一种基于非线性光纤环镜开关特性的超短光孤子产生方法

提出了一种利用非线性光纤环镜的开关特性将连续波同时转化为亮孤子和暗孤子的新方法 ,即让连续波和另一波长的调制脉冲串共同耦合入光纤环镜 ,交叉相位调制使得一部分连续波被环镜透射 ,其余部分被反射 ;再让透射波和反射波分别在反常色散光纤和正常色散光纤中传输 ,自相位调制和群速度色散之间的相互作用使得透射波和反射波分别演化为亮、暗孤子。数值计算表明 ,该方法不仅可产生脉宽比调制脉冲窄、重复频率比调制脉冲高的亮孤子和暗孤子 ,而且几乎可将全部的连续波能量转化为孤子能量。     

High-rate pulse-train generation by phase-only filtering of an electrooptic frequency comb: Analysis and optimization

We investigate the generation of high-rate optical pulse trains by spectral phase-only filtering of a frequency comb derived from an electrooptically phase-modulated continuous-wave laser. The technique is initially analyzed as a two-step filtering process. First, a fundamental pulse-train with repetition-rate equal to the modulation frequency is obtained by line-by-line phase-cancellation of the electrooptic frequency comb. Second, the temporal Talbot-effect is considered so that the output pulse repetition-rate is an integer multiple of the electrooptic modulation frequency. Nonidealities found in the fundamental train lead, in general, to multiplied trains with important degradations. We numerically analyze optimum modulation conditions for generation of output pulse trains with minimum peak-to-peak variations and/or maximum extinction level. On the other hand, a genetic algorithm is considered to numerically find optimum line-by-line phase-only filters that generate output multiplied trains with minimized degradations. Numerical simulations show that, in general, this second approach allows for improvement in the quality of the resultant multiplied trains, in terms of the uniformity degree and/or noise-level, compared with the pulse trains resulting from the Talbot-effect-based approach.     

High Repetition Rate Optical Pulse Generation Using a Rational Harmonic Mode-Locking Technique in a Fiber Ring Laser

By applying a small frequency detuning to the RF modulation frequency, pulse trains with repetition rates of integer multiples of the RF modulation frequency have been obtained in an actively mode-locking fiber ring laser. Optical pulse trains with repetition rates of 20 GHz, 30 GHz and 40 GHz were generated respectively here. Furthermore, an interesting phenomenon of generation of pulse train with repetition rate half the modulation frequency was observed.     

基于频域相位共轭技术的交叉相位调制所致失真的复原

理论分析和讨论了基于频域相位共轭技术的交叉相位调制所致信号失真的复原和补偿机理，数值模拟了在交叉相位调制作用下，高斯脉冲在中距相位共轭光纤系统中的传输演化过程.结果表明，频域相位共轭技术能够抑制交叉相位调制对光纤系统中传输信号的损害，复原其所导致的信号失真，并能够同步补偿群速度色散和自相位调制非线性效应所导致的信号失真.合适的初始脉冲时延和初始脉冲啁啾有利于频域相位共轭技术对交叉相位调制所致信号失真的抑制. 关键词： 频域相位共轭 交叉相位调制 色散 自相位调制     

光纤中基于交叉相位调制的超短光脉冲串的产生

提出一种在单模光纤正常色散区由连续波产生超短光脉冲串的新方法，即让连续波和一个波长位于光纤正常色散区的调制脉冲串在光纤中同时传输，交叉相位调制效应和群速度色散效应的相互作用能使连续波演化成一串超短光脉冲，其脉冲宽度比调制脉冲串中的脉宽要小得多，本文还通过计算机模拟，对这一方法进行了全面的考察和分析。结果表明，该方法不仅实用，而且可取得较好的效果。     

High Repetition Rate Optical Pulse Generation Using a Rational Harmonic Mode Locking Technique in a Fiber Ring Laser

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Optical pulse evolution in the presence of a probe light in CW-pumped nonlinear fiber

We investigate theoretically and numerically the evolutions of optical pulses in the time domain due to modulation instability(MI), where CW pump accompanied with a probe is used as the input of nonlinear fiber. As the fiber length increases, we show that it exhibits beat frequency between the pump and the probe first when the probe lies outside the MI resonance region, and then gradually transforms into a pulse train resulting from spontaneous MI rather than induced MI. However, the regular pulse train is easier to generate in the whole fiber if the probe exists in MI resonance region,and the period of the pulse train is inversely proportional to the frequency spacing between the pump and the probe. It is emphasized that the pulse period can be adjusted only when the probe is in MI resonance region. The numerical simulations are in agreement with the theoretical results. The obtained results are guidable for generating and manipulating the optical pulse train in the fiber.     

超短激光脉冲二倍频理论分析

采用快速傅里叶变换（FFT）算法和Rung-Kutta法对KDP晶体中超短激光脉冲二倍频过程作了研究。详细讨论了群速度失配、群速度色散和三阶非线性相位调制效应对倍频光脉冲波形、光谱及转换效率的影响。研究结果表明：在超短激光脉冲二倍频中，三阶非线性相位调制效应可使二倍频光脉冲形状发生畸变，光谱明显展宽且转换效率降低；当入射基频光功率密度大于100GW/cm2时，三阶非线性效应是影响倍频过程的主要因素。     

Non-CPMG Fast Spin Echo with full signal

The standard Fast Spin Echo sequence used in MR imaging relies on the CPMG condition. A consequence of this condition is that only one component of the transverse magnetization can be measured. To counter this, some phase modulation schemes (XY, MLEV.) for the pulse train have been proposed, but they are useful only over a very restricted range, close to pi, of the refocusing pulse rotation angle. Some other solutions not relying on phase modulation have also been suggested, but they destroy one half the available signal. Revisiting the phase modulation approach, J. Murdoch ("Second SMR Scientific Meeting," p. 1145, 1994) suggested that a quadratic phase modulation could generate a train of classical echoes. We show here that indeed a quadratic phase modulation has a very suitable property: after an adequate change of frame, the dynamic of the system composed of all the protons situated in one pixel can be seen as stationary. If the parameter of the quadratic phase modulation is well chosen, it is then possible to put the dynamic system in a combination of two suitable states and obtain a signal identical to the signal of a classical spin echo, at least for nutation of the refocusing pulse higher than, approximately, two radians.     

Numerical study of a harmonic mode-locked semiconductor optical amplifier fiber ring laser

An improved harmonic mode-locked Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) fiber ring lasers has been presented and numerically investigated based on the self-reproduction theory. The numerical result shows that a narrower optical pulse train with a more symmetrical-temporal shape can be obtained, when the modulation SOA is DC biased on high current, whereas the gain SOA is DC biased on the low current functions as a gain compensator in the experimental setup. Also, the system parameters effects on the characteristic of the harmonic mode-locked pulse have been investigated.     

Simultaneous generation and wavelength conversion of a pulse train from multi-wave mixing in an optical fibre

The insertion of three continuous-wave optical frequencies in a low-dispersion optical fibre resulted in the generation of a high-repetition-rate train of ultra-short pulses and its simultaneous wavelength conversion. Two of the frequencies were spaced by ∼0.17 THz and multi-wave mixing generated a frequency comb to which is associated a train of 1.6 ps pulses. Wave-mixing between the generated comb and the third input optical frequency then converts the pulse train into different wavelengths. The Split-Step Fourier method was applied to numerically simulate the generation/wavelength conversion and results are in good agreement with experiments.     

脉冲幅度均匀化的有理谐波锁模光纤激光器

提出并实现了一种脉冲幅度可均匀化的有理谐波锁模光纤激光器。该激光器采用主动有理谐波锁模机制,可获得重复频率为整数倍调制频率的锁模脉冲信号。通过在光纤激光器谐振腔中添加非线性光纤放大环镜,并利用其反射率对输入信号强度的开关特性,实现对锁模脉冲信号的整幅。在1 GHz的调制频率下,分别获得了4 GHz和5 GHz重复频率的锁模脉冲信号输出,并且在一定的980 nm抽运功率下,可通过调节电光调制器的直流偏置电压大小以及调制信号的调制深度,使得脉冲幅度具有较好的均匀性。     

Amplitude to phase conversion of InGaAs pin photo-diodes for femtosecond lasers microwave signal generation

When a photo-diode is illuminated by a pulse train from a femtosecond laser, it generates microwaves components at the harmonics of the repetition rate within its bandwidth. The phase of these components (relative to the optical pulse train) is known to be dependent on the optical energy per pulse. We present an experimental study of this dependence in InGaAs pin photo-diodes illuminated with ultra-short pulses generated by an Erbium-doped fiber based femtosecond laser. The energy to phase dependence is measured over a large range of impinging pulse energies near and above saturation for two typical detectors, commonly used in optical frequency metrology with femtosecond laser based optical frequency combs. When scanning the optical pulse energy, the coefficient which relates phase variations to energy variations is found to alternate between positive and negative values, with many (for high harmonics of the repetition rate) vanishing points. By operating the system near one of these vanishing points, the typical amplitude noise level of commercial-core fiber-based femtosecond lasers is sufficiently low to generate state-of-the-art ultra-low phase noise microwave signals, virtually immune to amplitude to phase conversion related noise.     

Laser pulse spectral shaping based on electro-optic modulation

A new spectrum shaping method, based on electro-optic modulation, to alleviate gain narrowing in chirped pulse amplification （CPA） system, is described and numerically simulated. Near-Fourier transform-limited seed laser pulse is chirped linearly through optical stretcher. Then the chirped laser pulse is coupled into integrated waveguide electro-optic modulator driven by an aperture-coupled-stripline （ACSL） electricalwaveform generator, and the pulse shape and amplitude are shaped in time domain. Because of the direct relationship between frequency interval and time interval of the linearly chirped pulse, the laser pulse spectrum is shaped correspondingly. Spectrum-shaping examples are modeled numerically to determine the spectral resolution of this technique. The phase error introduced in this method is also discussed.     

Degenerate parametric frequency conversion of phase-modulated femtosecond laser pulses in crystals with a regular and chirped domain structure

A systematic theoretical analysis of the degenerate parametric frequency conversion in a LiNbO₃ crystal with a regular domain structure and a linearly varying domain thickness (chirped crystal) is presented for the pulses of a titanium-sapphire laser with a wavelength of 0.8 μm and durations of 100 and 50 fs in the presence and in the absence of phase modulation. The results are obtained with regard to the difference in the group velocities of interacting pulses and the group velocity dispersion. For an effective frequency conversion of the phase-modulated (PM) pump pulse, it is expedient to employ chirped crystals in which the domain thickness decreases from the entrance to the exit of the crystal. The pump energy is effectively converted into subharmonic energy when the pump carrier frequency decreases with time. It is demonstrated that the efficiency of the energy conversion to a subharmonic of 80% can be realized for PM pumping with a pulse duration of 100 fs in the chirped LiNbO₃ crystal. The efficiency of the parametric frequency conversion depends on the pump intensity as well as on the phase modulation of the pulse and the chirp of the crystal. Note that a variation in one of these parameters causes variations in the remaining parameters needed for the maximum efficiency of the parametric frequency conversion.     

Enhanced Dispersive Waves Generation via Sinusoidally Spectral Phase-Modulated Pulses

The dispersive waves (DWs) emitted from a Gaussian pulse with an initial sinusoidally spectral phase (SSP) modulation are investigated. By tailoring the modulation depth and frequency, the SSP results in complex pulses shape with a multipulses structure ranging from Airy-like to pulse sequences having controllable delay and phase. These salient features are able to control and enhance the radiation frequency and energy conversion efficiency of the DWs. The resonant frequencies based on a modified phase-matching condition are given, which agree with the numerical results obtained by solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation directly. The results not only further extend the application of the pulse shaping technology in fiber optics, but also provide an alternative approach to manipulate the process of DWs emission which is relevant to the generation broadband supercontinuum as well as frequency comb.     

Pulse shaping via modulation of resonant absorption

Propagation of monochromatic linearly polarized plane electromagnetic wave through resonantly absorbing anisotropic medium with frequency-modulated response is studied analytically and numerically. Frequency modulation is assumed to be provided by means of either mechanical vibration of a solid sample or modulation of quantum transition frequency by a driving low-frequency electromagnetic field. Possibility of generation of train of pulses with polarization of the incident field as well as with orthogonal polarization is shown. For each polarization, optimal combinations of values of four parameters that provide maximal ratio of peak pulse intensity to the average output intensity is found numerically. Possible realization of this resonant method of pulse shaping in laser crystal Dy²⁺:CaF₂ is discussed.     

飞秒激光作用下全向高反膜破坏的激发过程

设计和制备了全向高反膜SiO₂/TiO₂，研究了它在不同脉冲宽度、不同脉冲能量的飞秒激光作用下的破坏阈值和烧蚀深度.利用发展的抽运-探针方法，研究了抽运脉冲作用下材料中导带电子的超快激发和能量沉积过程，建立并求解了飞秒激光激发材料和材料的激发对抽运光自身反作用的耦合动力学模型.模型较好地揭示了材料破坏的激发过程. 关键词： 飞秒激光 全向高反膜 激发过程 破坏机制     

基于频移反馈腔的全光纤射频调制脉冲激光研究

射频调制的脉冲激光是激光雷达探测领域内的一项重要研究内容.根据声光斩波器的强度和频率调制特性,设计了基于频移反馈腔的全光纤射频调制脉冲激光.理论上,建立了基于频移反馈腔的激光外差相干理论模型,并进行了数值仿真.根据理论模型,实验上严格控制频移反馈腔的长度和声光斩波器触发信号的周期,在100 MHz的射频信号驱动下,产生了脉冲宽度110 ns、重复频率约20 kHz的具有最高700 MHz射频调制的脉冲激光(脉内调制激光);同时微调斩波周期可以实现脉冲前沿或后沿的多样性射频调制.通过改变反馈腔内光纤放大器的输出功率实现了射频调制深度的连续可调,最高达到了0.67.     

Induced steepening of femtosecond pulses

The femtosecond pulse conversion to the XUV has been studied theoretically for the first time in a gas-filled waveguide, including the influence of the pump-induced phase modulation on the phase matching conditions, waveguide propagation and signal pulse shape. The conversion of femtosecond pulses from excimer amplifiers to the range of 83 nm to 88 nm is discussed