室温连续中红外量子级联激光器驱动电源的研制

为了满足中红外波长调制光谱技术中室温连续中红外量子级联激光器的驱动要求,设计并研制了一种量子级联激光器驱动电源系统.首先,设计了直接数字合成模块来产生直流、锯齿波和正弦波的叠加驱动信号以调谐激光器的电流,进而调制其输出波长;其次,设计了高速(约40ns)过流保护电路,配合电压深度负反馈原理,保证激光器工作的可靠性,提高激光器电流的稳定度;再次,将比例-积分-微分软件算法与温度模拟控制电路相结合,在简化电路结构的同时,有效地控制和稳定激光器的温度,防止因温度变化造成激光器输出波长的漂移和发光功率的波动.利用该驱动电源系统对中科院半导体所研制的中心波长为4.76μm的量子级联激光器做驱动测试,结果表明:驱动电源系统电流调节的线性度为0.0068%,驱动电源的长期(240h)电流稳定度为4.99×10-5,量子级联激光器的光强稳定度为5.07×10-4,控温稳定性为0.01℃,温度稳定时间为17s;当量子级联激光器的驱动电流为330mA,温度为21℃时,在240h内峰值波长的漂移为±0.02nm.     

中红外量子级联激光气体检测系统

为了满足基于室温连续量子级联激光器(QCL)的中红外气体检测系统的需求,研制了板级量子级联激光器的驱动电路以及谐波锁相放大电路。通过信号发生电路产生高精度的直流偏置信号、低频锯齿波扫描信号和高频正弦波调制信号,控制激光器的工作电流,进而扫描/调制激光器的输出波长;为了探测痕量气体吸收光谱的二次谐波信号,并获得较高的信噪比,研制了锁相放大电路,主要包括倍频电路、正交转换电路和数据转换电路;为了提高系统的稳定性和可靠性,研制了高稳定性的线性供电电路以及保护电路.采用中科院半导体所研制的波长为4.76μm的QCL作为光源,开展了电学系统的功能验证实验以及气体检测实验.实验结果表明:QCL驱动电路线性度为0.006 3%,长期电流稳定度为5.0×10~(-5),QCL光强稳定度为5.07×10~(-4);锁相放大器系统具有较高的稳定性和较低的误差,一次谐波的最大误差在2.4%以内,二次谐波的最大误差在5.5%以内.通过动态配气方式开展了低浓度一氧化碳(CO)气体检测实验,在0~100×10~(-6)范围内,二次谐波信号的幅值与CO气体浓度具有较高的线性度(拟合优度0.99),表明所研制的电学系统具有良好的稳定性和可靠性,为中红外CO气体的检测提供了安全可靠的保障.     

面向脉冲量子级联激光器气体检测的锁相放大器

为了在基于脉冲式中红外量子级联激光器的气体检测系统中,精确提取窄脉冲传感信号的幅度,设计并实现了一种微秒级窄脉冲锁相放大器.根据微秒级窄脉冲的特点,窄脉冲信号经过窄带通滤波电路,得到基频正弦波信号,再经过主放大、移相、相敏检波电路,得到与脉冲幅值有关的直流信号.利用信号发生器产生的幅度、频率、相位可调的窄脉冲待测信号,对锁相放大器进行功能验证实验.结果表明,锁相放大器输出直流信号与输入信号的幅度呈良好的线性关系,线性拟合度约为98.043%;信号幅值的相对测量误差不超过3%;在1 h的测试时间内,信号波动范围在1‰以内.利用配备的不同浓度的一氧化碳样品及研制的锁相放大器,开展了一氧化碳气体检测实验.在0~180 ppm范围内,随着一氧化碳浓度的增加,锁相放大器的输出电压值与一氧化碳浓度呈现良好的e指数关系.根据A11an方差预测的系统检测下限为0.4123ppm.与商用锁相放大器相比,该放大器具有体积小、成本低、易于集成等特点,在基于脉冲式中红外量子级联激光器的气体检测中具有较好的应用前景.     

基于室温量子级联激光器的脉内光谱技术测量N_2O

中红外激光光源覆盖了大鼍气体的基频吸收带,尤其适合于痕量气体的高灵敏检测.其中具有高输出功率、宽调谐范围、能够在室温工作的量子级联激光器为高灵敏痕量气体检测技术的研究提供了理想的光源.基于脉冲量子级联激光器的脉内光谱技术提供了一种简单而又有效的测量痕量气体的方法.当一个长激发脉冲作用在激光器上时,激光器的频率随着脉冲持续时间的增加而线性减小,从而在单个脉冲上扫描出被测气体分子的特征吸收谱线,实现对目标气体的定性或者定量分析.介绍了基于分布式量子级联激光器的脉内光谱技术,并采用该技术对N_2O进行了光谱测量.一个500 ns的长激发脉冲应用在脉冲量子级联激光器上用于快速波长扫描,达到接近1 cm~(-1)的线性调谐范围,得到了中心在1 274 cm~(-1)附近的N_2O的吸收谱线,与HITRAN数据库相应的N_2O吸收谱线有着良好的一致性.     

单模带间级联激光器（特邀）

基于锑化物的带间级联激光器同时具有带间跃迁的高增益和级联结构的高量子效率,是中红外波段重要的相干光源,其功耗低于其它中红外半导体激光器,因而单模带间级联激光器在基于激光吸收光谱技术的高分辨气体检测和化学传感等领域具有很大的优势。目前利用Bragg光栅实现波长选择的单模分布反馈带间级联激光器已经实现商品化,但是,与同样有源区结构的Fabry-Pérot腔带间级联激光器最高600 mW的出光功率相比,单模功率最高55 mW,损耗较大。对几种不同结构的分布反馈带间级联激光器的性能进行对比分析,探讨这类单模中红外激光器损耗的主要来源以及改进思路。此外,介绍了垂直腔面发射和光子晶体带间级联激光器的进展,并与分布反馈带间级联激光器的性能进行比较,讨论其优缺点及适用的场景。     

基于量子级联激光器的红外光谱技术评述

量子级联激光器是一种新型的红外相干光源。利用量子理论与带隙工程,量子级联激光器可实现3 μm到100 μm波长范围内的任意输出波长。由于大多数气体分子的特征光谱都集中在中红外波段,而中红外量子级联激光器具有功率高、线宽窄、扫描速度快等独特的优点,因此,基于量子级联激光器的红外光谱技术已成为气体检测技术的研究热点。尤其是,近年来室温激光器性能得到不断的完善,输出功率和电光转换效率得到了极大的提高,这在很大程度上推动了红外激光光谱技术的迅速发展。本文根据工作原理,分别介绍了基于直接吸收谱检测、相位调制光谱检测、光声调制光谱检测和法拉第旋光效应光谱检测的量子级联激光器红外光谱检测技术,并对其实现方法和应用情况进行了介绍。     

基于室温脉冲量子级联激光器的NO气体检测中的光谱处理方法研究

报导了采用基于室温脉冲量子级联激光器的脉内光谱检测技术,利用中心波长为1904 cm^-1的量子级联激光器,在实验室对NO气体样品进行检测的研究结果. 针对单线直接吸收光谱反演算法进行了研究,介绍了基线拟合的最小二乘算法以获取其吸光度,根据HITRAN数据库中相应吸收谱线的吸收线强,采用扫描积分实现了气体浓度的反演,避免了标气标定造成的误差及污染;通过拟合残差分析得到了系统的检测限,达到34×10^-6 m. 关键词： 量子级联激光器 中红外 多项式拟合 扫描积分     

三阶分布反馈太赫兹量子级联激光器的远场分布特性

研究了三阶分布反馈太赫兹量子级联激光器的设计、制作并分析了其纵模和横模特性.通过建立波导结构模型,利用有限元方法模拟激光器波导结构内的三维模场分布,通过本征模的损耗分析器件的纵模模式选择机理.同时,由本征模的近场通过近-远场傅里叶变换求得激光器的远场分布.采用半导体工艺制作了4.3 THz双面金属波导三阶分布反馈量子级联激光器,测量了不同器件的发射谱和远场光束质量,远场发散角为12?×13?,实验结果和理论模拟符合.     

基于中红外光谱吸收技术的一氧化碳气体检测系统

基于中红外光谱吸收技术,利用一氧化碳(CO)气体分子在4.6 μm处的基频吸收带,采用新脉冲的红外光源和双通道的热释电探测器,研制了一种CO浓度检测系统。该系统主要由脉冲调制式宽带热光源、开放式椭球聚光镜/气室、双通道探测器、主控及信号处理模块构成。通过优化开放式椭球聚光镜/气室,气体吸收光程达到40 cm, 探测器输出电信号的幅度增加约为原来的2~3倍。因此,采用椭球聚光镜后,将在一定程度上提高系统的信噪比从而改善系统的性能指标。利用配备的CO气体样品,研究了该系统对CO气体的传感特性。实验结果显示,该系统的最小检测下限为10 ppm,在该浓度点的测量误差约为14%;在20~25 000 ppm范围内的测量误差小于7.8%;对0 ppm气体样品的连续50分钟测量结果的最大偏差约为3 ppm,标准差约为0.18 ppm。同基于量子级联激光器和分布反馈激光器的CO检测系统相比,该系统具有性价比高、光路结构简单等优势,从而在煤矿、环保等场合下的CO检测方面具有较好应用前景。     

采用长光程差分吸收光谱技术(LP-DOAS)的中红外痕量一氧化碳检测仪

一氧化碳作为一种危险的开采排放气体,在复杂的井下环境中极易累积,对矿工生命安全造成严重威胁。介绍了一种紧凑型一氧化碳检测仪,该仪器采用激发波长为4.65μm的量子级联激光器作为光源,配合中红外碲镉汞光电探测器与光程长度12m的紧凑型多次反射气室,实现了对痕量一氧化碳气体的检测。自主设计的新型高速光电信号采集系统解决了应用商业示波器造成的信号链阻抗失配的问题。这一新系统的采样带宽为400MHz,采样频率1GSPS,垂直分辨率达到12bit,有效的提高了检测仪的灵敏度与集成度。该仪器采用长光程差分吸收光谱法,通过比较实测光谱与进行Voigt展宽的理论光谱之间的残差得出此检测仪的检测下限为108×10-9。检测仪的测量误差有非平稳,慢时变的特点。根据这一特点我们采用阿伦方差对气体检测仪检测灵敏度进行了估计,经过约40s方差曲线达到极小值,此时阿伦方差值为61×10-9。在2h的稳定性测试中,检测仪稳定度达到2.1×10-3,在长达12h的稳定性测试中,检测仪的稳定度依然可以达到1.7×10-2。此仪器具有较高的灵活性,通过更换不同激射波长的激光器可以实现对多种气体的痕量检测。     

Guided-Wave Two-Dimensional Acousto-Optic Scanner Using Proton-Exchanged Lithium Niobate Waveguide

Two-dimensional scanning of a 0.6328 mum guided-light beam has been realized using noncolinear acousto-optic (AO) coplanar Bragg diffraction together with colinear AO guided-mode to substrate radiation-mode conversion in a Z-cut Xpropagation LiNbO3 proton-exchanged (PE) waveguide. The two surface acoustic (SAW) waves utilized are at the center frequencies of 500 and 200 MHz, propagating in the Y and X axes, respectively. Two-dimensional scanning of approximately 720 resolvable light beam spots, namely, 18 40 (horizontal vertical) scanning, has been demonstrated using a light beam of 1.0 mm aperture. The total number of resolvable beam spots can be greatly increased from 720 by simply utilizing SAW transducers of larger bandwidth and a light beam of greater aperture. It should also be possible to significantly increase the diffraction efficiency from 3 % by optimizing the parameters of the PE waveguide and the SAWs.     

Hybrid Wavelength and Code Division Multiple Access in Optical Networks

A review of schemes for multiple access in fiber optic networks shows that a hybrid of wavelength and code division multiple access (WCDMA) combines the best features of both. In particular, the hybrid scheme retains the large information carrying capacity of wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) and flexibility of code division multiple access (CDMA). In this paper WDMA, optical CDMA (OCDMA), and WCDMA networks are discussed. In OCDMA networks, concept of incoherent and coherent coding including inverse decoding and matched filter is introduced. The delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks, under the simple suboptimum access protocols based on cyclic search, is computed. It has been shown quantitatively that tuning delay significantly affects the delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks. Futhermore, delay performance of WCDMA networks is always better than the WDMA networks for the same tuning delay, load, and number of users.     

Effect ofγ-radiation on the spectral luminescence characteristics of impure cadmium tungstate crystals

Results of a study of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of cadmium tungstate crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations are presented. Spectral characteristics of the nondnnnoped crystals are briefly described. Absorption and photo and X-ray luminescence spectra of the crystals taken before and after exposure to γ-radiation (5.5·10⁴ Gy) are compared. It is found that the spectral characteristics of the crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations do not change markedly after the exposure. The relation between the type of impurity-induced defects, individual characteristics of the impurity cations, and the character of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of impure crystals is analyzed (preliminarily). Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 55–60, January–February, 1997.     

Femtosecond Transform-Limited Pulse Generation by Compensating for the Linear Chirp of SPM Spectra in Dispersion Shifted Fibers

A simple technique of pulse compression, based on the linear chirp compensation of self-phase modulation (SPM) spectra in dispersion shifted fibers, is demonstrated. The optimization procedure is carried out, for a short span of a single-mode fiber, using a parabolic law, which describes the behavior of the squared output pulse width versus the pump peak power in the case of Gaussian pulses. The experimental results give a minimum pulse duration of 233 fs, which is in good agreement with the model. Shorter and coherent pulses, down to 90 fs, have been obtained by inserting an interference filter at the optical output.     

Sorting of bending magnets for the SSRF booster

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility(SSRF)booster ring,a full energy injector for the storage ring,is deigned to accelerate the electron beam energy from 150MeV to 3.5GeV that demands high extraction efficiency at the extraction energy with low beam loss rate when electrons are ramping.Closed orbit distortion(COD)caused by bending magnet field uniformity errors which affects the machine performance harmfully could be effectively reduced by bending magnet location sorting.Considering the affections of random errors in measurement,both ideal sorting and realistic sorting are studied based on measured bending magnet field uniformity errors and one reasonable combination of bending magnets which can reduce the horizontal COD by a factor of 5is given as the final installation sequence of the booster bending magnets in this paper.     

Measurement of nonlinear coefficient of optical fiber based on small chirped soliton transmission

We measure the waveform and phase curves of short optical pulses before and after transmission over different lengths of fibers by use of the pulse analyzer with the frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG),and numerically simulate pulse evolution under the experimental conditions.The nonlinear coefficient of the fiber is given by comparing the experimental results with the numerical ones.Difference between the experiment and numerical simulation is analyzed.     

Resonance scattering of canonical elastic shells in absorbing fluid medium

Resonance scattering of elastic spherical shell and cylindrical shell while the surrounding fluid medium has absorption is studied. The normal mode solution derived using exact elastic theory and the separation of variables is still applicable. However, the scattering form function has to be modified for the absorbing medium, otherwise the unreasonable result would be obtained. The backscattering form function in the absorbing medium is redefined, and the form function of elastic spherical and cylindrical shell with vacuum or solid matter filled is calculated in various absorption conditions. The results show that the absorption of surrounding fluid leads to notable attenuation of the coincidence resonances in the mid-frequency, but it has a little influence on the low-frequency resonance scattering induced by the filler inside the shell.     

Single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensor with high detection resolution

A versatile and low-cost single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance(SPR)sensing system with ultra-high resolution performance is presented.The system exhibits a root-mean-square phase fluctuation of ±0.0028.over a period of 45 min.i.e.a resolution of±5.2×10-9 refractive index units.The enhanced performance has been achieved through the incorporation of three design elements:a true single-beam configuration enabling complete self-referencing so that only the phase change associated with SPR gets detected,a differential measurement scheme to eliminate spurious signals not related to the sensor response,and the elimination of retardation drifts by incorporating temperature stabilization in the liquid crystal phase modulato .Our design should bring the detection sensitivity of non-labeling SPR biosensing closer to that achievable by conventional fluorescence-based techniques.     

Influences of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold of Ta2O5 films

Ta2O5 films are prepared on BK7 substrates with conventional electron beam evaporation deposition.The effects of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of the films are investigated.The results show that SiO2 protective layers exert little influence on the electric field intensity(EFI)distribution,microstructure and microdefect density but increase the absorption slightly.Annealing iS effective on decreasing the microdefect density and the absorption of the films.Both SiO2 protective layers and annealing are beneficial to the damage resistance of the films and the latter is more effective to improve the LIDT.Moreover,the maximal LIDT of Ta2O5 films is achieved by the combination of SiO2 protective layers and annealing.