Narrow Linewidth Tm^3＋-Doped Large Core Fiber Laser Based on a Femtosecond Written Fiber Bragg Grating

A diode laser （LD） clad-pumped narrow linewidth all-fiber Tm^3＋-doped fiber laser is reported with a maximal output power of 27W at 1.947μm. By successively splicing an LD pigtail fiber, a single-mode Tm^3＋-doped fiber, and a multi-mode Tm^3＋-doped fiber, the fiber laser has 70pm narrow linewidth output, and a high slope efficiency of nearly 47.5% with respect to the launched pump power. The high reflectivity fiber Bragg gratings, which are directly written into the single-mode Tm^3＋-doped fiber core by the 800nm femtosecond pulsed laser, act as the high reflectivity coupler. The output laser has diffraction-limited beam quality with a factor M^2 of 1.29, when the output laser power is nearly 27W.     

Excitation Transfer for K2 in High-Lying States by N2

A K-N2 mixture is irradiated in a glass fluorescence cell with pulses of 710hm radiation from an OPO laser, populated K2 （^1∧g） state by two-photon absorption. The cross section for ^1∧g →^3∧g transfer in K2 is determined using molecular fluorescence spectrometry. The cell temperature is kept constant at 553K. The N2 pressure is varied between 40 Pa and 400 Pa. The effects of K2-K collisions could not be neglected. These effects are subtracted out by using the results of the pure K experiment. The cross sections are （3.8 ± 1.5） ×10^-15 cm^2 for K2 （^1∧g） ＋ N2 → K2（^3∧g） ＋N2 and （8.9 ± 3.5） × 10^-15 cm^2 for K2 （^3∧g） collisions with N2.     

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Noise Effects on Temperature Encoding of Neuronal Spike Trains in a Cold Receptor

We examine how noise interacts with encoding mechanisms of neuronal stimulus in a cold receptor. From ISI series and bifurcation diagrams it is shown that there are considerable differences in interval distributions and impulse patterns caused by purely deterministic simulations and noisy simulations. The ISI-distance can be used as an effective and powerful way to measure the noise effects on spike trains of the cold receptor quantitatively. It is also found that spike trains observed in cold receptors can be more strongly affected by noise for low temperatures than for high temperatures in some aspects; meanwhile, the spike train has greater variability with increasing noise intensity.     

Raman Spectrum of Epitaxial Graphene on SiC （0001） by Pulsed Electron Irradiation

We report new Raman features of epitaxial graphene （EG） on Si-face 4H-SiC prepared by pulsed electron irradiation （PEI）. With increasing graphene layers, frequencies of G and 2D peaks show blue-shifts and approach those of bulk highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite. It is indicated that the EG is slightly tension strained and tends to be strain-free. Meanwhile, single Lorentzian line shapes are well fitted to the 2D peaks of EG on SiC（O001） and their full widths at half maximum decrease with the increasing graphene layers, which indicates that the multilayer EG on Si-face can also contain turbostratic stacking by our PEI route instead of only AB Bernal stacking by a traditional thermal annealing method. It is worth noting that the stacking style plays an important role on the charge carrier mobility. Therefore our findings will be a candidate for growing quality graphene with high carrier mobility both on the Si- and C-terminated SiC substrate. Mechanisms behind the features are studied and discussed.     

Broadband Source Ranging in Shallow Water Using the Ω-Interference Spectrum

The concept of the waveguide invariant is revisited and a simple relationship between the range of source and the quasi-period of the acoustic interference spectrum in the frequency domain （Ω-interference spectrum） is derived. Then a method for a broadband source ranging in shallow water using a single receiver and a broadband guide source, requiring no modeling and no knowledge about the ocean environment, is proposed. The method is validated by simulation and verified with the experimental data.     

An Optical Labeling Scheme with Novel DPSK/PPM Orthogonal Modulation

A novel differential-phase-shift-keying （DPSK）/pulse-position-modulation （PPM） orthogonal modulation is pro- posed for optical labeling applications, with PPM data as the high-speed payload and DPSK signal as the optical label. The systematic setup for the proposed scheme and research on bit-error rate is presented. The results show that at the bit-error rate of 10-~, the power penalties for 70kin fiber transmission are in the range of 1-3 dB to DPSK label and 5-6 dB to PPM payload in our simulation system. This is under the condition that the large extinction ratio of 18-19 dB is used for the intensity modulators of the PPM payload, with a well received DPSK label. Thus the feasibility of the proposed scheme for all optical transmission networks is clearly verified.     

K-Shell Spectra from CH-Tamped Aluminum Layers Irradiated with Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses

X-ray spectra of H-like and He-like aluminum ions from aluminum buried in CH layers irradiated with 30fs, 200 TW laser are measured. The electron temperature and density are derived from line ratios of the He-α resonance line to its satellite lines. Typical temperatures of 490-646 eV and electron densities up to 7 × 10^20 cm-3 are obtained. The results show that the electron density increases and temperature decreases with the increasing CH thickness.     

FM-AM Conversion Induced by Polarization Mode Dispersion in Fiber Systems

The conversion of the frequency modulated pulse induced from frequency modulation （FM） to amplitude modulation （AM） by the polarization mode dispersion （PMD） is theoretically and experimentally investigated. When there is no polarizer at the output end of a fiber system, the amplitude modulation depth is stable by 8%. Random amplitude modulation is observed when a polarizer is placed at the output end of the fiber system. The observed minimum and maximum modulation depths in our experiment are 5% and 80%, respectively. Simulation results show that the amplitude modulation is stable by 4% induced mainly by group velocity dispersion （GVD） when there is no polarizer, and the amplitude modulation depth displays the random variation character induced by the GVD and PMD. Lastly, a new fiber system scheme is proposed and little amplitude modulation is observed at the top of the output pulse.     

Experiment of C-Band Wavelength Conversion in a Silicon Waveguide Pumped by Dispersed Femtosecond Laser Pulse

We experimentally demonstrate the C-band wavelength conversion using four-wave mixing in a 17-mm-long silicon-on-insulator waveguide pumped by a dispersed mode-locked femtosecond laser pulse. The idler can be observed with an incident average pump power lower than 4 dBm, and about 35 nm of conversion bandwidth from 1530nm to 1565nm is measured by using a 1550-nm pump wavelength. The pulse-pumped efficiency is demonstrated to be higher, by more than 22 dB, than the cw-pumped efficiency. The conversion efficiency variations with respect to the pump and signal powers are also investigated.