全保偏非线性偏振环形镜锁模掺铒光纤激光器

研究了基于非线性偏振环形镜锁模的全保偏光纤激光器锁模机制。在非线性偏振环形镜中,用偏振分束器取代传统的非线性放大环形镜锁模激光器中的光纤耦合器,并辅以非互易性元件和增益光纤,作为全保偏光纤激光器中实现稳定锁模的核心器件。构建了一台基于非线性偏振环形镜的掺铒光纤锁模激光振荡器,实现了重复频率75 MHz,时域脉冲宽度141 fs,总输出功率约30 mW的稳定锁模脉冲序列输出。该激光器具有双向输出,且通过调节腔内波片可调节输出功率。此外,对激光器输出功率和重复频率的稳定性进行了评价,在自由运转情况下,1 h内输出脉冲序列的平均功率波动小于0.05%,重复频率的1 s相对稳定度为2.010-8。该结构的全保偏光纤激光器可开机自启动锁模,且环境稳定性高、重复频率较高、脉冲宽度窄,能满足激光测距、激光加工、激光光谱成像、航天等应用对超短脉冲光源的需求。     

L-band tunable erbium doped fiber ring laser using fiber loop mirror filters

We present a novel and efficient L-band wavelength-tunable Er^3＋ doped fiber laser of ring structure. In the cavity two segments of Er^3＋ doped fiber and a fiber Bragg grating are used to improve pump efficiency. Tunable filters based on fiber loop mirrors are also applied inside the cavity to act as both a wavelength selector and a line-width compressor. Using these techniques, a tunable laser with tuning range up to 42 nm, output power larger than 1 mW, power uniformity controlled within 1.75 dB and side mode suppression ratio about 40 dB is achieved.     

Mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser using intracavity polarization-maintaining loop mirror

Erbium-doped fiber lasers at repetition rate of 40 and 80 GHz are demonstrated in an injection-locked and rational harmonic mode-locked ring cavity. The cavity has a polarization-maintaining loop mirror. The injection-locking pulse is generated at repetition rates of 20 and 40 GHz from another rational harmonic mode-locked fiber laser. When these pulses are injected into the second fiber laser, pulses at twice the repetition rates viz. 40 and 80 GHz are produced.     

基于光纤环形镜的光纤激光器的优化设计

对基于光纤环形镜和光纤光栅的线形腔光纤激光器进行了优化设计.以光纤光栅作为激光器的输出端镜,分别将光纤环形镜和非线性放大环形镜与其构成激光器的谐振腔;在光纤光栅与光纤环形镜构成的谐振腔中引入偏振控制器,并以加入偏振控制器的环形镜作为激光输出端镜,对上述三种实验装置的激光输出特性进行了分析比较.     

基于级联光纤环形镜的增益平坦掺铒光纤放大器

基于光纤环形镜的滤波原理,提出利用级联结构光纤环形镜(FLM)实现掺铒光纤放大器(EDFA)增益平坦滤波的方案,并进行了相关实验研究.实验结果显示,使用级联FLM取得了明显的增益平坦效果,其1535-1557nm波长范围内的增益不平坦度由±5dB减小到±1dB.     

Multi-wavelength fiber laser based on broadband fiber grating and HiBi fiber loop mirror

Multi-wavelength fiber lasers have attracted a lot of in- terest in recent years because of its potential applications in optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems, fiber sensors, and other fiber-optics instruments. Because of the predominant…     

Switchable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber ring laser with a multisection high-birefringence fiber loop mirror

We proposed and demonstrated a new concept of switchable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber ring laser with a multisection high-birefringence fiber loop mirror (HiBi-FLM). The HiBi-FLM results in the laser operating on different allowed wavelengths. The wavelength switching can be achieved by modifying the reflection spectrum of HiBi-FLM through two polarization controllers. The experiment demonstrates the switchable lasing operation within the random combination of three wavelengths, as well as with a large (/spl sim/40 dB) output signal to background noise ratio.     

基于可调谐光纤环形镜滤波器的多波长布里渊掺铒光纤激光器

通过使用非线性放大的光纤环形 镜滤波器(AFLMF),构造了一种新颖的多波长布里渊掺铒光纤激光器(E DFL)线形结构。非线性AFLMF由掺铒光纤放大器(EDFA,由980n m泵浦抽运 一段EDF构成)、偏振控制器(PC)和耦合器构成,减少了腔内基于波长的损耗,并且能够灵 活地控制反射 光以及激光腔内输入和输出光的强度。在布里渊泵浦功率为25mW、 980nm泵浦功率为200mW时,获得了波 长间隔为0.08nm的14个波长的激光输出以及50nm的可调谐范围。通过调节980nm抽运光功率、PC以及布里渊泵浦光波长,实现了可调谐的多波长输出。研究 了980nm抽运光功率以及PC对斯托克斯光波数的影响。     

Tunable multiwavelength fiber ring lasers using a programmable high-birefringence fiber loop mirror

We demonstrate a comb filter with digitally tunable wavelength spacing using a programmable high-birefringence (HiBi) fiber loop mirror (FLM). We then use the HiBi-FLM to implement a tunable multiwavelength semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based fiber ring laser and a tunable multiwavelength all-fiber Raman ring laser. Both lasers exhibit stable room-temperature operation and have a wavelength spacing that is digitally tunable between 1.6 and 3.2 nm. With the SOA-based configuration, we obtain six wavelengths with a spacing of 3.2 nm and 11 wavelengths with a spacing of 1.6 nm; with the all-fiber Raman-based configuration, we obtain four wavelengths with a spacing of 3.2 nm and five wavelengths with a spacing of 1.6 nm.     

Gain flattening of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier using ahigh-birefringence fiber loop mirror

We propose a flexible method for flattening the gain profile of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The method is based on a high-birefringence fiber loop mirror (HiBi-FLM), which contains a number of high-birefringence fiber sections and polarization controllers. We show that, by setting the polarization controllers properly, the reflection spectrum of the loop mirror can be adjusted to compensate for the variations in the gain profile of the EDFA. The method is demonstrated experimentally by using a single-section HiBi-FLM and a two-section HiBi-FLM, respectively, With a two-section HiBi-FLM, we are able to flatten the gain profile of an EDFA to within ±0.9 dB over a bandwidth of 33 nm at the center wavelength of 1543 nm, under different operating conditions of the EDFA     

A fiber Bragg grating sensor demodulation technique using apolarization maintaining fiber loop mirror

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a simple, passive, and self-referencing wavelength shift detection scheme for use in fiber Bragg grating sensing systems. The demodulation system is based on the interference between two modes in a polarization maintaining fiber loop mirror. Although it involves the use of an interference technique, it is stable compared with other conventional interference demodulators     

基于光纤环镜的被动锁模飞秒脉冲光纤激光器

在当前的高速光通信系统中,光源的选择至关重要。文章分析了光纤环镜的非线性传输特性,论述了利用光纤环激光器锁模产生超短脉冲的原理。     

Pedestal suppression from compressed femtosecond pulses using anonlinear fiber loop mirror

The compression of higher order soliton pulses in dispersion decreasing fibers (DDF's) generates ultrashort fundamental soliton-like pulses accompanied by a broad low-intensity pedestal component. In this paper, we investigate the subsequent removal of the pedestal using a nonlinear optical fiber loop mirror (NOLM) to produce high-quality pulses. The influence of higher order effects such as stimulated Raman scattering and third-order fiber dispersion on the pedestal removal from ultrashort pulses are considered, and the effectiveness of using dispersion-flattened fiber within the loop is shown. The technique is experimentally demonstrated for 540-fs pulses generated by compression in DDF. In this case, high-quality pulses are produced by pedestal removal using a NOLM constructed from dispersion-shifted fiber     

用光纤环路镜实现WDM系统中的EDFA增益均衡

EDFA对不同波长的光产生的增益不同 ,这种增益不平坦特性成为 WDM系统中高速率、大容量信息传输的障碍 ,因此对 EDFA的增益进行均衡就显得特别重要。介绍用光纤环路镜实现 EDFA增益均衡的机理 ,并进行了实验 ,结果表明该方法简单易行 ,均衡效果显著     

Waveband-switchable SOA ring laser constructed with a phase modulator loop mirror filter

An electrically tunable multiwavelength source has been developed using a birefringence-based optical comb filter in a semiconductor optical amplifier ring laser. The filter is constructed with an electrooptic phase modulator placed inside a fiber loop mirror. By controlling the birefringence of the modulator through the applied bias, the radio-frequency power, or the modulation frequency, we achieve a continuous shift of the spectral comb to access different interleaved wavebands. Electrical waveband switching has been successfully demonstrated for 21 wavelengths at 100-GHz grid spacing with an optical signal-to-noise ratio over 40 dB.     

Single-frequency fiber laser from linear cavity with loop mirror filter and dual-cascaded FBGs

A single-frequency ytterbium fiber laser was demonstrated by introducing a loop mirror filter, a polarization controller (PC), and dual-cascaded fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in linear laser cavity. The loop mirror with unpumped ytterbium fiber as a narrow bandwidth filter discriminated and selected laser longitudinal modes efficiently. The spatial hole burning effect was restrained by adjusting PC appropriately. Dual closely cascaded FBGs as the output coupler, acting as an etalon, expanded the operation range of single frequency. Output power up to 18 mW at 1064 nm were obtained under the launched pump power of 107 mW at 976 nm, the optical-optical conversion efficiency was about 16.8%; the slope efficiency was about 20%.     

Switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on the photonic crystal fiber loop mirror and chirped fiber Bragg grating

The switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser(EDFL) with a two-mode photonic crystal fiber(PCF) loop mirror and a chirped fiber Bragg grating(CFBG) at room temperature is proposed and experimentally demonstrated.The two-mode PCF loop mirror is formed by inserting a piece of two-mode PCF into a Sagnac loop mirror,with the air-holes of the PCF intentionally collapsing at the splices.By adjusting the state of the polarization controller(PC) appropriately,the laser can be switched between ...     

A switchable and tunable ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser with a Sagnac loop mirror

A switchable and tunable ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser(YDFL) is reported and demonstrated. Employing a Sagnac loop mirror fabricated by an 85-cm-long polarization-maintaining fiber(PMF), the proposed YDFL can operate with stable dual-wavelength lasing or tunable single-wavelength lasing around 1 064 nm. Both stable dual-wavelength lasing and tunable single-wavelength lasing are achieved by adjusting a polarization controller in the Sagnac loop mirror. The experimental results show that the output of the proposed fiber laser with two different operation modes is rather stable at room temperature.     

全光纤电光主动调Q激光器

利用马赫曾德尔Mach-Zehnder (M-Z)结构的尾纤型铌酸锂(LiNbO3)电光强度调制器作为Q开关元件,采用974nm半导体激光器作为泵浦源,峰值吸收系数为110dB/m的掺杂铒纤作为增益介质,实现了1550nm波长的全光纤主动调Q激光器。通过电光强度调制器对腔内损耗进行周期性调制,实现Q开关作用,获得了稳定的调Q脉冲输出。实验中通过改变泵浦功率和调制频率,研究了脉冲宽度和峰值功率的变化规律。获得输出脉冲重复频率50Hz-88kHz可调,重复频率1kHz时获得最窄脉冲宽度246ns,峰值功率近5W。