Study on microwave photonic filters based on lasers and dispersive fiber

A general theoretical model for microwave photonic filters based on multi-wavelength light source and dispersive media is summarized and presented, and is applied to the analysis of double-laser-based microwave photonic notch filters’ performance. The different influences of the double-sideband(DSB) modulation and the single-sideband(SSB) modulation are demon- strated and explained theoretically. Furthermore, the impact of different factors, such as frequency spacing, 3dB bandwidth and the spectrum amplitude mismatch on the performance of the microwave photonic notch filters are also studied. The numerical simulation results are in good agreement with predictions, and could be beneficial for future optimization of microwave photonic filters.     

Switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with a tilted fiber grating

Multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber lasers (EDFLs) have attracted considerable interests in recent years for their po- tential applications in Wavelength-division-multiplexed fi- ber communication system, fiber sensing, optical instrumentation, and microwa…     

1.55-μm supercontinuum based on dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fiber

A dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fiber with normal dispersion is designed for generating flat wideband supercontinuum, and the supercontinuum generation in this fiber is numerically analyzed. The results show that by appropriately designing the photonic crystal fiber, it can achieve flattened dispersion in the normal dispersion region. It is found that a fiber characterized by a flattened dispersion with a small normal dispersion is suitable for a flat wideband supercontinuum generation. In the process of spectral broadening, self-phase modulation effect plays a dominant role. By filtering the supercontinuum, pulses with different central wavelength over a wide spectral range can be obtained. The pulse width is determined by the bandwidth of the filter.     

Novel intra-cavity self-organization coherent erbium-doped fiber laser

A novel all-fiber self-organization coherent Erbium-doped fiber laser is proposed and demonstrated. The laser system is composed of two independent lasers. When each of the two branch lasers operates independently, the output power is 10. 41mW and 8.69 mW respectively. By adjusting a polarization controller (PC), the two lasers achieve coherent coupling, and the output power is 24.4 mW, which is more than two times that the single laser yields. Furthermore, we bring forward and discuss the factor estimating the effect of coherent combination—coherent coupling factor. The value of growth factor to evaluate the effect of coherent combining is 1.27. The coherent fiber laser has the advantages of simple structure, high efficiency and single frequency, which conduce to coherent coupling easily.     

Analysis of photonic crystal fiber sensor character

The special character of a PCF which is used as a gas or liquid sensor is discussed. The field distribution is analyzed when the solid core PCF is injected with different medium that has different relative dielectric constant(or refractive index) . And the experiential formulas of the relation between refractive index of some kinds of liquid and their concentration are given,in order to measure the concentration of the relative liquid. At the same time,the effect of propagation constant on PCF sensor character is also discussed. Furthermore,the photonic band-gap(PBG) of PCF(PBG-PCF) is calculated at different medium relative dielectric constant,when it is injected with different medium. That is the principle basis for this kind of PCF sensors.     

Bidirectional single-mode Er-doped fiber ring laser

Rare Er-doped fiber lasers have been studied for fibe sensor applications with the advantage of frequency readou [1,2]. Due to this advantage, gyroscope application for a bidi rectional Er-doped fiber-ring laser was also demonstrated They also have high s…     

Ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser in multi-pulse operation

An Ytterbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser using the polarization sensitive isolator and polarization controllers (PC) is reported. In the normal dispersion, the fiber laser can oscillate at the multi-pulse states by adjusting the position of the PC. On the condition that the polarization state isn’t changed, the outputs of Ytterbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser change from single pulse to multi-pulse by increasing the pump power. The fiber laser can achieve different multi-pulse output by adjusting the PC1 and PC2 carefully.     

Multi-wavelength fiber laser based on broadband fiber grating and HiBi fiber loop mirror

Multi-wavelength fiber lasers have attracted a lot of in- terest in recent years because of its potential applications in optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems, fiber sensors, and other fiber-optics instruments. Because of the predominant…     

Optimization of a fiber grating film sensor based on dual peak resonance

Based on the dual peak resonance of long-period fiber grating（LPFG）, a novel film sensor is presented, in which films sensitive to the surrounding gases are coated on the cladding of the fiber grating region, and the intervals of the dual peak resonant wavelengths change with the film refractive index. According to the coupled-mode theory, a triple-clad numerical model is developed to analyze the relation between the sensitivity Sn and the thin film optical parameters （the film thickness h3 and the refractive index n3） and the fiber grating parameters （the grating period A and the core index modulation σ）. By using optimization method, the optimal film optical parameters and the grating structure parameters are obtained. Numerical simulation shows that the sensitivity of this scheme to refractive index of the films is predicted to be more than 10-7. The theoretic analysis provides straightforward foundation for the actual highly sensitive film sensors.     

High-sensitivity temperature sensor based on long-period fiber grating

Temperature sensitivity is greatly improved by taking the following three measures： proper long-period fiber grating （LPFG） whose strain coefficient of the core is larger than that of the cladding is employed, the LPFG is coated with a thin film of the material whose refractive index decreases with the temperature, and the sensor is encapsulated by metal material whose thermal expansion coefficient is large. By computer simulation, a measured temperature coefficient of 0.2375 nm/℃ and a temperature resolution less than 0.1 ℃ are obtained.     

A novel temperature-insensitive strain sensor based on tapered fiber grating

A novel temperature-insensitive strain sensor based on bandwidth demodulation of the reflected light from the tapered fiber grating is presented, which is simple and low-cost and has considerable potential particularly application for strain sensing,and with the development of the interrogation system, it can demodulate both the bandwidth and the center wavelength of the reflected light from TFG to measure strain and temperature simultaneously.     

基于双光源的可调谐微波光子滤波器

提出了一种基于双光源与双相移光纤光栅(DPS- FBG)的可调谐微波光子滤波器。双光源经过相 位调制后,利用DPS-FBG的反射模式中的两超窄陷波分别对两相位调制光信号的边带进行抑 制,实现相 位调制至强度调制的转换。通过调节两光源的中心波长可以实现单通带与双通带之间的切换 ,实现单通带 的中心频率可调以及3dB带宽可调,实现双通带频率同时可调或者单独可调。建立了理论模 型并进行了数 值分析,最后通过实验进行了验证。实现了滤波器通带的3dB带宽由180MHz增加为319MHz,中心频率从1GHz到7GHz可调。     

S-band gain flattened distributed fiber Raman amplifier with chirped fiber bragg grating filter

IPTV,video-phone,video-conference,distance learn-ing,distance medical ,e-governmental affairs ,etc .will be-come commonthings in people' s daily life with the fastdevelopment of Internet technology.During this processextra-capacity of fiber communication …     

Investigation on reflection spectr a of chirped and phase-shifted fiber Bragg gratings

The characteristics of chirped and phase-shifted fiber Bragg gratings have been investigated by the use of transfer matrix formulation. While the characteristics of a chirped and phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating are the same as those of non- chirped one in some important aspects, both the reflection and transmission windows of a chirped and phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating can be broadened in a wide range. Therefore, chirped and phase-shifted fiber Bragg gratings will have applications in WDM or DWDM optical communication systems. The work in this paper can be used to design the new devices based on chirped and phase-shifted fiber Bragg gratings.     

An optical sensing system for the concentration of methane based on fiber Bragg gratings

Based on a special catalyst and fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), an optical sensing system is proposed to measure the concen- tration of methane. The temperature of the catalyst rises rapidly as the concentration of methane increases, and hence it can be detected by an FBG-type sensor through monitoring the wavelength shift of the reflection spectrum. The experimental results show the good performances of our system, such as the high resolution and temperature stability.     

Research on the stability of nearly zero flattened dispersion of photonic crystal fibers

To analyze the stability of nearly zero flattened dispersion, the dispersion deviations for three kinds of PCFs are calculated when the hole diameters deviate from their designed values. Numerical results show that around the wavelength of 1.55 μm, the dispersion deviations of both the PCF with three-fold symmetry core and the PCF with hexagonal lattice are much less than that of the PCF with different hole diameters in different rings. Therefore, the stabilities of nearly zero flattened dispersion of the first two kinds of PCFs are much better than that of the last one. Considering the confinement loss, the PCF with three-fold symmetry core is preferable to practical use.     

Tuning of an erbium-doped fiber ring laser based on heating a tapered fiber filter

An erbium-doped fiber ring laser (EDFRL) with wavelength tuning is reported. The laser has a Mach–Zehnder fiber interferometer (MZFI) based on tapers as an intracavity filter, which spectral interference transmission spectrum is modified by external refractive index changes induced by temperature variations in the 25–110 °C range. The MZFI is immersed in a glycerol solution, which refractive index is modified by controlled temperature changes, which allows the tuning of the laser wavelength determined by the interference fringes. Wavelength tuning of 12 nm was measured. This approach is very simple, portable and inexpensive over traditional methods to tune a fiber laser. In addition, the tuning mechanism do not require a solution replacement to operate.     

Design and Optimization of a novel structure for efficient side-coupling of high power double-cladding fiber lasers

A novel structure for efficient side-coupling of high power double-cladding fiber lasers is presented. The maximum cou- pling efficiency of this structure is more than 90% for TM-polarization in the 1 and -1 order but is only 40% for TE- polarization. Thus, a multi-layer stair-structure is introduced and optimized by combining transmission algorithm and genetic algorithm to obtain higher coupling efficiencyηfor TE-polarization and the maximum coupling efficiency almost reaches to 70%.     

Development of a fiber optic health monitoring system for aerospace applications

This paper describes our research activity involved in the identification, development and test of a prototype SHM system constituted by optical sensing nodes to measure both temperature and strain on ultra high temperature ceramics (UHTC) materials up to 1000 °C. Commercially available optic devices can operate up to 550 °C. To raise temperature limit up to 1000 °C, custom devices, mainly under development for scientific applications, have been identified. A prototype SHM system has been developed adopting a FBG sensor for temperature measurement and an EFPI sensor in sapphire fiber for strain measurement. The preliminary findings from thermo-mechanical tests indicate that former SHM system is capable of accurately measuring strain at elevated temperatures on UHTC materials.     

Research on phase-detecting method for coherent combining beams in fiber laser array

A novel method for phase-detecting of each individual beam in coherent beam combining system of fiber laser array based on the property of time-shift of fast Fourier transform is reported. It takes advantage of the relative movement of fringe- pattern to detect the phase shift between each individual beam and reference beam. No frequency shift component for reference beam is required in the system. At the same time, the acquisition fringe-pattern is firstly tailored to a few multiple of fringes in order to reduce the phase-detecting error caused by energy leakage during the course of fast Fourier transform. This technique can greatly reduce the effect of energy leakage and thus improve the phase-detecting precision. Basic principle of the new phase-detecting method is described in detail, and numerical results show that the phase-detecting error is less than 1/1000 wavelength by utilizing our method.