Study of nonlinear propagation of chirped optical pulses in laser amplifying medium

In chirped pulse amplification, the amplification of an optical pulse in laser amplifying medium is a very important link. After considering dispersion, Kerr nonlinear effect, gain distribution and loss of the medium, the physical model that the optical pulse propagates in the medium has been established, which is suitable for the general situation where the optical pulse propagates in the amplifying medium. Using a split-step Fourier method, the propagation state of a chirped optical pulse in the amplifying medium has been numerically simulated, and the influences of the gain dispersion of the medium and the frequency detuning of the pulse on the optical pulse have been discussed emphatically. The results show that, with the amplification and propagation of the ultrashort chirped pulse in the amplifying medium, gain saturation and Kerr nonlinear effect of the medium will cause distortion of the optical pulse. For the optical pulse with a wideband spectrum, gain dispersion will cause the gain narrowing effect, so it is equivalent to a loss mechanism. The frequency detuning of the optical pulse will cause distortion of the pulse, which can be used to weaken the impact of gain saturation, thus reshaping the optical pulse.     

Measurement of pulse width and amplitude jitter noises of gigahertz optical pulse trains by time-domain demodulation

We propose a technique for measuring both pulse width and amplitude jitter noises of high-repetition-rate optical pulse trains and the cross correlation between these noises as well. The technique is based on time-domain amplitude demodulation of three harmonic components of the detected pulse train. We applied this technique to characterize noises of a gigahertz optical pulse train generated by an actively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser. Correlation between pulse width jitter and pulse amplitude jitter was observed at low frequencies in this laser. Unlike relaxation oscillation noise, low-frequency noise is free from pulse energy jitter. Owing to its ability to measure pulse width jitter in addition to amplitude and phase jitters, this technique is of great interest for characterizing noises of a wide variety of optical pulse train sources.     

提高布里渊光时域反射应变仪测量空间分辨力的等效脉冲光拟合法

由于探测光脉冲宽度受到限制,布里渊光时域反射仪(BOTDR)在对光纤上的应变进行分布式测量时,空间分辨力只能达到1 m。针对布里渊光时域反射仪单次采样接收背向布里渊散射信号(BBS)需要一定的时间,提出了基于等效脉冲光的多洛仑兹拟合法以提高其应变测量的空间分辨力。该方法将探测光脉冲在布里渊光时域反射仪完成单次采样所需的时间上进行积分,将积分函数作为等效脉冲光的表达式,再根据等效脉冲光的形状将布里渊光时域反射仪接收到的背向布里渊散射谱(BBS)细分,并对它进行多洛仑兹迭代拟合,准确求得每个细分布里渊散射谱的中心频率,进而利用光纤中布里渊频移与应变的对应关系,得到光纤中与细分布里渊散射谱对应的细分光纤单元上的应变情况。实验结果表明,利用这种方法,可使布里渊光时域反射仪应变测量的空间分辨力提高至0.05 m。     

利用自相关方法实现光脉冲时间延迟精确测量

为了满足在高精度波分复用/时分复用光采样系统中,采样光脉冲时间抖动低于100 fs的要求,开发了一套基于自相关法测量时间延迟的系统。通过光纤耦合器连接一路参考光路将光脉冲在时域上进行"复制",并使初始光脉冲和"复制"光脉冲相关,得到参考光路和被测光路的精确光程差,进而固定参考光路并接入不同被测光路从而得到多路被测光路之间相对延时。实验结果表明,利用自相关法测量脉冲时间间隔精度优于50 fs,满足波分复用/时分复用光采样系统研究需要。     

类明孤子在光纤中传输特性的变分研究

应用变分法,研究了微扰对类明孤子在光纤巾非线性传输特性的影响,导出了类明孤子脉冲参量演化的动力学方程。它统一了在单模光纤、色散缓变光纤或色散控制光纤中类明孤子脉冲参量演化的动力学方程。在此基础上,计算了色散缓变光纤中的线性高阶色散微扰。结果表明：线性高阶色散对类明孤子脉冲的位置和相位有影响,而对振幅、宽度和啁啾没有影响;光纤色散缓变对类明孤子脉冲的所有参量均有影响。     

新型光示波管的研究

本文描还了我们研制的一种新型光示波管的设计特点及测试结果.这种光示波管配以适当的控制电路和读出系统所组成的光示波器,能直接测量光脉冲,并能测量电脉冲;既可测量单次脉冲,又可测量重复脉冲;测量重复脉冲时,测量范围可达0～数GHz(10⁹Hz)的任意频率的重复脉冲.这种新型光示波管的光谱响应范围宽,实测时间分辨率达5ps,工作于椭圆扫描方式.它抛弃了以往光示波管所采用的取样狭缝,而是采用脉冲提取电极,通过调节控制电路使其工作于特殊的同步方式,从而克服了取样光示波器测量时间长、重复性不好等缺点.最后给出了静态椭圆扫描图象和动态时间分辨率的测试结果.     

A novel scheme of optical pulse width compression using a feedback optical phase modulator

This paper presents a scheme for the compression of optical pulse widths by using a feedback optical phase modulator. In the first part of the proposed circuit, the carrier and two fourth-order sidebands on either side of the carrier are amplified and phase shifted before getting combined by an optical power combiner to generate a picosecond optical pulse. The optical pulse generated by this part of the circuit has a calculated width of 3.5 ps. This optical pulse when passed through a feedback optical phase modulator produces a compressed optical pulse at the output. By making the drive frequency of the feedback optical phase modulator equal to 100 GHz, we found the output optical pulse to have a calculated width of 1.0 ps. PACS 42.65.Re; 42.79.Sz; 42.62.-b; 42.30.Lr; 42.55.Px; 42.60.Fc; 42.70.Mp     

基于光子晶体光纤光脉冲压缩的理论研究

从理论上研究了单根光子晶体光纤的光脉冲压缩,利用较短的具有高非线性系数的光子晶体光纤可以实现较高质量的光脉冲压缩。针对单根光子晶体光纤压缩光脉冲的限制,提出了一种基于光子晶体光纤非线性环路镜中交叉相位调制效应的脉冲压缩方法。理论研究表明,这种脉冲压缩方式可以压缩自身功率较低的信号脉冲,相比于单根光子晶体光纤的方法,可以得到更高压缩质量的脉冲,通过合理选择控制光脉冲的参数,可以有效地抑制基座。     

三角形光脉冲在正色散光纤中产生的实验研究

利用一种无源非线性脉冲整形方法, 实现了在普通正色散(ND)光纤中产生三角形光脉冲, 此方法依赖于脉冲预啁啾和脉冲在ND光纤中传输时群速度色散与自相位调制的相互作用. 实验研究表明, 在较宽的脉冲预啁啾值范围内, 通过优化脉冲输入功率和脉冲传输的ND光纤长度, 均可得到典型的三角形光脉冲: 脉冲时域形状前后沿的变化率接近恒定、整个脉冲具有线性频率啁啾. 另外, 在不同的脉冲预啁啾下, 要得到高质量的三角形光脉冲, 均需要较高的脉冲输入功率; 并且脉冲预啁啾较大时, 三角形脉冲的形成对ND光纤长度和脉冲输入功率有较大的容差, 易获得三角形光脉冲.     

耦合环形腔马赫-曾德尔干涉仪瞬态响应及应用

对耦合环形腔马赫-曾德尔干涉仪光脉冲瞬态响应进行了理论和数值研究.利用光束追迹法推导了脉冲传输的解析关系,并数值模拟了传输光场随时间的演化.输出脉冲形状可通过控制损耗进行调解,响应速度为皮秒量级.由于马赫-曾德尔干涉仪两输出端口的互补性,在输出端可同时实现光脉冲微分和积分操作.利用损耗控制机制,可实现单通道脉冲微分和积分操作转换.引入增益补偿损耗,可实现脉冲压缩及产生可调单一触发光脉冲.     

亚皮秒级时间分辨率的光取样示波器实验样机

利用自行开发的高稳定、低抖动和重复频率可调的“σ”型被动锁模光纤激光器作为高性能光学取样源,与待测的80 Gb/s光脉冲信号同时输入到100 m高非线性光纤中,通过四波混频效应实现了对被测光信号的全光采样。然后利用自行开发的数字信号处理与计算机图形显示软件,精确地重现了被测试的基于RZ码型的80 Gb/s光脉冲信号波形图。同时,还利用该光学取样示波器实验样机系统对重复频率为10 GHz、脉宽为1.8 ps的商用半导体主动锁模激光器的输出波形进行测量,所显示的脉冲宽度值为2.0 ps。这表明开发出的实验样机系统的时间分辨率优于900 fs。     

超高斯型光脉冲在色散管理光纤系统中的传输

从描述超短光脉冲在光纤中传输的高阶非线性薛定谔方程入手,使用傅里叶变换的分裂算符法,通过计算机模拟,研究了超高斯光脉冲在色散管理光纤系统中的传输特性,并考察了超高斯光脉冲在加入随机噪声后传输的稳定性以及脉冲间的相互作用.     

Fine control of optical pulse width via doublet gain lines

We demonstrate a general technique for realizing fine control of optical pulse width via doublet gain or loss lines. The optimized doublet gain or loss lines for fine control of optical pulse width can be designed by using an inverse design method. The preliminary experimental demonstration of fine control of optical pulse width is performed by using doublet Brillouin gain lines in an optical fiber. Tunable pulse compression or stretching ratio of 1.47–0.43 accompanying a time delay is achieved by controlling the separation between two gain lines, for an input pulse train with a 40 ns pulse width and a repetition rate of 5 MHz, in a 4 km silica fiber with a fixed pump power of 88.1 mW.     

脉冲激光在光纤中时间波形传输特性研究

给出了光纤传输激光脉冲波形特性测试的实验光路图，对比测量了经过空气传输和光纤传输两种方式的脉冲波形。实验测试了光束耦合到不同长度的单模和多模光纤与经空气传输后的时间脉冲波形，得到了激光脉冲波形的精细结构。实验结果表明，所选的多模和单模光纤经数百米传输后的脉冲展宽在容许误差范围之内，说明所选用的光纤可以作为纳秒激光时间脉冲波形测试的理想传输介质。     

Bright and dark 40 GHz parabolic pulse generation using a picosecond optical pulse train and an arrayed waveguide grating

We demonstrate parabolic optical pulse generation by manipulating the intensity and phase of individual longitudinal modes of a 40 GHz picosecond optical pulse train in the spectral domain. Bright and dark parabolic pulses were generated from a 40 GHz mode-locked fiber laser using a 64-channel arrayed waveguide grating pulse shaper. The obtained parabolic pulse, which can easily generate a linear chirping, is useful for a number of applications to optical signal processing applications, including pulse compression and time-domain optical Fourier transformation.     

Proposal and analysis of a reconfigurable pulse shaping technique based on multi-arm optical differentiators

We propose and numerically investigate an optical pulse re-shaping method based on multi-arm ultrafast optical differentiators. In this approach, the desired (arbitrary) optical pulse shape is synthesized by coherently overlapping different successive time derivatives of an input optical pulse (not necessarily a Gaussian-shape pulse), including the input pulse itself, with suitable relative weights. Time derivatives of (sub-)picosecond pulses can be obtained using first and higher-order ultrafast optical differentiators practically implemented with integrated waveguide or fiber-based linear filtering technologies. Different output pulse shapes can be generated from the same platform by properly programming the relative weights among the different pulse derivatives. The effective bandwidth of the output waveform is not necessarily limited by the input pulse bandwidth but rather it depends on the highest derivative order used for the pulse synthesis. Our results reveal that interesting transform-limited pulse shapes (including flat-top and parabolic waveforms) can be synthesized from Gaussian-like (e.g. Gaussian, sech) pulses using a simple and practical three-arm ultrafast differentiation system with amplitude-only relative weights.     

基于半导体光放大器的光脉冲压缩方案的研究

对一种基于半导体光放大器(SOA)和普通单模光纤的光脉冲压缩方案进行了理论分析和实验验证.建立了该方案的理论分析模型,并在此基础上数值模拟了光脉冲的传播过程.计算结果表明,通过合理选取单模光纤的长度,可使50 ps光脉冲压缩到5 ps.实验表明利用普通单模光纤群速度色散导致的脉冲啁啾抵消SOA自相位调制引起的脉冲啁啾,实现了色散补偿及脉冲压缩.     

Generation and stabilization of ultrafast optical pulse trains with monolithic mode-locked laser diodes

In this paper, we report on the generation and the stabilization of ultrafast optical pulse trains exceeding 100 GHz from monolithic mode-locked laser diodes (MLLDs) combined with some new techniques such as subharmonic synchronous mode-locking (SSML) and repetition-frequency multiplication (RFM) method. Key subjects to increase the pulse repetition frequencies of the MLLDs such as fast absorption recovery and harmonic mode-locking operation are discussed. 500 GHz optical pulse generation from a short-cavity, graded-index separated confinement heterostructure MLLD and THz-rate pulse generation by harmonic mode-locking are reported. We also demonstrate the stabilization of a 160 GHz MLLD by the SSML with subharmonic-frequency optical pulse injection and reveal that the SSML is very promising as a stabilization technique of the ultrafast MLLD beyond the limitations by the electronic device speed. A method to accurately measure the timing jitter of such ultrafast optical pulse train, all-optical down converting using a nonlinear optical device, is also presented. We also mention another choice for ultrafast optical pulse generation using the MLLD combined with a dispersive medium such as an optical fiber. We demonstrate here the generations of stable 84–256 GHz optical pulse trains by the RFM method of the MLLD stabilized by the SSML.     

瑞利布里渊光时域分析系统中电光调制器的理论模型与实验研究

瑞利布里渊光时域分析系统能够以非破坏性方式实现单光源、单端工作,利用强度型电光调制器同时调制脉冲基底和脉冲信号是获得该系统所需连续光和脉冲光的关键技术.本文理论分析、仿真和实验研究了一种将脉冲信号输入到电光调制器偏置端、微波信号输入到电光调制器射频端同时调制脉冲基底和脉冲信号的新调制方法,探讨了电光调制器用于瑞利布里渊光时域分析系统时的最佳工作点问题.结果表明,当调制脉冲基底和脉冲时分别将电光调制器偏置在传输曲线的谷点和峰点,并根据实际系统的组成和性能指标要求选择合适的微波调制信号幅度,可获得满足瑞利布里渊光时域分析系统要求的连续光和脉冲光.本文的研究结果为瑞利布里渊光时域分析系统的最佳化设计提供了理论依据.     

Storing optical information as a mechanical excitation in a silica optomechanical resonator

We report the experimental demonstration of storing optical information as a mechanical excitation in a silica optomechanical resonator. We use writing and readout laser pulses tuned to one mechanical frequency below an optical cavity resonance to control the coupling between the mechanical displacement and the optical field at the cavity resonance. The writing pulse maps a signal pulse at the cavity resonance to a mechanical excitation. The readout pulse later converts the mechanical excitation back to an optical pulse. The storage lifetime is determined by the relatively long damping time of the mechanical excitation.