Ultrafast all-optical switching in GaAlAs integrated interferometer in 1.55 mu m spectral region

The first observation is reported of ultrafast all-optical switching in an integrated asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer, using the nonresonant nonlinearity in Ga/sub 0.82/Al/sub 0.18/As below half the bandgap. A relative switching fraction of more than 80% has been achieved using 330 fs pulses at around 1.55 mu m from a coupled-cavity mode-locked colour centre laser.<>     

Electronically controlled high-speed wavelength-tunable femtosecondsoliton pulse generation using acoustooptic modulator

The compact system of electronically controlled high-speed wavelength-tunable femtosecond (fs) soliton pulse generation is realized for the first time using a passively mode-locked fs fiber laser, a polarization maintaining optical fiber, and an acoustooptic (A-O) modulator. The wavelength of the output pulses can be continuously tuned simply by controlling the input voltage into the A-O modulator. The wavelength of the soliton pulses can be changed at 2.5-μs intervals. Wavelength stabilization, time division wavelength multiplexed soliton pulse generation, and a wavelength scanner have been demonstrated     

40-GHz mode-locked fiber-ring laser using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with integrated SOAs

A 40-GHz mode-locked fiber-ring laser based on an optically controlled modulator is presented and analyzed in detail. The modulator is a monolithic InGaAsP-InP Mach-Zehnder interferometer with integrated semiconductor optical amplifiers, which allows optical pulse generation synchronized to an external optical clock pulse stream. The laser generates nearly transform-limited Gaussian pulses of 2.5-ps width and up to 9-mW mean output power with less than 130 fs of timing jitter, and it is wavelength tunable over more than 30 nm. The relationship between key laser parameters and the output pulse characteristics is analyzed experimentally and numerically. An improved cavity design permits the generation of shorter pulses of 1.0-ps width.     

Simultaneous generation of wavelength tunable two-coloredfemtosecond soliton pulses using optical fibers

Wavelength tunable two-colored femtosecond (fs) soliton pulse generation is proposed and demonstrated for the first time, using passively mode-locked fs fiber laser and polarization maintaining fibers. The wavelengths of the two soliton pulses can be changed arbitrarily by varying the power and polarization direction of the fiber-input pulse. Ideal two colored soliton pulses in which the pulsewidths are about 200 fs are generated in the wavelength region of 1.56-1.70 μm for 110-m fiber. The generated pulses are almost transform-limited ones     

利用腔内可控自相位调制效应压缩飞秒光脉冲

报道了在掺钛蓝宝石环形激光器中加入非线性折射率 n2 较大的 SF- 57玻璃形成腔内可控的 SPM效应 ,并引入适当的负 GVD,将脉冲宽度从 30 fs压缩至 16 fs,相应的脉冲压缩率为 4 7%。     

Ultrashort pulse generation by intracavity spectral shaping andphase compensation of external-cavity modelocked semiconductor lasers

Intracavity spectral shaping and external chirp compensation techniques were employed to generate nearly transform-limited optical pulses with a temporal duration of 250 fs from an external-cavity modelocked semiconductor laser. It was also demonstrated that intracavity spectral shaping techniques can be used for artificially tailoring the chirp of the output pulses     

Sub-100 fs Kerr lens modelocked Cr4+:YAG laser

Sub-100 fs pulse generation from a Kerr lens modelocked Cr⁴⁺ :YAG laser has been demonstrated for the first time, yielding femtosecond pulses tunable from 1.49 to 1.56 μm with pulses as short as 90 fs obtained at 1.53 μm     

基于饱和吸收镜的被动锁模光纤激光器

在普通单模光纤环中插入半导体可饱和吸收镜(SESAM)作为非线性器件,实现了自启动的被动锁模光纤激光器,并产生了亚皮秒量级的稳定锁模激光脉冲。输出锁模脉冲的基频为几兆赫兹。利用基于倍频晶体的二次谐波自相关仪测得锁模脉冲的脉宽为422 fs,最窄时可达377 fs,利用光谱仪测得脉冲谱宽为6.35 nm,脉宽谱宽乘积为0.329,接近于双曲正割脉冲的变换极限。实验中激光器输出脉冲稳定,没有观察到子脉冲和直流分量。在一般的实验室条件下,未采取任何附加措施,激光器可连续稳定工作10 h以上,没有出现失锁现象。该装置结构简单,紧凑,易于调整,工作稳定,可以很方便地实现自启动锁模。     

飞秒染料激光放大器

本文用重复率为10Hz、调Q、Nd∶YAG激光器的二倍频输出泵浦四级染料放大器,把从对撞脉冲锁模(CPM)环形染料激光器中产生的43fs的光脉冲能量放大到100μJ,脉冲宽度为125fs,峰值功率为800MW,在用一组四棱镜系统对放大的光脉冲进行群速度色散补偿以后,得到了宽度为70fs的放大光脉冲输出,峰值功率达GW。     

High‐capacity soliton transmission for indoor and outdoor communications using integrated ring resonators

A system consisting of a series of microring resonators, incorporating an add/drop system, is presented in order to create ultra‐short spatial and temporal single and multisoliton pulses, which can be used for indoor and outdoor optical communications. Chaotic noise can be generated by a bright soliton pulse propagating inside a nonlinear microring resonator system. The results obtained show that a single temporal and spatial soliton pulse, with full width at half maximums of 75 fs, 80 fs, 700 fs, 4.4 ps, and 0.30 nm, can be generated. The add/drop system can be used to generate a high number of ultra‐short soliton pulses in the ranges of nanometer/second and picometer/second. The simulated multisolitons have full width at half maximums of 16 ps, 20 pm, 130 ps, and 35 pm and free spectrum ranges of 500 ps, 0.57 nm, 3.5 ns, and 1.4 nm, respectively. The multisolitons generated at the drop port can be used in indoor optical communications, where the ultra‐short pulses with a variety of central wavelengths (from λ = 1550 to λ = 1560) from the through port can be multiplexed‐demultiplexed along an optical fiber with a length of 50 km. The filtered signals can be obtained at the end of the transmission link used for optical outdoor communications. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

High-power side-pumped passively mode-locked Er-Yb fiber laser

A side-pumped double-clad Er-Yb fiber laser passively mode-locked with a saturable absorber is demonstrated for the first time. Pumped with a power of 1 W from a broad-stripe diode laser, an environmentally stable cavity design produces positively chirped 3-ps pulses at a repetition rate of 30 MHz with an average output power of 50 mW. The pulses can be linearly compressed to 330 fs in a length of negative dispersion fiber, whereas nonlinear compression in standard telecom fibers yields 130-fs pulses with pulse energies of 1.2 nJ     

超短脉冲激光特性的三阶相关测量研究

在飞秒激光放大系统研制以及激光与物质相互作用研究过程中,良好的脉冲对比度是十分重要的一个指标,为了准确地测定激光对比度,我们利用非线性晶体对激光强度变化十分敏感的特性,研制了一台三阶相关仪,并对一台飞秒激光器进行了脉冲对比度的测量研究,所得结果揭示出了二阶相关仪所无法得到的信息,为测量飞秒激光脉冲的对比度提供了一种简便的方法.     

Generation of complex microwave and millimeter-wave pulses using dispersion and Kerr effect in optical fiber systems

We study a new method to synthesize high-frequency complex microwave and millimeter-wave pulses using dispersion, Kerr effect, and group velocity delay in optical fiber systems. The profile of the generated pulses can be controlled by changing the parameters of the optical system. Nonlinear propagation effect in fibers can be used to generate electrical pulses with an extremely broad spread spectrum. Soliton trapping can be used to generate electrical pulses with a controllable frequency. Implicit results are given when dispersion or nonlinear effect can be neglected. Generation of electrical pulses with a controllable microwave frequency is demonstrated experimentally using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a chirped fiber Bragg grating.     

Interaction of relativistic electrons with ultrashort laser pulses:generation of femtosecond X-rays and microprobing of electron beams

The interaction of relativistic electrons with terawatt femtosecond laser pulses is reviewed with emphasis on how the scattering process can be used as a source of ultrashort X-ray pulses and as a time-resolved diagnostic for measuring transverse and longitudinal phase space distributions of an electron beam with microns spatial and subpicosecond temporal resolution. Recent experimental results are presented in which 90° Thomson scattering was utilized to generate 300 fs duration pulses of X-rays with peak energy of 30 keV. It is shown that, through analysis of the scattered X-ray beam properties, transverse and longitudinal distributions of the electron beam can be obtained     

基于FPGA的插频式外差干涉信号处理方法

为了测得外差干涉仪的相位移,采用插频法对外差干涉仪的参考信号与测量信号进行了处理,从而测得两个信号的相位差即多普勒频移.插频法基于过零检测原理,即在测量信号与参考信号上升沿来临时,分别对两信号插入脉冲,通过对插入的脉冲计数,实现相位差的测量.外差干涉仪光源是拍频为2.2MHz的He-Ne激光,使用迈克尔逊干涉仪测量系统...     

Femtosecond pulse generation in the red/deep red spectral region

Optical pulses as short as 55 fs in duration have been generated near 675 nm in a synchronously pumped, hybridly mode-locked, sulforhodamine 101 dye laser. Hybrid mode locking of rhodamineBin the same cavity arrangement yielded 187 fs pulses at 650 nm.     

Noise characteristics of femtosecond fiber Raman soliton laser withhigh-Q cavity

The amplitude noise characteristics of femtosecond optical pulses generated from a synchronously pumped all-fiber Raman soliton laser with high-Q cavity are investigated under different operation states of the laser. By suppressing the soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS) effect in the high-Q fiber cavity, real femtosecond soliton oscillation can be obtained in the laser. Low-noise 400 fs optical pulses with a white amplitude noise level of -120 dBc/Hz have been generated from the laser operating in such an SSFS-free state     

Tunable, high-power, subpicosecond blue-green dye laser system witha two-stage dye amplifier

A two-stage dye amplifier design has been developed to amplify tunable, blue-green, subpicosecond dye laser pulses which are generated from a hybrid synchronously mode-locked dye oscillator directly (800 fs) or shorter to 200 fs by a fiber compressor stage. This system has achieved single pulse energies of 2 mJ, with an amplified spontaneous emission content of less than 0.1%. Using 40 mJ of the third-harmonic output of an Nd:YAG regenerative amplifier to pump the dye amplifier system, these pulse energies represent an energy extraction efficiency of ~5%. The tunability, stability, and spatial and temporal quality of the output pulses from the system have also been characterized     

Compact system of wavelength-tunable femtosecond soliton pulsegeneration using optical fibers

Using passively mode-locked femtosecond (fs) fiber laser and polarization maintaining fibers, the compact system of wavelength-tunable femtosecond (fs) fundamental soliton pulse generation is realized. The monocolored soliton pulse, not multicolored ones, with the ideal sech² shape is generated, and its wavelength can be linearly shifted by varying merely the fiber-input power in the wide wavelength region of 1.56-1.78 μm for a 75-m fiber. The soliton pulses of less than 200 fs are generated with the high conversion efficiency of 75%-85%. This system can be widely used as a portable and practical wavelength-tunable fs optical pulse sources     

Generation of 40 GHz phase stable optical short pulses using intensity modulator and two cascaded phase modulators

Pulse sources based on lithium niobate modulators are very attractive for optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) transmission systems because the modulators are now commercially available,qualified for system use,and can operate up to very high speeds and over a wide wavelength range.In this paper,we describe the principles of operation and performance of the pulse source based on lithium niobate modulators.The pulse source is based on a Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator (IM) and two phase modulators (PMs).The continuouswave (CW) light is modulated in an IM and then strongly phase modulated in two cascaded PMs.The chirped pulses are subsequently compressed to desired width using dispersion compensation technology.This method has the advantage of acquiring larger chirp using normal PM rather than that special designed PM of very low Vπ.It can also generate shorter pulses than conventional methods incorporating only one PM driving by a radio frequency (RF) signal with the power larger than 1 W which may damage the device.Generation of 40 GHz optical pulses shorter than 2 ps is theoretically illustrated,simulated and experimentally verified.Experimental results show that 40 GHz phase stable optical pulses with pulse-width of 1.88 ps,extinction ratio (ER) larger than 20 dB,the timing jitter of 57 fs and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 32.8 dB can be achieved.This is also a cavity-less pulse source whose timing jitter is determined only by the RF source rather than by the actively controlled cavity.In the experiment,the phase noise of the RF source we used is as low as -98.13 dBc/Hz at a 10 kHz offset frequency which resulting very low timing jitter of generated pulses.The pulses are then modulated at 40 Gbaud/s with an inphase/quadrature (l/Q) modulator and multiplexed to 160 Gbaud/s with less interference between each other.After back-to-back demultiplexing by an electro-absorption modulator (EAM) to 40 Gbaud/s and demodulation by a delay interferometer (DI),clear and opened eye diagrams of 40 Gbaud/s I and Q tributary signals are obtained which verify the good performance of generated pulses in the 160Gbaud/s differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK) OTDM system and further prove the phase stability and high quality of generated pulses.