To narrow laser linewidth by utilizing dispersion characteristics of Gires-Tournois etalon

A longer laser resonator length is benefit for laser linewidth, but harmful for single-frequency operation. A novel way is suggested to narrow the bandwidth of a Fabry-Perot （FP） cavity through increasing the derivative of one round-trip phase shift with respect to the frequency. It can be implemented by replacing one of two FP mirrors with a Gires-Tournois etalon （GTE）, called FPCT, as a dispersion element. FPGT resonator has additional axial modes due to the GTE reflection phase shift. Theoretical analyses show that the bandwidth of additional axial modes can be 1% of that of a conventional FP cavity. A distributed feedback （DFB） laser diode can employ FPGT resonator to achieve ultra-narrow linewidth laser. It is shown that the effect of refractivity fluctuation in the gain medium on the linewidth is little, and kilohertz linewidth is achievable for such a device.     

微机械FP腔可调谐滤波器在WDM系统中的串扰分析

介绍了一种以FP谐振腔为基础,用于波分复用系统的MOEMS器件-电控可调谐FP光滤波器.器件采用微电子机械加工技术研制.研究了FP型解复用器在密集波分复用系统中引入的信道间串扰对系统的影响,并分别讨论了激光器线宽、滤波器带宽、信道间距对串扰的影响.在信道间隔为100GHz,激光器线宽为5GHz,串扰可达到-21dB左右.     

双微环谐振腔耦合的双波长半导体激光器（英）

提出一种新颖的单片集成双微环耦合的双波长半导体激光器结构。集成于激光腔内的2个微环谐振腔作为模式选择滤波器,通过游标效应选择谐振模式,同时还可作为等效的反射镜面以形成行波腔。这种无需解理的行波激光腔代替了需要解理面的法布里-珀罗驻波腔。理论仿真表明,跟驻波腔结构相比,行波腔双微环激光器结构简单,可获得约34 mA的较低的阈值电流和大于31 dB的边模抑制比。合理地控制有源区的增益峰值和谐振模式分布,该激光器能提供一致性和稳定性较好的双波长激光输出。     

Bistable operation of a tunable laser with and without absorber coupled to an external resonator

The stationary states of a single-mode laser with feedback from a grating of high selectivity are investigated theoretically. The amplifying and absorbing media are contained in a Fabry-Perot cavity (FP) of lengthl. The grating and one of the FP end mirrors facing it are forming an external resonator (ER) of lengthL whereLl. The losses in the compound system consisting of the FP and ER depend on the refractive indices of both the media which change with light intensity. An inequality has been derived yielding conditions for unstable operation at lasing threshold connected with a transition of light intensity to the upper branch of a hysteresis cycle. It has been found that a hysteresis in a system without an absorber can arise by tuning the grating frequency towards a FP resonance from the high-frequency side provided that this resonance stands on the high-frequency side of the atomic transition. For the reversed tuning situation the FP resonance must be located on the low-frequency side of the atomic transition. If an absorber is present hysteresis cycles at both sides of a FP resonance can occur independently of its position with respect to the atomic resonances.     

FP腔腔长的测量新方法

ＦＰ腔是ＷＤＭ光纤通信系统中用于波长控制和解调的关键器件。为了进行匹配系统的设计以及计算已制成腔的自由谱区，准确测定腔长是必不可少的工作，但是由于ＦＰ腔的具体结构，测定腔长无法用直接的方法进行。本文通过谐振腔的谐振特性分析，推导出一种测量腔长的新方案。     

用光腔衰荡技术测量镜片的反射率

 根据光腔衰荡光谱技术原理,建立了测量镜片反射率的实验装置。利用该装置测定了一对反射率相等的高反射腔镜,反射率测试结果为（99.925±0.001）%;以22.5°将直腔变为折叠腔,测得的反射率为（99.992±0.003）％。重复测定反射镜样品的反射率,精度达到10^－5。该测量装置可用于超低损耗薄膜高反射镜反射率的精确测量。轻微移动探测器位置,对腔镜的测试结果影响不大。     

正支共焦非稳腔的离焦像差特性

 正支共焦非稳腔在出光过程中易受环境扰动而造成腔长失调，易受热积累影响而使腔镜变形，从而使输出光束产生离焦像差和部分其它像差。为了实现对离焦像差的校正，针对不同的产生原因，提出了2种离焦像差特性分析方法：一为腔镜相对位置失调引起的离焦像差特性理论分析方法，它是另一种分析方法的基础；二为腔镜变形引起的等效腔长变化导致的离焦像差特性分析方法，它是实际激光器中的主要分析方法。得到了离焦像差与腔长的特性关系和离焦像差与腔镜变形量之间的特性关系。研究表明：腔长改变和腔镜变形对离焦像差的影响本质是一样的，都是改变了谐振腔的共焦点位置；腔长改变或腔镜矢高变化与离焦像差都成近似的线性关系。实验验证了离焦像差特性分析方法的有效性，最后指出离焦像差特性可作为激光器中离焦像差动态补偿的有效依据。     

中红外光参变振荡器在高反射率测量中的应用

根据光腔衰荡光谱技术(CRDS)原理,使用中红外光参变振荡器(OPO)为光源建立了直腔与折叠腔相结合的中红外波段3.6 μm 反射率测量实验装置,用于研究中红外波段的高反射膜反射率,测试精度为10-4。使用直型衰荡光腔测试了三对不同薄膜材料设计镀制的高反射腔镜的反射率,并选择了一对腔镜用于实验装置中。采用该装置精确测试了不同薄膜材料镀制的高反射膜的反射率,包括YbF3/ZnS,YbF3 /ZnSe多层膜,以及由银加保护膜镀制的反射镜。研究表明,中红外波段介质膜的反射率可达到R>0.9990,其中由YbF3/ZnSe镀制在硅基底上的多层介质膜3.6 μm反射率可达到99.96％。     

Analysis of the spectral linewidth of three-cavity semiconductor laser diodes

The spectral linewidth for a semiconductor laser diode coupled to two external cavities (known as a three-cavity laser diode) is studied in the article. A closed-form expression for the linewidth of this laser is derived by analyzing the number of photons in the laser cavity. It is found that, because of the optical feedback provided by the external cavities, the photon lifetime becomes longer than that of a solitary Fabry-Perot (FP) laser, hence reducing the value of the spectral linewidth. Our theoretical investigations reveal that the linewidth of a three-cavity laser can be reduced further by using external mirrors with high reflectivities and using anti-refection (AR) coatings on the laser diode facets. We have also studied the effects of uncertainties in the linewidth enhancement factor a due to optical feedback and found that such uncertainties have negligible effects on the validity of our results.     

Intracavity changes in the field statistics of Raman fiber lasers

We present an experiment in which intracavity optical power spectra of a Raman fiber laser are precisely measured both in the forward and in the backward propagation directions near the cavity mirrors. The statistical properties of the intracavity Stokes field are found to be very different before and after reflection on the cavity mirrors. The influence of both the dispersion and the spectral filtering actions of fiber Bragg grating mirrors are discussed.     

复合衰荡光腔技术精确检测COIL腔镜高反射率

 采用直型和折叠型衰荡光腔相结合技术精确检测了COIL(氧碘化学激光器)平面高反腔镜在1.315μm的实际反射率为99.931%, 测量精度10^-5。该技术对镜片的反射镜角度、基底材料透光性能及尺寸无特殊要求, 可由反射率相对较低的腔镜测量高反射率镜片。     

Behavior of cholesteric liquid crystals in a Fabry-Perot cavity

We investigate the behavior of cholesteric liquid crystals (CLC's) inside a Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity. Although FP cavities filled with various liquid crystals have been extensively studied, to our knowledge the behavior of CLC-based FP cavities has not been reported. In CLC the twisted structure can be changed because the pitch is a function of temperature. In a parallel-rubbed CLC FP cavity the balance between strong surface anchoring and elastic energy yield a steplike resonance spectrum. This corresponds to the quantized effective pitch that the system assumes when both surface alignments are fixed. Experiment results for parallel-rubbed samples are presented and explained theoretically by use of Jones matrix calculations.     

Optimisation of laser linewidth and cavity alignment in off-axis cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy

Laser linewidth affects baseline mode structured variations and hence measurement absorption sensitivity in off-axis cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy with a continuous-wave tunable laser and a stable optical cavity formed by two high reflectivity mirrors. Cavity transmittances have been calculated for various laser linewidths and different optical beam re-entrant conditions for the cavity when overlapping of the optical beams occurs on the cavity mirrors after a finite number of beam round trips within the cavity. It is shown that in order to achieve maximum absorption sensitivity both a specific laser linewidth and specific arrangement of the optical cavity have to be selected and defined using the proposed approach.     

Entanglement transfer from two-mode squeezed vacuum light to spatially separated mechanical oscillators via dissipative optomechanical coupling

In this paper, we propose a scheme to generate an entangled state between two spatially separated movable mirrors by injecting the two-mode squeezed optical reservoir to the dissipative optomechanics, in which the movable mirrors can modulate the linewidth of the cavity modes. When the coupling between the mirrors and the corresponding cavity modes is weak, the two driven cavity fields can respectively behave as the squeezed-vacuum reservoir for the two movable mirrors by utilizing the effect of completely destructive interference of quantum noise. Thus the mechanical modes are prepared in a two-mode squeezed vacuum state. Moreover,when the coupling between the two mirrors and the cavities modes is strong, the entanglement between the two movable mirrors decreases because photonic excitation can preclude the completely destructive interference of quantum noise, but the movable mirrors are still entangled.     

Stationary entanglement between macroscopic mechanical oscillators

We show that the optomechanical coupling between an optical cavity mode and two movable cavity mirrors is able to entangle two different macroscopic oscillation modes of the mirrors. This continuous variable entanglement is maintained by the light bouncing between the mirrors and is robust against thermal noise. In fact, it could be experimentally demonstrated using present technology. Received 2 September 2002 / Received in final form 10 October 2002 Published online 7 January 2003     

腔镜失调与面型误差对光束质量影响研究

 在准确测量腔镜面形加工精度的基础上，通过光学模拟软件ZEMAX实现了氧碘化学激光器折叠虚共焦非稳腔的光学建模，利用光腔模型进行了腔镜面形误差对光束质量影响的研究以及腔镜失调对光束波前影响的分析，在空腔的情况下利用调腔He-Ne激光进行了光束质量测量实验。实测结果与建模数据基本符合，验证了该方法的可行性。     

Walk-off ring-down spectroscopy: attaining ultrafast resolution by converting time into space

A new technique for monitoring time-resolved phenomena is demonstrated by which a probe beam is directed into an optical cavity. Spatially separated output pulses are produced by directing the incident beam into the cavity in such a way that it walks in a direction transverse to the optical axis as it propagates between the two mirrors. This effect may be achieved either by a plane-parallel resonator oriented at a nonzero angle of incidence or by a wedge cavity, for which one of the mirrors is set at an angular offset. The spatially resolved output train may then be related to the time-dependent attributes of the resonator and the molecules it encloses. Time resolution is controlled by the separation of the mirrors, wedge geometry, and the angle of incidence. A time resolution of better than 4 ps is achieved using a 500 µm mirror separation and a 20° angle of incidence.     

Unique optical properties of anisotropic helical structures in a Fabry-Perot cavity

Anisotropic helical structures in Fabry-Perot (FP) cavities are shown to exhibit unique properties. The FP peaks are unpolarized, consisting of doublets corresponding to Bloch-Lyaponov eigenwaves with increased splitting as the local anisotropy increases and as they become closer to the photonic bandgap. The Bragg-type selective reflection peak existing in a free-cavity sample is inhibited when the helical medium is inside a cavity, and it has no effect on the cavity modes. Hence the unique characteristics are obtained even with a single period of the helix, and consequently thin films of helical liquid crystals can be used to build fast tunable polarization insensitive FP filters.     

衰荡腔测量中的腔参数选择

 基于谐振腔失调灵敏度参量随腔长的变化关系,提出了一种衰荡腔,它是由共焦腔将腔长缩短为原来的0.73得到的稳定腔。根据光束传输规律和失调腔矩阵方法,以及光腔衰荡法测量原理和曲线拟合方法,建立了腔长、腔镜角度失调下光腔衰荡法的反射率测量模型。通过数值模拟,研究了这种稳定衰荡腔中,腔微小失调对反射率测量结果的影响,并与相同失调情况下共焦衰荡腔的测量结果进行了对比分析。结果表明,这种稳定腔用作衰荡腔,测量结果受腔镜角度失调影响较大,而受腔长失调影响小;其长度较短,便于工程应用;衍射损耗较小,测量精度高。     

构成谐振腔的光子晶体端面反射镜的设计

研究了光子晶体作为谐振腔端面反射镜的应用.利用有效折射率法和2D PWE以及2D FDTD方法结合对构成谐振腔的两个端面反射镜进行了设计,得到左端面反射镜的最佳光子晶体晶格周期数为11×11,而右端面反射镜的最佳光子晶体晶格周期数为3×11,这为实验工作提供了良好的理论依据.