Numerical study on pulse contrast enhancement in a short-pulse-pumped optical parametric amplifier

We investigate pulse cleaning behaviors in short-pulse-pumped optical parametric amplifiers (OPA). We theoretically study the contrast enhancement of amplified signal pulse and generated idler pulse, and reveal their dependence on the parametric gain in both the regimes of small signal and saturated amplifications. The signal contrast enhancement is nearly equal to the parametric gain, while the idler contrast is approximately equal to the product of the contrasts of the pump and signal pulses in a low gain OPA and increases with the gain. The effects of group-velocity mismatch and group-velocity dispersion on the contrast enhancement are also investigated. The results presented in this paper are of value for pulse cleaning.     

阵列波导光栅梳状带通滤波器的传输效率

在光波导模场分布高斯近似条件下,根据星形光波导耦合器的耦合特性,推导出了基于累加运算和卷积运算近似表达的阵列波导光栅梳状带通滤波器光谱响应效率的函数表达式。给出了阵列波导光栅梳状带通滤波器光谱响应效率曲线的半最大值全宽度和阵列波导光栅梳状带通滤波器的通道中心波长的光谱响应度与器件参数的关系。在输入信号光谱分布高斯近似条件下,给出了阵列波导光栅梳状带通滤波器信号通道传输效率的计算表达式和输入信号光谱宽度对阵列波导光栅梳状带通滤波器信号通道输出特性的影响。给出了物理意义明确的函数表达式,它们可为快速分析阵列波导光栅梳状带通滤波器的特性提供理论基础。     

Impact of strong localization of the incident power density on the nano-amplifier characteristics of active coated nano-particles

Resonant, active coated nano-particles (CNPs) have been advocated as effective nano-amplifiers and nano-lasers. When it is properly designed to be in its super-resonant state, an electrically small active CNP captures significantly more of the incident field energy than its physical size suggests is possible. The corresponding enhancement of its extinction cross section is correlated with the concentration of the local field energy into its gain region. This energy localization can be visualized with the behavior of the flow lines of the Poynting vector field in the neighborhood of the CNP. Strong expulsion of the optical power generated from the interaction of the captured incident field energy with the gain medium creates an intense scattered field. As the interactions between the scattered field and the exciting plane wave increase, optical vortices form in the neighborhood of the active CNP. Gain depletion eventually occurs when the increase in the effective gain sufficiently detunes the resonance. A simple model for the gain enhancement effects observed in active CNPs is proposed that relates the enhanced effective size of the CNP caused by the field localization to the required gain necessary to achieve its super-resonant state. A comparison of the metal-covered, gain core, active CNP studied previously to the experimentally realized gain-impregnated silica-covered metal “SPASER” suggests that the active CNP design would require significantly less gain while offering a much larger enhancement of the incident field. Proposed modifications of both geometries that augment the field localization suggest further reductions in the gain values needed to achieve significant amplification of the output signal.     

基于半导体光放大器和受激布里渊散射的全光非归零码时钟提取

利用半导体光放大器(SOA)的增益饱和特性、自相位调制(SPM)效应和啁啾光纤光栅(CFBG)的滤波和啁啾特性共同作用实现了10 Gbit/s非归零码(NRZ)信号的时钟分量增强。经过该结构的非归零光谱的时钟分量增强后,其时钟数据抑制比提高了12.9 dB。时钟分量增强后的信号经基于受激布里渊效应(SBS)的时钟提取结构后实现了对非归零信号的全光时钟提取。这种新型非归零全光时钟提取结构具有对数据速率及数据格式透明,低抖动,不受码型效应的影响等优点。     

Gain-clamped discrete Raman amplifier with suppressed low-frequency relative intensity noise pump-to-signal transfer

We demonstrate an optically gain-clamped discrete Raman amplifier with a suppressed low-frequency relative intensity noise transfer from pump sources to an input amplified signal, which is accomplished by employing a cascaded second-order Raman fiber resonator as an optical amplification. The input signal dynamic range for a 3-dB gain compression is controllable without affecting the clamping level. In addition, we find that the Raman net gain is unsusceptible to fiber parameters such as the gain and attenuation coefficients at the pump, first-, and second-order Stokes lines. These characteristics fit our proposed gain-clamped discrete Raman amplifier for practical deployment although it works at the expense of the efficiency.     

Edge enhancement by using two-wave mixing and its application to pattern recognition

Coupling theory is employed to analyze coupling gain and a new optical system is proposed for image edge enhancement, in which the ordinarily discarded background light is recycled as a pump source to amplify the signal light. We demonstrate the principle of optical correlation and compare the discrimination capability of two kinds of correlators by computer simulation. The results show that edge enhancement preprocessing can improve discrimination capability effectively.     

Effects of inhomogeneous distribution of Si–Nc and Er ions on optical amplification in Si–Nc Er doped fiber

In this article, the effects of Si–Nc and Er³⁺ ions distribution parameters including inhomogeneous and homogeneous distribution profile are studied on the optical parameters such as gain, population inversion and Si–Nc induced losses. We have shown that by increasing of the concentration of Si–Nc particles the net gain and induced Si–Nc losses increased in homogeneous and inhomogeneous distributions. In practice, the homogeneous distribution of Er ions and Si–Nc is hard to be realized. Therefore, the inhomogeneous distributions of ions cased to perturb state in mode shape of optical signal then the investigations of those effects are important for high speed optical communications. In this article, a method for evaluation of the effects of inhomogeneous distribution of impurities on performance of optical amplifier is developed and the managing of the gain with use of suitable distribution functions is proposed.     

线宽增强因子对光反馈半导体激光器混沌信号生成随机数性能的影响

基于光反馈半导体激光器产生的宽带混沌信号作为物理熵源生成物理随机数已得到广泛研究.线宽增强因子的存在会导致半导体激光器出现大量不稳定动态特性,因此,本文着重研究半导体激光器的线宽增强因子对生成随机数性能的影响.数值仿真结果表明:随着线宽增强因子的增加,光反馈半导体激光器输出混沌信号的延时峰值逐渐减小、最大李雅普诺夫指数逐渐增大.基于不同线宽增强因子下产生的混沌信号提取随机数,并利用NIST SP 800-22软件对生成随机数的性能进行测试.测试结果表明,选取线宽增强因子较大的半导体激光器产生混沌信号作为物理熵源易于生成性能良好的随机数.     

Thermal convection in a rotating layer of a magnetic fluid

We consider Brownian particles with the ability to take up energy from the environment, to store it in an internal depot, and to convert internal energy into kinetic energy of motion. Provided a supercritical supply of energy, these particles are able to move in a “high velocity” or active mode, which allows them to move also against the gradient of an external potential. We investigate the critical energetic conditions of this self-driven motion for the case of a linear potential and a ratchet potential. In the latter case, we are able to find two different critical conversion rates for the internal energy, which describe the onset of a directed net current into the two different directions. The results of computer simulations are confirmed by analytical expressions for the critical parameters and the average velocity of the net current. Further, we investigate the influence of the asymmetry of the ratchet potential on the net current and estimate a critical value for the asymmetry in order to obtain a positive or negative net current. Received 20 September 1999     

Optical losses and gain in silicon-rich silica waveguides containing Er ions

Rib-loaded waveguides containing Er³⁺ coupled to Si-nc have been produced by magnetron sputtering and successive thermal annealing to investigate optical gain at 1535 nm. It has been shown that all Er ions are optically active, whereas the fraction that can be excited at high pump rates under non-resonant excitation is strongly limited by confined carrier absorption (CA), up-conversion processes, and mainly by the lack of coupling to the Si-nc. Er³⁺ absorption cross-section is found comparable to that of Er³⁺ in SiO₂, but a dependence with the effective refractive index has been found. Although the presence of Si-nc strongly improves the efficiency of Er³⁺ excitation, it introduces additional optical loss mechanisms, such as CA. These Si-nc losses affect the possibility of obtaining net optical gain. In the present study, they have been minimized by lowering the annealing time of the Er-doped Si-rich oxide. In pump-probe measurements it is shown that signal enhancement of the transmitted signal can be achieved at low pumping rate when the detrimental role of confined CA is attenuated by reducing the annealing time. A maximum signal enhancement of about 1.30 at 1535 nm was observed.     

1.6 μm band double pass fiber Raman amplifiers using Raman fiber oscillator

We propose double pass fiber Raman amplifier schemes based on Raman fiber oscillator in order to amplify optical signal with wavelengths from 1610 to 1650 nm efficiently. We experimentally demonstrate that the proposed double pass amplifier scheme has enhanced gain characteristics compared to a conventional single pass scheme. We also demonstrate a scheme for the proposed double pass amplifier to have small gain variation over the wavelength range by using two fiber Bragg gratings with different center wavelengths.     

An effective numerical method for gain profile optimizations of multi pumped fiber Raman amplifiers

In this paper, we have solved propagation equations of multi-pump fiber Raman amplifier using Runge–Kutta (RK 4th order) numerical method and pump power evolutions along with the fiber length. They are used to calculate the net gain and gain ripple by varying the input signals powers for different fiber lengths. The pump powers are optimized by genetic algorithm and resulting net gain and gain ripple are reported graphically as well as in tabular form. The optimum minimum gain ripple is 0.26 dB for 1 mW input signal powers for 50 km fiber length. By increasing the fiber length gain ripple increases to 0.5 dB for 0.1 mW input signal power. In comparison to other methods reported in the literature, our method is simple to implement and efficient for numerical design of Raman amplification in optical communication systems.     

Sensitivity‐enhancement methods for surface plasmon sensors

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors have been a mature technology for more than two decades now, however, recent investigations show continuous enhancement of their sensitivity and their lower detection limit. Together with the recent investigations in localized SPR phenomena, extraordinary optical transmission through nanoapertures in metals, and surface‐enhanced spectroscopies, drastic developments are expected to revolutionize the field of optical biosensing. Sensitivity‐enhancement (SE) techniques are reviewed focusing both on the physical transduction mechanisms and the system performance. In the majority of cases the SE is associated with the enhancement of the electromagnetic field overlap integral describing the interaction energy within the analyte. Other important mechanisms are the interaction between plasmons and excitons and between the analyte molecules and the metal surface. The lower detection limit can be reduced significantly if systems with high signal‐to‐noise ratio are used such as common‐path interferometry, ellipsometry or polarimetry systems.     

Maximum number of connectable laser diode optical switch (LDSW) systems

The maximum number of connectable laser diode optical switches (LDSWs) was studied through the baseband signal-to-noise ratio calculation. For an NRZ 100 Mbits^–1 PCM-IM signal, 60 stages of LDSWs can be connected with a 6-nm optical bandpass filter inserted after the last stage at an input signal level of –30 dB m and an internal gain of 16 dB. A PCM-IM signal of 10 Gbits^–1 can be transmitted through 130 stages of LDSWs at an internal gain of 8 dB and an input signal level of –20 dB m.     

Sensitivity enhancement in thermal lens laser spectrometry

A novel experimental configuration for thermal lens detection is described. The method makes use of optical filtering of the probe beam by means of a circular aperture. This considerably reduces noise associated with intensity fluctuations of the probe beam. The technique provides an enhancement of the signal-to-noise ratio by almost one order of magnitude as compared to other thermal lens laser spectrometers. A theoretical calculation of the signal enhancement associated with optical filtering of the probe beam is presented. Furthermore, experiments on methyl blue dissolved in ethylalcohol are described which verify the theoretical predictions.     

光纤参量放大饱和增益特性研究

通过数值分析的方法推导出光纤参量放大饱和信号增益和信号输出功率的数学表达式.计算分三步, 首先数值求解描述参量放大过程的非线性耦合方程得出一系列数值, 然后用控制变量法找到饱和信号增益的函数形式, 最后用最小二乘法拟合出系数（与数字积分结果比较, 最大相对误差不超过0.46‰）.同样也得出了饱和信号输出功率的表达式.计算结果与已有实验结果相吻合.     

高斯光束自由电子激光小信号增益分析

由增益的三维公式出发,对高斯光束时的小信号增益进行了分析。对电子束截面远大于光束截面情况给出了解析的增益渐近公式;对电子束截面远小于光束截面的情况。给出了解析的增益近似公式,结果与用计算机模拟所得相符。     

集成双波导半导体光放大器光开关实现波长转换的理论研究

建立了基于集成双波导半导体光放大器的光开关(ITG-SOA-Switch)的理论分析模型.与半导体光放大器(SOA)的特性相比较表明，由于ITG-SOA-Switch合并了多种物理效应，故其静态增益饱和曲线在饱和功率点附近具有大幅度陡峭下降的独特性质.理论分析和10 Gbit/s波长转换模拟结果显示，恰当地选择输入抽运光的功率范围，ITG-SOA-Switch波长转换器输出转换光的消光比特性较之输入抽运光会有显著的改善. 关键词： 波长转换 半导体光放大器 集成双波导半导体光放大器 光开关     

Mid-infrared efficient generation by resonant four-wave mixing in a three-coupled-quantum-well nanostructure

We present a cascade configuration for the realization of highly efficient four-wave mixing (FWM) process in an asymmetric semiconductor three-coupled-quantum-well (TCQW) structure based on intersubband transitions (ISBTs). In the proposed TCQW scheme, the efficiency of the generated FWM mid-infrared (MIR) signal is significantly enhanced and the obtained maximum efficiency is greater than 50%. The corresponding explicit analytical expressions for the input probe and generated FWM pulsed fields are derived by use of the coupled Schrödinger-Maxwell approach and the FWM efficiency versus several variables is also discussed in details. Such a semiconductor system is much more practical than its atomic counterpart because of its flexible design and the wide adjustable parameters. This nonlinear optical process in the TCQW solid-state material can be used for efficiently generating coherent short-wavelength radiation.     

Optics of oblique meridional and nonmeridional rays of a conicoid

Based on the exact expression for the angular eikonal of an axisymmetric conicoid (a surface formed by revolution of a second-order curve, or conic) the expressions for the Gaussian optics of oblique meridional rays are obtained, which differ from the well-known Gullstrand-Young invariants for a sphere by a set of independent arguments and contain explicitly the parameters of an optical system. The collinear properties of an optical surface with oblique meridional beams are studied. The theory of astigmatism is extended to the case of oblique nonmeridional rays, which makes it possible to construct and analyze in the first approximation the focal surfaces of an actual wide beam of rays. The theory is tested using the example of optimization of an aplanatic lens for the case of an off-axis point of an object. Based on the exact expression for the angular eikonal, definitions of integral aberrations are given. It is proposed to use the method developed in optimization of optical systems.