在掺铒光纤中直接观测慢光和超光速信号的演化

最近几年中,慢光和超光速的研究取得了很多进展.慢光和超光速产生的物理机制作为慢光和超光速研究领域的一个重要方面也吸引了研究者的关注.设计了一个新颖的实验,在掺铒光纤中观测了慢光和超光速信号的演化.分别在慢光(0相似文献   

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O432007043016超光速群速度与信息传输的有效速度=Superluminalgroup velocity and effective velocity of information transfer[刊,中]/郭奇志(上海大学物理系.上海(200444)),谭维翰//光学学报.?2007,27(2).?344-349研究了反常色散介质中脉冲形变对超光速群速度的影响,发现即     

光前驱波

文章回顾了近一百年来光前驱波的研究历史及最新的进展.自爱因斯坦的狭义相对论发表以来,真空中的光速不变原理已经被广泛地接受.然而对光在介质中的传播速度,由于复杂的色散关系,却一直存在不同的解读,尤其是对光载信息传播速度以及单个光子的运动.光前驱波的研究旨在回答这个问题.作者和其研究团队在最近的研究中找到了前驱波在光学波段的清晰的证据,并首次发现了单光子波包里的光前驱波.研究结果表明,光载信息传播速度不可能超光速,单光子的运动满足真空光速极限原理,即便是在所谓的“超光速”(群速度超光速)介质中.     

带有增益的单微环谐振器的光速控制行为

带有损耗的光波导微环谐振器在实现光速控制时存在输出脉冲能量损耗大、脉冲形状畸变严重等问题。基于带有增益和带有损耗的微环谐振器的传输特性之间的对称性,计算分析了单微环谐振器的透射率、群折射率和群速度色散等特性,分析了增益和损耗对微环谐振器输出特性影响的机制。计算了带有增益的微环谐振器的光速控制行为,并与带有损耗的微环谐振器进行对比。结果显示,带有增益的微环谐振器输出脉冲不分裂且有较大的输出强度。脉冲延迟量和超前量比损耗系统大,可用于光速控制,克服了微环带有损耗时产生的光强损耗和脉冲畸变。     

无反转放大效应(AWI)对光速减慢与负群速传播的影响

由于光子作为信息的载体有着天然的优越性,例如,传播速度快,信息量大等.所以各国科学家都在不断地寻找各种方法去操控光子.其中电磁感应透明(Electromagnetically Induced Transparency, EIT),电磁感应吸收(Electromagnetically Induced absorption, EIA)和无反转放大效应(Amplification Without Inversion, AWI)作为控制光子的手段一直受到人们的关注.电磁感应透明现象(EIT)可以实现共振光无吸收传播的同时伴随有大的群速度色散效应.我们实现了无缓冲气体的铯泡(Cs)中的光脉冲群速度的减慢,通过在EIT的原子系统上加入非相干泵浦来产生AWI效应,我们发现光脉冲在其中的传播速度随着泵浦光强的增加而明显减小,延迟时间增加一倍,光脉冲的群速度相当于c/40000.此外,我们还利用电磁感应吸收现象(EIA)产生的大的负群速度色散效应,我们观察到了在无缓冲气体的铯泡(Cs)中,光脉冲的负群速度传播的现象.通过EIA原子系统中非相干泵浦光的加入,AWI 效应使得超光速现象变得更加明显,光脉冲的负群速度变得更大.最大的光脉冲超前时间可以达到0.9 μs,相当于光脉冲的群速度为-c/40000.     

线性啁啾光脉冲在具有纵向增益光纤中的自相似传播研究

非线性薛定谔方程是光脉冲在光纤中传播时所遵循的基本方程.本文利用分步傅里叶方法从数值结算的角度研究了具有线性啁啾的光脉冲在具有横向增益光纤中的自相似传播特性.研究表明:当群速度色散系数和光脉冲的啁啾系数符号相同时,由于在传播过程中自相位调制和群速度色散分别起主要作用,不论何种形式的光脉冲在传输过程中均会受到压缩,但随着传播距离的增加压缩的光脉冲会展宽;埃尔米特高斯输入和正弦输入在传播过程中的光强分布是对称的,拉盖尔高斯输入在传播过程中会发生能量交换而表现出明显的偏转;当群速度色散系数和光脉冲的啁啾系数符号不相同时,在传播过程中群速度色散始终起主要作用,脉冲一直展宽.这些研究结论可能为未来光纤压缩器、光纤放大器以及新型THz调制波源的制备提供新的理论基础和方法.     

啁啾脉冲参量放大特性的数值模拟研究

 根据啁啾脉冲激光参量放大技术,数值模拟了光参量放大在啁啾脉冲放大中的应用。研究啁啾脉冲参量放大增益及时间特性,特别是在大信号注入与小信号注入两种有代表意义的情况下,详细地分析了群速度失配、相位失配对放大过程的影响。研究了泵浦光脉冲与信号光脉冲的时间同步要求,讨论了放大系统的稳定性。     

线性啁啾光脉冲在具有纵向增益光纤中的自相似传播研究

非线性薛定谔方程是光脉冲在光纤中传播时所遵循的基本方程.本文利用分步傅里叶方法从数值结算的角度研究了具有线性啁啾的光脉冲在具有横向增益光纤中的自相似传播特性.研究表明:当群速度色散系数和光脉冲的啁啾系数符号相同时,由于在传播过程中自相位调制和群速度色散分别起主要作用,不论何种形式的光脉冲在传输过程中均会受到压缩,但随着传播距离的增加压缩的光脉冲会展宽;埃尔米特高斯输入和正弦输入在传播过程中的光强分布是对称的,拉盖尔高斯输入在传播过程中会发生能量交换而表现出明显的偏转;当群速度色散系数和光脉冲的啁啾系数符号不相同时,在传播过程中群速度色散始终起主要作用,脉冲一直展宽.这些研究结论可能为未来光纤压缩器、光纤放大器以及新型THz调制波源的制备提供新的理论基础和方法.     

反常色散介质“超光速”现象研究的新进展

文章介绍了王力军等人的光脉冲在反常色散介质传播实验的测量结果，说明了实验测量的不完全性，因而它不能在是否超光速的问题的答案，文章还介绍了近一年来相应的理论研究工作，文章作者依据物理概念和理论研究结果论证了该实验所得的负群速度本身并不超光速；如果把负群速度看成是某种能量的传播那私超光速出现在负群速度开始时间间，因而它是超距作用，违反能量守恒或动量守恒，因此，负群速度只是表观速度，能流的研究结果也证明了这一点。这就是说，该实验并没有观察 到超观察到超光速传播。     

微腔旋转对耦合腔光波导群速度的影响

本文利用多重散射方法和时域有限差分方法,理论研究了微腔旋转对二维正方晶格光子晶体耦合腔光波导群速度的影响.研究结果表明,通过旋转微腔可以造成传播模的模式分裂,从而实现群速度的降低.当微腔旋转角度为45°时,传播模的群速度最小,两个传播模的群速度分别达到了0.0016倍和0.0009倍于真空光速,与微腔未旋转时相比降低了一个数量级.上述两种传播模群速度的差别是由传播模的空间对称性决定的. 关键词： 二维光子晶体 耦合腔光波导 群速度     

电子学领域的群速超光速实验

研究了电信号在阻抗周期失配的光子晶体结构中的群速超光速传播问题,构建了一种具有周期失配性的结构,此种阻抗失配引起非正常色散以及在8 MHz附近出现禁带.正弦调幅信号和窄脉冲信号分别被送入两种超光速实验装置. 实验结果表明,正弦调幅信号在禁带出现群速超光速,群速最大可达到3.52倍光速,而窄脉冲信号始终以正常速度传播.     

光子晶体中缺陷的色散导致的群速度降低

利用传输矩阵方法计算了包含色散媒质缺陷的一维光子晶体的复透射系数，其中色散媒质用洛仑兹振子模型描述。计算了由复透射系数定义的等效复折射率并由此研究了频谱位于缺陷模频率附近的光脉冲的群速度。结果发现，由于缺陷模附近的透射谱敏感地依赖于缺陷层的光学厚度，而缺陷层的色散使缺陷层光学厚度随频率变化而改变，从而使包含缺陷的光子晶体的等效色散性质明显地依赖于缺陷的色散行为。由于光脉冲是由多种频率成分的单色场迭加构成的，透射脉冲由各单色场透射后重新迭加构成，因此波包的传播由介质的等效色散性质决定。与包含无色散缺陷的光子晶体相比，缺陷的色散可导致极慢的群速度。通过改变振子强度，群速度可从极慢光速转变为超光速(superluminal)。     

Superluminal Signal Velocity and Causality

A superluminal signal velocity (i.e. faster than light) is said to violate causality. However, superluminal signal velocities have been measured in tunneling experiments recently. The classical dipole interaction approach by Sommerfeld and Brillouin results in a complex refractive index with a finite real part. For the tunneling process with its purely imaginary refractive index this model obtaines a zero-time traversing of tunneling barriers in agreement with wave meechanics. The information of a signal is proportional to the product of its frequency band width and its time duration. The reasons that superluminal signal velocities do not violate causality are: (i) physical signals are frequency band limited and (ii) signals have a finite time duration.     

Group velocity of the light pulse in an open V-type system

We investigate the group velocity of the probe light pulse in an open V-type system with spontaneously generated coherence. We find that, not only varying the relative phase between the probe and driving pulses can but varying the atomic exit rate or incoherent pumping rate also can manipulate dramatically the group velocity, even make the pulse propagation switching from subluminal to superluminal; the subliminal propagation can be companied with gain or absorption, but the superluminal propagation is always companied with absorption.     

Superluminal light attenuated by strong dispersion of complex refractive index

The propagation of narrow packets of electromagnetic waves(EMWs) in frequency dispersive medium with the consideration of the complex refractive index is studied. It is shown that counting in the dispersion of the complex refractive index within the context of the conventional expression of the group velocity of narrow wave packets of EMWs propagating in a dispersive medium results in the appearance of additional constraints on the group velocity, which dictates that the physically acceptable group velocity can only be realized in the case of a negligible imaginary part of the group index. In this paper, the conditions that allow one to realize the physically acceptable group velocity are formulated and analyzed numerically for the relevant model of the refractive index of a system of two-level atoms in the optical frequency range. It is shown that in the frequency band where superluminal light propagation is expected, there is a strong dispersion of the refractive index that is accompanied with strong absorption, resulting in a strongly attenuated superluminal light.     

Absorption-free superluminal light propagation in a quantum-dot molecule

The propagation of a weak probe field in a three-level quantum-dot molecule is investigated by employing the tunnel coupling. It is shown that in the absence of tunnel coupling, the propagation of light pulse is superluminal, similar to a simple two-level system. A high-resolution dip appears in optical spectra due to the presence of tunnel coupling. We show that this narrow dip leads to the subluminal light propagation with doublet absorption, so the group velocity of a light pulse can be controlled by interdot tunnel coupling. It is also demonstrated that by applying an indirect incoherent pumping field to the probe transition, the absorption doublet switches to the gain doublet and then the absorption-free superluminal light propagation is appeared.     

Negative and Superluminal Group Velocity Propagation with Narrow Pulse in a Coaxial Photonic Crystal

We investigate the propagation of electric signal along a spatially periodic impedance mismatched transmission line group. Anomalous dispersion is caused by the periodically mismatched impedance structure and a forbidden band appears near 8 MHz in transmission. The group velocity of the amplitude-modulated signal is augmented up to infinity, even -3.89c （c the speed of light in vacuum） in the forbidden region with the amplitude of the modulated signal increasing. When the carrier sinusoid signal is modulated in amplitude by the modulating sinusoid signal, of which the peak is superimposed with a narrow pulse at fivefold frequency, the superluminal group velocity also occurs. The experiment failed to show whether the propagation velocity of narrow pulse exceeds c or not.     

Bragg空芯光纤中的群速度超光速的理论探讨

运用渐近法计算了多模B ragg光纤的场分布、有效折射率、各模式的色散参量、群速度及TE01模的能量速度。结果表明:各模式色散参量有正有负,但群速度都大于光速,而能量速度不大于光速。     

Transfer of information in an anomalous dispersion medium

The transfer of information and signal velocity in an anomalous dispersion medium are studied. We propose that the discontinuous points in the envelop and its derivatives of any order are the information carried by a pulse different from others. The signal velocity will not exceed the speed of the shift of these discontinuous points. We study the propagation of pulses with a triangle envelop and with the envelop made up by three pieces of quadratic curve in dilute, anomalous dispersion gas with double gain lines. The discontinuous points of the envelop, its first derivative, and its second derivative are shown to propagate with vacuum speed of light c in the medium. A criterion has been suggested to determine theoretically whether the distortion of a pulse can be ignored.     

The manipulation of light pulse from subluminal to superluminal propagation in a degenerate two-level Cs atomic system

We experimentally demonstrate the propagation of light pulse from subluminal to superluminal light based on quantum coherence in a degenerate two-level atomic system in a Cs vapor cell.It is shown that the group velocity of light pulse can be switched from subluminal to superluminal propagation via changing the coupling field from a traveling wave to a standing wave,while can also be continuously manipulated by varying the intensity of two waves superposed to form a standing wave.The observed maximum delay and advance times are about 0.45 and 0.54μs,corresponding to the group velocity of g=168km/s and g=138 km/s,respectively.This investigation may have the practical applications of devices for optical tunable delay lines,optical switching and optical buffering.