Two-stage optical pulse compression for a mode-locking SOAFL driven by an asymmetric-duty-cycle square wave

We demonstrate ultra-short optical pulses by using a two-stage compression of pulses from a mode-locking SOAFL driven by the injection of a periodic square wave with an asymmetric duty cycle. Through cascading a linear compressor of 110-m dispersion compensation fiber and a soliton compressor of 12-m single-mode fiber, the optical pulses can be shortened to 55 fs with a timing jitter of 0.45 ps. In the ninth-order soliton compression, the spectral linewidth of the mode-locking SOAFL pulses can be broadened by the self-phase-modulation effect. Also, the compression performance includes a time-bandwidth product up to 0.437 and a pulse-compressing ratio of 54.     

位于第三近红外窗口的平坦光纤超连续谱产生

报道了一种基于非线性偏振旋转效应的被动锁模光纤激光器.采用980 nm分布式反馈激光器作为泵浦源,0.5 m长的高掺杂掺铒光纤作为增益介质.实现了脉冲宽度为822 fs的传统孤子锁模脉冲,输出脉冲的平均功率为2.8 mW,信噪比为55.8 dB.通过微调腔内的偏振控制器,实现了传统孤子脉冲和孤子分子脉冲间的切换,孤子分...     

Generation of nearly transform-limited pulses in subnanosecond region with TEA nitrogen-laser-pumped dye laser

A dye laser is transversely pumped by a TEA nitrogen laser with 700 ps duration. The dye laser pulse has a spectral linewidth of 0.007 nm and a pulse width of ≈ 140 ps, giving a time-bandwidth product of 1.5. It is pointed out that the fluorescence lifetime of the laser dye plays an important role in generation of laser emission using a long laser cavity under subnanosecond pulse pumping.     

高重复频率锁模光纤激光器及其超连续谱产生

设计并实验研究了一种结构简单的主动调制锁模高重复频率窄脉宽光纤激光器。采用窄线宽连续激光调制4 GHz高重频后,通过拉曼增益孤子压缩效应将脉宽由27 ps压窄至2.6 ps。该高重频锁模激光泵浦一段300 m长高非线性光纤,同时脉冲被展宽至7.4 ps。产生的超连续谱平坦度20 dB宽带可达250 nm,功率波动为±0.2 dB。     

Suppression of phase and supermode noise in a harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser with a semiconductor-optical-amplifier-based high-pass filter

By operating an intracavity semiconductor-optical-amplifier- (SOA-) based high-pass filter at the nearly transparent current condition, the supermode noise (SMN), the relaxation oscillation, and the single-sideband (SSB) phase noise can be simultaneously suppressed in an actively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL). The SOA at the nearly transparent condition enhances the SMN suppression ratio of the EDFL from 32 to 76 dB at the cost of the phase noise degrading from -114 to -104.2 dBc/Hz and broadening the pulse width from 36 to 61 ps. With an optical bandpass filter, the SSB phase noise and the SMN suppression ratio can be further improved to -110 dBc/Hz and 81 dB, respectively. The EDFL pulse can be further shortened to 3.1 ps with a time-bandwidth product of 0.63 after compression.     

8字形主被动锁模掺Er3+光纤激光器

在理论上分析了利用非线性光学环形镜作为等效可饱和吸收体压缩脉冲进行锁模的物理机制。利用8字形主被动混合锁模的结构在调制频率2．498749GHz下，在1．543μm处获得了12ps的锁模脉冲输出，对应谱宽0．22nm，时间脉宽积0．33。在抽运功率50mW情况下，输出脉冲平均功率3．715mW。在调制频率2．499344GHz、2．499114GHz和2．498999GHz时分别并获得了2～4阶幅度较为均衡的有理数谐波锁模脉冲序列。     

808nm波长光纤耦合高功率半导体激光器

In this paper, we report the stabilized 10-GHz actively mode-locked fiber ring laser constructed with non-polarization-maintained fiber. Long term stabilization was achieved by synchronous modulation technology, based on an error signal extraction and procession circuit. The output pulses maintained very well over 8 hours with the pulse width of ～11 ps and the spectrum width of ～0.37 nm. Meanwhile the output power and the center wavelength of the output pulse also kept stable at 1.6 mW and 1550.3 nm respectively. The output pulses were additionally compressed to 2 ps by high order soliton effect.     

External-cavity, actively mode-locked grating-coupled surface-emitting laser and amplification characteristics of a grating-coupled semiconductor optical amplifier

An external-cavity, actively mode-locked grating-coupled surface-emitting semiconductor laser (GCSEL) is demonstrated for the first time to the authors' knowledge. The mode-locked oscillator generates a train of optical pulses at a 297-MHz pulse-repetition frequency. The optical pulse from the oscillator has a width of 22.6 ps and a spectral bandwidth of 0.07 nm at 975.9 nm, giving a time-bandwidth product of 0.50. In addition, amplification characteristics of a grating-coupled semiconductor optical amplifier are studied with a continuous-wave external-cavity GCSEL.     

10GHz可调谐主动锁模光纤激光器

主动锁模光纤激光器研制的难点在于克服不稳定性,本文提出解决其长期和短期不稳定的方法,分析了它们的工作原理,通过试验证明该两项技术使主动锁模光纤激光器实现了自稳定运转,在全部采用国产非保偏光纤的条件下稳定运行时间超过8h,激光器重复频率为10GHz,脉宽10ps,谱宽为0.317nm,时间带宽积为0.403,调谐范围为39nm。     

高功率2 μm波长可调谐超短脉冲光纤激光器

高功率2 μm波长可调谐的超短脉冲激光具有峰值功率高、脉冲宽度窄、波长可调谐等优势,在医疗手术、大气通信、光电对抗等领域具有广泛的应用。利用高峰值功率的掺铒光纤放大器泵浦高非线性光纤,在全光纤化结构中获得了1895～2165 nm可调谐的拉曼孤子输出。采用啁啾脉冲放大技术对拉曼孤子的脉冲能量进行提升,放大后拉曼孤子的单脉冲能量为1.56 μJ,平均功率达到50.6 W,脉冲宽度为83 ps。经过光栅对压缩后,脉冲宽度降低至1.23 ps,平均功率为22 W,峰值功率达到0.55 MW。放大后的脉冲仍具有波长调谐的能力,当输出功率为5 W和50.6 W时,脉冲的波长调谐范围分别为38 nm和8 nm。     

波长可调谐超短光脉冲的简便高质的生成技术

提出了一种以处于增益开关调制状态下的法布里珀罗(Fabry-Pérot)半导体激光器作为光源,采用简单的自激注入锁定方式,以生成波长可调谐的超短光脉冲的实验系统。该实验装置中,激光器的外腔包括两个串联在一起的布拉格光纤光栅,一个掺铒光纤放大器(EDFA),一个光耦合器和两个环行器,其作用是选模,以及增强并控制反馈回激光器内腔的光强。该实验系统简单而高效,在24nm的波长调谐范围内获得了边模抑制比高于40dB的单模光脉冲输出;而在1521.8nm和1550.0nm之间28.2nm的波长调谐范围内,边模抑制比高于35dB。所得到的各个单波长激光脉冲的时域半峰全宽为140~260ps,各个脉冲的光谱半峰全宽皆为0.1nm。     

基于绝热孤子压缩效应的小基座孤子脉冲研究

高重复频率超短光脉冲产生技术是高速光时分复用(OTDM)系统的关键技术之一,而一般的超短脉冲源直接产生的脉冲往往不够窄,因此必须对光脉冲进行压缩后才能满足高速光通信系统的要求。采用360 m长的色散渐减光纤(DDF),成功将从再生锁模光纤激光器(RMLFL)输出的中心波长1546 nm、重复频率10 GHz、脉宽分别为5.40 ps和4.60 ps的光脉冲,绝热压缩为脉宽为1.93 ps和1.71 ps的小基座孤子脉冲,压缩因子分别为2.80和2.69。利用这种绝热孤子压缩方法得到的光脉冲质量较好,可以用于160 Gb/s的光时分复用系统。     

掺铒光纤环镜中超短光孤子的放大与压缩Ⅰ.基本原理

用常规掺铒光纤放大器放大超短光孤子存在一个重大困难 ,就是在放大过程中光纤非线性效应会引起孤子波形及频谱畸变 ,使得输出脉冲不再具有孤子特性 ,从而影响系统性能。提出一种利用掺铒光纤环镜放大超短光孤子的新方法 ,数值计算表明 ,该方法不仅可实现无畸变的光孤子放大 ,而且能同时实现孤子宽度的有效压缩。当宽度为 2 ps的基阶孤子经过长度为 92 .6m、增益为 14 .4dB的环镜后 ,其峰值功率被放大 16 5倍 ,脉冲宽度被压缩到 0 .19ps ,时间带宽积为 0 .30 3,脉座能量仅占整个脉冲能量的 3.8% ,表明由环镜输出的放大脉冲很大程度上具有基阶孤子特性。     

980-nm all-fiber mode-locked Yb-doped phosphate fiber oscillator based on semiconductor saturable absorber mirror and its amplifier

A 980-nm semiconductor saturable absorber mirror(SESAM) mode-locked Yb-doped phosphate fiber laser is demonstrated by using an all-fiber linear cavity configuration. Two different kinds of cavity lengths are introduced into the oscillator to obtain a robust and stable mode-locked seed source. When the cavity length is chosen to be 6 m, the oscillator generates an average output power of 3.5 m W and a pulse width of 76.27 ps with a repetition rate of 17.08 MHz. As the cavity length is optimized to short, 4.4-m W maximum output power and 61.15-ps pulse width are produced at a repetition rate of 20.96 MHz. The output spectrum is centered at 980 nm with a narrow spectral bandwidth of 0.13 nm. In the experiment, no undesired amplified spontaneous emission(ASE) nor harmful oscillation around 1030 nm is observed. Moreover,through a two-stage all-fiber-integrated amplifier, an output power of 740 m W is generated with a pulse width of 200 ps.     

Dual-wavelength synchronously mode-locked Tm-doped bulk laser with terahertz frequency beating

A dual-wavelength synchronously mode-locked homogeneously broadened bulk laser operating at 1985.6 and1989 nm is presented for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, which delivers a maximum output power of 166 m W and a repetition rate of 85 MHz. The pulse duration was measured to be 16.8 ps by assuming a sech~2 pulse shape. The recorded autocorrelation trace showed frequency beating signals with an interval of 3.8 ps and a full width at half-maximum duration of 2 ps, corresponding to an ultrahigh beating frequency of about0.26 THz, which agrees well with the frequency difference of the emitted two spectral peaks. The results indicated that such a kind of dual-wavelength mode-locked Tm:YAlO_3 laser could be potentially used for generating terahertz radiations.     

Ultra-long-period grating-based multi-wavelength ultrafast fiber laser [Invited]

We propose and demonstrate the cascaded multi-wavelength mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser(EDFL) based on ultralong-period gratings(ULPGs) for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. Study found that the ULPG can be used as both a mode-locker for pulse shaping and a comb filter for multi-wavelength generation simultaneously. Using the dual-function of ULPG, three-, four-, five-, six-, and seven-wavelength mode-locked pulses are obtained in EDFL, seven of which are the largest number of wavelengths up to now. For the four-wavelength soliton pulses, their pulse width is about 7.8 ps. The maximum average output power and slope efficiency of these pulses are 8.4 m W and 2.03%, respectively. Besides the conventional pulses, hybrid soliton pulses composed of a four-wavelength pulse and single soliton are also observed. Finally, the effect of cavity dispersion on the multi-wavelength mode-locked pulses is also discussed. Our findings indicate that apart from common sensing and filtering, the ULPG may also possess attractive nonlinear pulse-shaping property for ultrafast photonics application.     

A 40-GHz Colliding Pulse Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser

A monolithically active-passive integrated colliding pulse mode-locked semiconductor laser is demonstrated in the InGaAsP/InP material system.The device is mode locked at the second harmonic passive mode-locking regime with a wide mode-locking range.Pulse trains with the repetition rate of 40 GHz,3-dB rf line width of 25 kHz,the pulse width of 2.5ps,and a nearly transform-limited time-bandwidth product of 0.53 are obtained.     

色散管理掺铥光纤激光器高能量脉冲的产生

设计了一种基于色散管理的掺铥光纤激光器。通过调节泵浦功率以及腔内偏振态，首先实现了稳定的展宽脉冲输出，中心波长和脉冲宽度分别为1 939.4 nm和482 fs。最大输出功率为15 mW，对应的单脉冲能量为0.52 nJ。增加泵浦功率到645 mW时，通过适当调节偏振控制器可以实现类噪声脉冲锁模，中心波长为1 940.1 nm。所实现的锁模脉冲具有飞秒量级的尖峰以及皮秒量级的基底。最大输出功率为20.4 mW，相对应的单脉冲能量为0.7 nJ。相比于传统孤子，采用色散管理所实现的锁模脉冲具有更高的脉冲能量。此外，所设计的掺铥光纤激光器可作为理想的主振荡功率放大以及啁啾脉冲放大结构的种子源，进一步提高脉冲能量，拓展2 μm高能光纤激光器的实际应用。     

超长腔碳纳米管锁模多波长掺镱光纤激光器

报道了一种超长腔碳纳米管锁模多波长掺镱光纤激光器, 光纤激光器的总长度为1021.2 m. 实验得到了噪声型孤子和孤子雨两种类型的多波长锁模脉冲, 重复频率均为199.8 kHz. 孤子雨具有更高的输出功率和单脉冲能量, 分别为40.3 mW和201.5 nJ, 对应的脉冲宽度为102.5 ns.     

有效压缩增益开关DFB激光器光谱线宽的注入时间窗口

实验与理论研究了外光注入种子脉冲有效压缩增益开关DFB激光器光谱线宽的注入时间窗口.发现只有在增益开关光脉冲建立之前约100 ps的时间窗口内，注入种子脉冲方可以有效压缩增益开关DFB半导体激光器光谱线宽, 并且线宽随着注入光强度的增加而减小，可产生低啁啾的近变换极限的超短光脉冲.实验证实，在此时间窗口内注入种子脉冲，增益开关DFB激光器的光谱线宽从0.46 nm压缩至0.08 nm，时间带宽积从2.46降低至0.70.同时理论研究了增益开关DFB半导体激光器的光谱线宽压缩与种子脉冲的注入时间及强度的关系.