Comprehensive research on self phase modulation based optical delay systems

This paper comprehensively investigates the properties of self phase modulation based optical delay systems consisting of dispersion compensation fibre and highly nonlinear fibres.It researches into the impacts of power level launched into highly nonlinear fibres,conversion wavelength,dispersion slope,modulation format and optical filter bandwidth on the overall performance of optical delay systems.The results reveal that,if the power launched into highly nonlinear fibres is fixed,the time delay generally varies linearly with the conversion wavelength,but jumps intermittently at some conversion wavelengths.However,the time delay varies semi-periodically with the power launched into highly nonlinear fibres.The dispersion slope of highly nonlinear fibres has significant influence on the time delay,especially for the negative dispersion slope.The time delay differs with modulation formats due to the different combined interaction of nonlinearity and dispersion in fibres.The bandwidth of the optical filters also greatly affects the time delay because it determines the bandwidth of the passed signal in the self phase modulation based time delay systems.The output signal quality of the overall time delay systems depends on the conversion wavelength and input power level.The optimisation of the power level and conversion wavelength to provide the best output signal quality is made at the end of this paper.     

星间微波光子链路调制方式的优化

针对外调制星间微波光子链路输出信噪比优化问题,建立了基于双电极马赫 曾德尔调制器的强度调制直接探测星间微波光子链路模型,通过优化调制器调制方式来提高链路性能。用数值模拟方法得到了单边带、双边带和推挽式3种调制方式下链路输出信噪比,利用曲面投影法求得了最优调制方式时一定信噪比要求下发射端所需最小光放大器增益和对应的调制器直流偏置相位。结果表明:相同输入射频信号功率和发射光功率情况下,双边带调制输出信噪比比单边带调制高3 dB,低直流偏置相位推挽调制可以进一步优化输出信噪比。输入射频信号功率为-20 dBm,输出信噪比为17.3 dB时,所需最小光放大器增益为43.9 dB,对应的直流偏置相位为0.87。     

基于双光导纤维延时法测量光速

介绍了利用光波在已知长度差的两段不同长度的光导纤维中传输时间延时差测量光速的基本原理。时钟方波信号通过LED调制电路转变为光信号在一段光导纤维中传输,后经SPD再生电路重新转变为方波再生信号,将原始方波信号与再生方波信号同时输入示波器中测量延时τ1,采用相同的方法测量另一端光导纤维传输延时τ2,通过已知的长度差和延时计算出光导纤维中的光速VZ,最终计算出光速c。     

频域反射法光纤延时精密测量

本文提出了一种应用于光纤延时系统中实现光纤延时精密测量的新方法,用以提高光纤延时测量的精度和准确性.该方法以1064 nm激光调制信号作为光源,通过测量回波信号的幅值和相位信息得到被测通道的频率响应,采用快速傅里叶逆变换得到被测目标的延时信息,实现光纤延时测量.本文通过理论分析和延时测量实验对频域反射法与传统的时域测量方法进行对比,使用频域反射法在调制频率范围10—200 MHz,采样频率间隔0.5 MHz的实验条件下,实现了3.3 ps延时测量分辨率,并证明了该方法具有比时域方法更高的测量精度,测量结果的准确性更好.     

电光调制在被动综合孔径成像探测中的应用

介绍了一种新型被动综合孔径成像探测方法:视场辐射信号被接收和放大后,通过电光幅度调制将其幅度和相位信息加载到光波上,经光纤传输在末端形成阵列,通过光学系统直接成像,将视场实时恢复出来.该方法可实现工作在微波、毫米波和太赫兹波段的高分辨力实时成像探测的目的.深入分析了电光调制器在综合孔径成像探测中的应用,建立电光调制模型,讨论了在小信号调制下的电光幅度调制近似理论.通过数值计算与仿真分析,得到综合孔径成像探测中电光调制器的调制信号强度限制的有关结论.结果表明,利用上变频电光调制技术和光信息处理,所得到的成像仿真图的半峰全宽和信噪比性能都优于传统的基于下变频技术的成像仿真结果.     

Coherent noise compensation in Spectral-Domain optical coherence tomography

An efficient technique for the separation of and compensation for coherent noise in spectral optical coherence tomography with parallel spectrum detection is proposed and validated. The coherent noise is separated during one exposure by modulating the mutual delay of the signal and reference waves by a certain law. It is shown that the influence of internal motions in an object on the quality of the coherent noise separation can be reduced by the modulation frequency increasing. The technique has been numerically and experimentally validated with the help of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) setup with a radiation source operating at a wavelength of 1277 nm and a width of the recorded spectrum of about 100 nm.     

基于微机电系统红外光源的长光程气体检测

针对红外气体传感器对光源的要求,选用了一种宽波长、高调制频率、低功耗的小体积微机电系统(micro-electro-mechanic system, MEMS)红外光源作为辐射源,其各项性能均能很好的满足红外传感系统对于光源的要求。由于其面光源的朗伯辐射特性,整形之后的红外光数值孔径仍然很大,采用传统的长光程气室结构很难实现长光程从而提高系统的检测灵敏度。本文结合双波长单光路的差分检测方法,设计了一种基于积分球特性的吸收气室,有效地解决了MEMS红外光源在高灵敏度气体检测应用中难于实现长光程的问题;并运用光在传输过程中光通量守恒的原理,推导了此积分球吸收气室的等效光程,解决了积分球气室等效光程计算的难题;同时采用FPGA主控芯片对MEMS红外光源进行高频调制并处理探测器的输出信号,使得外围电路的设计更加简单、灵活。设计中,使用直径为5 cm的积分球吸收气室便可实现166.7 cm的等效光程,研究结果显示系统可测得的最小甲烷浓度达0.001×10-6,极大地提高了红外检测系统的灵敏度。     

信号光的调制对基于光纤光参量放大光脉冲源的改善

在理论上从四波混频的强度耦合方程出发,给出了基于光纤光参量放大(FOPA)光脉冲的光场表达式,并进一步分析了信号光被相位调制或强度调制后,光脉冲的频率啁啾和强度演化.结论指出：若信号光被强度调制,对所生成脉冲宽度无明显的影响,但可以提高消光比;若信号光被相位调制,所生成的脉冲具有更大的线性正啁啾,可以在相同的抽运功率条件下得到比无相位调制时更窄的脉冲.实验上给出了10 GHz工作速率下的结果,其结果与理论分析符合得很好.通过信号光的相位调制,在05 W平均抽运功率条件下得到了消光比22 dB,脉宽为5 关键词： 光纤参量放大 四波混频 光脉冲源 频率啁啾     

铁电液晶光寻址空间光调制器性能分析

针对氢化非晶硅/铝/铁电液晶结构的光寻址空间光调制器（OASLM）,依据其等效电路模型,利用Pspice和Matlab软件对其分辨率、响应速度、对比度及灰度响应等性能进行了分析。结果表明:在铁电液晶（FLC）层厚度一定的情况下,减小光敏感层（a-Si:H层）的厚度可以提高FLC-OASLM的调制传递函数,从而提高分辨率;在其他参量一定的情况下,FLC-OASLM的响应速度随写入光光强增大而增大（写入光从0.08 mW/cm2增大到10 mW/cm2,延迟时间减小110 s,上升时间减小154 s）,随擦除光光强增大而减小（擦除光从0增大到1 mW/cm2,延迟时间增大41 s,上升时间仅增加3 s）;FLC-OASLM的对比度随控制光光强增大而增大,最终趋于一个稳定值21∶1;在其他参量不变时,随着擦除光光强的增大,输出光响应呈现等级下降,且发现当擦除光光强达到一定值（3 mW/cm2）后,擦除光的改变主要影响下降时间而对上升时间几乎无影响;合理设计激励源信号波形,可以得到超过十级灰度输出,表明擦除光具有实现FLC OASLM的灰度响应的功能。     

Polarization effects at collinear acousto-optic interaction

Collinear acousto-optic diffraction of an arbitrarily polarized optical radiation is studied theoretically and experimentally. It is shown that in the general case the diffracted light spectrum at the acousto-optic cell output consists of four components with different frequencies and polarizations. Beatings of these components lead to intensity modulation of the light passed through an output analyzer. Dependences of output intensity components on ultrasound frequency and acoustic power are examined for different orientations of the polarizer and the analyzer. Experimental investigations are carried out with a collinear acousto-optic cell fabricated with calcium molybdate single crystal.     

Interference method of measuring the extinction coefficient of birefringent optical fibers

The extinction coefficient of a birefringent optical fiber (the ratio between the radiation power output of the polarization mode and the radiation power transferred from this mode to another one) characterizes the capability of a birefringent fiber to retain the polarization state of the radiation. In relatively short birefringent fibers (1–100 m), the extinction coefficient may reach 10⁴–10⁶. Such high values of the extinction coefficient are difficult to measure by standard techniques (excitation of one polarization mode by an incoherent source with subsequent recording of the light intensity at the output of the analyzer). An interference method of measuring the extinction coefficient of birefringent fibers is suggested. It is based on using a coherent source and measuring interference oscillations caused by an additional phase modulation at the input of the fiber. This method does not require precise polarization matching between the laser source and fiber and considerably loosens requirements for the polarizer-analyzer extinction and resolution of the photodetector. As a result, using simple standard components (semiconductor laser, film polarizer, and photodetector), one can measure extinction coefficient as high as 10⁶. The suggested interference method of measuring the extinction coefficient of birefringent fibers receives a theoretical analysis, and experimental data obtained for 2- to 1000-m-long fibers are presented.     

Investigation of high-speed optical FSK generation scheme based on carrier suppression and phase modulation

We propose and numerically investigate a novel high-speed (40-Gb/s and above) optical frequency shift-keying (FSK) transmitter scheme. By optical carrier-suppressed modulation and differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK) to intensity modulation (IM) conversion, only one light source is needed in the proposed scheme to generate high-speed optical FSK signals. By using a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) as phase modulator and an additional delay interferometer (DI) cascaded after the carrier-suppressed MZM to suppress the remaining carrier, the performance of our scheme can compete with the double-light-source counterparts. The transmission performances of the FSK signal generated with the proposed scheme as well as detuning and bandwidth tolerance of the demodulation filter are also carefully investigated. Simulation results show that the proposed FSK generation scheme is very suitable for the next-generation optical access network and optical label switching network. A potential application of our scheme in high-speed passive optical network is proposed.     

Intensity modulation in single-mode microchip Nd：YAG lasers with asymmetric external cavity

Intensity modulation induced by the asymmetric external cavity in single-mode microchip Nd:YAG lasers is presented. Two kinds of experimental results are discussed based on multiple feedback effects. In one case, the intensity modulation curve is a normal sine wave, whose fringe frequency is four times higher than that of a conventional optical feedback system, caused by multiple feedback effects. In the other case, the intensity modulation curve is the overlapping of the above quadruple-frequency signal and conventional optical feedback signal, which is determined by the additional phase difference induced by the asymmetric external cavity. The theoretical analyses are in good agreement with the experimental results. The quadruple-frequency modulation of the laser output intensity can greatly increase the resolution of displacement measurement of an optical feedback system.     

室内可见光无载波幅度相位调制系统性能分析

针对室内可见光通信调制技术问题,提出翻转光无载波幅度相位调制和单极性光无载波幅度相位调制两种功率有效的调制方案,二者分别采用"正、负模块极性分组"以及"零值位置极性编码"方法实现信号单极性处理,以满足可见光通信"强度调制/直接检测"的要求.基于朗伯辐射模型,考虑到高斯背景光噪声的可见光直射传输信道,推导了包括直流偏置光无载波幅度相位调制在内的三种调制方案的误比特率闭式表达式,仿真验证了其准确性.在此基础上,分析比较了三者频带利用率,讨论了信道参量对光无载波幅度相位调制系统误码性能的影响,结果表明,在5m×5m×3m的室内场景下,与发射机辐射角为30°和45°相比,0°时的系统误码性能分别优于6.9dB和29.9dB;收发机距离为1m时,误码性能比2m时改善近12dB.     

基于综合光学调制技术的光纤无线双向通信系统设计

提出并研究了一种使用单光源的光纤无线双向传输系统.该系统只需在中心站配置一个可调谐激光器,以产生频率恒定的激光光源,通过综合光学调制（频率调制、强度调制）技术将基带信号调制到光载波上,最终形成60 GHz毫米波下行信号|同时,相同的光载波在基站被重用,作为上行链路传输光源.系统结合光载波重用技术和综合调制技术特点,合理利用资源,基站结构更为简化.仿真结果表明,该系统可以将速率达2.5 Gbit/s的数据在单模光纤中双向传输20 km,功率代价小于0.5 dB,相对已有的技术方案,该传输系统在传输功率、传输距离、传输性能方面具有明显优势.     

基于多波长激光器的带通微波光子滤波器设计

提出了一种基于多波长光纤激光器的可调谐的带通微波光子滤波器。它以可调谐多波长光纤激光器作为光源,将相位调制器和色散器件相结合,通过在普通单模光纤中相位调制到强度调制的转换效应消除了低频谐振峰实现了带通微波光子滤波器。利用双折射光纤环镜输出谱中的一个窗口对多波长激光信号频谱进行加窗处理,使微波光子滤波器的边瓣抑制比提高了约11dB。通过调节多波长光纤激光器中的偏振控制器可以使输出多波长激光信号的相邻波长间隔得到调节,从而结合普通单模光纤的色散延时作用可以使微波光子滤波器的通带中心频率在7.66GHz范围内调谐。     

利用电光强度调制器频移特性实现可调延迟

针对光纤通信系统中数据同步处理时对脉冲可调延迟的要求,提出了一种可调延迟器的结构设计方案。对电光强度调制器(EOIM)的光频移特性进行了研究,基于EOIM对各级边带和强度的调制作用,利用EOIM对受激布里渊散射慢光装置中的泵浦光进行强度调节,从而实现延迟量可调。建立了可调延迟的数学模型,通过实验研究分别得出了在一定微波调制功率下EOIM调制深度和直流偏置电压随脉冲延迟量的变化关系。从实验结果中可以看出:在引起失真的主要因素为零的情况下,当直流偏置电压为半波电压的1/2时,脉冲相对群延迟随调制深度的增大逐渐减小;当调制深度为1.39时,脉冲相对群延迟随直流偏置电压的增大逐渐增大,延迟量最大可达到未调制情况下的1.106倍,实现了较大范围的延迟量调节。     

High accuracy ranging with Yb-doped fiber-ring frequency-shifted feedback laser with phase-modulated seed

This paper demonstrates that a frequency-shifted feedback laser, when seeded by a phase-modulated narrow-band radiation field, is a powerful tool for distance measurements to accuracy better than 10 μm and resolution better than 100 μm, for distances of a few meters. In such measurements the unknown distance forms one arm of a Michelson interferometer, in which the intensity of the output signal is modulated at the phase-modulation frequency of the seed. The amplitude of the output-signal modulation exhibits a resonance for every distinct signal delay, i.e. for each distinct distance within the laser spot on the target. The use of a phase-modulated input seed allows one to use a very narrow-bandwidth filter when measuring the return signal. The results reported in this paper are in excellent agreement with previous theoretical predictions [L. Yatsenko et al., Opt. Commun. 242 (2004) 581] for the resolution limit and high signal-to-noise ratio for this new technique.     

基于相位调制和线性滤波的多信道多功能光学微分器

多功能微分器可以满足光计算和光信号处理中的多种需求, 增强灵活性. 本文从理论上推导了一种基于相位调制和线性滤波的多功能光学微分器. 并在实验中, 将传输谱线近似为线性的光纤延时干涉仪(DI)和相位调制器级联, 得到了输入信号的两种微分结果. 通过调节DI的驱动电压调节其传输谱的漂移, 当光载波位于DI的传输谱线的谷值, 则获得信号的光场微分, 当光载波位于DI传输谱的线性斜率处, 则得到输入信号的光强微分. 通过分析各种微分的平均误差, 发现DI的线性度越高, 平均误差越小. 同时基于DI传输谱线的梳状特性,证实了多信道信号的同时微分.