Nonlinear properties of the lattice network-based nonlinear CRLH transmission lines

The nonlinear properties of lattice network-based(LNB) composite right-/left-handed transmission lines(CRLH TLs)with nonlinear capacitors are experimentally investigated.Harmonic generation,subharmonic generation,and parametric excitation are clearly observed in an unbalanced LNB CRLH TL separately.While the balanced design of the novel nonlinear TL shows that the subharmonic generation and parametric processes can be suppressed,and almost the same power level of the higher harmonics can be achieved over a wide bandwidth range,which are difficult to find in conventional CRLH TLs.     

Active sound transmission control of a double-panel module using decoupled analog feedback control: experimental results

Low-frequency sound transmission through passive lightweight partitions often renders them ineffective as means of sound isolation. As a result, researchers have investigated actively controlled lightweight partitions in an effort to remedy this problem. One promising approach involves active segmented partitions (ASPs), in which partitions are segmented into several distinctly controlled modules. This paper provides an experimental analysis of a double-panel ASP module wherein the source- and transmitting-side panels are independently controlled by an analog feedback controller. Experimental results, including plant frequency response functions, acoustic coupling strengths, frequency response functions, and transmission losses (TLs) of single- and double-panel modules, are presented and compared to numerical predictions. Over the bandwidth of 20 Hz to 1 kHz, the average measured TL for an actively controlled single-panel module was 29 dB, compared to 14 dB for the passive case. The average measured TL over the same bandwidth for the actively controlled double-panel module was 57 dB, compared to 31 dB for the passive case.     

1.3-μm InGaAsP planar buried heterostructure laser diodes with AlInAs electron stopper layer

This study reports on the realization of 1.3-μm InGaAsP buried-heterostructure (BH) laser diodes (LDs) via an Fe-doped semi-insulating InP layer and an AlInAs electron stopper layer (ESL). Experimentally, the as-cleaved BH LD with an AlInAs ESL exhibited improved characteristics in terms of threshold current, slope efficiency, and maximum light output power at 90 °C as compared to those of the normal BH LD without an AlInAs ESL. In addition, high internal quantum efficiency or reduced threshold current density was observed, indicating increased modal gain in BH LDs fabricated with an AlInAs epilayer on top of the active region. It was also found that the temperature sensitivity of the BH LDs with an AlInAs ESL is more stable than that of the normal BH LDs. These results could be attributed to the suppression of thermal carrier leakage out of strain-compensated multiple-quantum-well by a large conduction-band offset of the AlInAs/InGaAsP heterojunction. Otherwise, without consideration of damping factor or coupling loss, the 3-dB bandwidth of the proposed BH LDs reaches a high value of 15.3 GHz. Finally, this TO-can packaged BH LD shows an eye-opening feature with the extinction ratio of 7.49 dB while operating at 10 Gbit/s at 50 mA.     

GaN-based violet laser diodes grown on free-standing GaN substrate

A violet laser diode (LD) structure is grown on a free-standing c-plane GaN substrate and 4~μ m× 800~μ m ridge waveguide LDs are fabricated. The electrical and the optical characteristics of LDs under different facet-coating and chip-mounting conditions are investigated under pulse mode operation. The active region temperatures of p-side up and p-side down mounted LDs are calculated with different injection currents. The calculated thermal resistances of p-side up and p-side down mounted LDs are 4.6~K/W and 3~K/W, respectively. The threshold current of the p-side down mounted LD is much lower than that of the p-side up mounted LD. The blue shift of the emission wavelength with increasing injection current is observed only for the LD with p-side down mounting configuration, due to the more efficient heat dissipation.     

多导体传输线高频场线耦合渐近法分析

基于理想地面上单导体传输线渐近法,提出了改进的多导体传输线渐近法。与已有多导体传输线渐近法相比,所提方法步骤简单,求解效率高。利用所提方法计算电磁波与不同结构多导体传输线网络之间的耦合,结果与全波分析方法计算结果吻合很好。在此基础上,分析了多导体传输线导线间距对沿线感应电流的影响。结果表明,随着导线间距变化,矩形网络和平行网络沿线感应电流波形变化趋势不同,且当间距大于一个波长后,平行网络和理想地面上相同结构的单导线具有相同的沿线感应电流。     

基于新型SCRLHTL结构的超宽带滤波器设计

提出了利用去除并联电感实现简化左右手（SCRLH）复合传输线（TL）结构的方法，及利用该方法实现超宽带滤波器的设计。设计了一个中心频率为7．05GHz、相对带宽约为70％、带内群延时小于0．4ns的超宽带滤波器。分别应用HFSS和Designer软件对该器件进行了微波全波仿真及电路仿真。用不同方法仿真获得的结果吻合良好。由此证明了用去除并联电感的新型SCRLHTL结构实现滤波器的正确性与有效性。     

Research on phosphor-conversion laser-based white light used as optical source of VLC and illumination

Visible light communication (VLC) based on light emitting diodes (LEDs) or laser diodes (LDs) has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Due to the advantages of laser diodes based on nitrides, such as small size, high brightness, visible light and high bandwidth, it can be applied to illumination and communication at the same time. In this paper, blue laser and yellow phosphors were employed to synthesize white light. And “efficiency droop” is not observed in the LIV characteristics of LD-based white light either. The bandwidth measurement system with high reliability was set up. The bandwidth of blue laser diode and phosphor-conversion laser-based white light was measured. The maximum of optical ?3 dB bandwidth of blue LD is around 1.8 GHz at 80 mA and maximum of optical ?3 dB bandwidth of white light is about 1.3 GHz at 60 mA. The color parameters of the synthetic white light were characterized through integrating sphere. Moreover the trends of test data with injection current were analyzed in detail. The problem of thermal degradation of yellow phosphors has been improved by a special design that can keep a certain distance between the blue laser diode and phosphors. The experiment results verified that laser diodes based on nitrides have promising applications in lighting and communications.     

南海东沙海域线性内波引起的声场统计特性

海洋内波对声传播及水声探测具有重要影响.利用南海东沙附近海域一次低频声传播起伏实验同步获取的声学与水文观测数据,从水文连续观测数据中提取了内波特征参数,验证了修正线性内波频谱公式,用蒙特卡洛方法统计分析了存在线性内波条件下的声场起伏特性,并用射线理论解释了声源与跃层相对位置对声场起伏的影响机理.结果 表明:随着频率、平...     

Effect of Droop Phenomenon in InGaN/GaN Blue Laser Diodes on Threshold Current

Electroluminescence(EL) and temperature-dependent photoluminescence measurements are performed to study the internal quantum efficiency droop phenomenon of blue laser diodes(LDs) before lasing. Based on the ABC mode, the EL result demonstrates that non-radiative recombination rates of LDs with threshold current densities of 4 and 6 kA/cm~2 are similar, while LD with threshold current density of 4 kA/cm~2 exhibits a smaller augerlike recombination rate compared with the one of 6 kA/cm~2. The internal quantum efficiency droop is more serious for LD with higher threshold current density. The internal quantum efficiency value estimated from temperature-dependent photoluminescence is consistent with EL measurements.     

Reliability study on high-power 638nm broad stripe laser diode

High-power laser diodes (LDs) are strongly demanded as a light source of display applications. In this work, the reliability of a high-power 638 nm broad stripe (BS) LD was studied from the viewpoint of not only gradual degradation but also catastrophic optical degradation (COD) at a front facet. Long term acceleration aging tests for the 638 nm BS-LD with the window-mirror structure by using Zn diffusion were performed. It was confirmed that COD only occurs at a high output power and this mode was dominant compared with gradual degradation. The result also revealed that the mean time to failure due to COD was proportional to optical density to the power of ?3:2. It is clarified that maintaining a low optical output power density is essential to develop high-power and highly reliable red BS-LDs.     

Geoacoustic Inversion for Bottom Parameters via Bayesian Theory in Deep Ocean

We develop a new approach to estimating bottom parameters based on the Bayesian theory in deep ocean.The solution in a Bayesian inversion is characterized by its posterior probability density(PPD),which combines prior information about the model with information from an observed data set.Bottom parameters are sensitive to the transmission loss(TL)data in shadow zones of deep ocean.In this study,TLs of different frequencies from the South China Sea in the summer of 2014 are used as the observed data sets.The interpretation of the multidimensional PPD requires the calculation of its moments,such as the mean,covariance,and marginal distributions,which provide parameter estimates and uncertainties.Considering that the sensitivities of shallowzone TLs vary for different frequencies of the bottom parameters in the deep ocean,this research obtains bottom parameters at varying frequencies.Then,the inversion results are compared with the sampling data and the correlations between bottom parameters are determined.Furthermore,we show the inversion results for multifrequency combined inversion.The inversion results are verified by the experimental TLs and the numerical results,which are calculated using the inverted bottom parameters for different source depths and receiver depths at the corresponding frequency.     

Improvement of performance characteristics of deep violet InGaN DQW lasers using a strip DQW active region

The effect of the laser ridge width on the performance characteristics of deep violet In_0.082Ga_0.918N/GaN double quantum well (DQW) laser diodes (LDs) has been numerically investigated. Simulation results indicated that threshold current of LDs is decreased and slope efficiency and differential quantum efficiency (DQE) are increased by decreasing ridge width, whereas output power is decreased. The results also showed that a decrease of more than 1 μm in the ridge width reduces the threshold current, whereas the slope efficiency, output power, and DQE are decreased. A new DQW LD structure with a strip active region has been proposed to obtain a lower current threshold and higher output power, slope efficiency, and DQE. The results showed the InGaN DQW LD with a strip DQW active region has the highest output power, slope efficiency, and DQE; it also has a lower threshold current compared with that of the original LD. The comparative study conducted for the LDs with output emission wavelengths of 390, 414 and 436 nm has also confirmed the enhancement in LD performance using the strip DQW active region structure.     

1310nm LD组件高低温循环寿命研究

研究了半导体激光二极管(LD)组件的使用寿命。模拟了在不同的环境条件下,对1310 nm LD组件进行了高低温循环寿命实验,建立了循环寿命的数学模型。结果表明:循环寿命与循环的温差、循环的速度成指数关系,通过测试LD组件在高温差、高循环速度条件下的循环寿命,外推器件正常工作条件下的循环寿命。得到了LD组件可靠性数据,为工艺设计人员提出量化数据。     

一种新型的专用于光学相干层析系统的宽带光纤光源

报道了一种新型的专用于光学相干层析系统的输出光谱为准高斯型的宽带超荧光光纤光源.该光源采用掺饵光纤作为增益介质.其关键技术是在抽运源的输出端增加了光耦合器，并在光源输出端插入多级长周期光纤光栅对铒离子的自发光谱进行调制和整形；同时采用光控器和温控器来控制抽运源的输出以提高光源输出功率的稳定性.该光源的中心波长为1.57μm，输出光谱的3dB带宽大于75nm，输出功率为27mW.实验结果表明，该光源输出光谱的自相关函数的旁瓣峰被大大削弱，可以满足光学相干层析系统的应用. 关键词： 光学相干层析术 超荧光光纤光源 长周期光纤光栅 光耦合器     

ZnSe-based heterostructures for blue-green lasers

We review the current status of research activity on ZnSe-based heterostructures for bluegreen laser diodes (LDs), focusing on a few selected critical issues. Early investigations on defect microstructures allowed to strongly enhance the lifetime of LDs. However, the LD lifetime seems to saturate now, and we point out that the model proposed for explaining the degradation of LD does not predict such a saturation. Next, we detail the mechanisms responsible for carrier compensation in p-type ZnSe and we survey the properties of ZnMgSSe and ZnMgBeSe wide bandgap quaternary alloys which are used as cladding layers in LDs. We emphasize that the low p-type dopability of ZnSe and related materials has a dramatic impact on the performance of LDs in terms of emitted wavelength as well as device lifetime.     

InP-based deep-ridge NPN transistor laser

We report an InP-based deep-ridge NPN transistor laser (TL, λ～1.5 μm). By placing the quantum well (QW) active material above the heavily Zn-doped base layer, both the optical absorption of the heavily p-doped base material and the damage of the quality of the QWs resulted from the Zn diffusion into the QWs are decreased greatly. CW operation of the TL is achieved at -40 °C, which is much better than the shallow-ridge InP-based NPN TL. With future optimization of the growth procedure, significant improvement of the performance of the deep-ridge InP-based NPN TLs is expected.     

南海海域跨海沟环境的声场会聚特性

利用南海北部海域的声传播实验数据分析了跨海沟条件下的声传播特性。结果表明:由于负梯度声速剖面和海底地形的共同作用,导致声能量在开始随着海沟深度变化向更深层位置上弯曲传播,传播损失在海沟中心位置附近达到最大。在海深逐渐变浅的距离上,由于海底反射使得声能量逐渐会聚,声传播损失比单纯陆坡变到深海环境下要减小20 dB以上。当会聚效果小于扩散和海底反射等引起的损失时,声传播损失达到最小,之后随着距离增大而增大;在海沟最后一段,当海深在8 km范围内从850 m突然变浅到311 m,声场能量逐渐会聚效果再次凸显,使得声传播损失减小10 dB。利用射线理论和抛物方程近似数值分析,解释了海沟环境下的由于地形变化引起的声场会聚传播特性。      

Intensity-modulating characteristics of a laser diode subjected to optical injection

We have found that the optical power of a laser diode (LD) does not change with the injected light intensity that is modulated when its injection current is at some specific values. The amplitude of optical power change of the LD varies periodically with the increase of the injection current. It is made clear through theoretical analysis that these phenomena are caused by gain compression and interband carrier absorption of the LD that depend on longitudinal mode competition, bandgap-shrinkage effects, thermal conduction, and so on. Our experimental results make it easy to eliminate optical power change of LDs. We only need to choose a proper value of the injection current.     

WDM-PON upstream transmission using Fabry–Perot laser diodes externally injected by polarization-insensitive spectrum-sliced supercontinuum pulses

We propose, a novel upstream transmission scheme for high speed wavelength division multiplexed passive optical networks. Upstream transmission at bit rate of 2.5 Gb/s was demonstrated using a Fabry–Perot (FP) laser diode (LD) externally injected by a spectrum-sliced polarization-insensitive supercontinuum pulse source, located at central office. The impact of Rayleigh backscattering on transmission performance is also investigated. The proposed scheme is expected to be cost-effective since low-cost FP LDs are used for light sources.     

南中国海海域存在孤立子内波条件下的 声场统计特性*

利用南海浅海海域低频声传播起伏实验中获取的水文数据,结合二维平流模型重构出声传播路径上的动态声速场,使用蒙特卡洛方法研究了有、无孤立子内波经过声传播路径条件下的声传播损失统计特性,并与实验结果进行了对比分析。仿真和实验结果表明：当孤立子内波经过声传播路径时,声传播损失起伏剧烈;与“下发上收”相比,“下发下收”情况下传播损失的概率分布更加分散。