铌酸锂晶体畴工程的研究及进展

利用准相位匹配技术,通过人为地在非线性晶体上制备出非线性系数的周期结构,来满足相位匹配条件,可以提高频率转换效率与扩大非线性晶体的应用波段范围,这是近年来光学非线性研究的重要发展方向。利用铌酸锂晶体畴工程制作极化周期结构,以实现准相位匹配技术是最为突出的例子。本文详细介绍了这一技术手段以及应用发展趋势。     

基于周期极化晶体的QPM-SHG技术发展及其应用

随着新型高质量的非线性晶体的出现,准相位匹配技术成为非线性频率变换的最有效的方法。从周期极化晶体准相位匹配二次谐波发生器（QPM-SHG）的基本原理出发,简要介绍了实现周期极化晶体的方法和技术,总结了准相位匹配技术在光子学微结构晶体材料和波导材料中的最新研究进展和发展趋势,展望了用微结构波导QPM-SHG实现飞秒光纤光源的发展应用前景。     

非线性光子晶体二次谐波的产生与仿真

在光子晶体的一维周期极化结构中，其频率转换只允许在单一方向上进行，而二维准相位匹配光子晶体比一维准相位匹配光子晶体具有更多方向上的倒格矢。故可实现多方向、多波长的同时倍频。文中在各向异性非线性FDTD算法的基础上。对周期为6．82方形格子二维周期性极化的LiNbO3非线性光子晶体进行了分析，给出了利用一阶准相位匹配来实现1．06μm波长的二倍频方法。     

PPLN准相位匹配技术在蓝绿激光器及中红外OPO中的应用进展

以PPLN、PPMgLN、PPKTP等为代表的周期极化工艺的成熟,极大地促进了准相位匹配技术的发展,拓宽了非线性晶体应用范围,大大提高了频率转换效率。周期极化晶体与其它非线性晶体结合,利用倍频、差频、混频、OPO等技术是实现激光波长拓宽的一种非常有效的手段。本文阐述了QPMPPLN在蓝绿激光器及中红外OPO的应用进展,展望了PPLN的应用发展趋势。     

准相位匹配PPMgLN光参量振荡技术

理论上分析了掺MgO的周期极化LiNbO_3(PPMgLN)晶体准相位匹配光参量振荡(QPM-OPO)波长的调谐特性,计算了抽运阈值和转换效率。采用高斯光束抽运,当抽运功率密度为阈值抽运功率密度约6.5倍时,可以获得约71%的转换效率。而相位匹配情况下,平面波抽运功率密度为阈值(π/2)~2倍时,转换效率可达到100%。1064 nm激光抽运PPMgLN晶体(MgO摩尔分数5%),单谐振光参量振荡技术采用e→e e相位匹配,利用PPMgLN晶体的最大非线性系数d_(33)(27.4 pm/V),采用周期调谐方式,实验上获得了中红外波长调谐范围2.7～4.8μm,当抽运功率为23 W,频率为7 kHz时,在波长3.7μm处激光输出功率超过3.2 W,斜率效率超过18%,对应闲频光波长1.49μm输出功率约8 W,相当于转换斜率效率约为63%。实验结果与理论分析基本一致。     

抽运光束和红外信号光束垂直时红外辐射在淡红银矿中的可见转换

引言在非线性晶体中,两种波的相互作用可以产生第三种频率的辐射。过去发表的关于红外到可见的变象技术的资料,只谈到了抽运波和红外信号波直射或准直射时的转换。在淡红银矿晶体(Ag_3AsS_3)中将10微米波转换成可见光时,在相位匹配的条件下,     

基于光学超品格的准白光激光器

激光显示作为新一代的显示技术,在清晰度、色域、色饱和度等方面有着传统显示方式无法比拟的优势,而红绿蓝三基色/准白光激光器则是激光显示技术的基础.获得红绿蓝三基色激光可以通过多种技术途径,使用非线性频率转换技术获得三基色光是其中的一种.基于准相位匹配技术的光学超晶格作为非线性频率转换晶体,通过对结构的设计能够同时完成多个光参量过程.把光学超晶格的多波长频率转换功能和全固态激光技术结合起来,可以获得红绿监三基色激光的同时输出[1.2],通过控制三色光之间的功率比例,还可以获得准白光的视觉效果.     

PPLN晶体1560nm激光倍频过程的热效应分析

基于1560 nm激光单次通过PPLN晶体倍频到780 nm激光的实验,分析了准相位匹配倍频过程中非线性转换系数与温度之间的关系。详细计算了考虑晶体极化周期的热膨胀时,晶体非线性转换系数和匹配温度的变化。采用有限元的方法,计算了激光穿过PPLN晶体时,整个晶体和出射端面的温度场分布,并由此给出了出射面的非线性转换系数的分布情况,重点分析了晶体尺寸、光功率及散热方式对热效应的影响。仿真结果表明:增加晶体的宽度、采用导热性能好的材料作散热材料,并采用四面包围的散热方式有利于晶体的散热。     

影响CO2激光准相位匹配倍频效率的理论研究

对影响CO2激光准相位匹配倍频效率的因素进行了研究, 利用非线性耦合波动方程, 分析了在不同基频光功率密度条件下, 倍频过程中晶体吸收、界面损耗、周期长度误差和温度变化对倍频效率的影响; 对制备高效率CO2激光倍频晶体的误差容限参数进行了计算。当基频光强度为25 MW/cm2, 晶体键合层数为60层时, 必须将每层界面损耗控制在0.5%以下, 周期长度误差控制在1 μm以内, 能保证理论倍频效率40%, 为准相位匹配晶体的制备参数的确定提供理论依据。     

飞秒激光制备非线性光子晶体研究进展

非线性光子晶体能够实现高效的非线性光学过程,其制备手段吸引了该领域研究者的高度关注。飞秒激光加工技术具有极高的精度、分辨率和灵活性,相比传统的非线性结构制备工艺具有独特的优势。总结归纳了利用飞秒激光加工技术构建非线性光子晶体的研究进展,并对涉及的准相位匹配原理进行了简要介绍。讨论了飞秒激光反转铁电畴和擦除非线性系数的加工机理,论述了这两种方式在多种维度非线性光子晶体加工方面的实验成果和应用。最后分析了目前飞秒激光加工非线性光子晶体所遇到的挑战,并展望了未来的发展前景。     

Effects of optical feedback on femtosecond supercontinuum generation

A femtosecond supercontinuum generating system is presented by employing a microstructured fiber within a synchronously pumped ring resonator. Via the ring resonator, optical feedback is introduced, which leads to the creation of a highly nonlinear oscillator and to the formation of nonlinear dynamics like period multiplication, limit cycle, and chaos. The effect of delayed feedback on supercontinuum generation is studied numerically and experimentally, using the input pulse power and the resonator length detuning as control parameters. In combination, these two control parameters allow for a systematical adjustment of the regimes of nonlinear dynamics, which leads to an alteration of the pattern of pulse trains. Changing the resonator length on a sub-wavelength scale enables manipulation of the feedback phase, which can be used to adjust shape and bandwidth of the optical spectrum. Furthermore, a possibility to tailor the modes of the optical frequency comb is demonstrated, and the influence of the feedback phase on the noise properties of the supercontinuum generating system is discussed.     

全光纤叠加锁模激光器

本文对光脉冲在全光纤叠加锁模激光器中演变的动力学作了研究。分析了相位偏置和光纤的色散对锁模机制的影响,获得了产生稳定超短光脉冲的条件。     

Statistical amplitude and phase variations in mode-locked lasers

The influence of statistical amplitude or phase variations in the modes of a mode-locked laser on the time-dependent output intensity and on the relative efficiency of nonlinear optical processes is investigated. The ensemble-averaged intensity, the time-dependent distribution of the resulting complex amplitude, and the second-order moment of the intensity distribution are calculated and discussed for both types of variations. As long as no systematic amplitude or phase changes are introduced, the pulse shape is maintained, but superimposed on a fluctuating background, and the efficiency for nonlinear optical processes is reduced. For random phase fluctuations over 2π the pulse behavior disappears completely and the output becomes Gaussian or chaotic light.     

飞秒光参量放大过程中高阶非线性效应的影响

用计算机仿真模拟了高强度飞秒激光抽运下的光参量放大 (OPA)过程 ,着重讨论了高阶非线性效应对参量转化效率和波形的影响。为了抑制高阶非线性效应对放大信号光波形的调制 ,改善波形质量 ,防止信号光的能量倒流回抽运光 ,并为进一步从抽运光中抽取出尽可能多的能量 ,提高参量转化效率 ,引入了适当的相位失配以抵消高阶非线性效应。利用级联非线性相移从理论上解释了这一物理原因     

可调谐超短中红外激光脉冲的参变产生与放大及其最新进展

介绍了基于非线性光学参变过程产生和放大中红外可调谐超短激光脉冲的主要方法,比较了参变振荡、差频产生、光学参变放大和啁啾脉冲光学参变放大等4种产生与放大方法的技术特点,重点评述了最近10年来国内外利用光学参变放大和啁啾脉冲光学参变放大实现大增益宽带和高峰值功率输出的最新进展.探讨了获得更高能量/功率和更短脉冲(更大带宽)...     

Technique to generate equal amplitude, higher-order optical pulsesin rational harmonically modelocked fibre ring lasers

A novel technique of pulse amplitude equalisation in higher-order optical pulses in a rational harmonically modelocked fibre ring laser is proposed and demonstrated. The combination of intracavity optical filtering, and even-order modulation sideband generation using nonlinear characteristics of a Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator can effectively eliminate pulse amplitude instability at higher-order rational harmonic modelocking. The generated optical pulse trains exhibit equal amplitudes with a high degree of spectral purity in terms of a large suppression of supermode noise, low amplitude noise, phase noise, and timing jitter     

Chirped RF Pulse Generation Based on Optical Spectral Shaping and Wavelength-to-Time Mapping Using a Nonlinearly Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating

Chirped radio-frequency (RF) pulse generation based on optical spectral shaping and nonlinear wavelength-to-time mapping in a nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (NLCFBG) is investigated. In the proposed approach, the spectrum of a femtosecond pulse generated by a mode-locked fiber laser is shaped by an optical filter that has a sinusoidal frequency response. The spectrum-shaped optical pulse is sent to the NLCFBG, to implement nonlinear wavelength-to-time mapping. A chirped electrical pulse with the central frequency and chirp rate determined respectively by the first- and second-order dispersions of the NLCFBG is then obtained at the output of a high-speed photodetector. An approximate model that describes the chirped RF pulse generation is derived, which is verified by numerical simulations. Chirped pulse generation with a pulse compression ratio as high as 450 is demonstrated. The key device in the chirped RF pulse generation system is the NLCFBG, which is investigated in detail with an emphasis on the influence of its group delay ripples on the performance of the pulse generation system. Techniques to design and fabricate the NLCFBG are also discussed. The proposed approach provides a potential solution for the generation of chirped RF pulse with a high central frequency and large chirp rate for applications in pulse compression radar systems.     

Nonlinear pulse shaping-assisted ultrashort optical pulse generation

An ultrashort optical pulse generator based on nonlinear pulse shaping is proposed and demonstrated. With a spatial light modulator placed prior to a high nonlinearity fiber, \((\mu +\lambda )\)-evolution strategy is introduced to dynamically adjust the transfer function of spatial light modulator both in phase and in amplitude. Nearly chirp-free 2.2-ps optical Gaussian pulse and 0.73-ps optical Nyquist pulse with a repetition rate of 25 GHz are both achieved in simulation. The scheme also has a certain tolerance to phase quantization error of the spatial light modulator and power fluctuation.     

超短光脉冲技术的研究进展

超短光脉冲在遥测、探索微观世界的规律以及产生高温等离子体等方面有极广泛的用途。介绍了超短光脉中产生的工作原理及国内外发展状态,并介绍了几种获得超短光脉冲的方法。     

模拟信号在SOA中的交叉相位调制特性研究

为了研究模拟光信号在半导体光放大器中的交叉相位调制特性,以正弦波和三角波两种模拟光信号为例,采用数值计算的方法,详细分析了交叉相位调制过程中模拟信号的增益、非线性相移差和啁啾。结果表明,当信号光和控制光之间采用帧同步方式时,信号光脉冲各点的增益及增益差出现波动,非线性相移差将围绕理想值π出现不同程度的偏离;采用比特同步方式可使信号光脉冲各点非线性相移差均衡,此时所需的控制光脉冲和信号光脉冲波形类似。