A Kind of Low Loss Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fibre with Increasing-Diameter Air-Holes

We report the results of our investigation on the loss property of a birefringent photonic crystal fibre （PCF） based on a particular periodic arrangement of air-holes and pure silica. The structure of the birefringent PCF, whose air-hole diameter in one ring is always larger than the next inner ring, presents an obviously low confinement loss than the one whose air-hole （except those on the horizontal line） diameter is constant. It is shown from numerical results that a four-ring PCF with birefringenee B=5×10^-4 and fast axis confinement loss of 4.5×10^-3 dB/km at wavelength of 1.55μm can be designed.     

GeO_2－Sb_2O_3－K_2O玻璃空芯光纤材料的光学特性研究

系统地研究了传输ＣＯ２激光用的新型光纤材料ＧｅＯ２－Ｓｂ２Ｏ３－Ｋ２Ｏ玻璃空芯光纤的光学特性。通过理论计算，得到了该材料ｎｒ＜１的波长范围，消光系数Ｋ和损耗系数ａ，通过工艺和材料的选择，使ａ理论值达到０．０５ｄＢ／ｍ。同时讨论了ＨＥ１１，ＴＭ０１，ＴＥ０１模式损耗和频率的关系。     

Supercontinuum generation with 15-fs pump pulses in microstructured fiber with combination core and random cladding

We demonstrate the generation of supercontinuum(SC)of over 1350 nm by injecting 790-nm,15-rs,74-MHz optical pulses into a 183-mm-long microstructured fiber with combination core and random cladding.The maximum total power of SC is 73 mW with 290-mW pump power from 40× microscope objective.Thewavelength and power ranging in SC as well as the polarization states and waveguide modes of the visiblelight can be tuned by adjusting the input end of MF.In particular,white light has been observed.To ourknowledge,this is the first report of tunable properties in SC generation process using microstructuredfiber with combination core and random cladding.     

二氧化锗空芯光纤的研究

提出并建立了制造纯GeO₂空芯光纤的方法,研制的纯GeO₂空芯光纤的输出功率达到18W,损耗为1.23dB/m,论述了该光纤的传输激光能量的原理,探讨了光纤的传输损耗和应用领域.     

光子晶体光纤四波混频光谱中相位匹配特性的研究

与传统光纤不同,光子晶体光纤可以具有多个零色散波长,在四波混频光谱中,具有更丰富的相位匹配特性。目前很多文献报道了光子晶体光纤非线性光学特性的实验结果,但对其产生机理及光谱的变化规律缺乏详细的理论分析。为此对光纤中四波混频原理进行了分析,给出了高增益的相位匹配条件。利用多极法计算了光子晶体光纤的非线性系数及色散特性。对具有多个零色散波长光子晶体光纤的相位失配特性进行了分析,得到了相位匹配波长随泵浦波长及泵浦功率的变化规律。给出了相位匹配曲线,分析了不同色散曲线的相位匹配波长特点,两个零色散波长光子晶体光纤,在四波混频光谱中将激发出四个新的波长。实验得到了两个零色散波长光子晶体光纤的四波混频光谱,与理论分析一致,验证了相位匹配理论的可靠性。多个零色散波长光纤,能产生丰富的相位匹配曲线,会出现更多的四波混频波长,可以有效的控制光孤子及超短脉冲的四波混频及共振散射产生的光谱特性。为光子晶体光纤中基于四波混频的波长变换及超连续谱的研究提供了理论指导。     

飞秒泵浦不同锥长微结构光纤超连续谱的产生

对飞秒脉冲泵浦下,不同锥长及锥腰直径的微结构光纤的超连续谱产生进行了实验研究。采用“快速低温拉锥方法”,在保持d/Λ不变的情况下,对实验室自制的空气孔间距Λ=6.53 μm,归一化孔径d/Λ=0.79的微结构光纤进行了拉锥,分别得到6,8,10 mm等不同锥长微结构光纤。理论计算表明,随着锥长变长,锥腰直径变小,锥腰处零色散波长向短波移动：未拉锥及6,8和10 mm锥微结构光纤锥腰处零色散波长分别为1 129,885,806和637 nm。利用中心波长为810 nm,重复频率76 MHz,脉宽120 fs的钛蓝宝石飞秒激光器对拉锥后微结构光纤进行了实验研究：锥长为6 mm时,泵浦光中心波长位于整根光纤的正常色散区,锥腰的零色散点附近,内脉冲拉曼散射和级联四波混频是光谱初始展宽的主要因素。泵浦功率达到450 mW时,在可见波段390～461 nm及红外波段1 134～1 512 nm形成-5 dB的平坦宽带连续光谱。泵浦功率达到500 mW时,出现366～2 450 nm覆盖紫外、可见、近红外、中红外的超连续谱,其光谱红蓝移边缘已经接近实验用微结构光纤的传输带宽。锥长为8 mm、泵浦功率为450 mW时,在群速度匹配和群加速度失配的共同影响下,连续谱蓝移边缘达到366 nm,比6 mm锥时蓝移9 nm;锥长为10 mm时,由于锥腰处零色散点移动到可见光区域,可见区光谱仍能满足相位匹配条件。通过级联四波混频效应,在可见区域实现了频率上转换及光谱蓝移。泵浦光功率达到500 mW时,在382～412 nm得到谱宽仅为30 nm,转换效率达到27.7%的频率上转换。     

Design of Nearly Zero Dispersion Flattened Photonic Crystal Fiber with Double Cladding

A novel design of nearly zero dispersion flattened photonic crystal fiber （PCF） with double cladding is proposed. To employ traditional stack and draw technology, the cladding is composed of a traditional triangular lattice of air-holes and silica. The dispersion of the fiber is mainly engineered by the small air holes in the inner cladding, which are easily preserved in the fiber drawing procedure. The large air-holes in the outer cladding are mainly for light confinement. Thus, the dispersion property of the PCF is insensitive to the deformation of the air holes in the outer cladding. Using 8 layers of air-hole ring, the loss of the fundamental mode for the PCF is as low as 0.13dB/km at 1.55μm. The dispersion of the PCF fluctuates from -0.023 to 0.021ps·km^-1nm^-1 in the range 1.45-1.625 μm.     

Design of a High-Nonlinearity Single-Mode Holey Fiber with Flattened Dispersion around 800 nm

We numerically demonstrate a high-nonlinearity single-mode holey fiber with flattened dispersion around the Ti-Za laser band at 800 nm. The dispersion profile of the fiber has the shape of a quadratic curve, which reaches its maximum 5.96 ps·km^-1·nm^-1 at 800hm and its minimum -0.897 ps·km^-1·nm^-1 at both 750 and 850 nm. The nonlinear coefficient is 170 W^-1 km^-1 at 800nm and no higher order modes exit. A six-layer air-hole cladding ensures a loss less than 0.067 db/m in the 750 to 850 nm range. Two more air-hole rings will reduce the loss to below 0.1 db/km.     

一种阶梯结构的色散平坦光子晶体光纤的研究

以多极法理论为基础,提出了一种阶梯结构的光子晶体光纤.通过改变其内四层的三个结构参量(内两层孔孔径,外两层孔孔径和孔间距),实现色散绝对值在1.1～1.8μm的波段内变化仅为0.05～2 ps/(km·nm)的平坦甚至超平坦的特性.在此情况下对其有效模场面积进行数值模拟,充分展示了达到色散平坦和超平坦时,相对于传统光子晶体光纤,此种结构的光纤对芯区内光场的局域能力有很大程度的增强,其有效模场面积可仅为传统光子晶体光纤的1/30.最后,经过大量的数值计算和理论分析,归纳出若要此种阶梯结构的光纤在1.1～1.8μm的波段内达到色散平坦甚至超平坦特性的设计依据.     

Numerical Simulation and Experimental Analysis of Photonic Band Gap in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibres

Based on the full-vector plane-wave method （FVPWM）, a hollow-core photonic crystal fibre （HC-PCF） fabricated by using the improved stack-and-draw technique is simulated. Under given propagation constants β, several effective photonie band gaps with different sizes emerge within the visible wavelength range from 575 to 720 nm. The fundamental mode and second-order mode lying in a part of PBGs are investigated. In the transmission spectrum tested, the positions of PBGs are discovered to be shifting to shorter wavelengths. The main reason is the existence of interstitial holes at nodes in the cladding region. In the later experiment, green light is observed propagating in the air-core region, and the result is more consistent with our theoretical simulation.