Widely tunable dual-pump parametric amplifiers with photonic crystal fibres

This paper theoretically studies the double-pumped fibre-optical parametric amplifiers （FOPAs） in photonic crystal fibres. Two distinct working regimes of FOPAs are researched, which depend on the dispersion at the central wavelength of the two pumps. Extremely broad tuning range can be obtained when the central pump wavelength is in the normal dispersion regime and is insensitive to the wavelength separation between the two pumps, while the tuning range is narrow in the anomalous dispersion regime and can be significantly enhanced by increasing the wavelength separation. Impacts of higher-order dispersions and temporal walk-off on the gain spectra are also discussed.     

飞秒非线性光学的最新进展——几个周期超短超强激光脉冲的非线性光学

 本文介绍了飞秒非线性光脉冲研究的最新进展。超快技术的发展已经能够产生仅含几个振荡周期的超强脉冲,其强度梯度使电子可以存在于比库仑束缚场高许多倍的外场产生的原子束缚态,并产生了同光频相差不大的电离率,从而导致了非线性光学的一些新的特点。     

Parametric amplification at low-frequency pumping and generation of four-mode entangled states

We show that parametric amplification at low-frequency pumping can be implemented in aperiodic nonlinear photonic crystals. In this process, the intensities of the waves with frequencies higher than the pumping frequency increase with increase in the interaction length as in the case of the standard process of parametric amplification at high-frequency pumping. The process under consideration includes a nondegenerate parametric down-conversion followed by two parametric up-conversions in the same pumping wave. As a result, generation at four new frequencies arises. Quantum analysis of the process demonstrates the presence of entanglement in the states of four modes. Talk presented at the oral issue of J. Russ. Laser Res. dedicated to the memory of Professor Vladimir A. Isakov, Professor Alexander S. Shumovsky, and Professor Andrei V. Vinogradov held in Moscow February 21–22, 2008.     

双通放大受激布里渊散射脉冲压缩

文章报道了利用双通放大结构进行受激布里渊散射（ＳＢＳ）脉冲压缩，实验获得了近极限压缩的脉冲，压缩率近１０倍。实验中同时观察到脉冲压缩中的相位跃变。相位跃变是受激背散射光与入射激光间的增益与损耗调制的结果。     

Self-pulsations of radiation in a solid-state laser with a nonlinear thin-film <Emphasis Type="Italic">Q</Emphasis> switch

The conditions for realization of the regime of self-oscillations of the intensity of a continuously pumped solid-state laser have been qualitatively analyzed using a system of kinetic equations. It has been established that, in the case where a thin semiconductor layer absorbing light at frequencies close to the lasing frequency is placed into the cavity of such a laser, self-oscillations of its radiation intensity arise as a result of the amplitude-phase self-modulation of the laser light field.__________Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 136–139, January–February, 2005.     

Biosensors for phenol derivatives using biochemical signal amplification

Two different approaches, both exploiting two enzymes cooperative functioning, to enhance the sensitivity of tyrosinase (PPO) based biosensor for amperometric detection of phenols have been compared. For this purpose, one monoenzyme electrode (PPO) and two bienzyme electrodes (PPO and d-glucose dehydrogenase, GDH; PPO and horseradish peroxidase, HRP) were constructed using agar-agar gel as enzyme immobilization matrix. The biosensors responses for l-tyrosine detection were recorded at −50 mV versus saturated calomel electrode (SCE). The highest sensitivity (74 mA M⁻¹) was observed for the PPO-GDH couple, while that recorded for PPO-HRP couple system was only 32 times higher than that measured for monoenzyme electrode (0.01 mA M⁻¹). The ability of the PPO-, PPO-GDH-, PPO-HRP-based biosensors to assay phenols was demonstrated by quantitative determination of phenol, 1,2-dihydroxybenzene, 1,3-dihydroxybenzene, 1,4-dihydroxybenzene, 2-amino-3 (4-hydroxyphenyl) propanoic acid, 2-hydroxytoluene, 3-hydroxytoluene, 4-hydroxytoluene, 4-clorophenol, 3-clorophenol, 2-clorophenol, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid.     

Propagation of light-pulses at a negative group-velocity

This paper deals with the apparent superluminal propagation of electromagnetic pulses in a linear dispersive medium. One specifically examines the possibility that the pulse leaving the medium may be nearly identical to the incident one (low distortion) and in significant advance of it (strongly negative group-delays). Favourable conditions are obtained in a dilute medium where the required anomalous dispersion originates in an ensemble of narrow absorption or gain lines. Analytical expressions of the advancement of the pulse centre-of-gravity and of the lowest order distortion are established from the transfer-function of the medium. The experiments already achieved with arrangements involving a single absorption-line or a gain-doublet are analysed in detail and compared. The considerable difficulties to overcome in order to attain advancements comparable to the pulse width without important distortion are pointed out. New and promising schemes involving a narrow dip in a gain profile or absorption-doublets are proposed. Received 4 July 2002 / Received in final form 8 November 2002 Published online 4 February 2003 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: bruno.macke@univ-lille1.fr RID="b" ID="b"Unité Mixte de Recherche de l'Université et du CNRS (UMR 8523)     

Spectral noise analysis of Er3+:Ti:LiNbO3 curved waveguide amplifiers

We report simulations concerning optical amplification in Er:Ti:LiNbO₃ curved waveguides. The derivation and the evaluation of the spectral optical gain, the spectral noise figure, the amplified spontaneous emission photon number, and the signal to noise ratio are performed under the small gain approximation. The simulations show the evolution of these parameters under various pump regimes, Er concentration profiles and waveguide lengths. The results obtained are of significant interest for the design of complex, rare earth-doped integrated optics structures involving bent waveguides.     

发散光束抽运的宽带光参量啁啾脉冲放大系统的理论研究

对发散光束抽运的光参量啁啾脉冲放大器的增益带宽进行了系统的理论研究.采用空间傅里叶变换和四阶Runge-Kutta算法，分别模拟了非衍射极限情况下的高斯光束和空间频谱为矩形的发散光束作为抽运光时的增益曲线.结果表明：不管是在可见光或是在近红外光谱区，用发散光束均可以明显地改善光参量啁啾脉冲放大系统的增益带宽.选取合适的发散角和抽运光强，可以获得高增益、宽谱带的信号光输出. 关键词： 光参量啁啾脉冲放大 增益带宽 发散角 高斯光束     

1 kHz-0.1 TW高效率钛宝石激光放大器

介绍了一种高重复频率掺钛蓝宝石飞秒激光多通高效率放大系统.在抽运功率为23 W，入射功率为660 mW时，获得7.2 W的放大输出，放大效率达30%.经压缩器压缩后，获得单脉冲能量4.5 mJ,脉冲宽度为 38 fs，重复频率为1 kHz，峰值功率大于0.1 TW的超短超强激光脉冲. 关键词： 飞秒脉冲 高重复频率 啁啾脉冲放大