High-speed electro-optic control of the optical quality factor of a silicon microcavity

We demonstrate electro-optic ultrafast control of the optical quality factor of an on-chip silicon microcavity. The micrometer-sized cavity is formed by light confinement between two microring resonators acting as frequency selective mirrors. The ring resonators are integrated into p-i-n junctions enabling ultrafast injection and extraction of carriers. We show tuning of the cavity quality factor from 20,000 to 6,000 in under 100 ps. We demonstrate both high-Q to low-Q and low-Q to high-Q transitions.     

基于公共环形腔耦合的光纤激光器相干合成技术

 为提高光纤激光器无源自调整相干合成阵列的效率、稳定性和可扩展性,提出了基于公共光纤环形腔耦合与单模光纤滤波的光纤激光器相干合成方案。将多个2×2的光纤耦合器分别插入各单元激光器的谐振腔,利用耦合器余下的端口,两两相连构成公共环形耦合腔。采用单模光纤滤波技术,提高了各输出激光束之间相位锁定的稳定性。利用该方案在实验上实现了三路光纤激光器的被动锁相输出,实验测得的远场干涉光斑、输出功率及光谱均表明该方案适于构建性能较好的光纤激光器相干合成阵列。     

Optical fiber ring resonator characterization by optical time-domain reflectometry

A novel method for characterization of optical fiber resonators by an optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) technique is reported. This easy-to-use technique yields accurate results for cavity lengths ranging from a few meters to several kilometers. A simple relationship is established between the round-trip cavity loss and the position where the OTDR signal is maximum. The value obtained for the round-trip cavity loss turns out to be quite insensitive to uncertainties in the determination of the OTDR maximum position.     

Fiber laser using a microsphere resonator as a feedback element

We show that a glass microsphere resonator can be used as a wavelength-selective mirror in fiber lasers. Due to their high quality factor (Q approximately 10(8)), microsphere resonators possess a narrow reflection bandwidth. This feature enables construction of single-frequency fiber lasers even when the laser cavity is long. Nonlinear effects (such as stimulated Raman lasing) were also observed in our setup at relatively low pump powers.     

Magnonic circuits and crystals

In the frame of the long-wavelength Heisenberg model, a simple magnonic mono-mode circuit is designed to obtain transmission stop (pass) bands where the propagation of spin waves is forbidden (allowed). This simple device is composed of an infinite one-dimensional monomode waveguide (the backbone) along which side resonators (symmetric or asymmetric loops) are grafted. These circuits are usually mono-mode when the lateral dimensions of the conducting wires are small as compared to the magnon wavelength. Their production utilizes the most advanced surface technologies and represents one of the most important challenges for the next decade. In all these circuits, the interfaces between the different wires out of which the circuits are made, play a fundamental role. All such circuits exhibit a variety of interference effects in their transport properties. Emphasis in this review article is placed on the network creations, which include stubs or resonators, closed symmetric or asymmetric loops and interconnecting branched networks. In other words, a fundamental understanding of nanoscaled materials has become an important challenge for any technical applications. For magnetic nanoparticles, the investigations are in particular stimulated by the magnetic storage devices. Then we present a theory of the magnon propagation in a quasi-one-dimensional resonant structure, composed of one nanometric magnetic cluster chain and adsorbed clusters near the chain. Results for the transmission and reflection properties of such circuits (nanometric networks) are discussed, as a function of the frequency of the excitations and the physical or geometrical properties of the circuits.In the last part of this report, we review magnonic crystals. These man-conceived materials should be useful for many applications and, in particular, for designing the mono-mode circuits reviewed in the first part of this paper.These magnonic materials and circuits may have uses for the design of integrated devices such as narrow-frequency optical or microwave filters, high-speed switches, multiplexers, storage devices, ….     

双微环谐振腔耦合的双波长半导体激光器（英）

提出一种新颖的单片集成双微环耦合的双波长半导体激光器结构。集成于激光腔内的2个微环谐振腔作为模式选择滤波器,通过游标效应选择谐振模式,同时还可作为等效的反射镜面以形成行波腔。这种无需解理的行波激光腔代替了需要解理面的法布里-珀罗驻波腔。理论仿真表明,跟驻波腔结构相比,行波腔双微环激光器结构简单,可获得约34 mA的较低的阈值电流和大于31 dB的边模抑制比。合理地控制有源区的增益峰值和谐振模式分布,该激光器能提供一致性和稳定性较好的双波长激光输出。     

High-frequency EPR applications of open nonradiative resonators

A new class of open single-mode cavities, the nonradiative (NR) resonators, has recently been proposed in order to overcome the limitations of standard cylindrical cavities and Fabry-Perot resonators at millimeter wavelengths. This paper presents the first applications of a NR resonator in W-band pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. It consists of a cylindrical cavity having a lateral aperture that represents about 35% of its total height. Electron-spin-echo measurements performed on different samples show that the signal-to-noise ratio and the optimal pulse length obtained with the proposed device are comparable to those obtained with the closed cavity used in the commercial W-band spectrometer, at both cryogenic and room temperature. Similar results have been obtained for paramagnetic species optically activated by means of an optical fiber inserted in the aperture of the resonator. The insertion losses estimated for the probe employed with the NR resonator are higher than those of the commercial probe, hence, demonstrating that the proposed cavity holds the promise of improved resonator performance.     

Influence of timing jitter on nonlinear dynamics of a photonic crystal fiber ring cavity

We demonstrate that timing jitter has a strong influence on supercontinua generated in a photonic crystal fiber ring cavity synchronously pumped by 140?fs pulses. The global dynamics with respect to cavity detuning is analyzed both numerically and experimentally by tracking the cavity pulse energy. The results show that low-frequency timing jitter, induced by both the pump oscillator and the external cavity, masks the fine underlying bifurcation structure of the system. Numerical simulations in the absence of timing jitter reveal that the system dynamics fall into four qualitatively different regimes. The existence of these regimes is experimentally observed in first-return diagrams.     

用于气体激光器的双T及行波微波谐振放电腔

提出并分析了两种用于微波泵浦气体激光器的微波谐振放电腔结构，一是双Ｔ谐振腔，一是行波共振腔。其特点是共振增强微波电场的场强和消除微波输入端的反射。特别是行波共振腔，由于消除了驻波状态，可以获得非常均匀的放电，这对改善激光器性能是非常重要的。     

双电极对双脉冲激光器结构分析

本文对双电极对双脉冲激光器的谐振腔结构进行了分析,结果表明采用双非稳腔和增大反射镜的曲率半径可分别获得单纵模和基横模输出。为使输出能量稳定,则双电极对的间距有一最小值的限制。     

束变换环孔激光谐振腔的设计与分析

分析了束变换环孔激光谐振腔的特点和优势,给出了这种复杂激光谐振腔的设计原理。对采用该方法设计的激光谐振腔空腔模式进行了计算和分析,并使用自行编写的三维光线追迹程序对这种腔的稳定性也进行了研究。结果表明这种谐振腔输出光场分布合理,相传均匀,远场分布接近衍射极限,并且这种腔对于扰动在一定范围内具有抑制能力,是一种研究价值很高的非稳腔。此外针对该腔提出的设计及模式计算方法对其他复杂腔型也具有一定的参考价值。     

Fabrication and packaging for high-Q CaF_2 crystalline resonators with modal modification

In this Letter, we demonstrate high-quality(Q), millimeter-size, and V-shaped calcium fluoride crystalline resonators for modal modification. To manufacture such resonators, we develop a home-made machining system and explore a detailed process. With a dedicated polished container, three special polishing steps, including grinding, smoothing, and polishing, are employed to achieve the required surface smoothness, which is characterized by less than 3 nm. An ultra-high-Q factor exceeding 108 is obtained by a coupled tapered fiber.In addition, a customized packaged structure for our disk resonator is achieved. The Q maintenance and stable spectrum are realized by sealing the coupling system in a hard disk. The simple, stable, portable, controlled, and integratable device would provide great potential in optical filters, sensors, nonlinear optics, cavity quantum electrodynamics, and especially some applications that require large resonators such as gyroscopes.     

Theoretical and experimental study on rare-eath element-doped silicon single-mode fiber laser with two different structures of resonators

Abstract: Laser resonator is very important in the study and fabrication of lasers. The work conditions and work parameters of rare-earth element-doped optical fiber lasers with two different structures of laser resonators, i. e., the fiber ring resonator and Fabry-Perot resonator are studied. The fineness, laser resonant conditions, laser oscillation conditions and threshold inversion of these two different cavity are deduced. A series of experiments are also given. The result is very valuable to evaluate the output of optical fiber laser and can be a foundation of device fabrication. The Nd~(3 )-doped silica single-mode fiber laser pumped by Ar~ laser with a low threshold of 1.02 mW and a maximum output of more than 1 mW are presented in this paper.     

后腔镜对掺Yb3+双包层光纤激光器性能影响的研究

采用自行研制的内包层为矩形的掺Yb^3 双包层石英光纤，以透射率不同的一组二向色镜为后腔镜构成了双包层光纤激光器。实验证明：后腔镜具有较高透射率为佳；后腔镜可以实现对激光波长的控制；激光斜率效率与后腔镜透射率之间的关系符合指数变化规律，在本实验的条件下，斜率效率的最大值约60％。     

Direct extraction of large quality factors and resonant frequencies from Padé interpolated resonance spectra

Extracting the quality factor and resonant frequency of photonic crystal resonators simulated using the finite-difference time-domain algorithm is investigated. The Padé interpolation method is applied to the resonance spectra, and closed form expressions for the quality factor and center frequency in terms of the coefficients in the Padé function are presented. The method is applied to simulations of the photonic crystal double heterostructure cavity.     

Ultralow-jitter passive timing stabilization of a mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser by injection of an optical pulse train

The pulse timing of a mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser was stabilized to a reference pulse train from a Cr:forsterite mode-locked laser by all-optical passive synchronization scheme. The reference pulses were injected into a ring cavity of the fiber laser by using a 1.3-1.5 mum wavelength-division multiplexer. The spectral shift induced by cross-phase modulation between copropagating two-color pulses realizes self-synchronization due to intracavity group-delay dispersion. The rms integration of timing jitter between the fiber laser pulse and the reference pulse was 3.7 fs in a Fourier frequency range from 1 Hz to 100 kHz.     

Influence of resonators on the acoustic and propulsion performance characteristics of a ramjet ejector chamber under conditions with vibration hydrogen combustion

The influence of acoustic resonators on the acoustic and propulsion performance characteristics of a ramjet ejector chamber under conditions with vibration hydrogen combustion was experimentally examined. In the study, resonators having identical throats and different cavity diameters were used. For fixed-volume resonators the best propulsion performance characteristics were achieved in the case in which the cavity diameter differed little from the resonator throat diameter.     

Sub-100-as timing jitter optical pulse trains from mode-locked Er-fiber lasers

We demonstrate sub-100-as timing jitter optical pulse trains generated from free-running, 77.6 MHz repetition-rate, mode-locked Er-fiber lasers. At -0.002(±0.001) ps2 net cavity dispersion, the rms timing jitter is 70 as (224 as) integrated from 10 kHz (1 kHz) to 38.8 MHz offset frequency, when measured by a 24 as resolution balanced optical cross correlator. To our knowledge, this result corresponds to the lowest rms timing jitter measured from any mode-locked fiber lasers so far. The measured result also agrees fairly well with the Namiki-Haus analytic model of quantum-limited timing jitter in stretched-pulse fiber lasers.     

双光力诱导透明窗口的可调特性

提出一个杂化腔光力系统理论方案,利用两纳米机械振子间的库仑耦合作用实现弱探测光的双光力诱导透明窗口.研究边带可分辨区域和红失谐情况下双光力诱导透明窗口的可调特性.数值计算表明:两纳米振子间的库仑作用可有效地使单光力诱导透明窗口劈裂为双透明窗口.随着库仑耦合强度的增大,两透明窗口间的距离对称性地拉大;其次,光力腔衰减率的改变对两透明窗口的位置和深度无影响,仅对两透明窗口的宽度产生细微改变,测量精度可在坏腔情形下得到很好的保持;另外,仅增加参量放大器的非线性增益参量将使两透明窗口变宽,而引入驱动参量放大器的光场相位,利用相位匹配可以产生比空腔情形更加狭窄陡峭的双透明窗口,可用于比空腔情况更加精密的测量.     

Fiber lasers with hybrid birefringence resonators

We propose the combination of low- and high-birefringence fibers (Low-Bi and Hi-Bi, respectively) to form a hybrid birefringence resonator. The transmission characteristics as a function of different parameters for the fibers used within these hybrid resonators are obtained by means of Jones matrix analysis. This yields information on fiber laser features such as polarization mode-beating frequencies (PMB), which are used as readout for polarimetric sensors. We compare theoretical predictions with experimental results on the dependence of PMB frequencies as a function of wavelength and effective birefringence of the laser cavity. Applications of this hybrid fiber laser arrangement for polarimetric sensors and wavelength monitoring through PMB frequencies are also discussed. The results provide a simple way for optimizing fiber laser parameters and increase the sensitivity of PMB signals to wavelength variations.