Supercontinuum Generation with Output Power of 1.7W Pumped by a Picosecond Laser Pulse

By using a photonic crystal fiber, a supercontinuum source with output power up to 1.7W, pumped by a passively mode-locked diode-pumped Nd：YVO4 picosecond laser is obtained. A spectral width of the supercontinuum is 1700 nm （500–2200 nm） with the 5 dB spectral width approximately 1000 nm （1200–2200 nm）. This high power wide band supercontinuum source meets the demand of many applications such as optical coherence tomography, frequency metrology and wavelength-division-multiplexing systems. The evolution of the supercontinuum with the increasing pump power is presented and analyzed.     

飞秒脉冲泵浦光子晶体光纤产生1.3μm区域的光谱展宽

采用OPA产生的中心波长为1.2759 μm、平均输出功率为30 mW、重复频率为250 kHz、脉冲宽度为250 fs的光脉冲作为泵浦源,研究了PCF输出光谱随泵浦焦点与光纤端面的相对移动的光谱演变.在纤芯直径为2.0 μm、长度为1.8 m的光子晶体光纤中获得了近700 nm的光谱展宽,展宽的光谱从1.09 μm到1.79 μm,分析认为是高阶孤子的分裂和四波混频导致的光谱展宽,而在1.4 μm左右的光谱凹陷是由于光纤中OH离子的吸收造成的.PCF输出的光谱可应用在WDM通信和光互连网的超短脉冲多通道光源中.     

修整放大池对双布里渊放大池控制脉冲波形的影响

在传统独立双池结构的受激布里渊相位共轭镜系统中,引入修整放大池,采用主放大池与修整放大池相结合的双布里渊放大池放大控制脉冲波形.主放大池控制脉冲的整体波形,而修整放大池对脉冲波形,特别是脉冲前沿进行微调.修整放大池池长对双布里渊放大池放大控制脉冲波形的影响进行了理论研究和实验验证,得到了不同情况下脉冲波形随双池间距的变化规律.研究表明修整放大池池长决定放大光前沿的放大效率,是控制脉冲波形的重要参量.     

Supercontinuum Generation Using a Polarization-Maintaining Photonic Crystal Fibre by a Regeneratively Amplified Ti：Sapphire Laser

Supercontinuum with an ultra-broad bandwidth in the range from 380nm to 1750nm was generated by in-jecting 250kHz 200fs optical pulses produced by a regeneratively amplified Ti:sapphire laser into a 2.5-m-long polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fibre (PCF). It is indicated that the mechanism for the supercontinuum generation in the anomalous dispersion region of the PCF are directly related to the Raman effect, the fission of higher-order solitons, nonsolitonic radiation, and the coinstantaneous effect of four-wave mixing. The frequency components beyond 1.4#m were also observed. It is interpreted that the energy of solitons is shifted beyond the OH absorption with a higher input power.     

飞秒激光加工微悬臂梁薄膜光纤声波传感器

设计并制作了一种光纤微悬臂梁传感器,由于悬臂梁在受迫振动过程中不会产生拉伸变形,与四周固定的圆形密闭薄膜相比,会产生更高的声波灵敏度。采用飞秒激光加工制作微悬臂梁薄膜光纤声波传感器,制备出长宽均为500μm,厚6μm的微悬臂梁结构。通过实验得到其反射光谱对比度为8.8 dB,自由光谱范围为7.72 nm,理论计算得光纤法布里-珀罗腔长为155.6μm。研究结果表明,该光纤声波传感器在2 200 Hz处出现明显的共振峰,对应的声压灵敏度为414 mV/Pa,在300 Hz时有最大的灵敏度675 mV/Pa,与普通硅橡胶薄膜声波传感器相比灵敏度显著提高。理论计算硅橡胶微悬臂梁光纤声波传感器的一阶共振频率为198 Hz,与实验测得的共振频率较为接近。同时悬臂梁传感器的声压灵敏度可达675 mV/Pa,声压响应线性度为0.994。     

High Power Photonic Crystal Fibre Raman Laser

A cw Raman laser based on a 100-m photonic crystal fibre is demonstrated with up to 3.8 W output power at the incident pump power of 12 W, corresponding to an optical-to-optical efficiency of about 31.6%.. The second order Stokes light, which is firstly reported in a cw photonic crystal fibre Raman laser, is obtained at 1183nm with an output power of 1.6 W and a slope efficiency of about 45.7%.     

A Low-Pump-Threshold Photonic Crystal Fibre Raman Laser

We investigate a photonic crystal fibre Raman laser using fibre Bragg grating pairs as cavity mirrors. The threshold pump power is up to 0.65 W by decreasing the cavity loss and using a photonic crystal fibre with high Raman gain coefficient. A maximum continuous-wave output power of 2. 7 W is obtained at the maximum incident pump power of 5.6 W. The corresponding optical conversion efficiency and the slope efficiency are about 48% and 56%, respectively.     

连续端泵浦激光晶体长度的确定

利用光子能流理论,得到了确定激光晶体最佳长度的方法.实验表明:晶体最佳长度不仅与晶体本身的参量有关;而且还与谐振腔输出镜的反射率有关.     

喇曼光纤放大器结构对性能的影响

详细分析了拉曼光纤放大器的结构对性能的影响.基于受激喇曼散射效应中泵浦光与信号光之间相互作用的常微分方程,进行了数值模拟.模拟结果表明,喇曼光纤放大器结构对性能有着非常大的影响作用.后向泵浦结构,输出信号的光功率相对高于前向泵浦输出信号的光功率.当不考虑泵浦波动时,前向泵浦结构输出信号的信噪比高于后向输出信号的信噪比.在任何一种泵浦结构中都可获得高于41dB信噪比.设计了一种后向泵浦、增益平坦的放大器.该放大器可以实现90km、40×10Gbit/s复用信号的无损传输,增益波动小于1.2dB.     

飞秒脉冲作用下光子晶体光纤超连续谱的产生

采用钛宝石超快fs激光器泵浦2m长光子晶体光纤产生超连续谱,重点研究了不同输入功率下350～959nm波长范围内光谱的演变过程,实验中产生的超连续光谱宽度超过550nm分析表明,内脉冲喇曼散射和孤子自频移在开始阶段对光谱长波方向上的展宽起主要作用,这些新的频率成分与随后光谱向短波方向的拓展有密切关系.