光栅展宽系统中脉冲展宽比受高阶色散影响的数值分析

分析了光栅展宽器中高阶色散对飞秒种子脉冲展宽量的影响,给出了精确计算展宽器展宽倍数的公式,并且针对反射式共焦望远镜系统引入的球差对展宽系统的色散量进行了修正.通过数值计算与实验结果比较验证了理论计算的精确性,从而为准确估算光栅展宽器中脉冲的色散致展宽量提供了有效的方法.     

大口径啁啾脉冲放大激光系统光的谱剪切分析

啁啾脉冲放大（CPA）技术为获得拍瓦级峰值功率和102^20W／cm^2高峰值聚焦功率密度提供了技术手段，从而使“快点火”成为可能。啁啾脉冲放大的原理是：超短脉冲激光先经过展宽器展宽，再进入放大器放大，最后放大脉冲经过压缩器压缩输出超短脉冲。展宽器和压缩器均由光栅对构成，展宽器通过引入正色散获得正啁啾脉冲，压缩器与展宽器共轭引入负色散补偿正啁啾获得超短脉冲输出。啁啾脉冲在展宽、放大和压缩中存在光谱剪切（或称光谱变化）和高阶分布，从而对输出脉冲时空特性产生影响。     

基于耗散孤子种子的啁啾脉冲光纤放大系统输出特性

以不同滤波器带宽下获得的全正色散光纤激光器耗散孤子作为啁啾脉冲放大(CPA)系统的种子脉冲, 研究了光栅对和光纤展宽器CPA系统输出脉冲的可压缩性. 结果表明, 对于大能量耗散孤子种子脉冲, 当CPA系统采用正色散光纤展宽器时, 光纤群速色散与自相位调制之间的相互作用不仅可抑制耗散孤子脉冲光谱调制的影响, 还可使脉冲在光纤展宽器中自相似演化, 从而可提高CPA输出脉冲的可压缩性. 通过优化光纤展宽器长度, 对于耗散孤子种子源, 采用光纤展宽器的CPA系统输出脉冲可压缩性与主脉冲所占脉冲总能量之比均优于采用光栅对展宽器时的情况.     

飞秒脉冲展宽器的设计

以群速度色散展宽脉冲理论和基尔霍夫－菲涅耳积分为基础，合理地设计了一种紧凑有效的飞秒脉冲展宽器，不仅获得了较大的脉冲展宽比，而且光束通过展宽器后其空间特性也得到恢复。     

啁啾脉冲放大激光系统中展宽器色散的解析算法

时域色散精密控制是超短激光产生及其应用中的关键技术之一,它通过控制各波长的光程产生相对延迟从而改变脉冲宽度.展宽器是啁啾脉冲放大激光系统中对激光脉冲展宽的装置,基于光线追迹法研究光线在展宽器中的传输路径,可计算飞秒脉冲中各波长的光程,进而计算脉冲展宽量并应用于系统设计.由于展宽器的光程表达式复杂,直接对其求导获得色散表达式较困难,目前只能采用数值导数获得近似解,这在计算过程中会引入误差,不利于激光系统精确设计和优化.本文介绍了一种易实现的求解展宽器色散的解析算法,通过归纳展宽器光程表达式特点,引入四个基元函数,将光程表达式分解和反复代换,可得到高阶色散的精确解析值.本文首先对Martinez型展宽器重新光线追迹,获得与Offner型展宽器一致的相位表达式,其次通过解析算法获得了两种展宽器的精确高阶色散值,最后将解析算法与数值算法的结果进行了比较.该解析算法对于啁啾脉冲放大系统的参数设计具有实用价值.     

啁啾脉冲放大系统中光栅展宽器的性能与实验研究

论述了啁啾脉冲放大技术中运用单光栅展宽器结构将少光脉冲在时域进行啁啾展宽的原理及特性，导出了该展宽器所提供色散量的具体表达式及其展宽后激光脉冲宽度的计算，然后通过数值计算分析了其展宽因子及展宽比随各参量的之间的变化关系；本文在此基础上进一步获得了实验的测量结果。     

宽光束进入展宽器提高输出脉冲对比度分析

根据分析啁啾脉冲对比度模型,通过光线追迹法详细分析了展宽器对输出脉冲对比度的影响.发现当扩大进入展宽器的入射光束口径,从2 mm扩大到40 mm时,输出脉冲的对比度提高了近两个数量级;同时发现在相同条件下,当输入脉冲为双曲正割函数时,其输出脉冲的对比度明显好于输入脉冲为高斯脉冲和矩形脉冲的情形.     

用于飞秒脉冲放大器的马丁内兹展宽器与欧浮纳展宽器性能比较

用解析法针对多通和再生两种放大器，分别研究啁啾脉冲放大技术中马丁内兹展宽器和欧浮纳展宽器的特性和适用范围.我们认为在多通放大器和再生放大器中，马丁内兹展宽器均可以很好地补偿色散；如果使用再生放大器时需要将脉冲宽度展得更宽，可采用紧凑型欧浮纳展宽器. 关键词： 啁啾脉冲放大技术 马丁内兹展宽器 欧浮纳展宽器     

用于OPCPA高展宽比的展宽器

根据ffner展宽器的原理和设计,进行了光学参量啁啾脉冲放大系统中信号光脉冲展宽的实验研究。通过数值方法,合理地选择了展宽器光学元件的各项参数,即光栅常数为1 800 (102 mm×102 mm),凹面镜曲率半径为1 000 mm,凸面镜与凹面镜之间的距离为653 mm,信号光入射角为51.05°。实验结果表明,优化后的ffner展宽器可以将脉宽为30 fs的信号光脉冲展宽到545 ps, 展宽比为18 167,满足OPCPA放大的需要。     

ffner展宽器高倍率展宽脉冲的理论与实验研究

在理论上分析了 ffner展宽器的色散特性 ,给出了展宽脉冲随 ffner展宽器系统参数变化的关系 .据此在实验上建立了一台 ffner飞秒展宽器系统 ,将 19fs的种子脉冲无色差展宽至 6 0 5ps ,测量结果与理论计算一致 .     

Bandwidth controllable transmission filter based on Moiré fiber Bragg grating

A new and efficient technique for fabrication of bandwidth controllable π–phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based on moiré grating using a uniform phase mask is demonstrated. The feasibility of writing a moiré grating into an ordinary SMF-28 fiber using stretching and double exposure by ultraviolet fringe is reported. We analyzed the relation between the initial differentia of phase of two exposures and the transmission spectrum of phase-shifted FBG. Moreover, we present a novel method to control the initial differentia of phase of two exposures. Using this technique, two kinds of resonant filters with a 3-dB line-width of 0.01 nm centered at 1553.79 nm and of 0.5 nm centered at 1554.57 nm respectively were fabricated with same uniform phase mask.     

Bandwidth controllable transmission filter based on Moiré fiber Bragg grating

A new and efficient technique for fabrication of bandwidth controllable π–phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based on moiré grating using a uniform phase mask is demonstrated. The feasibility of writing a moiré grating into an ordinary SMF-28 fiber using stretching and double exposure by ultraviolet fringe is reported. We analyzed the relation between the initial differentia of phase of two exposures and the transmission spectrum of phase-shifted FBG. Moreover, we present a novel method to control the initial differentia of phase of two exposures. Using this technique, two kinds of resonant filters with a 3-dB line-width of 0.01 nm centered at 1553.79 nm and of 0.5 nm centered at 1554.57 nm respectively were fabricated with same uniform phase mask.     

Two dimensional silicon waveguide chirped grating couplers for vertical optical fibers

Shallow etched two dimensional gratings for coupling light between silicon-on-insulator nanophotonic waveguides and vertical optical fibers were designed and experimentally characterized. We show that the large second order back reflection could be suppressed effectively by applying a linear chirp in the grating period for two dimensional grating couplers. The total coupling efficiency from an optical fiber to two orthogonal silicon waveguides is independent of the input polarization. An almost linear relationship between the average effective index of the grating region and the fill factor for 1D grating is obtained and verified. We also show that the average effective index for the two dimensional grating is similar to the one dimensional grating with the same fill factor in the light propagation direction, when the fill factor of the etched holes was larger than 0.5.     

High sensitivity Mach–Zehnder interferometer sensors based on concatenated ultra-abrupt tapers on thinned fibers

This study proposes a simple, cost-effective method to fabricate fiber-based Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) sensors by concatenating two ultra-abrupt fiber tapers together using a fusion splicer. By concatenating, the taper diameter and length ratio is 1:1 that is much greater than that (1:10) by stretching. The refractive index sensitivity is comparable to the MZI sensors based on long-period fiber grating pairs or stretched fiber taper pairs. The MZI fiber claddings are etched to improve the sensitivity of refractive index measurements. The sensitivity is 664.57 nm/RIU (refractive index unit) for the refractive index ranging from 1.3348 to 1.3558, which is 2–6 times greater than those measured by long period fiber gratings (LPFGs) after sensitivity enhancement.     

Beam-splitting and recombining of free-electron-laser extreme-ultraviolet radiation

The design of systems for the splitting of the radiation from a free-electron-laser (FEL) in the extreme-ultraviolet spectral region is presented. Systems for the beam-splitting of the FEL radiation are important, both for having the light available simultaneously to several experiments, and for the division and recombination of the beam (pump-probe techniques). We present systems with a grazing-incidence plane grating, which is illuminated by the single FEL beam and gives several output beams (the zero order and the diffracted orders). The grating gives intrinsically a time stretching of the diffracted beam, so time-compensated configurations are used. Systems for the splitting of the primary beam in two secondary beams and for the splitting and recombining from two beams with variable delay are presented. PACS 41.60.Cr; 42.79.Dj; 42.79.Fm     

A novel 852-nm tunable fiber laser

We report a novel fiber laser operating at 850-nm band by using semiconductor optical amplifier and fiber grating. The laser system is stable, compact, and the operating wavelength can be tuned continuously from about 851 to 854 nm for Cs atomic clock system by stretching the fiber grating. An output power up to 20 mW is obtained with a signal-to-background ratio beyond 20 dB.     

Space-charge grating kinetics in photorefractive crystals

Equations for the grating space-charge density and concentration of free carriers induced by a standing light wave in an anisotropic photorefractive crystal are derived and solved. The charge density and electric field are found to depend on the orientation of the graing relative to the crystal axes. It is shown that the grating kinetics is determined by the difference between two exponentials with characteristic times the sum of which can be treated as the decay constant of the grating. Three ranges of Maxwell relaxation times are distinguished, where this time constant behaves differently. The grating kinetics for a number of crystals is considered.     

A new concept of nano-strain monitoring using μ-strain perturbation

We propose a new design of the nano-scale strain monitoring system, which consists of a fiber Bragg grating and a standard vibration source. The measurement resolution is increased from μ-strain to n-strain, using the perturbation method on the fiber grating stretching length. The change in Bragg wavelength due to the change in fiber stretching length is simulated. Results obtained have shown the feasibility of using such a proposed system to monitor small strain and vibration in the nano-scale range. The relationships between temperature and strain on the one hand, and Bragg wavelength on the other hand are plotted. This is shown as it has potential of being used in simultaneous measurement.     

A simple linear cavity dual-wavelength fiber laser using AWG as wavelength selective mechanism

In this paper, a simple design of linear cavity dual-wavelength fiber laser (DWFL) is proposed. Operating in the C-band region stretching from 1538.3 nm to 1548.6 nm, an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is used to generate the dual-wavelengths output together with a broadband fiber Bragg grating as a back reflector and an optical circulator with a 10% output coupling ratio which acts as a front mirror. The measured average output power of the DWFL is about −5.66 dBm and with a side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) of 53.1 dB. The spacing between the two output wavelengths can be varied from 0.8 nm to 10.3 nm with a stable output and minimum power fluctuations.