Airy光纤:基于阵列波导耦合的光场调控方法

近年来,Airy光束作为一种无衍射光束,其特性引起了研究者的广泛关注,人们对它的理论研究、实验验证、实际应用多个方面都取得了长足的进步.而Airy光纤作为一种可生成Airy光束的波导器件,结合其光纤自身优点可适用于多种应用领域,因此开展新型Airy光纤的探索研究、拓展Airy光束的应用范围具有重要现实意义.本文从Airy光束的原理、光纤结构设计、光纤内部光束生成机理、生成光束波长响应特性以及Airy光纤研究现状和应用五个方面展开了较系统的讨论.     

非相干光源无衍射光的自重建

基于Hankel 波理论分析了非相干光源产生Bessel光束的自重建特性, 利用光学设计软件ZEMAX模拟了Bessel光束经过轴上圆形障碍物后的截面光强分布. 由于发光二级管(LED) 具有一定的频谱宽度且不像激光具有很高的相干度, 因此我们采用一定频宽范围的连续谱来描述. 从模拟结果可以直观地看出Bessel光束被轴上圆形障碍物遮挡后逐步完成自重建, 说明用LED非相干光作为光源具有自重建特性.实验上采用LED和轴棱锥元件产生Bessel光束, 然后通过轴上圆形障碍物、轴上方形障碍物, 并拍摄了不同位置处的截面光强分布图, 证实了非相干光源产生Bessel光束的自重建特性.实验结果和模拟结果相符合. 关键词： 无衍射光束 LED光源 轴棱锥 自重建     

Airy光束在Kerr介质中的传输特性

通过对非线性薛定谔方程的研究,得出Airy光束在Kerr介质中的崩塌功率及有效束宽演化的解析表达式。经过数值计算发现,Airy光束在聚焦的Kerr介质中,其主瓣在开始传播时始终是会聚的;当输入功率小于临界崩塌功率时,Airy光束主瓣的中心部分出现局部崩塌。在不同的Kerr介质中, Airy光束的形状和传输轨道均能保持不变,如同在自由空间中传播,但光场大小的分布,随着不同的Kerr介质会发生改变:在Kerr的聚焦介质中,光场向中心聚焦;而在散焦的Kerr介质中,光场会发散。     

Airy光束在Kerr介质中的传输特性

通过对非线性薛定谔方程的研究,得出Airy光束在Kerr介质中的崩塌功率及有效束宽演化的解析表达式。经过数值计算发现,Airy光束在聚焦的Kerr介质中,其主瓣在开始传播时始终是会聚的;当输入功率小于临界崩塌功率时,Airy光束主瓣的中心部分出现局部崩塌。在不同的Kerr介质中, Airy光束的形状和传输轨道均能保持不变,如同在自由空间中传播,但光场大小的分布,随着不同的Kerr介质会发生改变:在Kerr的聚焦介质中,光场向中心聚焦;而在散焦的Kerr介质中,光场会发散。     

Airy加速光束的局域空间频率及其在光束设计中的应用

Airy加速光束是近年来备受关注的一种新型无衍射光束. 它所具有的自由加速、无衍射及自恢复特性使其在光学微操纵、非线性光学、 电子加速等诸多领域显示出重要的应用价值. 因此, 如何方便高效地生成加速光束成为近年来的一个热点研究内容. 本文对Airy加速光束复振幅分布的空间振荡特性进行了分析, 建立了利用局域空间频率描述其加速特性的理论. 提出了利用零点坐标计算加速光束局域空间频率的方法, 通过非线性拟合给出了可以精确描述Airy光束局域空间频率的解析公式; 确定了加速光束的局域空间频率函数与加速轨迹之间的定量关系, 给出了由给定加速轨迹计算相应的局域空间频率以及加速光束的纯相位函数的一种简单计算方法. 将上述分析结果用于设计产生具有给定加速轨迹的加速光束所需的相位函数, 成功求出了能够产生圆弧形加速轨迹的新型加速光束的纯相位函数的解析表达式. 基于该相位函数设计的纯相位衍射光学元件的模拟衍射结果证明了上述方法的可行性. 关键词： 衍射光学 加速光束 局域空间频率     

Bessel光束纵向特性及参量的影响

利用数值计算研究了Ｂｅｓｓｅｌ光束的纵向特性及参量对其的影响，发现在光强达到最大值Ⅰｍａｘ后，先迅速衰减但是并不趋于零，而后缓慢减小；光强的衰减速度，决定于β的大小，而光强的振荡性同时与β和Ｒ有关。只有当β→０和Ｒ→∞同时被满足时，才能实现理想无衍射光束。     

无衍射 Mathieu光束自重建特性的理论和实验研究

首次对无衍射Mathieu光束的自重建特性进行理论和实验研究, 利用Mathieu-Hankel波理论分析了Mathieu光束的自重建机理. 基于菲涅尔衍射积分理论, 推导出了高斯吸收型圆形障碍物部分遮挡后的Mathieu光场重建后的解析表达式, 并数值模拟了无衍射Mathieu光束的经圆形障碍物部分遮挡后光场的自重建过程. 采用柱透镜-轴棱锥组合光学系统产生近似零阶无衍射Mathieu光束, 实验分别验证了轴上和轴外障碍物遮挡时近似零阶无衍射Mathieu光束的自重建特性. 理论模拟与实验结果相符.     

湍流大气中无衍射涡旋光束的展宽及相位奇点的演化

以经过圆形孔径截断的Bessel涡旋光束和Bessel-Gauss涡旋光束为例,数值模拟了近似无衍射涡旋光束在湍流大气中传输时引起的光束扩展和畸变光场中相位奇点的变化。仿真结果表明,与Bessel涡旋光束相比,Bessel-Gauss涡旋光束由大气湍流引起的束宽扩展较小,且在一定条件下其相位奇点代数和与入射涡旋光束的拓扑荷数保持一致;在远距离传输时,Bessel-Gauss涡旋光束相位奇点代数和的起伏偏差远小于Bessel涡旋光束。Bessel-Gauss涡旋光束在自由空间光通信中作为信息载体具有较大的优势。     

自加速类贝塞尔-厄米-高斯光束的理论和实验研究

空间相位调制一直是设计新型自加速光束的重要方法.参照类贝塞尔光束产生的思路,从理论上提出了一种新型的自加速无衍射类贝塞尔-厄米-高斯光束,并从数值模拟和实验两个方面研究此光束沿不同轨道的演化.理论上通过对厄米-高斯光束进行相位调制,产生了不同模式的自加速类贝塞尔-厄米-高斯光束.采用分步傅里叶算法模拟了(0,1),(1,0),(1,1)和(1,2)阶类贝塞尔-厄米-高斯光束沿预设轨道的传输过程.采用计算全息和空间光调制技术在实验中观察了类贝塞尔-厄米-高斯光束沿预设轨道的传输,例如抛物、双曲、双曲正割和三维轨道.实验观察与理论结果符合得很好.实验验证了不同阶类贝塞尔-厄米-高斯光束的奇特光斑结构,验证了光束的非衍射特性及传输轨道的可控性,且理论模拟验证了光束的自修复特性.作为此前研究的类贝塞尔光束的一般形式,本文所得到的光束可用于构造出更加新型实用的光束.     

无衍射光束的产生及其应用

近年来,随着激光技术的快速发展,相继产生了多种在远距离传输后中心光斑保持不变的无衍射光束,包括贝塞尔光束、高阶贝塞尔光束、马丢光束、高阶马丢光束、余弦光束、抛物线光束以及艾里光束.无衍射光束在激光打孔、激光精密准直、光学精密控制、光学微操控、光通信、等离子体导向、光子弹产生、光通信、自聚焦光束的合成以及非线性光学等领域中有着广泛的应用.本文介绍了各类无衍射光束的数学表达式、产生方法及对应的实验结果;就无衍射光束的特性和应用进行了归纳和讨论;并对其在未来的研究与应用前景中发挥的重要作用进行了简要总结与展望.     

Collapse arrest in a two-dimensional Airy Gaussian beam and Airy Gaussian vortex beam in nonlocal nonlinear media

Propagation dynamics of a two-dimensional Airy Gaussian beam and Airy Gaussian vortex beam are investigated numerically in local and nonlocal nonlinear media. The self-healing and collapse of the beam crucially depend on the distribution factor b and the topological charge m. With the aid of nonlocality, a stable Airy Gaussian beam and an Airy Gaussian vortex beam with larger amplitude can be obtained, which always collapse in local nonlinear media. When the distribution factor b is large enough, the Airy Gaussian vortex beam will transfer into quasi-vortex solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media.     

拉曼增益和自陡峭效应对艾里脉冲传输特性的影响

利用包含拉曼增益和自陡峭效应的非线性薛定谔方程, 忽略光纤损耗的情况下, 模拟和分析了艾里脉冲在单模光纤中的传输特性. 发现艾里脉冲在光纤中传输时由于受到拉曼增益和自陡峭效应的影响, 在一定条件下会转变为孤子, 并且, 转变后形成的孤子传播方向发生了偏移. 在时域方面, 艾里脉冲的小峰个数迅速减少, 变成含有一个主峰和次峰能量可以忽略的峰值结构, 此时, 可以把这个峰值结构近似为孤子的结构. 同时发现, 不管截止系数a和艾里函数振幅b 取什么值, 拉曼增益和自陡峭效应都会减小艾里脉冲的时移. 研究了艾里脉冲的加速度特性, 发现一定的传输距离下, 艾里脉冲的横向加速度在初始时并不是一个稳定的值, 但随着传输距离的增大, 加速度慢慢趋于稳定.     

The optical Airy transform and its application in generating and controlling the Airy beam

We propose an optical Airy transform in this paper, and obtain the analytical expressions for the Airy transform of fundamental Gaussian beams and finite energy Airy beams. The setup for performing the optical Airy transform is presented. The Airy transform for Gaussian beams and finite energy Airy beams are theoretically calculated and analyzed. Our results show that the Airy beam can be conveniently generated and controlled through the optical Airy transform of the Gaussian beam. The optical Airy transform also can be used to directly modulate the beam parameters of the incident Airy beam, and it can transform the incident Airy beam into the Gaussian beam.     

Propagation dynamics and optical trapping of a radial Airy array beam

Analytical propagation expression of a radial Airy array beam in coherent and incoherent combination passing through paraxial ABCD system is derived, and used to investigate the effect of combination scheme, array orientation and initial phase of Airy beamlet on propagation dynamics of the resulting beam in free space, where optical spot array and vortex array with different shapes are also found, respectively. And then taking four-beamlet Airy array beam in same array orientation as an example, square optical spot array obtained in focal field can be used for simultaneous trapping multiple Rayleigh particles with relative refractive index larger than 1. The transverse gradient forces serving as restore forces tend to push particles at different initial positions to their individual optical spot center. The analysis of trapping stability indicates that larger input peak intensity of Airy beamlet and smaller particle size are benefit to trapping particle owing to many deeper potential wells. Vortex array produced by coherent combined Airy array beam in this paper is expected to be useful for simultaneous trapping microparticles with relative refractive index smaller than 1.     

Evolution of self-healing characteristic on optical Airy beam

We investigate and analyze the evolution of self-healing characteristic on diffraction-free Airy beams. We also show that different internal structure of Airy beams contribute to self-healing by breaking the integrity of Airy beams. A numerical simulation is performed and demonstrate that each independent structure undertakes different roles. It is believed that the intriguing characteristic of Airy beams can be applied in many fields such as optical tweezers, atom trapping and manipulating.     

Reflection and transmission of an Airy beam in a dielectric slab

The reflection and transmission of a finite-power Airy beam incident on a dielectric slab are investigated by an analytical method. Based on the plane-wave angular spectrum expansion and Fresnel approximation, the analytical expressions of the reflected field, internal field as well as transmitted field in each region are obtained. Through numerical simulations, the intensity distributions of the incident beam, reflected beam, internal beam as well as transmitted beam are presented at oblique incidence. Besides, we also compare the intensity distributions of the geometrical-optics beam field, the first order beam mode field and the actual beam field, which indicates that the contribution of each order beam mode field to the actual beam field is related to the refractive index of the dielectric slab. Meanwhile, the reflection characteristics of the Airy beams in the special cases of Brewster incidence and total reflection are investigated. Finally, the effects of the optical thickness and refractive index of the dielectric slab on the peak intensity distributions and beam shifts of the reflected and transmitted beams are also discussed in detail. The analytical and numerical results will be useful to analyze the propagation dynamics of Airy beam in the dielectric slab and provide some theoretical supports to the design of optical film.     

Relation between Airy beams and triple-cusp beams

Airy beams and triple-cusp beams are two kinds of accelerating beams. The propagation characteristics and internal topological structures of accelerating Airy beams are well understood because of the developed mathematical theory about Airy function. However, limited information is available about the optical characteristics of accelerating triple-cusp beams. In this work, the relationship between Airy beams and triple-cusp beams is examined theoretically and experimentally. Results reveal some important optical characteristics of triple-cusp beams based on the optical characteristics of Airy beams. These findings are expected to provide a foundation for future applications of triple-cusp beams.     

相位连续可调诱导下双艾里光束形成的可控方形光瓶

提出一种利用相位连续可调诱导产生的双艾里光束形成方形光瓶的方法。该方法首先利用二值化后的相位调制出双艾里光束,为了能够实现光瓶能量分布,一个可调控的线性因子被引入到相位调制函数中形成新改进的相位,该相位能够灵活地调节光瓶的大小。数值模拟结果表明高斯光束通过该改进相位调制,能够形成光瓶能量分布的光束。该方形光瓶光束可应用于光镊、原子捕获与操纵。