一种全光纤脉冲压缩器的理论分析

文章对由色散补偿光纤(DCF)、分布式拉曼放大的色散位移光纤(DSF)以及非线性光纤环镜(NOLM)构成的全光纤脉冲压缩器进行了理论分析和数值模拟.结果表明,光脉冲经DCF后可消除啁啾,为压缩提供有利条件;而经分布式拉曼放大的DSF后,脉冲得到了较大的压缩;最后再通过NOLM消基座.利用此压缩器可获得压缩率高且压缩效果好的光脉冲.     

Generation of 20-fs optical pulses from a gain-switched laser diodeby a four-stage soliton compression technique

7.5-ps optical pulses generated from a gain-switched semiconductor laser at 2 GHz are successfully compressed down to 20 fs using a four-stage fiber soliton pulse compressor consisting of standard single-mode transmission, Er-doped, dispersion-decreasing, and dispersion-flattened fibers, respectively. We have experimentally confirmed that the soliton self-frequency shift plays an important role in obtaining such high compression in very short fibers, and also in minimizing the inherent undesirable pedestal component     

拉曼自频移全光量化中的全光纤脉冲宽度压缩器的设计

通过数值求解广义非线性薛定谔方程,研究了由高非线性光纤分别与3M-FS-PM-7811光纤和SMF-28光纤串联构成的全光纤脉冲宽度压缩器在压缩波长为1550nm的红外光脉冲宽度方面的性能.计算结果表明:采用3M-FS-PM-7811光纤的脉冲宽度压缩器所需要的入射功率小,而采用SMF-28光纤的脉冲宽度压缩器输出的脉冲基座小;两种全光纤脉冲宽度压缩器均能将脉冲宽度为2ps的高斯输入脉冲压缩到200fs～300fs.     

利用线性啁啾光纤光栅进行脉冲压缩的研究

利用光纤－线性啁啾光纤光栅进行光脉冲的压缩,首先讨论了线性啁啾光纤光栅的色散特性,并给出耦合系数为反高斯函数的线性啁啾光纤光栅的色散特性;然后利用此种光纤光栅与正常色散光纤结合进行光脉冲的压缩,通过理论和数值分析,得出一简单设计规则;最后利用此规划设计一个压缩因子为１０的光纤－线性啁啾光纤光栅压缩器。     

Stable 80-GHz short pulse generation using the cascaded polarization-maintaining fiber loop mirrors

In this work, an optical short pulse generator is designed consisting of a pulse compressor and cascaded notch filter type repetition rate doublers. The performance characteristics such as pulsewidth and peak power as a function of design parameters are studied. The pulse compressor is optimized based on the simulation results. The 6-ps-wide pulses at 20-GHz repetition rate directly generated from mode-locked fiber laser are compressed to 1.25-ps-wide pulses. Using a set of polarization-maintaining fiber loop mirrors, the repetition rate is quadrupled and stable 1.45-ps-wide pulses at 80 GHz are achieved.     

Complete characterization of ultrashort pulse sources at 1550 nm

This paper reviews the use of frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) to characterize mode-locked lasers producing ultrashort pulses suitable for high-capacity optical communications systems at wavelengths around 1550 nm, Second harmonic generation (SHG) FROG is used to characterize pulses from a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser, and both single-mode and dual-mode gain-switched semiconductor lasers. The compression of gain-switched pulses in dispersion compensating fiber is also studied using SHG-FROG, allowing optimal compression conditions to be determined without a priori assumptions about pulse characteristics. We also describe a fiber-based FROG geometry exploiting cross-phase modulation and show that it is ideally suited to pulse characterization at optical communications wavelengths. This technique has been used to characterize picosecond pulses with energy as low as 24 pJ, giving results in excellent agreement with SHG-FROG characterization, and without any temporal ambiguity in the retrieved pulse     

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     

The compression of optical pulses using self-phase-modulation andlinearly chirped Bragg-gratings in fibers

We report the first demonstration of pulse compression in optical fiber using linearly chirped Bragg gratings as quadratic compressors for pulses spectrally broadened by self-phase modulation. With the system investigated an initial 2 ps, bandwidth limited pulse is compressed by a factor of >10. The experimental results are found to be in good agreement with analytical and numerical calculations. Such a system allows high quality compression of pulses in optical fiber for the first time     

Generation of ultrashort pulses from a neodymium glass laser system

A neodymium glass laser system capable of generating high-energy, ultrashort pulses at a convenient repetition rate is described. The effect of nonlinear frequency pulling on active mode locking is discussed. By minimizing the nonlinear frequency pulling, it is possible to routinely generate stable ~10-ps pulses at a 100-MHz repetition rate from the actively mode-locked oscillator. The regenerator amplifier increases the oscillator pulse energy to over 30 μJ at a 370-Hz repetition rate. Using intracavity self-phase modulation, the regenerative amplifier also broadens the pulse bandwidth to ~35 Å. By subsequent pulse compression while maintaining high energy, it is possible to produce 0.55-ps pulses with >10 μJ. An optical fiber pulse compressor further shortens the pulses to 30 fs (30 nJ), the shortest pulses ever generated at 1.054 μm from a neodymium laser system     

高非线性光子晶体光纤中飞秒脉冲压缩(特邀)

采用全矢量有限元法和分步傅里叶法模拟计算了高非线性光子晶体光纤在近红外光谱区（特别是在850 nm）的飞秒脉冲孤子效应压缩,提出了一种新的反常群速度色散（2=-50.698 ps2/km）、小高阶色散和高非线性（=268.419 1 W-1/km）二氧化硅芯光子晶体光纤结构,建立了包含高阶色散和拉曼散射的非线性薛定谔方程,研究了高斯脉冲在此光纤中传输时,光纤长度和孤子阶数对脉冲压缩的影响,分析了光纤中2~5阶色散,研究表明:孤子阶数为8时,品质因子和压缩因子均达到最大,初始脉冲的峰值功率P0=3 357.8 W,压缩效果最好;优化光纤几何和光学参数,可以得到了高品质因数、小底座的超短光脉冲。     

色散补偿法获得5GHz,6.8ps超短光脉冲

利用色散位移光纤压缩从１．５５μｍ增益调制ＤＦＢ激光器中出射的红移啁啾光脉冲。在最优光纤压缩长度下，光脉冲宽度由４２．６ｐｓ压缩至６．８ｐｓ，压缩比为６．３     

A high-speed optical star network using TDMA and all-opticaldemultiplexing techniques

The authors demonstrate the use of time-division multiplexing (TDM) to realize a high capacity optical star network. The fundamental element of the demonstration network is a 10 ps, wavelength tunable, low jitter, pulse source. Electrical data is encoded onto three optical pulse trains, and the resultant low duty cycle optical data channels are multiplexed together using 25 ps fiber delay lines. This gives an overall network capacity of 40 Gb/s. A nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) is used to carry out the demultiplexing at the station receiver. The channel to be switched out can be selected by adjusting the phase of the electrical signal used to generate the control pulses for the NOLM. By using external injection into a gain-switched distributed feedback (DFB) laser we are able to obtain very low jitter control pulses of 4-ps duration (RMS jitter <1 ps) after compression of the highly chirped gain switched pulses in a normal dispersive fiber. This enables us to achieve excellent eye openings for the three demultiplexed channels. The difficulty in obtaining complete switching of the signal pulses is presented. This is shown to be due to the deformation of the control pulse in the NOLM (caused by the soliton effect compression). The use of optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) with all-optical switching devices is shown to be an excellent method to allow us to exploit as efficiently as possible the available fiber bandwidth, and to achieve very high bit-rate optical networks     

基于色散渐减光纤的光脉冲压缩技术及其进展

综述了基于色散渐减光纤的绝热孤子压缩、高阶孤子压缩和非线性光纤环镜的光脉冲压缩的方法、原理及其进展,介绍了作者最近的研究成果,即采用色散渐减光纤构成的马赫--曾德尔干涉仪压缩光脉冲.     

Compression of periodic optical pulses using temporal fractional Talbot effect

Recently, a novel method for compression of periodic optical pulses based on a superposition of replicated and time-delayed original pulse trains was proposed. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate that the phase shift of these replicas, as occurs in the temporal fractional Talbot effect, leads to compression without repetition-rate multiplication, which is inherent in the previous method. Simple and compact devices based on fiber Bragg gratings or fiber/or waveguide splitters/combiners, used for implementation of the present method can be considered as an equivalent of dispersive delay lines for periodic optical pulses. The proposed devices will also be available, for instance, for pulse generation, pulse-chirp compensation, temporal imaging, and real-time spectrum analysis for periodic optical pulses.     

Simultaneous mode selection and pulse compression of gain-switchedpulses from a Fabry-Perot laser using a 40-mm chirped optical fibergrating

Simultaneous pulse compression and mode selection of gain-switched pulses from a Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser are demonstrated using a chirped optical fiber Bragg grating, which has transformed initially chirped 60-ps pulses from an inexpensive multimode laser into a train of 12-ps single-mode pulses with a side-mode suppression ratio of 15.2 dB     

High-order soliton pulse compression and splitting at 1.32 µm in a single-mode optical fiber

The optically compressed pulses from a CW mode-locked Nd:YAG laser operating at 1.32 μm have been further compressed through a high-order soliton generation effect in a 40 m length of single-mode dispersion-shifted optical fiber. Two- and three-fold splitting of the soliton pulses have been demonstrated. Experimental compression factors and spectra forN = 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 solitons have been shown to agree qualitatively with theory. In shorter fiber lengths pulses as short as 33 fs have been generated, corresponding to an over-all compression factor of X2700, the largest reported so far.     

Mode-locked, long-cavity, erbium fiber lasers with subsequentsoliton-like compression

Erbium fiber lasers are described that have cavity lengths of 20-5000 m and are mode-locked at the fundamental cavity frequency using an integrated-optic intensity modulator driven by a novel pulse generator. Resulting optical pulses at 1536 nm were recorded with a synchroscan streak camera and show durations of 10-80 ps with peak powers over 6 W. The shorter cavities yield nearly transform-limited pulses, which are narrowed by solitonlike compression to approximately 5 ps after propagation through an external 14 km fiber     

Nonlinear optical devices based on suspended-core microstructured optical fibers

Suspended-core microstructured optical fibers are employed in lasers that generate ultrashort pulses and supercontinuum generators. It is demonstrated that a femtosecond fiber laser based on the ytterbium-doped microstructured fiber generates pulses with a duration of 95 fs at a wavelength of 1045 nm and a mean power of 5 mW in the absence of additional compression. Supercontinuum is generated in tapered microstructured fibers with suspended core in the wavelength interval 400–1400 nm. Suspended-core micro-structured fibers may serve as promising elements for nonlinear optical devices due to specific waveguide characteristics, relative simplicity of manufacturing, and variable optical properties.     

On the designing of densely dispersion-managed optical fiber systems for ultrafast optical communication

We present some theoretical and experimental results which suggest the possibility of constructing a non-empirical methodology of designing optical transmission systems with ultra high bit-rate per channel. Theoretically, we present an average dispersion decreasing densely dispersion-managed (A4dm) fiber system, which exhibits many advantages over the densely dispersion-managed fiber system, such as the possibility of transmitting chirp-free Gaussian pulses at 160 Gbit/s per channel over transoceanic distances, with a reduced energy and minimal intra-channel interaction. Experimentally we present generation of a 160-GHz picosecond pulse train at 1550 nm using multiple four-wave mixing temporal compression of an initial dual frequency beat signal in the anomalous-dispersion regime of a non-zero dispersion shifted fiber. A complete intensity and phase characterization of the pulse train by means of a frequency-resolved optical gating technique is achieved, showing generation of transform-limited pedestal-free Gaussian pulses.     

Evolution behavior of chirped tan-hyperbolic pulse through single mode fiber in the simultaneous presence of fiber loss,dispersion and self-phase modulation

We present the results of tan-h pulse propagation through single mode fiber in dispersion dominant regime as well as in the simultaneous presence of fiber loss, group velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation. Both un-chirped/chirped cases have been considered. The pulse was propagated using split-step Fourier method based nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Results clearly show that in the absence of fiber nonlinearity, the pulse goes on broadening with the propagated distance. However, in the presence of the fiber nonlinearity, the pulse initially experiences compression and then undergoes broadening at a faster rate. As the value of sharpness parameter increases, the compression also increases. The results of compensation of group velocity dispersion using dispersion compensating fiber considering the setups of pre-, post- and the combination of pre- and post-compensations are also presented. These investigations provide a detailed study and deeper insight about how fiber responses to such type of optical pulses.