了Ｃｒ＾４＋：ＹＡＧ调ＱＮｄ＾３＋：ＹＡＧ激光器在不同条件下脉冲能量和脉冲宽度，并与理论结果进行比较，结果显示脉冲能量的理论结果与实验结果能较发地符合，脉冲工的理论结果与实验结果变化趋势大致相一致，文中还对Ｃｒ＾４＋：ＹＡＧ调ＱＮｄ＾３＋：ＹＡＧ激光器的其它实验现象给出定性解释。     

YAG复合型相位共轭腔对改善光束模式的研究

如何降低受激布里渊散射(SBS)相位共轭腔的启动阈值以及如何提高输出光束的质量一直是人们关心的课题。报道了在YAG激光器上运行一种复合型受激布里渊散射相位共轭激光腔,该腔能够输出模式优良的光束。最大能够输出13．35mJ的单纵模,脉冲半高宽度约为15ns,输出光束的发散角为0．6mrad。实验给出了不同参量条件下的输出脉宽、能量及远场光斑分布和干涉环的情况,表明利用复合型相位共轭腔是改善光束模式的一种简单有效的方法。     

Ultrafast relaxation of optically excited nonequilibrium electron-hole distributions in germanium

New measurements of the nonlinear, nonequilibrium optical (1.06μm) properties of the germanium solid-state plasma are presented. Single pulse transmission has been measured as a function of incident pulse energy at sample temperatures of 105 K and 297 K. In addition the relative transmission of a probe pulse as a function of time delay after an excitation pulse has been measured for three different excitation pulse energies and two temperatures. A model which explains the observed behavior of germanium under intense radiation is briefly, qualitatively described, and theorectical curves are plotted with the experimental data.