Temperature-Insensitive Chemical Sensor with Twin Bragg Gratings in an Optical Fibre

To reduce temperature sensitivity of the fibre Bragg grating （FBG） chemical sensor, a simple method is proposed by measuring the peak wavelength difference between an etched FBG and an un-etched one in an optical fibre. Thermal characteristics and chemical sensitivity of the sensor are experimentally investigated. The experimental results indicate that the etched FBG and the rest one have almost the same thermal response, and concentration changes of the surrounding chemical solutions can be detected by measuring the peak wavelength difference between them. The sensor has been used to measure the concentrations of propylene glycol solutions and sugar solutions, and it could detect 0.7% and 0.45% concentration changes for them with an optical spectrum analyser in resolution of 10pm.     

Single-polarization single-mode hollow-core negative curvature fiber with nested U-type cladding elements

Hollow-core negative curvature fibers (HC-NCFs) have become one of the research hotspots in the field of optical fiber because of their potential applications in the data and energy transmissions. In this work, a new kind of single-polarization single-mode HC-NCF with nested U-type cladding elements is proposed. To achieve the single-polarization single-mode transmission, we use two different silica tubes in thickness, which satisfy the resonance and anti-resonance conditions on the U-type cladding elements and the cladding tubes, respectively. Besides, the elliptical elements are introduced to achieve good single-mode performance. By studying the influences of the structure parameters on the propagation characteristics, the optimized structure parameters are obtained. The simulation results show that when the wavelength is fixed at 1550 nm, the single-polarization single-mode transmission is achieved, with the polarization extinction ratio of 25749 and minimum high-order mode extinction ratio of 174. Furthermore, the confinement loss is only 0.0015 dB/m.     

Three-channel dual-wavelength fiber laser based on a digital micromirror-device processor and photonic crystal fiber

A stable three-channel dual-wavelength fiber ring laser is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The digital micromirror-device(DMD) processor can select and recirculate any dual waveband from the gain spectrum of the erbium-doped fiber at each channel. The uniform and stable dual-wavelength oscillation is obtained by a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber, which causes two degenerate the four-wave-mixing processes. By loading different reproducibility diffraction gratings on the optoelectronic DMD processor, the laser can be operated stably in a three-channel dual-wavelength scheme at room temperature. The power fluctuation of each laser channel is less than ～0.02 d B.     

基于双波长和3×3光纤耦合器的干涉测量相位解卷绕方法

将3×3光纤耦合器相位解调和数字全息中的双波长相位测量方法相结合,提出了一种适合于相位型光纤传感器并能进行大范围相位测量的相位解卷绕方法。通过利用合成波长的解卷绕相位对单一波长的卷绕相位进行补偿,得到大范围、无差错的相位变化信息。建立了基于1310nm和1550nm的双波长光纤迈克耳孙干涉系统,对压电位移台所产生的大范围振动进行测量,验证了该方法的可行性和有效性。与1310nm单一波长的相位解调结果相比,该方法可使测量的光程差扩大到原来的6.5倍。     

Distortion correction for the elemental images of integral imaging by introducing the directional diffuser

A distortion correction method for the elemental images of integral imaging(Ⅱ) by utilizing the directional diffuser is demonstrated. In the traditional Ⅱ, the distortion originating from lens aberration wraps elemental images and degrades the image quality severely. According to the theoretical analysis and experiments, it can be proved that the farther the three-dimensional image is displayed from the lens array, the more serious the distortion is. To analyze the process of eliminating lens distortion, one lens and its corresponding elemental image are separated from the traditional Ⅱ. By introducing the directional diffuser, the aperture stop of the separated optical system changes from the eye's pupil to the lens. In terms of contrast experiments, the distortion of the improved display system is corrected effectively. In the experiment, when the distance between the reconstructed image and lens array is equal to 120 mm, the largest lens distortion is decreased from 46.6% to 3.3%.     

高精度控制多泵浦实现宽带平坦的拉曼放大

设计了基于PID控制技术的高精度激光器温度控制和功率控制模块。激光器驱动电流控制精度为0.1mA,系统温漂小于25mK,实现了泵浦激光器24h波长漂移小于0.02nm。依据遗传算法,采用5波长大功率半导体激光器后向泵浦和100.8km色散位移光纤,实现了带宽为90nm、增益平坦度为0.87dB的拉曼放大。     

基于数字微镜器件的多通道C波段可调谐光纤激光器

可调谐光纤激光器可广泛应用于光纤通信、光纤传感、激光光谱、精密测量和激光加工等诸多领域。针对目前可调谐激光器在调谐性、灵活性、稳定性和多波长功率均衡性等方面的不足,提出一类新型的基于数字微镜器件(DMD)的多波长宽带可调谐光纤激光器。该激光器利用关键器件DMD作为波长调谐器,掺铒光纤作为激光增益介质,通过巧妙的光学设计,实现仅利用一块DMD芯片独立、灵活、稳定调谐多波长激光输出的目的。该激光器具有3个输出通道,各通道之间独立开关控制,每个通道均可实现波长在1530~1560nm之间的连续可调谐输出,波长调谐精度0.055nm/pixel,边模抑制比大于55dB,激光输出功率最大值为10mW,2h内的中心波长漂移小于0.02nm。     

Code synchronization based on lumped time-delay compensation scheme with a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating in all-optical analog-to-digital conversion

We propose a novel lumped time-delay compensation scheme for all-optical analog-to-digital conversion based on soliton self-frequency shift and optical interconnection techniques. A linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating is optimally designed and used to compensate for the entire time-delays of the quantized pulses precisely. Simulation results show that the compensated coding pulses are well synchronized with a time difference less than 3.3 ps, which can support a maximum sampling rate of 151.52 GSa/s. The proposed scheme can efficiently reduce the structure complexity and cost of all-optical analog-to-digital conversion compared to the previous schemes with multiple optical time-delay lines.