近红外激光照明器均匀性评价技术研究

近红外激光照明是在低照度情况下,用近红外激光作为光源对远距离目标进行主动照明.由于激光的产生机制、匀光装置和照明器采用的光学系统公差、大气湍流等因素,近红外激光光束在目标面上的光强空间分布不均匀,对成像、观测准确度产生较大影响.本文提出采用近红外激光光强功率谱衡量照明近红外激光光强分布均匀性,即采用归一化后光强功率谱所围成的面积作为衡量近红外激光照明均匀性的参量.利用这种方法,对不同的近红外激光照明器,在相同的工作状态下的照明均匀性评估参量进行了研究,结果验证了采用归一化后光强功率谱所围成的面积作为评价参量的合理性.     

Dual-Output Mach–Zehnder Modulator for Optical Access Networks

This paper employs dual-output Mach–Zehnder Modulator (MZM) for optical access networks without optical filters. Light waves generated from multiple laser sources are multiplexed and fed into dual-output MZM. Biasing the dual-output MZM at null point generates central carriers in one output port and first-order sidebands in another output port. Reflective semiconductor optical amplifier modulates both the central carriers and sidebands with wired and wireless data, respectively. The modulated optical signals are combined by polarization beam splitter and transmitted through 25-km single-mode fiber. The performance of the proposed scheme is proved by clear eye-diagrams and great bit error rate (BER) curves. Moreover, the power penalty at the BER of 10^-9 is less than 1 dB for both wired and wireless signals. Therefore, the proposed system simultaneously transmits wired and wireless signals.     

High-power master-oscillator power-amplifier with optical vortex output

A high-power master-oscillator power-amplifier with optical vortex output is reported. The master oscillator for an optical vortex seed beam is a simple two-mirror Nd:YAG laser using a fiber-based pump beam conditioning scheme. The seed is amplified in a double-clad multimode fiber amplifier end-pumped by a high-power diode laser at 975 nm yielding 10.7 W of continuous-wave output at 1064 nm in the first-order Laguerre–Gaussian beam with M ² ≈ 2.11 for an absorbed pump power of 17.5 W, corresponding to a slope efficiency of ~59 %. The ring-shaped intensity profile and the wave front handedness of the seed beam were well preserved in the fiber amplifier. The prospects of power scaling via this approach are discussed.     

Slow light beam splitter

We demonstrate a slow light beam splitter using rapid coherence transport in a wall-coated atomic vapor cell. We show that particles undergoing random and undirected classical motion can mediate coherent interactions between two or more optical modes. Coherence, written into atoms via electromagnetically induced transparency using an input optical signal at one transverse position, spreads out via ballistic atomic motion, is preserved by an antirelaxation wall coating, and is then retrieved in outgoing slow light signals in both the input channel and a spatially-separated second channel. The splitting ratio between the two output channels can be tuned by adjusting the laser power. The slow light beam splitter may improve quantum repeater performance and be useful as an all-optical dynamically reconfigurable router.     

光纤环形谐振腔的频率锁定及其特性

基于可调分束比的光纤分束器,制作了光纤环形谐振腔并通过调节分束比实现了对光纤环形谐振腔的欠耦合、临界耦合和过耦合的状态控制.实验测量了腔最小反射率与腔损耗之间的关系,获得光纤环形谐振腔的腔内衰减率为κ_0=2π×(1.60±0.03) MHz ,品质因子为Q=(1.10±0.02)×10.8.在此基础上,结合了压电陶瓷拉伸光纤以控制腔长和Pound-Drever-Hall锁频两大技术优势,克服了之前温度反馈控制等方法的反馈带宽窄、噪声大和稳定性差等问题,实现了对光纤环形谐振腔共振频率的快速、灵敏的控制和锁定.结果表明,锁频过程中相位调制功率与相位调制引起腔反射光的强度调制之间的关系为线性关系,进而通过降低相位调制信号的功率以减小相位调制对腔反射光强度调制的影响.当调制功率设定最低为–9 dBm时,光纤环形谐振腔仍能被稳定锁定.该光纤环形谐振腔为其与原子、金刚石色心等发光粒子相互作用的腔量子电动力学实验研究奠定了坚实的基础.     

Fabrication of CdSe-ZnS nanocrystal-based local fluorescent aperture probes by active polymerization of photosensitive epoxy

We report the fabrication of a nanocrystal (NC) doped polymer tip at the end of a single-mode optical fiber with active polymerization technique. The tip is created by immersing the fiber in a photosensitive epoxy precursor containing colloidal CdSe-ZnS NCs and polymerizing the epoxy using laser light introduced through the fiber. The laser power was found to have a strong influence on the tip height and shape. As the laser beam progressed from the fiber end, the power was reduced by conversion and absorption, resulting in a cone-shaped tip. The shape of the extreme end of the tip was sensitive to the transmitted beam pattern, indicating that the shape of the tip is independent of the substrate fiber. A blue shift and reduction in decay time suggest that the emission properties of the NCs are affected by immobilization in the epoxy, possibly because of oxidation at the NC surface.     

Diffractive beam splitter characterization via a power-recycled interferometer

We used the high-precision laser interferometer technique of power recycling to characterize the optical loss of an all-reflective grating beam splitter. This beam splitter was used to set up a Michelson interferometer with a power-recycling resonator with a finesse of 883. Analyzing the results obtained, we determined the beam splitter's total optical loss to be (0.193+/-0.019)%. Low loss all-reflective beam splitters might find application in future high-power laser interferometers for the detection of gravitational waves.     

激光器参数综合检测系统设计

为解决目前各激光器检测仪功能单一、检测精度低等问题,研制了一种新型智能激光器参数检测系统。该系统采用现代控制技术和微机软件,且配有特定结构的分光束光学系统,能同时实现辐射器光轴平行性、光束性能参数（包括光束发散能量、脉宽、编码精度）、光轴稳定性测试和系统整体性能测试。通过引入红外自准直仪使系统的角分辨率达到了2″,借助示波器捕获窄达100ps的激光脉冲,高精度、大动态范围的激光能量计可精确测量出激光的能量。     

大功率高光斑均匀性半导体激光复合光源

 为了获得具有更高输出功率和良好光斑分布均匀性的半导体激光光源,根据半导体激光优良的偏振特性,利用偏振分光棱镜将2束大功率激光束合成为一束更大功率的光束,通过一个发射系统投射。在光束合成前采用非球面光学系统对每个激光器慢轴方向的光束进行扩束,使其与快轴方向光束发散角基本一致。实验证明,此种半导体激光复合光源具有良好的光斑均匀性,其输出功率是2个半导体激光器输出功率之和,完全满足激光制导等军用系统对激光功率和光斑均匀性的要求。     

两个光纤激光器的相干合成及其闭环控制

 采用了并联主振荡-功率放大的相干合成方案,实现了光纤激光器的相干叠加。主振荡的输出光通过保偏光纤分束器分为两路,其中一路加入保偏光纤相位调制器以实现闭环控制,两个保偏光纤放大器分别对两路输出光进行放大,放大后的输出光再由一个2×2的保偏光纤耦合器会聚相干。合成输出光的一部分通过光电转换后进入数据采集卡,采集卡将采集到的数据送入计算机进行实时处理并将得到的反馈信号作用于相位调制器,相位调制器实时控制两路信号的相位差,从而实现整个实验系统的相干合成输出。系统实现闭环控制后,两路光纤放大器的相位差为2π的整数倍,输出光强始终保持最强。该相干合成方案简单易行,性能稳定。     

偏振模色散补偿中的偏振主态与分束器主轴的对准

光纤通信系统的比特率超过10Gb/s或更高时,偏振模色散引起的脉冲信号展宽成为主要障碍.分离光纤线路中的两个偏振模式对于提高偏振模色散补偿的精度和速度有重要意义.讨论了光纤线路中两偏振主态与补偿器中偏振分束器主轴的对准问题,给出了偏振分束器任何一个主轴上光强的表示并推导出相应的电功率信号表示式,建立了电功率与光信号两个模式之间的延迟时间以及偏振主态与分束器主轴相对角度的变化关系.初步实验表明,可以通过偏振控制器或可转动的光纤连接器实现偏振主态与偏振分束器的对准.     

Optical millimeter-wave generation and transmission system for 1.25 Gbit/s downstream link using a gain switched laser

In this paper, we propose a novel and cost effective system for optical millimeter-wave (mm-wave) generation and transmission of downstream data based on a gain switched laser (GSL). The GSL produces an optical comb spectrum that can be appropriately filtered to generate two optical sidebands spaced by more than 4 times the repetition rate of the GSL. These sidebands are modulated by baseband data and then transmitted via optical fiber to the remote antenna unit (RAU). At the RAU, the two sidebands are heterodyned using a photodetector to generate the electrical modulated mm-wave signal, before demodulation using self mixing. We demonstrate the distribution of 1.25 Gbit/s data OOK modulated onto a 60 GHz carrier, similar to that used in the IEEE 802.15.3c draft standard, over fiber lengths up to 62 km.     

光通信系统中分光系统光学调整的误差分析

在平行光路中,光学系统的光学元件的误差或微量运动可抽象为绕定点的微量转动,其成像关系可归结为在微量转动下物像共轭关系的依次迭代,利用光学系统这种动态成像关系的思想,建立一个统一的光学调整及误差分析的数学模型。利用此模型分析光通信系统中分光系统的机械安装误差对系统的影响,建立每个反射镜的机械调整坐标,从理论上指导分光系统中每个反射镜的机械调整,最终使通信激光发射系统和精信标激光接收系统的光轴平行度达到5。     

用于激光聚变驱动器的全光纤、全固化光脉冲产生系统

报道一种全固化、全光纤的用于高功率激光驱动的惯性约束聚变驱动器的光脉冲产生系统,采用单纵模振荡器输出连续激光信号,经过相位调制器和振幅调制器,得到一个时间波形上已整形且具有一定带宽(约0.1 nm)的激光脉冲,经光纤放大器放大并经光纤分束器分束后同时输出四路激光脉冲,各路激光脉冲先通过时间同步调整单元精确控制时间同步关系后,经可编程光纤衰减器调节各路之间的功率平衡后再通过光纤放大器做进一步放大并通过150 m光纤传输输出至预放系统.该光纤系统可输出0.3—20 ns、带宽0.1 nm、能量数纳焦的几乎任意 关键词： 激光聚变驱动器 前端 光纤激光系统     

两路双包层光纤激光器互注入锁相实验研究

提出了一种利用45°半透半反分束镜和角锥反射器实现两路光纤激光器的能量相互注入,从而获得相干合成激光输出的新方法,分析了其锁相原理.在实验上成功实现了两路独立振荡双包层光纤激光器的互注入锁相输出,在远场观察到了清晰稳定的干涉条纹（可见度约0.57）,获得了超过10W的相干合成激光输出,功率合成效率约为76%.实验表明,这种互注入锁相方法可以在更高功率条件下运行,是光纤激光相干合成领域一种有前途的新技术. 关键词： 光纤激光器 相干合成 互注入锁相     

光纤激光陀螺系统的优化设计

分析研究了光纤激光陀螺系统的工作原理和基本构成,根据系统中各器件的性能指标对光纤激光陀螺的基本结构、性能参数进行了计算机模拟优化设计。采用双向激射双向输出结构保证光路的互易性。利用光纤环形器、掺铒光纤和光纤Bragg光栅实现滤模、选模和压缩线宽功能。针对其输出信号特点,提出利用偏振分束的方式判断陀螺工作转动方向,并最终计算陀螺转动角速度的信号处理方案。     

基于组合透镜与渐变折射率光纤改进激光器耦合效率的新方法

提出一种利用组合透镜系统与渐变折射率光纤相结合改进激光 器管芯到单模尾纤耦合性能的新方法. 这种方法首先利用组合透镜系统对具有像 散的激光器输出光束进行整形, 然后采用渐变折射率光纤对整形后的光束进行聚焦处理, 并将处理后的的光束耦合进入普通单模光纤. 利用Jones矩阵理论分析表明, 采用这种方法可以得到86%的功率耦合效率, 1 dB插入损耗对应的渐变折射率光纤长度、 横向偏移和倾斜角容差分别为60 μm, 30 μm和2.4°, 且结构简单, 便于操作, 特别适合于大功率激射的激光模块到单模光纤的耦合. 对于提高激光器输出功率, 改善光束质量具有重要意义.     

半导体激光激发荧光粉转换白光照明系统设计

单管蓝光半导体激光器功率相对较低,为了获得高功率激光,利用多单管光纤耦合技术实现10 W蓝光激光输出,输出的激光激发荧光粉片合成的白光光源作为汽车远光灯光源。根据汽车照明法规要求设计了汽车远光灯照明系统并详述了抛物面反光罩、双凹透镜和荧光粉片的光学结构及对反光罩曲线参数、双凹透镜和荧光粉片的放置位置对光源色温均匀性及照度的影响。模拟设计了顶端19 mm×31.6 mm椭圆形开孔、底部直径5 mm圆形开孔、高60 mm的椭圆抛物面反光罩,荧光粉片置于距反光罩底部15 mm处时,在距光源25 m处的接收面上得到了5 m×12 m的椭圆光斑,白光光源的光通量为1 025 lm,中心色温为5 880 K,中心色坐标为(x=0.322 6,y=0.369 2),该汽车远光灯照明系统满足汽车照明法规要求。     

Tapered diode lasers and laser modules near 635nm with efficient fiber coupling for flying-spot display applications

Flying-spot displays require light sources in the red, green and blue with a high optical output power and nearly diffraction limited beams. In this paper we present experimental results of red-emitting, AlGaInP based, tapered diode lasers and their integration into diode laser modules. The laser modules emit a collimated, almost diffraction limited beam with an optical output power as high as 1W at a wavelength close to 635 nm. The tapered laser chips were designed with emphasis on achieving a good beam quality in vertical and lateral directions of a collimated beam. To test the suitability for flying-spot display applications, we performed fiber coupling experiments with a low mode number optical fiber with an etendue as low as 6 × 10^?6 mm² sr. A maximum transmission of 70% of the launched power behind the uncoated fiber as well as a usable power in excess of 580mW were measured.     

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.