光纤饱和吸收体稳频窄线宽光纤激光器

结合光纤饱和吸收体与光纤光栅法布里-珀罗标准具,研制出了全光纤结构1550nm单频窄线宽掺铒光纤环形激光器.采用两个976nm激光二极管双向抽运作为抽运源,高掺杂浓度铒光纤作为增益介质,以行波腔消除空间烧孔效应,利用光纤光栅法布里-珀罗标准具窄带选模特性,以10m长低掺铒光纤饱和吸收体稳频,得到了十分稳定的窄线宽激光输出.激光器抽运阈值功率21mW,在抽运光功率为145mW时输出光功率39mW,斜率效率30%,信噪比大于50dB.采用延迟自外差方法精确测量光纤激光器线宽小于10kHz.     

短腔的高浓度掺铒光纤激光器

本文提出采用高浓度掺铒光纤的短腔环形光纤激光器,研制出铋铝共掺和铋镓铝共掺两种石英基高浓度掺铒光纤,这两种掺铒光纤的吸收系数在1530 nm处分别达到了66.3dB/m和59.5dB/m.利用这两种石英基高浓度掺铒光纤,采用环形结构制作出了短腔的光纤激光器,光纤激光器中铒光纤长度分别仅为30 cm和90 cm.对采用这两种高浓度掺铒光纤制作的光纤激光器的输出特性进行了测试和分析.实验结果表明,采用铋镓铝共掺的掺铒光纤制作的光纤激光器具有更高的输出功率和斜率效率,在980 nm泵浦源输出功率330 mW时可以实现15 dBm的激光输出,激光器的斜率效率达到了22%.     

基于Sagnac环形滤波器的多波长掺铥光纤激光器

为了实现2μm波段多波长激光输出,提出并设计了一种基于Sagnac环形滤波结构的多波长掺铥光纤激光器.激光器由波长793 nm的泵浦源、波分复用器、光纤耦合器、保偏光纤、掺铥光纤以及偏振控制器构成,其中Sagnac环形滤波器以及光纤环形镜作为激光器的反射端.实验中,激光器工作阈值为77.5 m W,通过调节偏振控制器,实现了稳定的单波长激光输出.波长为1 852.8 nm的单波长激光输出时,在50 min监测时间内波长最大漂移为0.1 nm,功率最大漂移为0.252 d B,激光3 d B线宽和信噪比分别为0.3 nm和35.7 d B.通过调节偏振控制器,在1 850~1 900 nm光谱范围内实现了1~4波长的激光输出.     

光纤陀螺掺铒光纤光源消偏技术

针对泵浦偏振态对高精度光纤陀螺掺铒光纤光源平均波长稳定性产生影响的问题,设计了掺铒光纤光源泵浦消偏的结构,该结构采用Lyot光纤消偏器来对泵浦光进行消偏,理论分析了该结构中Lyot消偏器结构参数的选取.实验验证了掺铒光纤光源的波分复用器具有偏振特性,会影响掺铒光纤光源平均波长稳定性,采用设计的泵浦消偏结构可有效消除波分...     

L波段掺铒光纤超荧光光源和放大器研究

通过优化铒光纤长度,获得了平坦谱宽达30nm(0.7dB)的L波段超荧光光源,该光源具有7.21dBm的输出功率。在此基础上,研究L波段放大器增益特性,通过对铒光纤长度的进一步优化,用1480nm激光器作前向泵浦源,实验上获得了波长从1565nm~1595nm范围平坦的增益带宽,小信号增益可达22dB。     

基于可饱和吸收稳频技术的光纤激光应变传感特性研究

提出了一种环形光纤激光用于光纤传感的方法,结合光纤可饱和吸收体稳频技术,获得稳定的激光输出,并成功将其应用于应变传感.使用980 nm激光二极管作为泵浦源,长度为2 m的掺铒光纤作为增益介质,通过光环形器引入未泵浦的掺铒光纤作为可饱和吸收体形成窄带滤波器,并选用高反射率光纤光栅作为波长选择元件.可饱和吸收体长度为4 m时获得了稳定的激光输出,输出3 d B带宽小于0.2 nm,边模抑制比大于70 d B,阈值电流为63.3 m A.通过选频光纤光栅对等强度梁应变的感知引起的光纤激光输出调谐,实现0~2 100με应变传感检测,对这种掺铒光纤激光的应变特性进行了实验研究,得到了应变与激光峰值波长的线性关系.实验结果表明:该激光传感器获得了很好的线性度和重复度,线性拟合度高于0.999.     

飞秒锁模光纤激光器及倍频程超连续谱试验研究

介绍了一种可应用于星载光学频率梳的自锁定全光纤飞秒激光器.该激光器采用非线性偏振旋转(NPR)方式,利用电控偏振控制器(EPC)实现自动锁模.当泵浦功率为420 mW时,通过电控偏振控制器的自动调节来改变腔内偏振态,从而达到稳定的锁模状态.在稳定锁模状态下,激光器输出脉冲的中心波长为1560 nm,输出功率为30 mW...     

L波段掺铒光纤放大器增益钳制及提高特性研究

报道了一种新型980nm激光二极管（LD）泵浦高增益的掺铒光纤放大器（EDFA）．通过加入中心波长为1550nm光纤光栅（FBG）可以明显提高增益，并分析了增益钳制的原理．实验得到其增益比无FBG结构EDFA提高8dB，并得到了小信号输入时增益25dB的有效钳制．     

铒离子浓度对掺铒光纤光源性能影响研究

研究了铒离子掺杂浓度对掺铒光纤光源的泵浦效率和波长稳定性的影响.在设计好的单程后向光源中采用5种不同类型的光纤分别进行了实验,通过比较采用不同光纤时掺铒光纤光源的输出特性发现掺铒光纤光源的泵浦效率随铒离子浓度增大而先增大;铒离子浓度过高时存在群聚效应,光源泵浦效率反而下降,群聚效应使泵浦效率下降了20%.泵浦阈值则随着铒离子浓度的增加从18.3 mW增加到了32.4 mW.通过试验发现光纤优化长度依比例决定于掺铒光纤中的铒离子浓度,而泵浦波长与光源波长的关系却不受铒离子浓度影响.比较采用不同铒离子浓度光纤的光源的小范围温度特性,较低浓度的光纤温度稳定性好于高浓度的温度稳定性将近100 ppm.通过实验确定掺铒光纤中最适宜的铒离子浓度在110 mol左右.     

高功率掺镱双包层光纤激光器的优化和设计

针对高功率掺杂光纤激光器设计中存在的多个设计参数无法全局最优化的问题,本文提出一种高效灵活的遗传算法对高功率掺镱双包层光纤激光器的六个重要参数（泵浦波长、信号波长、谐振腔的反射率、光纤长度、掺杂浓度、泵浦功率）同时进行多维变量优化。该方法采用一种全局优化算法（遗传算法1,分别讨论了在输出信号功率作为遗传算法中的目标函数时,高功率掺镱双包层光纤激光器的各个系统参数配置。实验结果表明,在所设定的波长范围内,最优的泵浦波长和信号波长分别为975nm和1044nm;最优光纤长度和掺杂浓度有一一对应的取值;谐振腔输入镜面反射率应越大越好,而输出镜面反射率与泵浦功率的大小相关。     

Pump efficiency improvement of a C-band tunable fiber laser using optical circulator and tunable fiber gratings

We propose and demonstrate a tunable fiber laser based on an optical circulator (OC) and two tunable fiber Bragg gratings (TFBGs). The OC acts as a pump power router to improve the pumping efficiency, and a 4% increase in overall conversion efficiency has been observed. The combined tuning spectra range of two TFBGs could cover the entire C-band spectrum from 1530 to 1560 nm. Stable laser output power above 10 dBm is obtained using 1.9 m of erbium-doped fiber and TFBGs with 50% reflectivity. With power equalization by using variable optical attenuators, the power variation is less than 0.1 dB in the whole C band with narrow linewidth of 0.05 nm. A signal-to-noise ratio of 60 dB and a continuous tuning resolution of 0.5 nm have been achieved. The TFBG-based tunable fiber laser can be a promising light source for WDM transmission and fiber sensor applications.     

Bismuth-based Brillouin/erbium fiber laser

A multi-wavelength Brillouin/erbium-doped fiber laser (BEFL) operating in the 1573 nm region is proposed and demonstrated. The system employs both linear and nonlinear gain from a bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber (Bi-EDF) approximately 215 cm long and a single mode fiber (SMF) of various lengths to generate an optical comb with a spacing of approximately 0.089 nm. Two 3 dB couplers were used to form a looping arm in the system in order to produce cascaded Brillouin Stokes waves as internal feedback for multi-wavelength operation. A stable output laser comb with 10 lines at more than ??13 dBm was obtained with 4.85 dBm Brillouin pump power and two 140 mW pumps at 1480 nm. The 1480 nm pumps' power and SMF length have a significant effect on the number of wavelengths and on the output power of the generated wavelength comb.     

Wideband tunable Q-switched fiber laser using graphene as a saturable absorber

An ultra-wide wavelength tuning range, which covers three different band regions consisting of the S-, C-, and L-bands, is proposed and demonstrated for a graphene-based Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser using a tunable bandpass filter as the wavelength tuning and filtering mechanism. A 3?m length of erbium-doped fiber is used as the gain medium in a ring laser cavity configuration, with absorption coefficients of between 11 and 13 dB?m^?1 at 980?nm and about 18?dB?m^?1 at 1550?nm. The tuning range of the Q-switching pulses covers a wide wavelength range of 58?nm, which spans from 1512.5?nm to 1570.5?nm. In addition, the lasing and Q-switching thresholds are considerably low, with respective values of ～11.0?mW and ～18.4?mW. A repetition rate of 55.3?kHz is obtained at the maximum pump power of 100.4?mW, together with pulse width and pulse energy of 1.6?μs and 25.8?nJ, respectively.     

Tunable single longitudinal mode S-band fiber laser using a 3 m length of erbium-doped fiber

In this paper a tunable single-longitudinal mode (SLM), short-wavelength band (S-band) fiber laser using a conventional erbium-doped fiber (EDF) with a length of 3?m and a step index erbium dopant profile as opposed to the commonly used depressed cladding erbium-doped fiber (DC-EDF) is proposed and demonstrated. The proposed SLM fiber laser has a tuning range of 1496 to 1507?nm in a ring configuration using two 0.15?m of EDF which acts as saturable absorbers (SAs). The highest peak power measured is about ?0.6?dBm at a wavelength range of 1502 to 1507?nm. The measured signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is approximately 74?dB for the same wavelength range. The line-width of the SLM output is measured to be 140?kHz.     

Tunable graphene Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser with suppressed self-mode locking effect

Self-mode locking effect in a wideband tunable graphene-based passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser has been observed experimentally. Q-switching is achieved by using graphene as a saturable absorber, while a tunable bandpass filter with a narrow bandwidth is used to obtain wideband tunability. We propose to suppress the modulation on each pulse from self-mode locking by introducing three subring resonators constructed with three 3 dB couplers into the laser ring cavity. Moreover, the laser output characteristics with respect to pump power are studied in detail. A stable Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser with a tunable range from 1522 nm to 1568 nm is demonstrated experimentally.     

高功率宽带掺铒超荧光光源

采用单程后向结构,通过优化掺铒光纤的长度及抽运功率等参量,并尽量提高熔接效率,实现了一种功率达28.58mW(14.56dBm)的高功率宽带光源,在1525-1565nm之间功率高达27.34mW(14.37dBm)。在未加任何滤波器的情况下,其3dB带宽为31.2nm。对一根光纤中前向与后向光光谱特点进行分析比较。结果表明,用一段光纤和一只二极管可实现C L波段的宽带高功率光源,结构紧凑,成本低。     

Tunable graphene-based Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser using fiber Bragg grating

A graphene-based Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) with a tunable fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) acting as a wavelength tuning mechanism is proposed and demonstrated. The proposed setup utilizes a newly-developed ‘ferrule-to-ferrule transfer’ technique to obtain a single graphene layer that allows for Q-switch operation in the EDFL using a highly doped-gain medium. A TFBG is used as a wavelength tuning mechanism with a tuning range of 10 nm, covering the wavelength range from 1547.66 nm to 1557.66 nm. The system has a wide repetition rate range of over 206.613 kHz from 1.387 kHz to 208.000 kHz with pulse durations of between 94.80 μs to 0.412 μs. The laser output is dependent on the pump power, with energy per pulse of 4.56 nJ to 16.26 nJ. The system is stable, with power and wavelength variations of less than 0.47 dBm and 0.067 nm. The output pulse train is free from self-mode locking and pulse jitters.     

Generation of stable and narrow spacing dual-wavelength ytterbium-doped fiber laser using a photonic crystal fiber

Abstract

We demonstrate the design and operation of novel narrow spacing and stable dual-wavelength fiber laser (DWFL). A 70-cm ytterbium-doped fiber has been chosen as the gain medium in a ring cavity arrangement. Our design includes a short length photonic crystal fiber, acting as a dual-wavelength stabilizer based on its birefringence coefficient and nonlinear behavior and tunable band pass filter (TBPF) to achieve narrow spacing spectrum lasing. Our laser output is considered to be highly stable, with power fluctuation less than 0.8 dB over a period of 15 min. The flexibility and tunability of TBPF, together with polarization controller enable the spacing tuning of the DWFL from 0.03 nm up to 0.07 nm for 1040 nm region, and 0.10 nm up to 0.40 nm for 1060 nm region. The tunable wavelength spacing shows the flexibility of the DWFL in addition to stable and reliable properties of fiber laser in 1-μm region.     

163 fs被动锁模掺Er~(3+)光纤激光器

研制了一种采用非线性偏振旋转锁模效应的被动锁模掺Er3+飞秒激光器。利用性能稳定的980 nm激光二极管(LD)作为抽运光源,以高掺杂Er3+光纤为增益介质,在抽运功率为650 m W时,激光器锁模输出重复频率为31.25 MHz、平均输出功率为70 m W、中心波长为1565 nm、光脉冲宽度为163 fs的稳定飞秒脉冲激光。该激光器易于操作和调节,并且锁模状态稳定可以长时间的运行,其光纤结构更有利于小型化和便携化。     

带宽〉40nm的980nmLD泵浦掺Er^3＋光纤放大器模块

在国内首次用９８０ｎｍ激光二极管和参量优化Ｅｒ３＋／Ａｌ３＋共掺杂光纤研制成光学带宽＞４０ｎｍ的光电一体化光纤放大器实用型模块样机。模块净增益２５ｄＢ，饱和输出功率０ｄＢｍ，最大输出功率８ｄＢｍ，噪声系数＜５ｄＢ，可供波分复用光纤通信系统和光孤子传输实验试用。