Optimum Temporal Pulse Shape of Launched Light for Optical Time Domain Reflectometry Type Sensors Using Brillouin Backscattering

We investigated numerically the relationship between the temporal shape of an optical pulse launched into an optical fiber and the power spectrum of the Brillouin backscattered light it produces. We analyzed the measurement error of the peak-power frequency of the Brillouin backscattered light power spectra obtained from the launched light with various pulse shapes. In this investigation and analysis, we characterized the pulse shape by the width, leading-trailing time, and steepness. Regardless of the launched pulse shape, the peak-power frequency-measurement error increases as the pulse width shortens. For identical launched pulse widths, a triangular pulse generates the Brillouin backscattered-light power spectrum with both the narrowest profile and the largest peak power, and consequently provides the minimum error when we measure the peak-power frequency. This shows that a temporally triangular pulse is the best for the launched light.     

The improvement of Nyquist pulse shaping for all-optical OFDM system in multi-users network

The all-optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing has a better spectral efficiency and a lower response requirement of modulators for high capacity transmission. In the system, the optical filter will degrade the performance of subcarriers which are far away from the center carrier. We proposed an improvement method of all-optical OFDM scheme using Nyquist pulse shape in the pulse source generator. Comparing a Nyquist shape pulse with a Gauss pulse in a 4 × 100 Gb/s DP-QPSK all-optical sampling OFDM system, the side lobe of transmitted spectrum can be effective suppressed, and the optical power will be more focused on the effective frequency band. By coherent receiver, the results show that the Nyquist pulse shaping can improve the OSNR and transmission performance of subcarriers which deviate mostly from the center frequency of optical filter. This improvement is of great benefit for multi-users system.     

啁啾匹配OPCPA方案用于消除超短激光脉冲的预脉冲

采用了一种利用啁啾匹配光参量啁啾脉冲放大（OPCPA）技术来消除泵浦脉冲时间窗口内的预脉冲的方法,并对该方法展开了数值模拟研究。分析了泵浦光脉冲形状、预脉冲提前时间等因素对预脉冲消除效果以及信噪比提升情况的影响。通过与传统的非共线OPCPA方案对比,发现啁啾匹配OPCPA方案可以消除掉离主脉冲更近的预脉冲,且它对预脉冲的消除效果受泵浦光脉冲形状的影响较小。     

受激布里渊散射光限幅输出波形控制研究

数值模拟了种子场诱导受激布里渊散射光限幅过程的限幅输出波形特性.得到利用种子场控制限幅脉冲波形的规律：选取种子场脉冲宽度为抽运脉冲宽度的五倍，抽运脉冲相对于种子脉冲的延迟时间控制在与抽运脉冲宽度相当时，限幅输出波形最佳.限幅输出波形同时受抽运光功率影响，随抽运能量的增加，限幅脉冲功率不断下降，直至趋于0. 关键词： 受激布里渊散射 限幅输出波形 注入种子     

光纤中强受激喇曼散射时的自相位调制

在光纤-光栅对激光脉冲压缩中,由于受激喇曼散射和自相位调制的竞争,使得泵浦激光脉冲波形重整,且自相位调制谱极不对称。本文用2m的单模保偏光纤,在产生较强的受激喇曼散射的情况下,得到较为对称的泵浦激光的自相位调制功率谱,并讨论了自相位调制功率谱的一些特点。     

三角形光脉冲在正色散光纤中产生的实验研究

利用一种无源非线性脉冲整形方法, 实现了在普通正色散(ND)光纤中产生三角形光脉冲, 此方法依赖于脉冲预啁啾和脉冲在ND光纤中传输时群速度色散与自相位调制的相互作用. 实验研究表明, 在较宽的脉冲预啁啾值范围内, 通过优化脉冲输入功率和脉冲传输的ND光纤长度, 均可得到典型的三角形光脉冲: 脉冲时域形状前后沿的变化率接近恒定、整个脉冲具有线性频率啁啾. 另外, 在不同的脉冲预啁啾下, 要得到高质量的三角形光脉冲, 均需要较高的脉冲输入功率; 并且脉冲预啁啾较大时, 三角形脉冲的形成对ND光纤长度和脉冲输入功率有较大的容差, 易获得三角形光脉冲.     

Generation of in-phase pulse train from optical beat signal

We propose and demonstrate generation of an in-phase optical pulse train from an optical beat signal. The proposed method is based on four-wave mixing occurring between the two continuous waves of the beat signal and on spectral filtering to shape the spectrum to be symmetric about the carrier frequency. We perform an experiment to verify the proposed method and obtain a 1.5 ps width in-phase pulse train from a 160 GHz beat signal. Furthermore, we employ a pulse compression scheme to reshape and compress the obtained pulse train, and we show that a 160 GHz repeating, 0.7 ps FWHM, nearly transform-limited, in-phase sech pulse train is successfully generated.     

输入光特性对超快非线性干涉仪开关窗口的影响

就超快非线性干涉仪(UNI)的输入光特性对其开关窗口的影响进行了数值模拟和实验研究,输入光包括控制光脉冲和探测光脉冲。在数值模拟中,调节控制光脉冲和探测光脉冲的功率及脉宽,功率越高和脉宽越窄,窗口的形状越好。在调节过程中发现控制光脉冲和探测光脉冲都存在一个最佳的功率点使窗口的形状达到最优。如果继续增大控制光脉冲功率,会使窗口的顶部倾斜,窗口形状恶化;而继续增大探测光脉冲功率,窗口的消光比开始下降。在数值模拟的基础上进行了10Gb／s的超快非线性干涉仪全光开关实验,在实验中用连续光代替探测光脉冲以观察窗口形状。通过改变控制光脉冲和连续光功率来验证它们对超快非线性干涉仪开关窗口的影响。实验表明,应选用短而强的控制光脉冲和最优功率点的连续光,这与模拟结果吻合。     

Optical pulse shaping at moderate power using a twisted-fibre NOLM with single output polarisation selection

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that efficient signal shaping operation can be obtained at moderate power by using the transmission characteristic of a power-symmetric nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) including highly twisted fibre and operating through nonlinear polarisation rotation, when the circular polarisation state orthogonal to the input polarisation is selected at the NOLM output. By adjusting the angle of the quarter-wave retarder inserted in the loop, the phase bias of the transfer characteristic can be adjusted precisely to enable proper signal shaping for moderate values of input power, remaining well below switching power. The tolerance of the procedure to deviations of the input polarisation from the ideal circular case is investigated numerically. We demonstrate experimentally the capabilities of this setup for both power equalisation and extinction ratio enhancement. Finally, we show that this setup is also useful to shape ultrashort optical pulses from the relaxation oscillations of a DFB semiconductor laser. In comparison with other NOLM-based techniques, the proposed approach allows to reduce by a factor of 8-10 the peak power required for pulse shaping, for the same fibre length and Kerr coefficient.     

Low power autocorrelation technique based on the degree-of-polarization measurement

Based on the degree-of-polarization (DOP) measurement, an autocorrelation technique to measure the pulse width of chirp-free optical short pulse with a very low optical power (<?60 dBm) is demonstrated. The impacts of chirp and misalignment of the input light are also discussed in detail. The pulse width measurement results are consistent with the conventional second-harmonic generation (SHG) autocorrelation, while our autocorrelation technique does not require high input power or rigid optical alignment.     

Supercontinuum spectra generation in the single-mode optical fibre with concave dispersion profile

In this paper, a new method is proposed to generate broad supercontinuum (SC) spectra in the single-mode optical fibre with concave dispersion profile. We numerically simulate pulse evolutions and discuss physics mechanism in detail for SC spectrum generation in the optical fibre with concave dispersion profile. Furthermore, general criteria are presented for specifying the shape of SC spectrum by introducing normalized parameters, which are related to the fibres and the initial pump pulses. The results show that the flat and broad SC spectra are indeed generated in our proposed optical fibre.     

半导体光放大器引起的光控器件中的信号损伤分析

在双环耦合全光缓存器的基础上分析了全光分组交换网络中以半导体光放大器（SOA）为相移器件的反馈型全光缓存器输出的信号损伤,包括SOA的非线性及载流子恢复时间限制引起的脉冲畸变与连续码流中的图样失真和SOA的自发辐射噪声累积引起的信噪比恶化及缓存器结构引起的“漏光”问题.理论分析及实验结果表明,在采用反相控制并注入高功率控制光的情况下,脉冲畸变与图样失真被抑制,由信噪比恶化及漏光决定的光分组的缓存圈数被限制在20—30圈.得到的结果对基于SOA的光缓存器及逻辑器件同样具有借鉴作用. 关键词： 全光分组交换 全光缓存器 信号损伤 半导体光放大器的噪声分析     

Optical power equalization using Fabry-Perot semiconductor optical amplifier

A novel scheme of optical power equalization based on Fabry-Perot semiconductor optical amplifier (FPSOA) is proposed. Because of the gain characteristic of FP-SOA, real-time controlling mechanism according to input optical power is aborted in the scheme. The simulations show that 10-dB pulse peak power variation can be clamped in less than i dB. The influences of injecting current, pulse periods, and pulse width are discussed.     

光参量啁啾脉冲放大的逆问题

针对光参量啁啾脉冲放大的逆问题,即如何在给定输出信号光脉冲波形的前提下,通过计算得到输入信号光脉冲波形,提出了相应的计算模型和方法.以分步傅里叶变换和四阶龙格-库塔法为基础,通过数值拟合等方法,建立了输入-输出信号光强之间的定量关系.分别以预期输出信号光脉冲为啁啾高斯脉冲以及具有特定形状的整形脉冲为例,通过逆算得到了相应的输入信号光脉冲波形.研究结果表明,该逆算方法具有原理简单、计算快速准确等优点,可为激光脉冲整形设计提供参考. 关键词： 光参量啁啾脉冲放大 逆问题 啁啾脉冲 脉冲整形     

1550 nm飞秒脉冲自相似光纤放大仿真模拟EI北大核心CSCD

针对全光纤的超短脉冲掺铒光纤放大器进行了仿真模拟,对正常色散条件下掺铒光纤自相似脉冲放大过程进行了详细分析。在光纤预放大器中,使用高正色散掺铒光纤对脉冲形状进行预整形,将重复频率43 MHz、脉冲宽度600 fs、平均输出功率1.2 mW的孤子型锁模脉冲预整形为抛物线型脉冲,预整形后的脉冲通过光纤主放大器进行功率放大。经两级光纤放大后,1.2 mW的信号光功率放大为102 mW,放大增益19.3 dB。分析了掺铒光纤长度、放大功率对脉冲自相似演化过程的影响。放大后的脉冲经4.4 m长单模光纤将脉冲宽度压缩至53 fs,峰值功率为44.8 kW。     

两种基于交叉相位调制的光脉冲压缩方案

基于交叉相位调制的时间透镜可实现精确的二次相位调制, 但是它在光脉冲压缩领域的应用受到了抽运光脉冲的峰值功率过高的限制. 对该峰值功率的表达式进行了推导, 提出使用带有正色散的传输介质来实现输出段色散, 从而降低了抽运光脉冲的峰值功率.并进一步指出, 可以将基于交叉相位调制的时间透镜应用于4f系统, 来实现光脉冲压缩, 从而更有效地降低了抽运光脉冲的峰值功率. 推导了该系统的抽运光脉冲的峰值功率和分辨率的表达式, 并进行了光脉冲压缩的仿真分析.研究结果表明, 在基于交叉相位调制的4f系统中, 可以利用峰值功率较低的抽运光脉冲产生飞秒量级超短光脉冲; 随着压缩系数的提高, 输出光脉冲的脉冲宽度主要受到4f系统分辨率的限制, 并对4f系统分辨率的提高进行了讨论.     

A simple method for timing an XFEL source to high-power lasers

We propose a technique for timing an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) to a high-power conventional laser with femtosecond accuracy, yielding the relative jitter between pump and X-ray probe, and allowing sorting of experimental results over a certain time window. The same electron bunch is used to produce both an XFEL pulse and an ultrashort optical pulse by means of an optical radiator downstream of the X-ray undulator. Being produced by the same electron bunch, these pulses are perfectly synchronized. Cross-correlation techniques will allow to determine relative jitter between the optical pulse (and, thus, the XFEL pulse) and a pulse from an external pump-laser. Technical realization of the proposed timing scheme uses an optical-replica synthesizer setup to be installed after the final bunch-compression stage of the XFEL for electron bunch diagnostics purposes. A number of critical issues are quantitatively analyzed.     

Generation of a single-cycle optical pulse

We make use of coherent control of four-wave mixing to the ultraviolet as a diagnostic and describe the generation of a periodic optical waveform where the spectrum is sufficiently broad that the envelope is approximately a single-cycle in length, and where the temporal shape of this envelope may be synthesized by varying the coefficients of a Fourier series. Specifically, using seven sidebands, we report the generation of a train of single-cycle optical pulses with a pulse width of 1.6 fs, a pulse separation of 11 fs, and a peak power of 1 MW.     

Superresolution of pulsed multiphoton Raman transitions

We have investigated higher order multiphoton Raman resonances with two pulsed optical frequencies. Multiphoton transfer with up to 50 photons is observed with milliwatts of laser power. We demonstrate that the spectral width of the multiphoton resonances can be far below the Fourier transform linewidth of the driving optical pulses. The functional dependence of the transition linewidth on the number of exchanged photons is found to vary with the pulse shape. Our experiment is performed with laser-cooled rubidium atoms confined in a CO2-laser optical dipole trap.     

Effect of Brillouin slow light on distributed Brillouin fiber sensors

The effect of Brillouin slow light on distributed Brillouin fiber sensors (DBFSs) is studied. We demonstrate Brillouin slow light for a 1.2 ns pulse with peak powers (PS) from 3.3 to 56.2 mW on depletion of the pump power (PP) ranging from 1.3 to 83.2 mW in conventional optical fibers (SMF-28). Experiments show that, when pump power depletion is not negligible, for a given PP the Brillouin gain and delay time of a pulse decrease when PS increases in a long (> or =10 km) sensing fiber. The optimum pump beam depletion resulting from strong interaction of the pump and the probe in the fiber provides accurate temperature and strain information at a high spatial resolution. Our study reveals that at low PP the spatial resolution error caused by the pulse delay for a DBFS with centimeter spatial resolution is less than 5% of the pulse length.