Gain Flattened Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Using Simple Equalizing Film

A simple scheme using a piece of SiO₂ with an equalizing film platted on one side to get flattened gain spectrum of EDFA is studied in this paper. The film works as an inter-stage wavelength-selective filter, it is optimized to place at the middle of the EDF to suppress the ASE light generated by the first piece of EDF and pre-emphasize the signals before they enter the second EDF at the same time. The simulating results of 8 WDM signals show pretty good performance of gain flatness and noise figure as well. It is a facile equalization scheme for wide-band WDM systems.     

Maximize personal gain in the minority game

In standard minority game, each agent at every time step chooses the highest-score strategy from his limited number of strategies given arbitrarily in the beginning of the game. Suppose one agent is free to choose any strategy at every time step, how can he manage to maximize his personal gain? Based on the behavior of the standard game, we found a strategy for the agent to score more than the others do for most of the cases.     

Two-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers with three-section fibers allocation

Based on the theory model of two-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier with single-section fiber allocation (FOPA-SF), a new two-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier with three-section fibers arrangement (FOPA-TFs) is put forward, which can provide gain bandwidth of more than 405 nm with optimum fiber parameters calculated by genetic algorithm. The numerical simulation is performed to investigate the influence of pump wavelength allocation on the gain spectrum of FOPA, and it is found that the smaller wavelength separation between the two pumps (Δλ) can provide more uniform gain over a relatively wide bandwidth. Moreover, the gain ripple owing to random fluctuations of zero-dispersion wavelength (ZDW) can be improved to a large extent by reducing pump separation Δλ.     

Phase control of probe response in an open ladder type system with spontaneously generated coherence

The control role of the relative phase between the probe and driving fields on the gain and dispersion in an open three-level ladder atomic system with incoherent pumping and spontaneously generated coherence is investigated. It is shown that by adjusting the value of the relative phase, the switching from lasing with inversion to lasing without inversion (LWI) can be realized; high index of the refraction with zero absorption can be achieved. It is also found that when the driving field is on resonance, the dispersion curve versus the probe detuning is very similar to the gain curve if the relative phase corresponding to the dispersion advances π/2 than that corresponding to the gain. LWI gain from the open system is obviously larger than that from corresponding closed system. When the incoherent pumping is absent, the open system can get LWI gain, moreover the gain is larger than that when the incoherent pumping presents for suitable value of the relative phase, but the corresponding closed system exhibits only absorption. In addition, manipulation effects of atomic exit and ratio of the injection rates on phase dependent gain are also analyzed.     

高阶色散导致的交叉相位调制不稳定性

在考虑光纤损耗及高阶色散的情况下,以三、四阶色散项的耦合非线性薛定谔方程为基础,研究高阶色散对交叉相位调制不稳定性的影响.研究表明:三阶色散对调制不稳定性不起作用;由于四阶色散的影响,在光纤的正常、反常色散区,交叉相位调制不稳定性均发生在两个频谱区.且反常色散区两频谱区都比正常色散区的宽,反常色散区第二频谱区比正常色散区的更靠近零点.光纤损耗对增益谱的谱宽有较大影响,它使增益的谱宽变窄,且随传输距离的增大谱宽变得更窄.     

基于光纤光栅外腔激光器的全光波长转换器的阈值转换特性

使用半导体激活介质的增益饱和效应,描述了激光器型全光波长转换器波长转换机制及其阈值转换特性.实验研究了基于光纤光栅外腔半导体激光器的全光波长转换器的阈值转换特性,结果表明以此器件作为波长转换器可以将信号的消光比由5dB提高到30dB,并可将信号的强度起伏抑制到0dB,可实现部分信号数字再生功能.     

Gain Characterization of All-Optical Gain-Clamped PDFFA for WDM Networks Using the Feedback Theory

Using feedback theory, we analyze the gain of an all-optical gain-clamped praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber amplifier (AOGC PDFFA) for eight-channel multiwavelength operation. We demonstrate by numerical simulation that gain stabilization is achieved when the open-loop gain is higher than the feedback path attenuation. If this condition is fulfilled, the gain stabilizes to a value equal to the feedback path attenuation and is not influenced by the pump power, input signal power, number of channels, doped fiber length, or any other doped fiber parameter. In our setup the AOGC PDFFA noise figure is 0.12 dB lower than the open-loop PDFFA noise figure.     

Investigation of gain effect of multi-band patch antenna based on composite rectangular SRRs

The paper focus on describing the important influence and physical law of the Split_Resonant_Rings (SRRs) based on Left Handed Material (LHM) on patch antennas. The FDTD method, together with FEM method is used to study the characteristics of patch antenna based on composite rectangular SRRs. A novel composite rectangular SRR system is formed by assembling the conventional patch antenna and SRRs, it is found that electromagnetic wave resonance occurs at several bands: GSM (880–960 MHz), DCS (1710–1881 MHz), and PCS (1850–1990 MHz). The electromagnetic wave's “tunnel effect” and evanescent waves’ enhancing effect are formed, which can improve the localization extent of electromagnetic wave's energy apparently, such effects can improve the antenna's radiation gain and its matching condition. The phenomenon indicates that such composite rectangular patch antennas are promising in wireless communications such as mobile phone, satellite communication and aviation.     

Light propagation in photonic crystal with gain: Applicability of the negative loss approximation

The applicability of the concept of permittivity with Im ?_gain < 0 to describe the light propagation in a metamaterial system with gain is discussed using the example of a 1D photonic crystal containing gain layers. It is shown that this approach is in agreement with the principle of causality, unless lasing is present. Though the lasing process itself requires nonlinear analysis, the lasing threshold can be determined by linear (negative loss) approximation. Connecting the onset of lasing with the passage of the transfer function pole into the upper half-plane of the complex frequency, we show that (i) if the pump frequency lies in a pass band then an increase in the number N of elementary cells will sooner or later lead to lasing; (ii) if the frequency of the pump lies in the band gap, then lasing at band gap frequencies may occur in a sample with a low N before the band gap has been formed. Nevertheless, lasing will be necessarily suppressed by a further increase in N. In any case, for sufficiently large number of layers due to a finite line width of ?_gain(ω), lasing appears in the pass band even if the pump frequency is in the band gap.