An analysis of As_2S_3 chirped fiber grating formed by two-photon absorption effect

When femtosecond laser pulses interfere with chirped femtosecond laser pulses in As2S3 fiber, a chirped fiber grating is formed. An analytical expression is given to describe the chirped grating, and its Bragg reflectivity is calculated. Because of the high photosensitive effect of As2S3 material, the chirped fiber grating has a wide Bragg reflective spectrum and high reflectivity by choosing proper parameters. This indicates that the chirped fiber grating can be used as a stretcher in the femtosecond chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system.     

Tunable Bragg gratings for fiber lasers

A tuning method of a fiber Bragg grating by the bending compression-tension is considered. With this method, a relative tuning range of the resonance wavelength of the grating of about 5% has been obtained. The changes in the shape of the spectrum and in the grating reflectivity during the tuning process are studied. The reflectivity of the fiber Bragg grating has been found to considerably increase with increasing degree of compression. It is shown that such an increase is caused by compression-induced changes in the refractive index modulation amplitude in the grating. The fiber Bragg grating developed has been applied for tuning the radiation wavelength of an ytterbium fiber laser. The tuning range of the laser has been found to be 45 nm around the central wavelength 1080 nm.     

基于啁啾光纤光栅的掺Yb3+光纤激光器

啁啾光纤光栅可用于光纤色散补偿及脉冲压缩。该文从光纤光栅的耦合模方程出发，对中心波长为1053nm的啁啾光纤光栅进行了研究，数值分析了啁啾光纤光栅长度、耦合函数、啁啾系数、切趾技术等因素对啁啾光栅反射率、时延特性、色散特性、压缩特性的影响，并将结论应用于掺镱超短脉冲光纤激光器的设计，提出基于啁啾光纤光栅的全光纤环形腔连接方案。与其它非全光纤结构光纤激光器相比，这种结构具有更小的损耗和更高的效率。     

多层介质膜脉冲宽度压缩光栅与超短脉冲作用时的性能分析

基于啁啾脉冲放大技术的超短脉冲激光系统是提供超快、超强激光的重要途径，具有良好输出波形和高损伤阈值的多层介质膜脉冲宽度压缩光栅是获得高峰值功率脉冲激光的关键. 基于傅里叶谱变换方法和严格模式理论，分析了多层介质膜光栅(MDG)在超短脉冲作用下的光学特性. 结果表明，当MDG的反射带宽小于具有高斯分布的入射脉冲的频谱宽度时，-1级反射脉冲呈非对称高斯分布，其前沿出现振荡，并且-1级反射脉冲能量开始剧烈下降. 讨论了MDG结构参数对其反射带宽的影响. 分析了MDG与超短脉冲作用时的近场光分布，对提高其抗激光损 关键词： 脉冲压缩光栅 傅里叶谱变换 模式理论 损伤阈值     

Transient gratings in a nonlinear medium

The excitation of a phase transient grating induced by two equal pulses from the same laser, which intersect in a nonlinear (cubic) medium, is considered theoretically. The grating parameters are calculated. The grating amplitude is shown to be spatially non-uniform and to be described by the pulse autocorrelation function, a display of the pulse coherence and of the two-pulse interference pattern. The diffraction problem of the induced grating is then solved using the electrodynamic perturbation theory. The diffraction efficiency of the grating is calculated. It is shown that the measurement of the spectral intensity of the probe light diffracted from the induced grating enables the complete computation of the grating amplitude. Such a measurement may be carried out for the whole of the time of grating decay after the excitation of the grating. Some possible applications of the induced grating are considered. The medium parameters and the autocorrelation trace of the single pulse may be determined. The shape and duration of a bandwidth-limited pulse or the spectrum of an arbitrary one are shown to be measurable.     

一种新型的光纤光栅调Q掺Er光纤激光器

报道一种采用光纤光栅迈克尔逊干涉仪结构实现掺Ｅｒ光纤Ｑ－开关激光输出的实验，其中的全光纤迈克尔逊干涉仪由二个相同的光纤光栅构成，用来作为激光腔的其中一个反射镜，它同时提供了对激光输出波长的造反作对腔面反射率进行调制的二个功能，实验得到稳定的激光输出波长在１５４５．７０μｍ，脉冲功率为５００ｍＷ，脉宽为１．３μｓ，重复频率为１７ｋＨｚ。     

Exact calculations of scattering and enhanced fields of electromagnetic waves on grating surfaces

We present scattered intensities and values of the electromagnetic field for p-polarized light on Ag grating surfaces using the theory of Toigo, Marvin, Celli and Hill. The theory is based on the application of the extinction theorem to Green's theorem. The program for calculations is set for any shape of the grating profile. Calculations are performed when the incident light is in resonance with the surface plasmon polariton. The shape of the scattered intensities are calculated for different grating amplitudes and it is shown that,for example, the reflectivity can present a minimum or a maximum depending on the amplitude and shape of the grating. It is shown that the enhanced field (the ratio between the modulus squared of the scattered field to the modulus squared of the incident field)(e) has a maximum when the reflectivity is a minimum as a function of the incident angle. The maximum of e is larger when the minimum in the reflectivity is smaller as a function of the grating amplitude. The value of e is calculated in a fine grid near to the grating and the values of the maxima are of the order of 250, then if the Raman cross-section is proportional to the fourth power of the field this could produce 10⁴ to 10⁵ in the cross-section and explain SERS. The width of the resonances as well as the plasmon dispersion relation will be also presented.     

Temporal dynamics of high repetition rate pulsed single longitudinal mode dye laser

Theoretical and experimental studies of temporal dynamics of grazing incidence grating (GIG) cavity, single-mode dye laser pumped by high repetition rate copper vapour laser (CVL) are presented. Spectral chirp of the dye laser as they evolve in the cavity due to transient phase dynamics of the amplifier gain medium is studied. Effect of grating efficiency, focal spot size, pump power and other cavity parameters on the temporal behaviour of narrow band dye laser such as build-up time, pulse shape and pulse width is studied using the four level dye laser rate equation and photon evolution equation. These results are compared with experimental observations of GIG single-mode dye laser cavity. The effect of pulse stretching of CVL pump pulse on the temporal dynamics of the dye laser is studied.     

Numerical analysis and characterization of fiber Bragg grating-based Q-switched ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber lasers

A numerical model of the fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based actively Q-switched double-clad fiber laser is presented in this paper. Based on numerical simulations, the influence of FBG on Q-switched pulse performance of Yb³⁺-doped double-clad fiber laser is studied, the pulse characteristics are discussed and analyzed using different FBG profiles, and further investigation is conducted to study the pulse characteristics of the fiber lasers under varying Q-switching conditions, including repetition rates, apodization profiles of FBG, peak reflectivity of the tunable FBG, cavity length and pump power.     

X‐ray quasi‐lamellar etched multilayers: analysis by coupled‐mode theory

An etched multilayer (EM) is a two‐dimensional structure obtained by etching a periodic multilayer following the profile of a grating. Generally, a laminar grating shape, that is, with a rectangular shape, is desired. However, we observe that different EMs give different diffraction efficiency curves. We implement the coupled‐mode theory to calculate the diffraction pattern of the EM as a function of the shape of the etching profile. Thus, we try to correlate the variability of the experimental reflectivity curves to various shapes of the profiles, rectangular and trapezoidal, and the corresponding simulated reflectivity curves. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A method to obtain pulse contrast on a single shot

A novel method for obtaining a single shot multi-point high dynamic range pulse contrast measurement is presented. We use Dammann gratings to generate multiple beamlets by division of amplitude on ultrashort laser pulses. The analysis results show that this method can achieve high dynamic range in pulse contrast measurement on a single shot by using photomultiplier tube （PMT） detectors and the long working distances to minimize cross talk between channels. Some distortion of pulse shape is also analyzed detailedly with the Dammann grating and its compensation grating, which may degrade the pulse contrast measurement in some degree by pulse stretching and spectrum clipping.     

Pulse-shape-free method for long-range three-dimensional active imaging with high linear accuracy

We present a three-dimensional (3D) imaging method employing linear increasing gain to encode flying time of photons into intensity information. This method obtains both the reflectivity and the depth of scene from only two two-dimensional (2D) images. High linear accuracy between the depth and the intensity information is independent of the laser pulse shape. We demonstrated <1 m linear depth accuracies with two different kinds of laser pulse shape and a 3D scene reconstruction with supperresolution depth mapping when the targets are 800-1100 m away.     

光纤光栅梳状滤波器及其在新型可选波长激光器中的应用

对现有在同～段光纤上多次写入光栅制成光栅梳状滤波器的方法进行了改进,利用增加光栅长度,精确控制不同光栅的曝光时间,并结合调整光栅实际写入长度的方法,制成了不均衡度小于5％、最低峰值反射率高于95％的光纤光栅梳状滤波器;同时提出了一种新颖的可选波长光纤激光器结构。采用由上述方法制作出的反射率均衡的光纤光栅梳状滤波器和可调光滤波器结合在一起进行波长选择,实现了波长的快速准确选择,同时各个波长激光的输出特性稳定,功率均衡性好,边模抑制比大于50dB。     

Sub-ps laser microstructuring of soft X-ray Mo/Si multilayer gratings

The sub-picosecond laser microstructuring of multilayer gratings is presented in this paper. A micromachining system operating with a 0.5 ps KrF laser at 248 nm was used to etch grating structures with a groove width of 1–2 μm in Mo/Si and Si/Mo multilayers. Atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray reflectivity were used to characterize the microetched patterns. The ω-scans around the 1st Bragg maximum show symmetric satellites up to 3rd order, with positions corresponding to the grating period. The use of sub-picosecond laser pulses minimizes the thermally affected zone and enhances the quality of the etched features. Short pulse laser processing is advantageous for the fabrication of high spatial resolution microstructures required in X-ray optics. Received: 21 May 2002 / Accepted: 19 August 2002 / Published online: 15 January 2003 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. Email: dpapa@iesl.forth.gr     

高功率全正色散锁模掺Yb3+双包层光纤飞秒激光器

以芯径为30 μm的掺Yb³⁺双包层光纤为增益介质, 利用非线性偏振旋转技术以及光栅-小孔结构组成的光谱滤波器提供有效的振幅调制, 实现了稳定的全正色散耗散孤子锁模运转. 激光器直接输出重复频率为76.6 MHz、平均功率达6.3 W的超短脉冲, 单脉冲能量可达82 nJ. 直接输出脉冲宽度为1.33 ps, 经腔外压缩后的宽度为377 fs. 通过调节光栅角度还实现了输出脉冲中心波长在1025—1078 nm范围内的调谐.     

The effect of facet reflections in index-coupled distributed feedback lasers with coated facets

The effect of facet reflections and different grating parameters on side-mode suppression ratio in index-coupled distributed feedback lasers without a phase-shift section is analyzed. The effect of uncontrollable facet positions on side-mode suppression ratio is studied when the grating coupling coefficient, the grating filling factor, the grating order, the device length and the facet reflectivities are varied. The single-mode device yield and the facet reflectivities needed for achieving a high yield are evaluated, the reflectivity of the anti-reflection coated facet is optimized as a function of the coupling strength and the effect of facet reflections on the other laser characteristics is shown.     

Analysis of a separate 1319 and 1338 nm Nd:YAG laser with a blazing grating

We develop a separate 1319 and 1338 nm Nd:YAG laser system with a blazing grating (600 lines/mm). The resonator of this system has a Littrow grating configuration and a highly reflective mirror, in which the zero-order diffraction of the grating acts as the laser output. By virtue of the wavelength-dependent reflectivity of the grating, a single-wavelength laser at 1319 nm or 1338 nm can be realized. In view of the laser rate equations and using the distribution of the blazing grating, we analyze the oscillation conditions providing single-wavelength laser operation in the system.     

Broadband antireflection gratings fabricated upon silicon substrates

We fabricated a two-dimensional subwavelength structured (SWS) surface upon a crystal silicon substrate. The SWS surface was patterned by electron beam lithography and etched by an SF(6) fast atom beam. The SWS grating had a conical profile, the period was 150 nm, and the groove was approximately 350 nm deep. The reflectivity was examined at 2002500-nm wavelengths. At 400 nm the reflectivity decreased to 0.5% from the 54.7% of the silicon substrate. We also used HeNe laser light to examine the reflectivity as a function of the incident angle.     

介质参数对受激布里渊散射特性的影响

 采用一维瞬态模型对受激布里渊散射（SBS）过程进行了数值模拟，研究了介质参数对SBS特性的影响规律；选取FC-72、FC-75、CCl₄、CS₂、丙酮、苯以及CCl₂/乙醇的混合溶液等作为散射介质，在Nd∶YAG调Q激光系统下进行了实验研究，比较了各种介质所产生的SBS脉宽、能量反射率和波形之间的差异，由此讨论了介质参数对SBS特性的影响。结果表明，介质增益系数越大，吸收系数越小，SBS能量反射率就越大；吸收系数越大，产生的SBS脉宽就越窄；声子寿命越短，SBS波形前沿就越陡，并且越容易出现调制现象。     

Low-threshold performance of fiber Bragg grating external-cavity semiconductor lasers using genetic algorithms

The lowest threshold current of the external-cavity semiconductor laser with fiber Bragg grating using genetic algorithms is investigated. Effects of the external cavity length, coupling efficiency and anti-reflection coating reflectivity on static characteristics, such as L-I curves and side mode suppression ratios (SMSR) are investigated by using multi-mode rate equation. It is found that the reflectivity of the anti-reflection coating for low-threshold performance needs to be increased at the cost of the stability of the fiber grating external-cavity semiconductor laser. The optimal external cavity length obtained by genetic algorithms can be used to obtain the lowest threshold current for sacrificing a little SMSR. However, with the decrease of AR-coating reflectivity, output powers and SMSRs are slightly dependent on the external cavity length.