基于液晶可调谐滤波技术的动态增益均衡器研究

提出了一种基于液晶技术的新型可调谐滤波器结构,详细介绍了这种新型液晶可调谐滤波器的结构及其工作原理,用琼斯矩阵法推导出其光传输矩阵,得出了其光透过率表达式,并在数值上进行了仿真,得出了其幅度与相位的调制特性.同时分析了采用这种液晶可调谐滤波器八级级联组成动态增益均衡器的遗传算法优化仿真结果.利用优化得出的参数值,对该动态增益均衡器进行了实验,得出了DGE完整的光增益透过谱,实验结果与理论分析相吻合.     

染料掺杂液晶可调谐光纤荧光光源的研究

本文提出了染料掺杂液晶填充空心光纤构造荧光可调谐光源.基于染料分子能级结构理论分析B4400荧光光谱依赖温度的变化特性,采用脉宽8 ns,波长为532 nm YAG倍频脉冲激光器抽运,向列相液晶作基体,实验分析染料B4400掺杂液晶填充空心光纤荧光光谱选择性荧光放大规律及温度调谐特性.结果表明:通过控制染料浓度可控制荧光输出功率水平;当温度升高时,中心波长发生红移,中心波长调谐范围为590—605 nm;荧光谱宽呈单调展宽,调制范围为228—236 nm;染料掺杂液晶填充空心光纤荧光光源可实现一定范围内的温度调谐.     

Analysis of tunable codirectional vertical couplers with liquid crystal overlays for integrated dye lasers

We propose a guided-wave dye laser using a grating-assisted codirectional vertical coupler as an intracavity tunable filter. A liquid crystal overlay is designed to attain a phase-matching wavelength shift in the vertical coupler and a tunable range of over 60 nm is calculated at a center wavelength of 590 nm with a coupling efficiency of more than –1 dB. The tunable range is limited by the coupling length mismatch rather than by the refractive index variation in the liquid crystal overlay. Sidelobe level in the filter response is increased when the phase-matching wavelength is shifted to the long-wavelength side; nevertheless, the weighted coupling keeps the sidelobe-suppression ratio at more than 30 dB over a spectral span of 100 nm.     

基于液晶可调滤光片的广角多光谱成像光学系统设计

基于液晶可调滤光片(Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter,LCTF)的分光原理,设计一种工作谱段为400~720nm,焦距4.5mm,视场角140°,F数为1.28的广角多光谱成像光学系统。该光学系统由前端光学镜头、LCTF和成像镜头组成,其中前端光学系统镜头将入射光束进行扩束,同时将入射光束的广角视场缩小至LCTF可接收角度范围内;LCTF利用液晶材料的电控双折射效应,实现对某一波长光信号的选择透过。根据多光谱成像系统的总体方案,对光学系统的各光学参数进行合理选取。设计结果表明,整个系统在120lp/mm的空间频率处轴上及轴外的调制传递函数MTF均大于0.4。     

多通道扫描型红外光纤气体测量系统研究

提出了一种将声光可调滤光器技术应用于气体浓度测量的红外光谱系统。该系统以氙灯作为光源,TeO2晶体作为声光介质的色散元件,InGaAs光电二极管阵列作为多通道检测器,利用光纤探测和传输光信号,由计算机处理数据和显示结果。通过声光调制将宽带光变为单色光,通过超声射频的变化实现光谱扫描,可对不同气体进行快速测量,无机械调谐机构,结构简单。通过对甲烷气体的实验表明,该系统的有效光谱测量范围为900~1900nm,光谱分辨率为60nm,可用于对有害气体的在线检测。     

一维液晶光子晶体透射谱的研究

一维液晶光子晶体在光滤波器、低阈值激光器和光开关等领域有着很好的应用前景。研究了一维液晶光子晶体的透射谱,电压范围在0～10V内,光谱调谐范围约为50nm,透射峰半高宽为18nm,禁带宽度近400nm。进一步提出了非偏振光型液晶光子晶体,设计了相互垂直0°扭曲取向的双液晶层一维液晶光子晶体器件。双液晶层起到了对各向偏振光光程的补偿作用,使得禁带中的两个透射峰合并为一个透射峰,加强了光强度,增强了滤波性能。     

基于高双折射光子晶体光纤与光纤环的超宽带可调谐微波光子滤波器

提出一种基于高双折射光子晶体光纤与光纤环的超宽带可调谐微波光子滤波器.以多波长光纤激光器作为光源,向高双折射光子晶体光纤内填充温敏液体,通过改变填充温敏液体的温度,高双折射光子晶体光纤可具有不同的双折射,得到不同波长间隔的激光,从而使微波光子滤波器具有不同的自由频谱范围.当温度的变化范围为20~80℃时,仿真测得微波光子滤波器自由频谱的变化范围为2.49~39.9GHz.引入光纤环构建级联型微波光子滤波器,滤波器的主旁瓣抑制比可提高到33.6dB,Q值可达到499,提高了滤波器的频率选择性.     

铁电液晶缺陷光子晶体调谐滤波器的设计

将铁电液晶作为缺陷层引入一维光子晶体中,用电场改变液晶分子的取向,形成光子晶体快速可调谐滤波器.用传输矩阵法研究了铁电液晶缺陷光子晶体的可调谐滤波特性,计算了电压和液晶材料参量对滤波器透射谱的影响.结果表明:改变电压能容易改变光子晶体滤波器透射峰的位置、强度、个数和带宽,实现良好的调谐滤波功能.     

Optimization of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification with different pump wavelengths

Optical parametric chirped pulse amplification with different pump wavelengths was investigated using LBO crystal, at signal central wavelength of 800 nm. According to our theoretical simulation, when pump wavelength is 492.5 nm, there is a maximal gain bandwidth of 190 nm centered at 805 nm in optimal noncollinear angle using LBO. Presently, pump wavelength of 492.5 nm can be obtained from second harmonic generation of a Yb:Sr₅(PO₄)₃F laser. The broad gain bandwidth can completely support ∼6 fs with a spectral centre of seed pulse at 800 nm. The deviation from optimal noncollinear angle can be compensated by accurately tuning crystal angle for phase matching. The gain spectrum with pump wavelength of 492.5 nm is much better than those with pump wavelengths of 400, 526.5 and 532 nm, at signal centre of 800 nm.     

Research on temperature characteristics of liquid crystal filter

The effect of temperature on the spectrum characteristic of the liquid crystal filter in the region of visible light was investigated theoretically and experimentally in detail. The conclusion shows that with the increasing temperature, the center wavelength of the filter will shift toward the short wavelength, and the center wavelength of the filter will shift toward long wavelength as the temperature decreases. The result of numerical simulation is in excellent agreement with the experiment result. In addition, the experiment results indicate that with the increasing temperature and reducing wavelength the transmittance of liquid crystal filter will reduce. According to the above conclusion we propose a new structure for maintaining a stable central wavelength output of the liquid crystal filter with the changing temperature, and it does not require temperature control equipment, is easy to operate, and has no need to look for special temperature coefficient birefringence, etc. This structure may find a certain application for liquid crystal filter as we believe, particularly, in the condition of different environment temperature.     

The ultra narrow-band fiber grating filter

In this paper, we propose an ultra narrow band fiber grating filter which is composed of two optical circulators and two fiber Bragg gratings (FBG). Through numerical simulation and experiment investigation, a narrow-band output spectrum with 1064 nm center wavelength and 0.017 nm bandwidth is obtained. It may find a certain application in the fields of free space optic communication, laser tuning and so on as we believe.     

A reconfigurable multiwavelength fiber laser with switchable wavelength channels and tunable wavelength spacing

We report the experimental demonstration of a reconfigurable multiwavelength fiber laser source with switchable wavelength channels and tunable wavelength spacing by spectrum slicing a broadband light source using a tunable comb filter. The tunable comb filter is based on a thermally-induced linearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating (LCFBG). As an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, two wavelength channels with various wavelength spacings and eight wavelength channels with ∼1.6 nm wavelength spacing were experimentally demonstrated. All the wavelength channels have rejection ratios of greater than 20 dB, and very small 3-dB linewidths of ∼10 pm. The multiwavelength optical source has such unique advantages as simple all-fiber structure, switchable wavelength channels, tunable wavelength spacing, very narrow linewidths, and stable room-temperature operation.     

中药吸收光谱测量系统的设计

本文设计的光谱测量系统是一种在可见光波段对样品进行非接触式快速连续光谱测试的装置。系统采用可调液晶滤光片和面阵接收器件实现光谱成像,并对样品的透射光信息进行采集存储处理后,得出样品的吸收光谱,为中药材质量及药性检测提供一种方法。待测样品只需简单的物理方法将其磨成粉末或切成薄片,可使中药在原生态下重复进行无损检测。实验结果表明:在可见光波段,该系统可以根据药材的吸收光谱曲线区分出西洋参、黄连、黄柏、延胡索、黄皮与小檗碱六种样品的种类。     

Dispersion optimization of slow light in slotted photonic crystal waveguide by selective air holes infiltration

This work proposed a methodology based on the liquid infiltration of slotted photonic crystal waveguide (SPCW). By choosing the refractive index that infiltrated in the first and second rows of air holes adjacent to the slot, respectively, SPCW was optimized to possess wideband slow light with large group index and low dispersion. The properties of SPCW were numerically simulated by plane wave expansion (PWE) method and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Simulation results showed that the designed SPCW could control the group index for the same SPCW with the nearly constant group index of 50, 68, 81, 150, and 200 over 7.5 nm, 5.5 nm, 3.1 nm, 1.65 nm, and 1.15 nm. In addition, we demonstrated that this post-fabrication liquid infiltrated technology has the potential for realizing reconfigurable and tunable SPCW, in which the flexible wavelength range of SPCW can also be controlled by different liquid infiltration.     

Tunable microwave photonic notch filter using a dual-wavelength fiber laser with phase modulation

A novel tunable microwave photonic notch filter using a phase-modulated dual-wavelength fiber laser is presented. A stable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with a linear cavity is formed by a polarization-maintaining uniform fiber Bragg grating (PM-FBG) and a polarization maintaining linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (PM-LCFBG), both of which were fabricated on a high-birefringence (Hi-Bi) fiber. It is found that a stable room-temperature dual-wavelength operation can be achieved due to the presence of two reflection peaks arising from the orthogonal states of polarization (SOP) of the PM-FBG. Experimental results show stable dual-wavelength lasing operation with a wavelength separation of ∼0.36 nm and a large optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) of over 40 dB under room temperature. The dual-wavelength fiber laser is combined with a phase modulator and a segment of single-mode fiber (SMF) as a dispersive device to form a tunable microwave photonic notch filter. By stretching the PM-FBG to tune the wavelength separation of the dual-wavelength fiber laser, a tunable microwave photonic notch filter with various free spectral ranges (FSRs) and a rejection ratio greater than 35 dB was developed.     

Tunable second harmonic generation by phase-modulated ultrashort laser pulses

We report on the generation of tunable light around 400?nm by frequency-doubling ultrashort laser pulses whose spectral phase is modulated by a sum of sinusoidal functions. The linewidth of the ultraviolet band produced is narrower than 1?nm, in contrast to the 12?nm linewidth of the non-modulated incident spectrum. The influence of pixellation of the liquid crystal spatial light modulator on the efficiency of the phase-modulated second harmonic generation is discussed.     

An experimental investigation of the gain spectrum of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers under various system configurations

The paper presents an experimental investigation of the gain spectrum of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) considering different system configurations, which include single-pass, double-pass, and double-pass with tunable band-pass filter (TBF). The role of TBF is to suppress the undesired amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). Both co- and counter-pumping schemes are considered with a 1480 nm laser diode as the pump and a suitable tunable laser source as the signal source. The results indicate that the signal achieves an average of 14 dB higher gain in the case of double-pass amplification with the implementation of a TBF. However, the pumping scheme hardly becomes of much importance in influencing the gain characteristics.     

基于液晶缺陷层的一维可调谐光子晶体滤波器研究

从液晶连续体理论出发,用数值方法分析了以向列相液晶为缺陷层的Si/SiO2一维光子晶体滤波器的调谐原理和调谐量与外场的关系.确定出一种滤波带宽小、调谐范围大的滤波器的结构参量.模拟计算结果显示,该滤波器在外加电压为0.955~5 V时的调谐范围为1 600.6~1 499.8 nm,调谐量达到100.8 nm,完全覆盖了C波段,以及S波段和L波段的绝大部分区域.在整个调谐范围内,其3 dB带宽在0.074~0.090 nm之间,带宽的差异小于17.8%.     

C-band three-port tunable band-pass thin film optical filter with low polarization-sensitivity

According to the oblique incidence characteristics of thin film narrowband filter, the stack of 100 GHz DWDM four cavities angle-tuned thin film filter has been designed and optimized. The two polarization modes’ central wavelengths of the thin film filter can be centered at the same one in oblique incidence, and it has a stable tuning range of 20 nm without the phenomenon of polarization central wavelength separation. Using this kind of angle-tuned thin film filter and the polarization beam-splitters, the tuning range of the angle-tuned thin film filter can be further expanded due to the reason that it can transmit only the s-polarization light. In this paper we also developed a three-port bandpass tunable filter device with new structure, which tuning range can cover the whole C-band and its adjacent channel isolation degree is high. The experiments show that the three-port tunable filter has an effective tuning range of 33 nm, and its adjacent channel isolation degree is more than 35 dB. It has a bright application opportunity for its flexibility and effective performance.     

Free-spectral range tunable Fabry-Perot filter with superimposed fiber Bragg gratings

A novel free-spectral range (FSR) tunable Fabry-Perot filter (FPF) with two superimposed fiber Bragg gratings (SFBGs) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The SFBGs, initially uniform in period with slightly different Bragg wavelengths, were glued onto the lateral surface of a specially-designed cantilever beam and linearly chirped by beam bending-induced strain gradient. As a result, their reflection bands overlap and a grating-based FPF with a tunable FSR is formed. A continuously tunable FSR of 0.1-0.5 nm has been achieved in the experiment.