Automatic gain control of semiconductor laser amplifiers

A new approach to automatic gain control has been demonstrated and a signal polarization independent operation over a 35-nm wavelength range at a gain level of 17 dB has been obtained.     

Radiation fluctuations in a three-mirror system: II. Radiation noise in a three-mirror system

The mode of operation of a three-mirror system for the case where one of the cavities is filled with a gain medium, while the other contains two cells with gain and absorbing media, has been investigated. The behavior of the amplitude and phase noises of the gain and absorbing media in both arms of the three-mirror system has also been analyzed. It is shown that the presence of a gain cell narrows the absorption line and increases the resonance absorption contrast.     

Self tapering and uptapering of a self guided laser beam in an absorbing/gain medium with nonlinearity

The absorption/gain induced self tapering and uptapering of a self guided Gaussian laser beam when the beam propagates in a saturable nonlinear medium has been discussed. Using the WKBJ and abberationless paraxial ray approximation a beam width equation has been derived. Conditions for tapering/uptapering for both cases i.e., for absorption and gain have been discussed. The beam width of tapered/uptapered beam depends on the rate of absorption/gain, and the length of absorption/gain region along the beam propagation direction. The importance of the present study is pointed out.     

Effect of the Electron‐Beam Self‐Fields on Gain in an Optical Wiggler Pumped Free‐Electron Laser

The effects of self fields on gain for a free‐electron lasers (FELs) with electromagnetic‐wave wiggler and an axial guide magnetic field is presented. The relativistic equation of motion for a single electron for all relevant fields, including wiggler, self‐fields and axial guide magnetic field has been solved. Two classes of possible single‐particle trajectories in this configuration are found. Result of the numerical calculation shown that the relativistic part of group I (group II) orbits decreases (increases) monotonically with the axial field. The gain equations for the FEL configuration by adding the effect of self‐fields have been derived. The numerical calculation has been employed to analysis the gain induced by the effects of the self‐fields. It is shown that, for group I orbits the gain decreases in the presence of self‐fields and the gain decrement increases with increasing axial guide magnetic field, while for group II orbits the self‐fields enhances the gain. The gain decrement and enhancement are due to diamagnetic and paramagnetic effects of the self‐magnetic field, respectively. The comparison of the gain for electromagnetic‐wave wiggler with the gain in helical wiggler has been done (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

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.      

高功率激光多程放大系统光束传输的计算分析

 报道了高功率激光多程放大系统光束传输的模拟程序, 该程序考虑了放大介质的增益分布、增益饱和、增益恢复系数、介质吸收损耗、B积分以及光阑和空间滤波器等光学元件对激光传输和放大的影响, 并给出了典型的计算实例。     

光学速调管的研究

用毫米波段的光学速调管结构改进自由电子激光器的增益和效率.编制计算机模拟的程序,用来设计光学速调管装置.对于采用小周期摆动磁场的特定情况,片状电子束电压300keV,电流17A,摆动磁场周期3.7mm,工作频率300GHz,光学速调管的增益和效率分别计算为27.9dB和0.5%.若电子束电压为450keV,电流为25A,磁场周期为1cm,工作频率为160GHz,计算结果增益和效率分别为32dB和2.7%.     

拉曼增益对双折射光纤中孤子传输特性的影响

本文采用考虑拉曼增益的耦合非线性薛定谔方程,利用分步傅里叶方法求解并仿真模拟了光孤子脉冲在不同性质的双折射光纤中传输时的演化过程.结果表明,拉曼增益可以有效抑制非线性耦合导致的孤子漂移,同时会导致光孤子脉冲峰值在传输时不断增大,产生拉曼放大效应.拉曼增益也可以有效抑制双折射光纤中传输的相邻光孤子之间的相互作用.     

高功率激光多程放大系统光束传输的计算分析

报道了高功率激光多程放大系统光束传输的模拟程序, 该程序考虑了放大介质的增益分布、增益饱和、增益恢复系数、介质吸收损耗、B积分以及光阑和空间滤波器等光学元件对激光传输和放大的影响, 并给出了典型的计算实例。     

Self-field effects on small-signal gain in two-stage free-electron lasers

Self-field effects, induced by charge and current densities of the electron beam, on gain in two-stage free-electron laser with nonuniform guide magnetic field is presented. The gain equation for small-signal has been derived analytically. The results of numerical calculations show a gain decrement for group I orbits and a gain enhancement for group II orbits, due to the self-field effects. The wiggler-induced self-magnetic field has a diamagnetic effect for group I orbits, whereas for group II, it has a paramagnetic effect. It is also found that using a nonuniform guide field, rather than a uniform one, causes the gain to increase.     

色散条件下各向同性光纤中拉曼增益对光脉冲自陡峭的影响

基于光脉冲所满足的慢变函数,详细推导了包含拉曼增益的高阶非线性薛定谔方程,在考虑色散的条件下,运用分步傅里叶方法对其数值分析,进而模拟仿真了拉曼增益对高斯脉冲在各向同性光纤中传播时自陡峭效应的影响,并与不考虑拉曼增益的自陡峭效应作比较,从而得出拉曼增益在不同条件下对高斯脉冲自陡峭效应的具体影响方式.结果表明,拉曼增益会影响高斯脉冲的展宽、脉冲峰值衰减以及在前后沿的振荡,其影响程度与具体的自陡峭参数、脉冲功率和色散系数的大小有关.     

Calculation of gain coefficients for vapour phase dyes

The gain coefficient for four vapour phase organic dyes has been calculated under laser and (for POPOP, flashlamp) pumped conditions and compared with various experimental results for POPOP vapour under nitrogen laser excitation. As quenching of the POPOP vapour triplet state by vapour phase 1,3,5,7 cyclooctatetraene (COT) has been observed with a known rate constant this has been applied to the calculation of the gain coefficient of POPOP/COT vapour mixtures.     

Spectral enhancement in optical parametric amplifiers in the saturated regime

We present numerical and experimental studies on a front-end laser system for seeding a sub-picosecond multi-terawatt/petawatt light source based on two highly saturated optical parametric amplifiers. Numerical results showing energy gain, spectral gain, and stability as saturation is approached are presented. An experimental realisation of the system has been constructed, and its performance has been found to be in good agreement with the numerical simulations. The total gain is in excess of 10⁵ over a few picosecond gain window, and the pulse energy is ～100 μJ with 4 % root mean square stability.     

Dynamic study of the gain in two beam coupling in photorefractive materials

Wave equations describing the non-linear two-beam coupling have been solved and expressions for the gain of the two beams in the photorefractive crystals have been derived. In case of the degenerate two-beam coupling, the gain depends upon the crystal thickness, coupling coefficient, absorption coefficient and the input intensity ratio. The effect of these parameters on the gain has been studied in details. In case of non-degenerate two-beam coupling the gain not only depends upon crystal thickness, coupling coefficient, absorption coefficient and the input intensity ratio but also on the response time of the photorefractive medium. This response time is the function of concentration ratio. The influence of oscillation frequency shift, concentration ratio on the gain for the non-degenerate two-beam coupling has also been studied.     

Broadband gain-clamped linear quantum dash optical amplifiers

The linear optical gain of gain-clamped quantum dash semiconductor optical amplifiers (GCSOAs) has been investigated using the rate equation model. The gain spectrum of GCSOA for different wavelength detuning and different doping has been studied. Our analysis shows that the linear gain can be increased as the laser wavelength is detuned to high wavelength where the peak of the optical gain, which is found at wavelengths below the ground state wavelength, is shifted to lower wavelength as the laser wavelength is increased. We find that doping the dashes by either N-type or P-type enhances the linear optical gain and shifts the gain peak to lower wavelength. Moreover, we found that GCSOA with lightly N-type doping demonstrates large separation between the laser and the amplifier wavelength. Also we find that small inhomogeneous line broadening enhances the linear gain peak, shifts the gain peak to wavelength lower than the GS wavelength and widens the gain spectrum.     

Inherently gain flattened L band TDFA based on W-fiber design

We present here a detailed theoretical analysis for realizing an inherently gain flattened L⁺ band thulium doped fiber amplifier (TDFA), based on a depressed inner-clad (W-fiber) design, wherein the inherent gain flattening is achieved by an optimized bend induced leakage loss. The leakage loss characteristics of W-fiber have been used to suppress higher wavelength amplified stimulated emission (ASE) in the designed TDFA, which otherwise depletes the population inversion in the amplifier, making it almost impossible to obtain high gain for wavelengths in and close to the conventional L-band. It has been shown through simulations that 20 dB net gain (±0.3 dB ripple) is achievable over 32 nm bandwidth (1604-1636 nm), using this design pumped with 160 mW of power. We also show that inherent gain flattening leads to redistribution of power among signal wavelengths, and hence an inherently gain-flattened TDFA is much more efficient as compared to a configuration that uses discrete filters for gain flattening. The net gain value and gain flattening of the designed TDFA module have been tested against tolerance with respect to fiber parameters as well as bend radius. This is for the first time to the authors knowledge that inherently gain flattened L⁺ band operation has been shown using TDFAs.     

Study of nonlinear propagation of chirped optical pulses in laser amplifying medium

In chirped pulse amplification, the amplification of an optical pulse in laser amplifying medium is a very important link. After considering dispersion, Kerr nonlinear effect, gain distribution and loss of the medium, the physical model that the optical pulse propagates in the medium has been established, which is suitable for the general situation where the optical pulse propagates in the amplifying medium. Using a split-step Fourier method, the propagation state of a chirped optical pulse in the amplifying medium has been numerically simulated, and the influences of the gain dispersion of the medium and the frequency detuning of the pulse on the optical pulse have been discussed emphatically. The results show that, with the amplification and propagation of the ultrashort chirped pulse in the amplifying medium, gain saturation and Kerr nonlinear effect of the medium will cause distortion of the optical pulse. For the optical pulse with a wideband spectrum, gain dispersion will cause the gain narrowing effect, so it is equivalent to a loss mechanism. The frequency detuning of the optical pulse will cause distortion of the pulse, which can be used to weaken the impact of gain saturation, thus reshaping the optical pulse.     

Temperature independent length optimization of L-band EDFAs providing flat gain

In this study, single stage (SS), double-stage (DS), and gain flattened (GF) DS L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) configurations are designed in order to obtain a flat gain amplifier. Temperature dependence of the mentioned configurations is also analyzed. Maximum spectral dependence of EDFA gain with respect to temperature is obtained for SS EDFA design while smaller spectral dependence of gains is obtained for both DS and GF DS L-EDFA configurations. It is observed that the maximum temperature dependence is in the range of 1570-1580 nm band for all configurations. It has also been found that for all configurations, reducing the temperature has greater effect than raising the temperature on EDFA gain. The overall results show that a temperature independent L-band configuration has not been possible. However, for some signal wavelengths, the erbium-doped fiber (EDF) lengths at which the gain is temperature independent are observed.     

Multistage gain-flattened hybrid optical amplifier at reduced wavelength spacing

In this paper, two stage hybrid optical amplifier (HOA) composed of a single erbium doped fiber amplifier and Raman amplifier is proposed for dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) system and investigate the impact of reduced channel spacing. The performance has been evaluated in the term of gain, gain flatness and noise figure. Also, using gain equalization technique, hybrid optical amplifier that has a gain flatness of 3 dB, and a noise figure of less than 7.4 dB is observed.     

一种基于开口谐振环的高增益端射天线设计

基于开口谐振环(split-ring resonator, SRR)奇异的电磁特性, 设计并制备了一种覆盖C和X波段的高增益SRR-Vivaldi端射天线. 采用等效分析方法对SRR结构谐振特性进行了研究, 并将其应用于传统Vivaldi天线指数渐变槽线前方, 使SRR结构形成特殊谐振能力的引向器, 将天线表面电流集中于端射方向, 在保证天线尺寸和带宽不变的前提下, 实现了天线增益的有效提升. 仿真和测试结果表明, 新型SRR-Vivaldi天线在C波段增益平均提高75.44%, xoy面和xoz面半功率波束宽度都缩减20°以上; 在X波段增益平均提高24.46%, xoz面半功率波束宽度大约缩减25°. 该结构具有低成本、设计简单、便于加工、利于共形等优点, 为端射天线提高增益和增强定向性提供了新思路.