高消光比双通马赫-曾德尔干涉仪梳状滤波器

提出了一种新颖结构的高消光比双通马赫-曾德尔干涉仪梳状滤波器，将常规单通马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的两个输出端与光隔离器连接，构成一个双通马赫-曾德尔干涉仪梳妆滤波器，对滤波器的输出特性进行了理论分析和实验研究。数值模拟表明，与常规的单通马赫-曾德尔干涉仪相比，在相同参量的情况下该双通马赫-曾德尔干涉仪梳妆滤器的消光比得到了大大改善，消光比的提高取决于干涉仪的臂长差，当干涉仪的臂长差为0．7366mm时，消光比提高了20dB。实验结果表明，双通马赫-曾德尔干涉仪梳妆滤器的消光比为25．8dB，消光比提高了13dB。     

基于线性光放大器的全光逻辑异或门理论分析

基于速率方程建立了线性光放大器(LOA)的数值模型,模拟了线性光放大器的增益钳制特性。与对称结构马赫曾德尔干涉仪(MZI)的传输矩阵相结合,构建了线性光放大器马赫曾德尔干涉仪全光逻辑异或门模型,实现了两路40Gbit/s信号的异或运算。与传统的半导体光放大器(SOA)构成的马赫曾德尔干涉仪型异或门进行了比较,从器件结构上对两种异或门运算结果的差异给出了解释。结果表明,线性光放大器具有平坦的增益特性,对输入信号的扰动具有不敏感性,垂直光场缩短了载流子恢复时间;线性光放大器马赫曾德尔干涉仪结构可以实现异或运算;利用差分相位法可以解决载流子恢复时间对信号处理速度的限制,合理地选择延迟时间能获得较好的运算结果;输出信号具有眼图张开度大、消光比高、峰值啁啾小、对波长变化不敏感等优点。     

马赫曾德尔干涉仪型波长交错器研究

提出薄膜器件与光纤器件构成组合器件的概念，详细研究了薄膜Gires-Tournois干涉仪型光学全通滤波器与光纤马赫-曾德尔干涉仪组合成的波长交错器的传输特性。并讨论了反射系数、损耗、色散、耦合比等参量对器件性能的影响。最后，提出一个双向马赫-曾德尔干涉仪组合器件的方案及其在双向波分复用系统中的应用。     

二维光子晶体全光异或门的设计及研究

分析了二维光子晶体马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的传输特性,将二维光子晶体波导、环形腔和马赫-曾德尔干涉仪有效结合,提出了一种基于二维光子晶体马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的异或门设计。用平面波展开法分析二维光子晶体能带结构,并用时域有限差分法验证光信号在该器件中的电场稳态分布。结果表明,该结构能够实现异或逻辑,且具有高逻辑对比度7.88 dB,快速响应周期0.388 ps和高传输速率7.87 Tbit/s;并且该器件结构尺寸仅为13 μm×14 μm,易于集成。该异或逻辑结构中引入了二维光子晶体马赫-曾德尔干涉仪,使得光子晶体逻辑门结构的设计更加多样,并为二维光子晶体半加器与全加器的设计提供了基础,具有重要的研究意义。     

马赫-曾德尔光纤干涉仪型梳状滤波器优化计算

提出了一种具有方波形输出谱的级联马赫-曾德尔光纤干涉仪型梳状滤波器的优化计算方法。利用传输矩阵法将级联马赫-曾德尔光纤干涉仪的输出光谱表示为显式函数，采用独特的递推方法将理想的梳状滤波器的方波型输出函数展开，当这2个函数的系数对比时，有时候没有精确解，此时利用Matlab，通过特别的优化计算，可以得到级联马赫-曾德尔光纤干涉仪的近似结构参数，使其输出谱近似为方波。设计实例表明：此种优化计算方法非常方便、灵活和有效。     

一种级联马赫-曾德尔滤波器设计的新方法

级联马赫—曾德尔干涉仪滤波器可实现平顶化的滤波器频谱响应,但是利用传统的传输矩阵法。并不能方便地得到级联马赫—曾德尔干涉仪滤波器中各耦合器的耦合系数。将级联马赫—曾德尔干涉仪滤波器与数字信号处理中的有限脉冲响应滤波器进行了类比,并将数字滤波器的设计方法引入到级联马赫—曾德尔干涉仪滤波器的设计中,将滤波器的传输函数表示成为各耦合器耦合系数的显式函数,同时利用遗传算法,计算了对于给定的滤波器频谱响应,级联马赫—曾德尔干涉仪光滤波器中各耦合器的耦合系数。通过实例证明了利用数字滤波器的设计方法及遗传算法设计级联马赫—曾德尔干涉仪光滤波器,不仅可以得到理想的结果,而且可以提高光滤波器的设计效率。     

孔型硅光子晶体中折叠式马赫-曾德尔干涉仪(英文)

设计了基于孔型硅光子晶体的折叠式马赫-曾德尔干涉仪.它由一个光反射器和几个光分束器构成.在干涉仪中,窄光束依赖自准直效应进行传输.利用时域有限差分法研究了折叠式马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的特性.结果表明,在0.255～0.270c/a的归一化频率范围内,干涉仪的两个透射谱均为正弦形且强度互补,透射谱的透射峰间距随着干涉仪两臂的光程差的增大而减小.该折叠式干涉仪结构紧凑,尺寸比非折叠式光子晶体马赫-曾德尔干涉仪要小许多,有望作为信道解复用器应用于光子芯片中.     

孔型硅光子晶体中折叠式马赫-曾德尔干涉仪

本文首次设计了基于孔型硅光子晶体的折叠式马赫-曾德尔干涉仪。它由一个光反射器和几个光分束器构成。在干涉仪中,窄光束依赖自准直效应进行传输。利用时域有限差分法研究了折叠式马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的特性。结果表明,在0.255-0.270c/a的归一化频率范围内,干涉仪的两个透射谱均为正弦形且强度互补,透射谱的透射峰间距随着干涉仪两臂的光程差的增大而减小。该折叠式干涉仪结构紧凑,尺寸比非折叠式光子晶体马赫-曾德尔干涉仪要小许多。它有望作为信道解复用器应用于光子芯片中。     

多普勒测风激光雷达中马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的视场展宽技术研究

火星大气风速廓线探测对研究火星大气环境具有重要意义,基于马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的多普勒测风激光雷达相对于一般的相干/非相干多普勒测风激光雷达更适合于火星地基探测。为使马赫-曾德尔干涉仪对激光雷达中望远镜接收到的大视场角回波光信号进行频移检测,需要对马赫-曾德尔干涉仪进行视场展宽。对马赫-曾德尔干涉仪中棱镜式视场展宽技术与"猫眼"光学系统的视场展宽技术进行研究后发现,棱镜式视场展宽技术更具优势。设计并搭建了一套光程差为219 mm的马赫-曾德尔干涉仪,使用压电晶体扫描反射镜片的方式测量其对以11 mrad视场角入射的准平行光束的透射谱,得到干涉仪最大的干涉对比度为0.87,满足多普勒测风激光雷达的使用需求。结合地球大气环境分析了干涉仪干涉对比度随高度的变化,结果表明:虽然大光程差马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的干涉对比度在5 km以下低空大气中随高度增加有小幅下降,但仍可使用这种干涉仪进行大气风速探测。     

马赫-曾德尔型全光分插复用器特性调整的实验研究

分析了影响基于光纤光栅和马赫曾德尔干涉仪的光分 插复用器 (OADM)的特性的原因 ,根据理论分析和模拟计算 ,提出通过监控输入端口的背向反射光特性和局部加热的方法来判断和相应调整器件的参数 ,并用来模拟紫外激光修正过程。实验结果验证了这一方法的可行性。     

高性能三端口全光纤开关

提出采用２×２和３×３单模光纤耦合器组合成的马赫－陈德尔干涉仪来制作全光纤开关。解决了在连续熔融拉伸两个耦合器组成马赫－陈德尔干涉仪的过程中，由于干涉的作用而无法监视光功率来控制第二个耦合器的分束比的问题。并且由于是连续熔融拉伸，保证了两条单模光纤干涉臂长度的一致，从而提高了单模光纤马赫－陈德尔干涉仪的性能，使得用其做成的三端口压电陶瓷电控全光纤开关具有宽频带的特性，其最小交调达到３０ｄＢ，附加损耗为０．２３ｄＢ。     

A cascaded photonic crystal fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer formed by extra electric arc discharges

In this paper, a cascaded Mach–Zehnder interferometer based on a photonic crystal fiber is reported. It is demonstrated that by applying a small dose of extra arc discharge to the photonic crystal fiber sensing part which is spliced to lead-in and lead-out single-mode fibers with core offset, the in-line Mach–Zehnder interferometer could be simply cascaded. From the analysis of Fourier transformed spatial spectra and the response tests as a sensor, it is shown that such a cascaded interferometer could effectively broaden the utilizable spectral shift range for a measured value.     

全光纤Mach-Zehnder干涉仪及其在光纤自发布里渊散射测量中的应用

从理论上分析了全光纤Mach-Zehnder干涉仪的分光原理,并将所研制的全光纤单通Mach-Zehnder干涉仪和双通Mach-Zehnder干涉仪应用于自发布里渊散射光谱的测量,实现了色散位移光纤中自发布里渊散射与瑞利散射的有效分离.     

Generation of frequency-chirped laser pulses by an electro-optic amplitude modulator

We propose a single electro-optic amplitude modulator to modulate both the intensity and the phase of the light of a diode laser to produce frequency-chirped light pulses in the nanosecond time range. The two-in-one property of the Mach–Zehnder type electro-optic amplitude modulator is used to create a specific device available for experiments with cooled atoms. The phase induced in each optical path of the Mach–Zehnder interferometer and the phase-to-intensity modulation ratio, the intrinsic chirp parameter of the device is determined by generating high order optical harmonics.     

Experimental demonstration of a simple method to engineer a single qutrit state with biphotons

A simple method to engineer qutrit state with biphotons is realized. The method is based on Hong–Ou–Mandel interferometer and it is insensitive to disturbance comparing to Mach–Zehnder interferometer in principle. Moreover, a tomography procedure is employed to reconstruct the output states.     

Response-time improvement of a 2×2 thermo-optic switch with polymer/silica hybrid waveguide

A polymer/silica hybrid 2×2 directional coupler (DC) Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) thermo-optic (TO) switch is designed and carefully fabricated. Because of larger thermal conductivity relative to the polymer, silica is utilized as bottom cladding for accelerating heat release. The fabricated TO switch with polymer/silica hybrid structure exhibits low power consumption, less than 7.2 mW, fast rise time of about 106 μs and fast fall time of about 93 μs. This response time is reduced by 40% compared to that of the TO switch with polymer waveguide.     

An all-optical switch of Mach－Zehnder interferometer type using an active fibre ring resonator

We propose an all-optical switch of the Mach－Zehnder interferometer type using an active nonlinear ring resonator and analyse the significance of the parameter A, a product of gain and total loss, for performing an ideal 1 by 2 switch. We found that in the range of 1-κ≤A≤\sqrt{1-κ}, the increment of A can compensate the losses inside the ring, therefore increase the finesse of the ring and enhance the nonlinearity contribution to reduce the switching power threshold effectively. We also emphasize the importance of the initial switching point and discuss the feasibility of utilizing a high-nonlinear fibre in the ring.     

Nanosecond Bias-Free Mach–Zehnder Electro-Optic Switch Based on Dye-Doped Polymer DR1/SU-8 and Microstrip Line Electrode

Abstract

A bias-free Mach–Zehnder interferometer electro-optic switch is demonstrated with a dye-doped polymer Disperse Red 1 (Tokyo Chemical Industry, Co., LTD, Tokyo, Japan)/SU-8 (MicroChem Corp., Newton, Massachusetts, USA) and microstrip line electrode. The device is carefully designed and optimized for bias-free function and high-speed switching using the three-dimensional beam-propagation method and extended point-matching method, and the switch is seriously fabricated by a wet-etching technique and inductively coupled plasma etching technique for good control of dimension parameters. The measured rise time and fall time at 1,550 nm are both at the level of ~10 ns. Owing to the bias-free function and nanosecond response speed, this switch exhibits potential applications of high-speed optical routing and exchanging.     

2-μm switchable dual-wavelength fiber laser with cascaded filter structure based on dual-channel Mach–Zehnder interferometer and spatial mode beating effect

We demonstrated a 2-μm switchable dual-wavelength fiber laser with cascaded filter structure based on dual-channel Mach–Zehnder interferometer and spatial mode beating effect. Few-mode fiber-embedded Sagnac ring configuration and a Mach–Zehnder interferometer are cascaded to form a multiwavelength filter for our previous 2-μm fiber laser. By adopting suitable fiber length and adjusting the polarization controller, we obtained a 2-μm dual-wavelength fiber laser with switchable wavelength interval. Experimental results revealed that the proposed laser shows higher quality and better stability compared with our previous work and it has potential applications in the fields of atmospheric propagation and microwave photonics.     

A Mach–Zehnder interferometer based on peanut structure for temperature and refractive index measurement

Optical Review - A fiber Mach–Zehnder (M-Z) interferometer based on the peanut structure is proposed to measure the temperature and the refractive index (RI). This design includes the...