Noise processes in large ring lasers

Large ring lasers with a cavity Q well above 10¹² are characterized by extremely narrow line-widths and high coherence. At this point, active Sagnac interferometers do not quite reach the quantum limit. In this paper, we will explore the current status of this technology and look at the various noise processes involved with large ring lasers rigidly mounted to the Earth crust.     

Second-order bragg interaction in double grating couplers: TM mode

An analytical treatment of the second-order Bragg interaction is presented for the transverse magnetic mode of a dielectric film waveguide having gratings on both the film-cover and the film-substrate interfaces. Four canonical equations that describe the interactions of two guided waves propagating in the opposite directions in the film and the normally incident and radiated free waves in the cover and the substrate are deduced.     

Mode-locked lasers and ultrashort light pulses

This article reviews some aspects of the generation of very short optical pulses using mode-locked lasers, with the emphasis laid on pulsed laser systems. Active and passive mode-locking is discussed, and the problem of measuring ultrashort light pulses is considered. A survey of some commonly used sources and techniques for the generation of ultrashort light pulses follows. The paper concludes with a short account of limitations in the generation and propagation of these pulses.     

10-Gbit/s Serial Optical Interconnection for an ATM Switch

Serial optical interconnection is proposed for connections in a Torus asynchronous transfer mode switch. A cross-point switch was developed that operates at a bit rate of 20 Gbit/s. The switching operation was successfully performed using cascaded cross-point switches through an optical interconnection configuration consisting of commercial optoelectronics devices. The measured switching rate was 10 Gbit/s, and it was limited by the responses of the optoelectronics devices.     

基于经验模态分解的高光谱遥感数据去噪方法

经验模态分解(EMD)是一种新的时频分析方法,经EMD分解后的各个固有模态函数(IMF)突出了原始信号的局部特征,从而可以区分噪声和有用信号。基于此,结合高光谱遥感数据的光谱变化特征,提出了一种基于经验模态分解的高光谱遥感数据去噪方法。通过对理论数据的实验表明,数据中的噪声无论是高斯分布还是均匀分布,数据经EMD分解后,噪声都主要集中在前几个特定的IMF,对相应的IMF进行滤波处理后并与其他IMF分量进行重构就可得到去噪信号,与小波去噪结果相比较,这种方法效果更好。最后把该去噪方法应用于野外实测的油膜高光谱数据去噪,实验结果表明,该方法能准确、有效地去除高光谱遥感数据的噪声。     

Picosecond laser oscillator with a cavity design for stable CW mode-locking operation

A detailed design of a picosecond laser oscillator is made by using optical resonance theory and semiconductor saturable absorber mirror continuous wave mode-locked technology. Mode parameters in the optical resonance including beam sizes on the laser crystal and mode locker are calculated. By theoretical calculations, 3.7 W output power is obtained at a pump power of 11 W and the optical to optical efficiency is 34% in the designed model of picosecond laser. Based on the detailed design, an experiment is proceeded and a picosecond laser oscillator of about 3.5 W output power with 10.6 W pump power is fabricated. The optical to optical efficiency of the laser is 33%, the pulse duration is about 20 ps, and the repetition rate is about 80.3 MHz. The oscillator presents long-term stability in the experiment.     

High-speed transmission limitations due to Polarization Mode Dispersion

In this paper, the impacts of Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) on the performance of high-speed optical communication system have been reported at different bit rates. The two systems are modeled using older fibers with same PMD coefficient at different bit rates and third is with the new fiber with less PMD coefficient than that of the previous two. The attenuation, chromatic dispersion and non-linear effects have been disabled, so that all the variation of the results is due to PMD. The bit rate is varied from 2.5 to 40 Gbps and the length is varied from 1000 to 20,000 km. It is shown that the impact of PMD increases with the bit rate of system. It is also reported that the impact of PMD becomes intolerable at the bit rates of more than 40 Gbps. And also the PMD produces very minute impact on the system performance for same bit rate with the variation in the fiber length.     

Surface waves and mode conversion at a surface coated with an elastic heavy layer

A surface wave of frequency lying within bulk band of transverse waves is found in an elastic medium coated with a thin layer endowed with a surface mass density, surface Young's modulus and surface bending modulus. The wave is a particular case of surface resonance with infinite lifetime. In materials with negative Poisson's ratio (auxetics) the wave exists even for coating material with zero bending modulus, whereas with positive Poisson's ratio it requires the surface bending modulus to be larger than the surface Young's modulus. The manifestation of this wave in the reflection coefficient seems promising for fabrication of devices showing monochromator properties.