Surface corrugation Bragg gratings on optical fiber tapers created via plasma etch postprocessing

We describe a reflection-based fiber filter fabricated by plasma etching a surface corrugation Bragg grating on a tapered single-mode fiber. The taper waist with the grating forms the functional part of the filter, and the adiabatic taper transition removes unwanted higher-order modes. The spectral response is controlled by varying the taper diameter while maintaining a constant grating period. Reflection spectra have been investigated theoretically and experimentally and found to be in good agreement.     

正弦锥光纤光栅的数值计算分析

本文利用耦合模方程对正弦锥光纤光栅的反射谱进行了较为详细的计算和分析,发现,这种光纤光栅的反射谱与普通均匀周期光栅的反射谱有着很大的不同,通过控制光栅锥的形状,可得到类似于梳状滤波器的功能,对这种新型光栅在光纤激光器等方面的应用有指导意义。     

一种新型的Tapered光纤光栅

利用耦合模方程对正弦型Ｔａｐｅｒｅｄ光纤光栅的反射谱进行了较为详细的计算和分析,并从实验上进行了验证。利用叠加均匀周期光纤光栅的模板和周期性振幅光栏一次成栅的方法,获得了具有三个反射峰、中心波长间隔为０．８ｎｍ的Ｔａｐｅｒｅｄ光纤光栅,这种光栅具有类似于梳状滤波器的功能,在多波长光纤激光器等方面有重要应用。     

拉锥型啁啾光纤光栅滤波器的研究

本文主要对拉锥型啁啾光纤光栅滤波器进行详细的理论分析和实验研究. 结合传输矩阵法, 谐振理论和耦合模理论, 深入细致地分析了啁啾光纤光栅自身参数 (光栅长度, 折射率调制幅度, 啁啾系数), 拉锥参数和锥区损耗对拉锥型啁啾光纤光栅滤波器透射谱的影响, 并研究拉锥对啁啾光纤光栅各波长反射率影响. 在此基础之上进行相应的数值仿真及实验验证, 数值仿真与实验结果基本一致. 关键词： 光栅拉锥 啁啾光栅 传输矩阵法 滤波器     

Active Q switching of a fiber laser with a microsphere resonator

We propose and demonstrate an active Q-switched fiber laser using a high-Q microsphere resonator as the Q-switching element. The laser cavity consists of an Er-doped fiber as the gain medium, a glass microsphere reflector (coupled through a fiber taper) at one end of the cavity, and a fiber Bragg grating reflector at the other end. The reflectivity of the microsphere is modulated by changing the gap between the microsphere and the fiber taper. Active Q switching is realized by oscillating the microsphere in and out of contact with the taper. Using this novel technique, we have obtained giant pulses (maximum peak power approximately 102 W, duration approximately 160 ns) at a low pump-power threshold (approximately 3 mW).     

非对称熔锥法制作光纤光栅辅助耦合器型上下话路滤波器

通过在失配光纤消逝场间的耦合作用中引入光栅调制扰动效应，推导出用于解释光栅辅助耦合器响应特征的耦合模方程，在此基础上全面分析了两光纤间的失配度对上下话路滤波性能的影响.采用非对称熔融预拉锥工艺，调整光纤的结构参数，制成了性能良好的光栅辅助耦合器，实验测试结果与理论计算符合得很好. 关键词： 光纤光栅 光纤耦合器 上下话路滤波器 熔融预拉锥     

Optical inclinometer based on a single long-period fiber grating combined with a fused taper

A new concept to measure rotation angles based on a fiber-optic modal Mach-Zehnder interferometer is demonstrated by using a nonadiabatic taper cascaded with a long-period fiber grating. Information about the magnitude of the rotation angle can be obtained from the measurement of the interference pattern visibility, and under certain conditions it is also possible to obtain the sign of the rotation angle from the induced phase variation in the fiber interferometer.     

Multimode fiber devices with single-mode performance

A taper transition can couple light between a multimode fiber and several single-mode fibers. If the number of single-mode fibers matches the number of spatial modes in the multimode fiber, the transition can have low loss in both directions. This enables the high performance of single-mode fiber devices to be attained in multimode fibers. We report an experimental proof of concept by using photonic crystal fiber techniques to make the transitions, demonstrating a multimode fiber filter with the transmission spectrum of a single-mode fiber grating.     

Characteristics of Fused Optical Fiber Grating Couplers with Tapered Shapes

Fused optical fiber grating couplers (FGCs), in which Bragg gratings are written in the coupling regions of fused optical fiber couplers with tapered shapes along them are theoretically and experimentally investigated. By coupled mode analysis considering these tapered shapes, the drop efficiencies of the FGCs, which are inherently zero for the normal fiber couplers without grating, are calculated. The grating offset, which is the difference between the centers of grating and the coupler taper, is found to be effective to increase the drop efficiency of the FGC. It is determined that the tapered shapes influence the wavelength dependence of the drop efficiency and tolerate the grating offset precision. Apodizations for the grating of FGC are found to be effective in suppressing side lobes of the drop efficiency. Measurement of the wavelength characteristics of drop efficiency and the temperature characteristics of drop wavelength of the fabricated fused FGC confirm that the lightwave with specific wavelength can be dropped by the FGC and that the temperature dependence of the drop wavelength is similar to that of Bragg wavelength changes of usual fiber Bragg gratings.     

High sensitivity Mach–Zehnder interferometer sensors based on concatenated ultra-abrupt tapers on thinned fibers

This study proposes a simple, cost-effective method to fabricate fiber-based Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) sensors by concatenating two ultra-abrupt fiber tapers together using a fusion splicer. By concatenating, the taper diameter and length ratio is 1:1 that is much greater than that (1:10) by stretching. The refractive index sensitivity is comparable to the MZI sensors based on long-period fiber grating pairs or stretched fiber taper pairs. The MZI fiber claddings are etched to improve the sensitivity of refractive index measurements. The sensitivity is 664.57 nm/RIU (refractive index unit) for the refractive index ranging from 1.3348 to 1.3558, which is 2–6 times greater than those measured by long period fiber gratings (LPFGs) after sensitivity enhancement.     

纤维光锥有效透过率的理论分析

光锥的有效透过率不仅影响光锥与CCD的耦合效率,而且会影响到耦合器件的信噪比.本文主要从理论上讨论了影响光锥有效透过率性能的因素,从纤维光学元件的实际内部结构推导出了其实际有效填充率,从光线在光锥中的传输特征推导出了光线在光锥中传播时产生的衰减损耗,最后提出了提高光锥有效透过率的方法和途径.     

光锥与CCD耦合效率的理论分析

光锥与CCD的耦合技术是研制ICCD图像传感器的关键技术,本文主要从理论上分析并讨论了光锥与CCD耦合器件的耦合效率及其影响因素,进一步分析讨论了耦合效率对耦合器件信噪比的影响.证明了光锥与CCD的耦合效率不仅降低ICCD探测效率而且降低ICCD信噪比,并提出了提高光锥与CCD耦合效率的方法和途径.     

Leakage coupling of ultrasensitive periodical silica thin-film long-period grating coated on tapered fiber

This investigation demonstrates leakage coupling between fundamental-mode and high-order mode resonance based on a periodical silica thin-film long-period grating (TFLPG) that was coated on a tapered fiber when wavelengths longer than the fundamental-mode cutoff were propagated. For the leaky guiding situation, these leakage modes still may exhibit strong mode coupling in the taper with the assistance of the TFLPG when the phase-matched condition is satisfied. An extremely high tuning efficiency of 62.9 nm/°C, which is equivalent to a measurement of sensitivity of approximately 168, 182 nm per refractive index unit, is achieved. To the best of our knowledge, this sensitivity is the highest achieved for a fiber sensor to date.     

Analysis of fiber Bragg grating with exponential–linear and parabolic taper profiles for dispersion slope compensation in optical fiber links

In this paper, the effect of various taper profiles on dispersion slope compensation in optical fiber links is studied. Theoretical and numerical investigation of the linear and nonlinear group delays of tapered fiber Bragg grating's (T-FBG) under strain is made. Calculation is performed using Matlab code based on solving the coupled mode equation using transfer matrix method. Our study shows that the linear tapered FBG profile provide the best result than the linear-exponential profile which can compensate up to 500 km. As result, the spectral characteristics of tapered grating allow them to be used efficiently in high bit rates WDM and long-haul optical communication systems for chromatic dispersion of single-mode fiber.     

扫描近场光学显微镜光纤锥中导波反射特性

利用局部模耦合模型理论上分析了扫描近场光学显微镜光纤的光场性质,给出光纤维中存在的正,反向传播的基模场微分方程,以及基模反向耦合系数的数值计算结果,其最高反射系数达１％左右。这种反射光可起着光纤维激光器谐振腔输出端镜的作用。     

聚合物封装的高灵敏度光纤光栅温度传感器及其低温特性

介绍了一种新型的光纤光栅温度传感器。这种光纤光栅温度传感器使用了特殊的工艺将光纤布拉格光栅封装于一种热膨胀系数较大的有机聚合物基底中 ,使得传感器的温度灵敏性比裸光纤光栅提高了 12 .3倍 ,其温度灵敏度系数KT 达到 82 .6 9× 10 -6/℃。在 - 80～ 0℃的低温度范围内 ,对这种新型光纤光栅温度传感器的反射谱进行了测量。研究了这种新型光纤光栅温度传感器的低温特性 ,并与裸光纤光栅和铝基封装的光纤光栅进行了比较 ,结果表明这种新型的光纤光栅温度传感器具有很好的低温响应特性。     

Tuning of fiber lasers by use of a single-mode biconic fiber taper

We report a novel scheme to build a compact, tunable fiber laser. The tuning mechanism is based on the transmission property of a single-mode biconic fiber taper. While pulling the taper, we observe oscillations in the transmitted optical power that are due primarily to interference between a pair of excited modes within the tapered region, which are eventually coupled into the unstretched single-mode fiber at the end of the taper. A similar mechanism causes the modulation of the transmitted optical spectrum after the taper has been pulled and stabilized. It is this spectral modulation by the taper that is exploited here to control the wavelength of a fiber laser. The modulation can be adjusted by stretching the taper, thus enabling the tuning of the laser wavelength. We have built a 32 mW Er-doped tunable ring fiber laser with a continuous tuning range of over 20 nm and a signal-to-noise ratio of better than 45 dB over the entire tuning range; our output power is limited only by the available pump power.     

Top-hat beam Tm<Superscript>3+</Superscript>-doped fiber laser using an intracavity abrupt taper

The top-hat beam clad-pumped Tm³⁺-doped fiber laser was realized simply using an intracavity multi-mode abrupt taper. The ratio of the flat-top diameter to the spot diameter reaches 53%, with a small intensity variation less than 6%, and the top-hat beam’s half-divergence angle is only 5.3°. The fiber laser has a maximal output power of 5 W with slope efficiency of 39.7%, pumped by the 792 nm diode laser (LD). The abrupt taper is directly made on the multi-mode double-clad Tm³⁺-doped fiber near the fiber laser output end with the 0.45 ratio of taper waist diameter to fiber clad diameter, and this fiber end 4% Fresnel reflection is used to be the output coupler. The fiber laser’s high reflective coupler is an intracore multi-mode FBG, which is directly written into the multi-mode Tm³⁺-doped fiber core using femtosecond laser and phase mask, at the other fiber end. The abrupt taper has no obviously influence on the fiber laser output power, and the output laser spectrum.     

Modal coupling in surface-corrugated long-period-grating fiber tapers

We describe the properties of a surface-corrugated long-period-grating fiber taper fabricated using contact optical lithography and wet etching techniques. The preservation of cylindrical symmetry in this device facilitates investigation of the modal behavior. Comparison of the measured and calculated transmission spectra reveals that the widely used coupled-mode theory is not applicable. Instead, a mode-projection model, in which modal propagation and coupling are treated separately within the grating, explains the experiments very well.     

Enhancing light extraction from tapered internal reflection microstructure

The internal transmittance characteristics of the taper surface microstructure grating with the feature size in a large dimension range from subwavelength nanostructure to microstructure are investigated to improve the light extraction efficiency of light emitting diodes. It is found that subwavelength taper nanostructure can not overcome the total internal reflection, but it is interesting that the taper microstructure can effectively surmount the total internal reflection at a larger emitted angle over the critical angle also with higher transmittance. Besides, the emission characteristics of light intensity for subwavelength nano-grating and taper micro-grating are demonstrated. Also, the simple approaches of the scalar diffraction theory and the effective medium method can accurately analyze respectively the taper microstructure and subwavelength nanostructure grating. It is expected that the taper microstructure could be integrated into light emitting diodes to tremendously enhance the emission efficiency.