基于偏振自适应和主动相位控制的相干合成的实验研究

进行了非保偏放大器与保偏放大器的相干合成的实验研究。通过随机并行梯度下降（SPGD）算法对非保偏放大器进行偏振自适应控制,使非保偏放大器输出激光的消光比达到11.5 dB,与保偏放大器在同一偏振方向上的光功率占总功率的93.4%。利用单抖动法进行非保偏放大器与保偏放大器的主动相位控制,实现相干合成。实验结果表明:SPGD算法能够有效实现偏振自适应控制,偏振自适应控制前后相干合成远场的条纹对比度从80.1%提高到87.2%,相干合成的效果提升明显;通过增加参与合成的放大器路数,并在各路激光中引入多级功率放大器,能够得到更高的合成功率输出。     

基于偏振自适应和主动相位控制的相干合成的实验研究

进行了非保偏放大器与保偏放大器的相干合成的实验研究。通过随机并行梯度下降（SPGD）算法对非保偏放大器进行偏振自适应控制,使非保偏放大器输出激光的消光比达到11.5 dB,与保偏放大器在同一偏振方向上的光功率占总功率的93.4%。利用单抖动法进行非保偏放大器与保偏放大器的主动相位控制,实现相干合成。实验结果表明：SPGD算法能够有效实现偏振自适应控制,偏振自适应控制前后相干合成远场的条纹对比度从80.1%提高到87.2%,相干合成的效果提升明显;通过增加参与合成的放大器路数,并在各路激光中引入多级功率放大器,能够得到更高的合成功率输出。     

All-fiber coherent beam combining with phase stabilization via differential pump power control

Coherent beam combining enables power scaling beyond the limits of single amplifiers. Therefore, improving the performance and simplicity of coherent combination techniques is of great interest for many high power applications. Here, we show all-fiber coherent beam combining of two ytterbium doped amplifiers with and without a dedicated phase actuator and a total output power up to 25 W. Instead of a dedicated phase actuator, we directly controlled the two ytterbium amplifiers to also stabilize their relative phase. We compared the performance of this method with phase stabilization using two piezo driven fiber stretchers. In both cases, power noise was dominated by the single amplifier.     

基于外差法的光纤激光器相干合成

采用波长1064 nm,功率为1 W的种子激光实现了两路光纤激光的相干合成,采用了两只保偏光纤准直器接收两路光干涉信号,与利用透镜直接把干涉信号会聚在探测器上相比,这种耦合方式得到的光干涉信号的条纹对比度更高。对相位噪声以及相位噪声的带宽进行了研究,结果表明,相位噪声由电信号串扰以及环境扰动产生。通过人为拨动光纤来增加相位噪声带宽,当相位噪声带宽增加时,相位控制精度下降。提出了提高相位控制精度的方法,实验获得了桶中功率为21.3%、斯特列尔比为79%、相位控制精度为0.008的相干合成效果。     

基于外差法的光纤激光器相干合成

采用波长1064 nm,功率为1 W的种子激光实现了两路光纤激光的相干合成,采用了两只保偏光纤准直器接收两路光干涉信号,与利用透镜直接把干涉信号会聚在探测器上相比,这种耦合方式得到的光干涉信号的条纹对比度更高。对相位噪声以及相位噪声的带宽进行了研究,结果表明,相位噪声由电信号串扰以及环境扰动产生。通过人为拨动光纤来增加相位噪声带宽,当相位噪声带宽增加时,相位控制精度下降。提出了提高相位控制精度的方法,实验获得了桶中功率为21.3%、斯特列尔比为79%、相位控制精度为0.008的相干合成效果。     

Numerical and experimental study on coherent beam combining of fibre amplifiers using simulated annealing algorithm

We present the numerical and experimental study on the coherent beam combining of fibre amplifiers by means of simulated annealing (SA) algorithm. The feasibility is validated by the Monte Carlo simulation of correcting static phase distortion using SA algorithm. The performance of SA algorithm under time-varying phase noise is numerically studied by dynamic simulation. It is revealed that the influence of phase noise on the performance of SA algorithm gets stronger with an increase in amplitude or frequency of phase noise; and the laser array that contains more lasers will be more affected from phase noise. The performance of SA algorithm for coherent beam combining is also compared with a widely used stochastic optimization algorithm, i.e., the stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm. In a proof-of-concept experiment we demonstrate the coherent beam combining of two 1083~nm fibre amplifiers with a total output power of 12~W and 93% combining efficiency. The contrast of the far-field coherently combined beam profiles is calculated to be as high as 95%.     

Progress of coherent optical fibre communication systems

The recent progress of coherent optical fibre communication systems is reviewed. System constituent technologies, such as coherent optical modulation-demodulation, optical direct amplification for repeaters and single polarization fibre transmission are outlined. Several important optical device technologies, such as frequency stabilization of semiconductor lasers, AM and FM quantum noise and their reduction, and integrated opto-electronic devices, are also described. Finally, on the basis of the current state of the art in these technological areas, the expected system performance and future problems are discussed.     

Measurement of polarization fluctuations in installed single-mode optical fibre cables

Measurements were made of the random polarization fluctuations of conventional single-mode fibres of five optical fibre cables installed in the city of Berlin (West). The measurements were performed with the aid of a semiconductor laser, the frequency (f) of which was 227.3 THz (wavelength 1320 nm). Such preliminary studies are very important for optically coherent transmission over cables not maintaining the polarizations. The signal intensity fluctuations as the fibre output can be represented both as a function of time and by the related spectral power density.     

Performance of Polarizers and Coupler in an All Polarization Maintaining Fiber Interferometer

It is given mathematical models and analyze the performance of polarizers and coupler in an all polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) Michelson interferometer. The optical coherent signal to noise ratio (CSNR) of the interferometer is calculated by means of the Jones matrix with cross coupling matrix elements.     

Performance of Polarizers and Coupler in an All Polarization Maintaining Fiber Interferometer

1 IntroductionThe fiber optic intefferometers are popular in the syStems of optical fiber sensors.The polarization maintaining fibers can improve the accuracy and stability of opticalfiber interferometers. An polarization maintaining fiber (Pine ) Michelsonnit.rferom.t..[l] can attain lOw-noise and high sensitivity Of COherent detection. Thequality of both the polarizers and the coupler in the systems can directly affect theoptical coherent signal to noise ratio (CSNR) of the interferomet…     

Elimination of polarization-induced signal fading and reduction of phase noise in interferometric optical fiber sensor using polarization diversity receivers

Interferometric optical fiber sensor relies on the coherent mixing of two optical signals, which is strongly polarization dependent. The fluctuation in the input polarization to an interferometric optical fiber sensor can result in not only the variation of the visibility but also the generation of excess phase noise in the output. In this paper, the relationship between the visibility and polarization-induced phase noise coefficient is described and theoretically confirmed. The use of tri-state polarization diversity receivers to eliminate polarization-induced signal fading and reduce phase noise is theoretically and experimentally demonstrated. The result shows that tri-state PDR that improves the visibility can reduce the polarization-induced phase noise and the signal can be correctly demodulated.     

Equilateral pentagon polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibre with low nonlinearity

A new pentagon polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibre with low nonlinearity is introduced. The full vector finite element method was used to investigate the distribution and the effective area of modal field, the nonlinear properties, the effective indices of two orthogonal polarization modes and the birefringence of the new PM-PCF effectively. It is found that the birefringence of the new polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibre can easily achieve the order of 10^-4, and it can obtain higher birefringence, larger effectively mode-field area and lower nonlinearity than traditional hexagonal polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibre with the same hole pitch, same hole diameter, and same ring number. It is important for sensing and communication applications, especially has potential application for fibre optical gyroscope.     

两种方法实现对掺镱光纤放大器的相位校正

 在光纤激光器阵列的相干合成技术中,主振荡并联放大器（MOPA）方案最关键的技术是对光纤放大器进行相位控制与校正。本文用两种方法分别对掺镱光纤放大器进行了相位控制与校正。一种是爬山法,通过自动寻优的方式不断改变相位调制器控制电压,使系统输出保持在干涉最强处;另一种是外差法,通过实时探测和校正光路中相位的变化,确保输出光束的相位一致。实验系统中主振荡激光器的波长为1 083 nm,输出功率0~100 mW连续可调。光纤相位调制器是铌酸锂相位调制器。光纤放大器输出功率0~1 W连续可调,整个光路为全保偏光路。爬山法系统的工作频率为100 kHz,控制精度为λ/10;外差法系统的移频量为40 MHz,精度优于λ/20。在两类闭环控制过程中,铌酸锂相位控制器都很好地实现了光纤放大器的相位校正。该工作为实现光纤激光器阵列的相干合成打下实验基础。     

New phase and polarization-insensitive receivers for coherent optical fibre communication systems

We propose new phase- and polarisation-insensitive receivers for coherent optical fibre communication systems which have the following characteristic features: (a) insensitivity to LO excess noise in addition to phase- and polarization-insensitivity; (b) absence of optical PLL and polarization control devices; (c) a smaller detector bandwidth requirement than for heterodyne systems; (d) the same source linewidth requirement as for heterodyne systems with non-coherent demodulation; (e) the possibility of a complete optoelectronic integrated circuit (OEIC) version in the future.     

Electronic compensator for 100-Gb/s PDM-CO-OFDM long-haul transmission systems

We study an electronic compensator (EC) as a receiver for a 100-Gb/s polarization division multiplexing coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (PDM-CO-OFDM) system without optical dispersion compensation.EC,including electrical dispersion compensation (EDC),least squares channel estimation and compensation (LSCEC),and phase compensation (PC),is used to compensate for chromatic dispersion (CD),phase noise,polarization mode dispersion (PMD),and channel impairments,respectively.Simulations show that EC is highly effective in compensating for those impairments and that the performance is close to the theoretical limitation of optical signal-to-noise rate (OSNR),CD,and PMD.Its robustness against those transmission impairments and fiber nonlinearity are also systematically studied.     

Polarization noise in single mode fibres and its reduction by depolarizers

Fluctuations of the state of polarization in single mode fibres due to environmental conditions such as vibrations cause intensity noise if elements with polarization-dependent loss are inserted into the fibre system. Diffraction gratings, which are key elements for wavelength division multiplex-single mode fibre systems, exhibit a strong polarization dependence of loss. The polarization noise, originating from the combination of single mode fibres and diffraction gratings, is investigated experimentally. A drastic deterioration of the signal/noise ratio is observed, which is even more severe than modal noise with multimode fibres. Depolarizing devices, which reduce this kind of noise sufficiently, are presented and examined.     

Coherent combination of two ytterbium fiber amplifier based on an active segmented mirror

To control the phase noise of two ytterbium fiber amplifiers, a coherent combination system based on an active segmented mirror (ASM) has been established in our laboratory. The ASM is controlled by a feed back control loop on the basis of a Peak Rate (PR) algorithm which is realized on a DSP + FPGA hardware control board. Experimental results indicate that when the control loop is off, the far-field interference pattern is blurred and dynamic, while when it is on, the far-field beams interference pattern achieves clear and stable. At two different output powers, the contrasts of the interference stripes are improved from 7% to 19% and 8% to 28% respectively.     

Phase-Locked Fibre Array for Coherent Combination and Atmosphere Aberration Compensation

We report a fibre amplifier array that not only achieves coherent beam combination by compensation of phase noises of fibre amplifier, but also accomplishes correction of atmosphere aberration. It is of master-oscillatormultiple-amplifier （MOPA） configuration, which can be phase-locked by the multidither principle or heterodyne detection principle. First laboratory experiments of atmosphere aberration compensation of a three-element fibre amplifier array are reported. The atmosphere aberration is created by a phase screen in the experiment. The phase changes of the beam, which are introduced by the fibre amplifier and the phase screen, are both detected by the heterodyne detection method. Phase modulators are controlled to compensate for the phase in the three paths. No matter whether there is a phase screen producing atmosphere aberration or not, the dim dynamic interference fringes in the far field turn to a clear and stable pattern, and the peak intensity is maximized. It is indicated that the fibre amplifier array is phase-locked, and coherent combination of the three beams is achieved. It can be used not only to obtain high power fibre laser array but also in laser space communication.     

Tuneable polarization mode dispersion emulator: Fixed polarization maintaining fibre sections and rotatable polarization orientations

We design a polarization mode dispersion (PMD) emulator capable of adjusting first-order (FO-) and second-order (SO-) PMD statistics, making it capable to mimick differerent fibre links or fibre plants. The emulator can adjust PMD statistics by controlling mode coupling angles between polarization maintaining fibres (PMFs) of fixed length using its seven rotatable electro-optic polarization rotators which act as half waveplates (HWPs). The stability and repeatability of the emulator under a stable laboratory environment makes PMD statistics reproducible. The control mechanism of the emulator is in real-time.     

偏光干涉对光纤陀螺性能的影响

从光纤陀螺光学系统缺陷角度,研究了由于光纤陀螺保偏光纤融接误差及光学器件的不完善引起的偏光干涉效应,理论分析并实验研究了偏光干涉效应对传输光谱的影响及其对光纤陀螺性能的影响。研究表明,在当前的技术条件下,偏光干涉效应对光纤陀螺的标度因数影响可以忽略,偏光干涉不影响一般意义下的光源相干长度,但是却导致光源相干特性的变化,反应在相干图上出现了多个干涉衬比度峰值,这会降低宽谱光源的短相干长度特性给光纤陀螺带来的好处,由此也说明不能仅由相干长度这一个参量描述光源的相干特性。