Tailored Gires-Tournois etalons as tunable dispersion slope compensators

We present a novel concept of a tailored Gires-Tournois etalon structure and show that such a device is useful for the fabrication of a dispersion-slope compensator with an almost arbitrary dispersion profile and also with tunability in the dispersion slope.     

Asymmetric photorefractive Fabry-Perot etalons

We theoretically analyze the properties of Fabry-Perot etalons which consist of photorefractive-crystal plates with asymmetric mirror reflectance. Peak transmissions and non-reciprocities are enhanced significantly compared with the symmetric photorefractive etalons. The effect of material absorption is also considered.     

Fabry-Perot etalons as prefilters for astronomical far-infrared fourier transform spectroscopy

We show that a Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) can be made competitive in sensitivity (system noise equivalent power) with scanning single detector spectrometers (SSDS) such as scanning Fabry-Perot spectrometers or grating instruments for work on specific lines in FIR astronomy by prefiltering the radiation so that the broadband background on the detector(s) of the FTS is reduced. Fabry-Perot etalons made with electroformed metal mesh reflectors are suitable prefilters. A Fabry-Perot prefiltered FTS has a capability for simultaneous observation of lines at substantially different wavelengths in the same beam on the sky. The lines are passed by different orders of the Fabry-Perot, and their separation and resolution is accomplished by the FTS. We discuss the sensitivity comparison between the prefiltered FTS and an SSDS, identify several suitable pairs of astrophysically interesting lines, discuss some of the technical aspects of building very compact etalons designed for use at LHe temperatures, report new measurements of properties of commercially available metal mesh, and describe the performance of etalons built for line pairs near 50 μm.     

Optically controlled tunable dispersion compensators based on pumped fiber gratings

We demonstrate optically tunable dispersion compensators based on pumping fiber Bragg gratings made in Er/Yb codoped fiber. The tunable dispersion for a chirped grating and also a uniform-period grating was successfully demonstrated in the experiment. The dispersion of the chirped grating was tuned from 900 to 1990 ps/nm and also from -600 to -950 ps/nm in the experiment.     

芯内双微孔复合腔结构的光纤法布里-珀罗传感器研究

提出了一种基于芯内双微孔复合结构的全光纤干涉传感器结构,建立了传感器反射光谱的理论模型,给出了反射光谱强度与微孔长度、孔内介质折射率、微孔端面反射与损耗系数以及光纤的特性参数间的关系,并模拟了传感器光谱对温度和折射率变化的响应特性.利用193 nm准分子激光器,在普通单模光纤上加工制作了具有复合腔结构的全光纤多参量传感器,进行了传感实验研究.结果表明,该传感器具有优于99%的温度、折射率线性响应度,对应两套温度和折射率灵敏度分别为-0.172 nm/℃,1050.700 nm/RIU和0.004 nm/℃,48.775 nm/RIU,不仅能够实现温度、折射率以及它们的区分测量,还能够应用于气体压力的测量,测量精度可达0.3 kPa.     

Fabry-Perot etalons using colloidal photonic crystal mirrors

Fabry-Perot etalons have been fabricated with 3D colloidal photonic crystal mirrors. The colloid films were optimized for high reflection and low loss to provide good finesse values in the 1200-1700 nm spectral range. A cavity quality factor of 2400 and a finesse of 8 together with sharp 0.5 nm wide resonance transmission peaks are reported that attest to the relatively good optical quality of the three-dimensionally structured films and the promise of self-assembly colloidal crystal chemistry in providing novel microporous optical interferometers for potential applications such as environmental and biological sensing.     

Fabry-Perot etalons for x-rays: Construction and characterization

A solid Fabry-Perot etalon (FPE) for X-rays has been constructed using sputtering technique. This FPE is made up of two layered synthetic microstructures (LSM's) separated by a carbon spacer. Each LSM consists of fifteen pairs of tungsten/ carbon having a mean period d = 27 Å and deposited onto (111) orientation silicon single crystal substrate. The carbon spacer thickness is 470 Å. The FPE has been characterized by new processes, namely electron microscopy and transmission electron diffraction pattern. The results obtained are in good agreement with those provided by reflectivity measurements using Cu K_α (1.5418 Å) radiation. Another FPE made of two different LSM's has been constructed. The effect of such an asymmetry is investigated.     

光纤法布里-珀罗干涉温度压力传感技术研究进展

光纤法布里-珀罗干涉温度和压力传感器具有灵敏度高、制作简单、成本低、体积小和抗电磁干扰能力强等优点,已被广泛应用于军事和民用领域.在某些环境恶劣,如具有强电磁干扰和腐蚀性,或提供给传感器的安装空间非常有限的特殊工业领域,微型光纤温度和压力传感器发挥着重要的作用,国内外诸多高校、科研院所都在对其进行研究.本文综述了光纤法布里-珀罗干涉仪的基本原理、制备技术、及其压力和温度传感应用的研究进展.详细介绍了湿法化学腐蚀制备法、电弧放电制备法、飞秒激光制备法、聚合物辅助制备法等常见光纤法布里-珀罗腔传感器的制作工艺,分析了不同制作工艺的优缺点;详细介绍了光纤法布里-珀罗干涉仪在温度传感、压力传感和温压一体传感领域的应用;最后对光纤法布里-珀罗干涉温度压力传感器的发展进行了总结和展望.     

基于三级Fabry-Perot标准具的纯转动拉曼测温激光雷达

提出了新的纯转动拉曼测温雷达系统,即以种子激光注入锁定的Nd:YAG激光器为激发光源,采用基于三级Fabry-Perot(F-P)标准具的双通道分光结构代替双光栅单色仪结构.通过通道中宽带滤光片(带宽为7nm)及F-P标准具的组合使用,对532nm激发光的大气Mie-Rayleigh弹性回波散射抑制比可达10^-10,对量子数J=±6,J=±12的N₂纯转动拉曼散射光谱线接收带宽均小于10pm,因此能充分抑制大气背景辐射噪声及O₂纯转动拉曼谱线的干扰,从而实现了单谱线比反演温度,提高了探测精度,且可在白昼探测大气对流层温度.最后通过探空气球测得的对流层温度垂直分布逆向模拟了该系统双通道的Raman信号曲线,证实了该系统的可行性. 关键词： 拉曼激光雷达 纯转动拉曼散射 三级Fabry-Perot标准具 对流层     

Optical fibers and fiber dispersion compensators for high-speed optical communication

In order to meet the requirements necessary for advanced optical fiber transmission schemes that enable larger transmission capacity, higher efficiency and/or lower transmission costs per bit, optical fiber technologies are still evolving toward ultimate performance. Recent developmental activities have realized a number of improved performance optical fibers, such as ultra-low loss or ultra-low nonlinearity fibers and various types of dispersion-modified fibers. Fiber-based dispersion compensators or dispersion compensating fibers have also become one of the most essential optical components that support high-speed large capacity optical transmission. Very recently, the dispersion compensating fibers have further evolved into dispersion-managed optical transmission lines, which are now being actually deployed in transoceanic submarine optical cable networks.     

Piezospectroscopic imaging with a tunable Fabry-Perot filter and Tikhonov reconstruction

By combining two well-established techniques--multispectral imaging with a tunable filter and regularized data inversion--a fast and accurate method for measuring, at each pixel of a CCD array, the spectrum emitted by a radiating object is obtained. The method is demonstrated with ruby R(1)- and R(2)-line fluorescence, using a narrowband tilt-tunable Fabry-Perot interference filter for data acquisition. Since the data inversion problem is badly ill conditioned, regularization is essential to obtain meaningful results. The reconstruction is capable of a peak wavelength accuracy of 0.01 nm, sufficient to measure the small wavelength shifts encountered in rubylike materials due to changes in the local crystal lattice stress. Thus, the technique presents a novel approach to piezospectroscopic imaging and offers 2 to 3 orders of magnitude faster mapping of local stress than current techniques.     

ICF中可调法布里-珀罗滤波器间距稳定度研究

 在神光Ⅱ第9路ICF高功率激光装置中,采用可调法布里-珀罗(F-P)滤波器对幅度调制效应进行补偿,根据补偿装置的技术要求,提出一种应用nm量级精度的电容式位移传感器对可调F-P滤波器间距稳定度进行监控的系统,详细论述了监控系统的结构与工作原理。给出了电容式位移传感器的驱动电路及数据处理与控制软件的设计方案,并对电容式位移传感器的精度进行了标定。实验结果表明,该位移监控系统能够使可调F-P滤波器的间距稳定度保持在15 nm/h以内,使幅度调制效应的调制深度优于4%。     

ICF中可调法布里-珀罗滤波器间距稳定度研究

在神光Ⅱ第9路ICF高功率激光装置中,采用可调法布里-珀罗(F-P)滤波器对幅度调制效应进行补偿,根据补偿装置的技术要求,提出一种应用nm量级精度的电容式位移传感器对可调F-P滤波器间距稳定度进行监控的系统,详细论述了监控系统的结构与工作原理。给出了电容式位移传感器的驱动电路及数据处理与控制软件的设计方案,并对电容式位移传感器的精度进行了标定。实验结果表明,该位移监控系统能够使可调F-P滤波器的间距稳定度保持在15 nm/h以内,使幅度调制效应的调制深度优于4%。     

Widely tunable photonic crystal fiber Fabry-Perot optical parametric oscillator

We present a widely tunable low-threshold chi(3) optical parametric oscillator. The oscillator cavity is formed by butt coupling dichroic mirrors to either end of a highly nonlinear index-guiding photonic crystal fiber. This yields a singly resonant Fabry-Perot oscillator with a high feedback fraction for the resonant parametric sideband. The tuning range of the output parametric sideband stretches from 23 to 164 THz above the pump frequency. The threshold power of the oscillator is only 15 W.     

Discretely tunable and multiwavelength erbium doped fibre lasers with Fabry-Perot etalon

Modern WDM telecommunication systems require stable and calibrated laser sources. In this paper, we present examples of such lasers based on erbium doped fibres, i.e., discretely tunable and multiwavelength ring lasers. For the first case, tuning is possible due to a tunable Bragg grating overlapping spectrally the third telecommunication window (1550 nm). When a Fabry-Perot etalon is inserted into the cavity, discrete tunable operation with appropriate spacing between operating wavelengths is possible. Different free spectral ranges (FSR) of applied etalons ensured operation at a wavelength spacing 0.4 nm, 0.8 nm or 1.6 nm, respectively. When an acoustooptical Bragg frequency shifter was inserted together with the Fabry-Perot etalon, the stable simultaneous multiwavelength operation covering the erbium doped gain range was achieved.     

Suppression of the interactions between fibre gratings used as dispersion compensators in dense wavelength-division multiplexing systems

Chirped fibre Bragg gratings (CFBGs) are required to be concatenated to compensate the fibre dispersion in the dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. When the channel spacing is small, the performance of CFBGs is degraded, which restricts the usage of fibre gratings. The origin of the interactions between the gratings is analysed and methods of suppressing the interactions are also proposed.     

Free-spectral range tunable Fabry-Perot filter with superimposed fiber Bragg gratings

A novel free-spectral range (FSR) tunable Fabry-Perot filter (FPF) with two superimposed fiber Bragg gratings (SFBGs) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The SFBGs, initially uniform in period with slightly different Bragg wavelengths, were glued onto the lateral surface of a specially-designed cantilever beam and linearly chirped by beam bending-induced strain gradient. As a result, their reflection bands overlap and a grating-based FPF with a tunable FSR is formed. A continuously tunable FSR of 0.1-0.5 nm has been achieved in the experiment.     

基于压电聚合物薄膜可调谐Fabry-Perot滤波器的研究

采用DBR/电极/间隔层/电极/DBR的结构形式制作滤波器,器件透光部分刻蚀以消除电光效应.测试滤波器透过率光谱,并通过加电压对滤波器中心波长进行调制.据实际结果得到腔的光学厚度为8.04μm,腔长在电场作用下收缩.在140V电压下,腔长收缩量约为0.757%.实验证明电致伸缩效应在调制中起作用.     

Novel large negative dispersion and tunable zero dispersion wavelength of photonic crystal fiber

The article describes a novel doped CS₂ core photonic crystal fiber with high negative chromatic dispersion. The proposed design is simulated through a full-vector finite element method and anisotropic perfectly matched layers. The numerical results show that we can achieve a negative dispersion coefficient of ?5600 ps/(nm km) almost at the wavelength of 1.55 μm by carefully adjusting the proposed PCF structure parameters. The proposed PCF may have great potential applications in dispersion compensating, optical parametric amplification, and optical fiber communication.     

Cross-phase modulation in long-haul systems with chirped fiber Bragg gratings-based dispersion compensators

The cross-phase modulation (XPM) effect in fiber links with dispersion compensated by chirped fiber Bragg gratings (CFBGs) is analyzed here for the first time. A continuous-wave (CW) signal, referred to as a probe, is used to investigate the impact of XPM on communication systems. The result shows that the XPM in systems using CFBGs as dispersion compensators is greatly suppressed, compared with that of systems using dispersion compensated fiber (DCF). The difference of the dispersion management between the system using DCF and that using CFBGs is demonstrated, too.