Amplification of frequency-modulated soliton-like pulses in inhomogeneous optical waveguides with normal dispersion

The possibility of effective amplification of self-similar frequency-modulated pulses (FMPs) in longitudinally inhomogeneous active optical waveguides is studied. Peculiarities of the dynamics of parabolic pulses with a constant frequency modulation rate are considered. An optimal profile of variation of the group velocity dispersion was obtained in correspondence with optimal amplification of a similariton-like pulse. The use of FMPs in amplifying and longitudinally inhomogeneous optical waveguides with a correspondingly matched profile of normal dispersion of group velocities is shown to be capable of providing for an amplification of subpicosecond pulses up to energies above 1 nJ.     

High performance of semiconductor optical amplifier available for cold atom physics research

We present a novel design of a compact, stable, and easy-adjustable semiconductor optical amplifier （SOA） system. This SOA system is capable of providing up to 560-roW laser power at the wavelength of 852 nm. For the continuous-wave （CW） seeding laser, the amplification gain can reach 18 dB. We add amplitude modulation onto the CW laser and measure the modulation amplification between seeding and output laser. The amplification gain remains constant within the frequency range from 10 Hz to 1 MHz. The whole system could work in ultra-stable condition： for CW seeding laser, the fluctuation of output power is less than 0.33% in several hours.     

拉曼增强型自相位调制再生技术

自相位调制可用于信号脉冲的整形,可实现归零码(RZ)信号的再生。以高非线性光纤(HNLF)为介质,在高非线性光纤中实现了拉曼集总放大和信号脉冲的自相位调制。从理论上分析了同向拉曼泵浦增强信号的自相位调制,大大降低了所需的信号光强度。论证了在色散长度(LD)远大于HNLF长度(L)时由自相位调制(SPM)导致的频谱展宽,它与脉冲的啁啾无关,频谱的功率密度与脉冲的强度无关。因此在高非线性光纤之后加入偏移载波频率的带通滤波器可实现归零码信号的再生。集中拉曼放大可增强再生性能。     

啁啾脉冲激光放大中的自相位调制效应

利用光与物质相互作用的半经典理论建立了啁啾脉冲激光放大的输运方程,数值分析了多程放大过程中自相位调制对啁啾脉冲时域特性和频域特性的影响研究结果表明,由于自相位调制引起附加频率啁啾产生,啁啾脉冲瞬时频率发生变化,放大特性受到影响.通过对增益饱和状态下自相位调制效应的研究,提出利用入射脉冲的线性频率啁啾抑制自相位调制的影响. 关键词：     

Amplification of solitary optical waves in fibers with positive group velocity dispersion

Solitary optical waves with characteristic red frequency shift have been numerically identified in fibers with positive group velocity dispersion in the presence of amplification by semiconductor amplifiers. Influence of the Henry factor, the net gain, gain saturation characteristics, and frequency modulation on the frequency shift of the observed solitary optical waves has been examined. Normalized pulse energy as a function of the gain saturation characteristics has been studied.      

Simulation research of medium-short distance free-space optical communication with optical amplification based on polarization shift keying modulation

Circular polarization shift keying (CPolSK) modulation technique has many advantages such as excellent BER performance and freedom from the alignment of polarization coordinates of the transmitter and the receiver, etc., and it turns out to be a good choice to FSO system. In this paper, a FSO system using CPolSK modulation is studied by simulation; it is found that the communication performance of the system is excellent in most weather condition. Additionally, three ways of optical signal amplification are proposed, and contrastive analysis on performance of corresponding optical amplification systems is carried out by examining SNR、BER and transmission distance with different specific attenuation. The results show that the system with optical amplifier at the transmitter have the optimum performance, and then the system with optical amplifier at the both ends with the same total gain, it is worst for the system with optical amplifier at the receiver. In addition, the safety factor for high emission power induced by optical amplification is also considered in this paper for practical application. The study above may be utilized in the system design for enhancing performance.     

Modulation Characteristics of Tunable Quantum-Well Heterolasers at the Radiation Frequency Tuning

The influence of the tuning of the radiation frequency of quantum-well heterolasers within the limits of their amplification band on the output laser radiation parameters at different frequencies of pump-current modulation has been numerically simulated using two optical models of an active medium under the assumption that the excess of the invariable component of the pump current over its threshold value at any point of the amplification band is constant. It has been established that the amplitude-detuning characteristics of the lasers studied are linear at high current-modulation frequencies and nonlinear at medium ones. The behavior of the nonlinear spectral response of a laser diode is explained by its multiresonance structure and is mainly determined by the ratio between the pump-current modulation frequency and the maximum resonance frequency of the laser. __________ Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 473–478, July–August, 2005.     

On the possibility of the nondegenerate parametric amplification of optical waves at low-frequency pumping

It is shown that parametric amplification at low-frequency pumping can be implemented in coupled nonlinear optical interactions in aperiodic nonlinear photonic crystals created by the method of the superposition of the modulation of the second-order susceptibility. In this process, the intensities of waves with frequencies higher than the pump frequency increase monotonically with the interaction length as in the case of the traditional process of parametric amplification at high-frequency pumping. The dependence of the gain factor on the coupling constants of interacting waves is obtained. The process under consideration makes it possible to ensure the tuning of the generated frequency in the ultraviolet range upon pumping in the visible range. Analysis of the process is performed on the example of aperiodic nonlinear photonic crystals of lithium niobate.     

Modulation Frequency Characteristics of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

The modulation frequency characteristics of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier are analyzed theoretically and experimentally for various values of modulation frequency. The theoretical predictions by the approximate equations in the low and high frequency modulation and that by the Runge-Kutta method for all modulation frequencies are in good agreement with the experimental results. In the low frequency modulation, the population inversion is depleted because of the saturation effect due to the instantaneous power of the incident light, and a distorted output is obtained without phase delay. In the high frequency modulation, the linear amplification is obtained with the gain depletion determined by the time averaged power of the incident signal. In the intermediate frequency modulation, the highly distorted output is obtained with phase delay.     

Measurement of the frequency modulation transfer function of a laser using a Mach–Zehnder interferometer

A technique is presented for determining the frequency modulation transfer function of a laser. The method is based on a Mach–Zehnder interferometer, with a significant difference in the optical path lengths of the two arms. A frequency-modulated laser beam incident on the interferometer produces a phase-modulated photocurrent signal with an effective modulation index that is related to the amplitude of the optical frequency modulation. Techniques for determining both the amplitude and the phase of the optical frequency modulation from the photocurrent signal are described.     

光纤通信系统中色散与自相位调制作用下的频域传递函数

由基本物理过程出发,导出了数字或模拟强度调制光通信系统中,包含光纤损耗,色散和自相位调制综合作用下的光功率频域传递函数,由此得到了任意功率波形在传输过程中的演化表达式及各项的物理意义,结果表明,自相位调制导致的功率变化在低频部分与调制频率的平方成正比,在高频部分则与调制频率的平方的正弦成正比。解析公式与数值模拟结果在小调制信号下相符得很好,特别适用于计算非线性效应对系统噪声的影响以及诸如双边带和单边带微波调制光通信系统等情况;在诸如非归零码的大调制信号下,本文公式仍能正确地表示传输后的波形,对系统设计和分析有指导意义。     

Raman amplification and optical short pulse generation in a waveguide with periodic gain

In this paper a new configuration of amplification is proposed for Raman amplification. In this new configuration a spatial periodic Raman gain is used to amplify a CW Raman seed that generates a short optical pulse taking into account the SPM, XPM, walk-off and pulse depletion. The amplification process is accomplished by using an intense pump pulse where its energy is transferred through SRS effect. A CW weak seed is used to represent the signal to be amplified and for pump is used a Gaussian pulse. We discuss the advantages to this configuration. First, this scheme means that the Raman-gain coefficient assumes a periodic characteristic and like a modulation process, it gives possibility to control the energy transfer from the pump to Raman seed. Second, the efficient use of the parameters of the periodic Raman coefficient function, like amplitude and frequency of the modulation, can result in a more efficient control of the signal amplification. This new configuration provides some very interesting features in the Raman amplification process when compared to the standard procedure. A complete discussion of this configuration is presented.     

Measurement of modulation index and half-wave voltage of an electro-optical phase modulator with a dispersion-based phase filter

In this paper, a novel method based on the use of an optical phase filter is proposed to evaluate the modulation index, as well as the half-wave voltage of an optical phase modulator. When a phase modulated signal propagates along the length of a dispersive fiber, the fiber dispersion acts as an optical phase filter and spectrally alters the relative phasing of the phase modulated signal, causing the phase modulation to become intensity modulation, which allows the swept frequency measurement of phase modulators by using a vector network analyzer. The modulation index and half-wave voltage as a function of the modulation frequency are experimentally measured for a commercial phase modulator, which agree well with the results obtained using the widely accepted optical spectrum analysis method. The proposed method requires only a length of dispersive fiber and works without any small-signal approximation, which is applicable for different driving levels and operating wavelengths with the same setup.     

Resolution enhancement in a reflection mode near-field optical microscope by second-harmonic modulation signals

The motion of the probe tip in a near-field scanning optical microscope, dithered by vibration of a tuning fork, can modulate the reflection signal from the sample surface not only at the fundamental dithering frequency but also at its second harmonic. By lock-in amplification of these modulated signals, enhanced optical images are obtained, even with an uncoated fiber probe. In particular, accurate optical images with higher resolution are obtained when the second-harmonic signal is detected, which results from the parametric modulation of the tip-sample separation at the double frequency of the horizontal dithering motion of the tip. Using a DVD ROM with a track pitch of 0.74 mum as a test sample, we observed that the sharp edges around the pits are clearly resolved with the second-harmonic signals and obtained enhanced resolution of ~70 nm full width at half-maximum.     

Simultaneous wavelength tuning and amplitude modulation in QPM optical parametric amplifiers

We repot simultaneous optical parametric amplifiers (OPA) and amplitude modulation of signal pulse in a monolithic periodically poled KTP (PPKTP) by electrically controlling the relative phase between the pump, signal and idler waves in a KTP dispersion section sandwiched between two PPKTP gratings, theoretically. The controlling electric field can be arbitrary direction. For an ultrashort pulse group velocity mismatch, group dispersion and diffraction must be regarded, simultaneously. The solutions of the truncated equations, including the above effects in the two PPKTP gratings of simultaneous frequency tuning and amplitude modulation OPA, were analyzed. It is shown that the intensity of output signal pulse of OPA depends on the thickness of the dispersion section, the magnitude and azimuth of controlling electric field and one evidences periodicity. For the certain angular dispersion there exist the largest frequency bandwidths of optical parametric amplifiers. Certain angular dispersion of a signal pulse can increase the frequency bandwidth, and broadband amplification of ultrashort pulse can be performed effectively.     

微弱光学图像的光参量放大特性的研究

研究了微弱光学图像在光参量图像放大中的放大特性,分析了相位匹配和晶体的空间频率带宽对图像信号增益的影响,从实验上验证了不同的相位匹配时输入图像信号在傅里叶平面上的增益分布.结果表明,当晶体的空间频率带宽大于输入图像信号的空间频率带宽且完全相位匹配时,光参量图像放大器能够对输入图像信号实现无失真、高增益的理想放大;有相位失配时,图像信号的增益峰值向高空间频率范围移动,并且在峰值附近范围变窄,随相位失配量大小的变化能够对图像信号光场中某特定空间频率实现放大,对图像信号进行滤波处理,突出图像特定频率的信息,实现图像边缘增强.     

A photonic approach for microwave/millimeter-wave frequency measurement using stimulated brillouin scattering in single mode fiber

A photonic approach for microwave/millimeter-wave (MMW) frequency measurement is proposed and demonstrated based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) of a 20-km standard single mode fiber (SSMF). After the MMW signal is modulated to a laser source with two sidebands using optical carrier suppression (OCS) modulation, its frequency can be easily measured by monitoring the SBS-induced amplification with a power meter. Due to the 1-pm resolution of a tunable pump laser source, a frequency measurement range of 1–40 GHz is demonstrated in our experiment with a frequency resolution of 125 MHz. We believe the frequency measurement range can be further extended to satisfy photonic radar front-end processing application.     

谐振型光纤陀螺克尔效应误差消除方法研究

对采用方波频率调制数字闭环谐振型光纤陀螺中克尔效应的影响进行了深入的理论分析,〖CM)〗〖JP〗 分析表明，由克尔效应引起的陀螺误差不仅与光纤环内两相反方向光束的光强差有关，而且还依赖于两路光波频率调制的调制幅度,通过适当调节两光束的频率调制幅度，可有效地实现克尔效应误差的消除,这种基于方波频率调制的克尔效应误差消除方法利用了方波调制的特点，通过调节调制幅度实现误差消除，无需额外光学元件，对强度调制器调制频率要求低，是数字谐振型光纤陀螺系统中消除克尔效应误差的有效方法,     

大气激光通信非对称限幅光正交频分复用技术

将一种新的正交频分复用调制技术运用到大气激光通信系统中,分析了采用这种非对称限幅光正交频分复用调制技术的大气激光通信系统在大气湍流信道下的性能.在此基础上,把非对称限幅光正交频分复用调制方案与传统的开关键控及直流偏置光正交频分复用调制方案进行了比较,并在大气湍流信道中进行了仿真.仿真结果表明:非对称限幅光正交频分复用调...     

Phase-modulation-induced two-wave mixing in semiconductors

Two-wave mixing amplification of a weak probe beam interfering with a powerful pump beam of the same linear polarization is demonstrated when the probe beam enters the semiconductor sample before the pump pulse. This mixing of two beams of the same frequency is made possible by the difference between self-phase modulation and cross-phase modulation, which modify differently the instantaneous frequencies of both beams. Net gain coefficients up to 5.5 cm (-1) are obtained for experiments performed in CdTe. Theoretical calculations quantitatively confirm this interpretation and predict much higher gain for more resonant configurations or higher pump energies, making this process of potential interest for optical processing.