采用半导体光放大器的多波长光纤环形激光器

报道了一种插入马赫-曾德尔(M-Z)光纤干涉仪的半导体光放大器(SOA)多波长光纤环形激光器,实现了信道间隔为100 GHz的稳定的多波长连续光激射,其输出光谱3 dB带宽为19.5 nm,消光比大于30 dB.其中在17.9 nm范围内获得了22个波长的连续光,功率不平坦度为1.2 dB,总输出功率为5.1 dBm.对该结构的多波长激光器输出光谱宽,不同波长间功率波动小的特性进行了分析,提出在较低环腔损耗下,半导体光放大器的增益饱和及四波混频(FWM)效应的共同作用使环腔内多波长光功率获得自动均衡;并对实验观测到的激光器输出光谱带宽及中心波长随半导体光放大器驱动电流降低或环腔损耗增大而减小的现象进行了讨论.     

A 100-channel optical FDM transmission/distribution at 622 Mb/sover 50 km

A 100-channel optical frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) transmission/distribution experiment at 622 Mb/s is demonstrated for a fiber length of 50 km. The feasibility of a polarization-insensitive waveguide frequency selection switch for 10-GHz intervals and a frequency-shift-keying (FSK) direct-detection scheme employing a Mach-Zehnder filter is verified. The demodulation circuit employs a Mach-Zehnder filter and a balanced receiver, which utilizes optical power more efficiently than the Fabry-Perot filter. No receiver sensitivity degradation is observed due to interchannel crosstalk of the 128-channel tunable waveguide frequency selection switch (FS-SW) or fiber four-wave mixing for transmissions over a 50-km-long nondispersion-shifted (NDS) fiber and a 26-km-long dispersion-shifted (DS) fiber     

采用移频反馈的SOA多波长光纤环形激光器

文章报道了一种基于移频反馈的半导体光放大器(SOA)多波长光纤环形激光器,其环腔内插入声光调制器作为移频器,用自制的光纤马赫-曾德干涉仪进行梳状滤波,在输出光谱1.5 dB带宽为21.7 nm范围内,获得了间隔50 GHz的54个稳定的多波长连续光激射,消光比为28 dB.该激光器具有工作稳定性好、输出光谱宽和不同波长功率平坦度高的优点.实验证明,移频反馈技术能够实现激光器不同起振波长间的增益均衡,使输出光谱带宽增大21.7%.     

Experimental Demonstration of 1.25-Gb/s Radio-Over-Fiber Downlink Using SBS-Based Photonic Upconversion

We experimentally demonstrate a radio-over-fiber downlink system using a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)-based photonic upconversion technique. The Brillouin selective amplification characteristic of SBS is incorporated to generate the 11-GHz band radio-frequency (RF) carrier. The dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder optical modulator, which is used to carry the broadband data in the optical carrier instead of the optical sideband, is adopted along with the SBS-based carrier generation setup. To vindicate the broadband capabilities of the proposed scheme, 1.25-Gb/s pseudorandom bit sequence data is carried in the optical carrier. Error-free operation of the 1.25-Gb/s downlink is achieved without critical power penalties after the 13-km fiber transmission.     

A cascaded microwave photonic filter based on a low-coherence infinite-impulse-response filter

A cascaded filter combining active and passive filters is proposed. The active filter acts as a low-coherence infinite-impulse-response (IIR) filter and achieves a sharp frequency response. The low-coherence IIR filter is realized by employing the cross-gain modulation (XGM) of the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) spectrum of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The passive filter is an n-section unbalance Mach-Zehnder (UMZ) structure, which is used to increase free spectral range (FSR) and Q factor further. The low-coherence IIR filter cascaded with one section of UMZ passive filter is experimentally demonstrated, and a Q factor of 1268 is obtained.     

光纤干涉系统光学湍流测量原理及其偏振噪声问题的分析

光纤干涉仪具有测量精度高、探测灵敏度大等优点,可用于直接测量大气湍流折射率起伏.首先简要介绍了光纤Mach-Zehnder干涉仪的光学湍流测量原理,描述了低双折射单模光纤中光束偏振态变化诱导的偏振信号衰落现象,并通过偏振态的邦加球分析和详细的公式推导,得出了干涉仪可见度和相移噪声的关系式.结果表明:控制输入光偏振态与干涉仪本征向量之间的夹角在零度左右,可有效地抑制偏振噪声,最后给出了偏振控制器实现偏振控制的原理,为构建稳定的光学湍流测量光纤干涉系统提供了科学依据.     

80-160-GHz mode-locked fiber ring laser synchronized to external optical pulse stream

The authors present a novel scheme to generate ultrahigh repetition rate picosecond pulses synchronized to an optical pulse stream in an actively mode-locked fiber ring laser. A monolithic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with integrated semiconductor optical amplifiers serves as an 80-GHz optically controlled modulator. 80-GHz transform-limited 2.1-ps Gaussian pulse with low timing jitter, extinction ratios up to 25 dB, and 5 mW of average output power are demonstrated. The laser is wavelength tunable over more than 15 nm around 1555 nm. At 160 GHz, 2.5-ps pulse trains with 3-mW output power are generated by rational harmonic mode locking.     

LiNbO3 optical intensity modulator packaged with monitorphotodiode

The assembly technique to simply install a monitor photodiode (PD) with a LiNbO₃ (LN) Mach-Zehnder modulator in the same package is proposed. A light radiated from the Mach-Zehnder Y-branch toward the LN output facet is lead into a glass bead, which is bonded to the LN facet as a fixture of the optical fiber. The end of the glass bead is cut to have an angled face, and the radiated light is reflected normal to the LN waveguide axis and toward the PD fixed on the side of package. The curved surface of the glass bead is effective to roughly focus the light onto the PD. We demonstrate that such monitor PD outputs an intensity modulation exactly reverse to the LN output modulation with a sensitivity higher than 0.03 A/W per optical output power of LN, indicating a usability of the PD output to monitor the drift of LN modulator     

A novel auto-bias control scheme for stabilizing lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulator at any operating point

In this paper,we propose and experimentally demonstrate an auto-bias control scheme for stabilizing a lithium niobate（LN）Mach-Zehnder modulator（MZM）at any operating point along the power transmission curve.It is based on that the bias drift would change the operating point and result in varying the output optical average power of the Mach-Zehnder modulator and its first and second derivatives.The ratio of the first to the second derivative of the output optical average power is used in the proposed scheme as the key parameter.The experimental results show that the output optical average power of the LN MZM hardly changes at the desired operating point,and the maximum deviation of output optical average power is less than±4%.     

Polarization insensitive frequency converter with the capability ofchirp removal

We report on a new type of polarization insensitive frequency conversion technique using four-wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). In this technique the input signal is spectrally duplicated by a Mach-Zehnder type phase modulator. Then, the resulting two waves generate the frequency converted output signal by FWM with use of an additional pump wave. The converted output wavelength is independent of the wavelength of the input signal. In addition to the frequency conversion, the chirp of the input signal is removed by the FWM process bit-error-rate (BER)-measurements after transmission of the converted signal over standard communication fiber are reported     

光载毫米波在光纤中传输色散性能研究

提出了并理论分析了一种采用单电极Mach–Zehnder调制器(SD-MZM)产生光载毫米波的方案。采用电混频器将射频信号与基带数字信号混频后再利用单电极调制器产生双边带调制信号并发送至光纤,在基站使用一个交叉复用器(IL)将双边带信号的中心载波与一阶边带信号进行分离,中心载波可用于上行链路的光载波,而一阶边带产生光载毫米波;理论分析了该毫米波的色散特性并在仿真平台上验证了其正确性,研究发现由于光纤色散引起两个一阶边带的延时不同, 从而导致毫米波能量的损失和解调信号的码间干扰,限制了毫米波的最大传输距离。     

Analysis of a novel optical fiber interferometer with common modecompensation

An optical fiber interferometer formed when the unused output of a fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer is fed back through a length of fiber to the unused input port is discussed. For sensor applications, the resulting optical circuit combines many features of a Mach-Zehnder with the high measured sensitivity of a resonant fiber recirculating delay line. This analysis shows that suitable choice of path lengths preserves high measurand sensitivity, yet it permits complete common-mode compensation in which the effects of all perturbations which uniformly affect the interferometer vanish     

基于SOA的L波段多波长锁模光纤环形激光器

报道了一种基于半导体光放大器(SOA)的L波段多波长光纤环形激光器,采用自制的100GHz信道间隔的光纤Mach-Zehnder(M-Z)干涉仪作为梳状滤波器,电吸收调制器(EAM)实现主动锁模,在1593.6nm附近获得了11个波长的同步锁模脉冲序列,脉冲重复频率为10GHz,半高全宽约为24ps,不同波长间功率不平坦度小于1dB。激光器具有工作稳定、输出光谱较宽和不同波长间功率波动小的特性。     

Techniques for optical demultiplexing in high bit ratecommunication systems

Five standard configurations for optical demultiplexing of optical time domain multiplexed signals are compared. In terms of component usage and strobe signal requirements they are surprisingly equivalent. Both fiber loop and Mach-Zehnder configurations are studied. Fiber rings yield good stability, while configurations based on fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometers, in return, offer the possibility of add/drop demultiplexing. A new Mach-Zehnder configuration is proposed, which requires less optical components, only one strobe signal and has no optical losses (except from excess losses in couplers and splices). The sensitivity to power levels, fiber attenuation, signal and strobe wavelengths, etc., are analyzed and a preliminary design for a 100 to 5×20 Gb/s demultiplexer is suggested     

Photon avalanche upconversion in Er3+:YAlO3

The results of an investigation of photon avalanche upconversion pumping in Er³⁺:TiAlO₃ are reported. Five pump wavelengths corresponding to transitions from the metastable ⁴I_13/2 state to the ²H_11/2 state generated upconversion laser emission at 549.8 nm. The dependence of the laser output power on pump power near laser threshold is discussed in terms of a four-level kinetics model and is shown to reflect the threshold power requirement for photon avalanche. The maximum output power at 7 K was 33 mW, giving an optical conversion efficiency of 3.5% and a conversion efficiency of 28% based on absorbed power. Pumping Er:YALO by cross relaxation energy transfer produced 166 mW of laser output with an optical conversion efficiency of 17%     

基于级联马赫-曾德尔调制器的太赫兹通信系统

为了有效解决太赫兹通信系统中信号难以调制,影响通信系统性能的问题,提出了一种基于级联马赫-曾德尔调制器的太赫兹通信系统。将要传递的伪随机不归零码与频率为10GHz的射频本振信号混频后调制到级联马赫-曾德尔调制器上,通过调节两个调制器的偏置电压,使其分别偏置在最大传输点和最小传输点上,得到的光载波信号经过光放大器放大,结合高非线性光纤的四波混频效应,利用相移布喇格光栅进行模式选择,经过光电转换后的太赫兹信号通过基带数据恢复,可以得出该太赫兹通信系统传输的误比特率。结果表明,基于级联马赫-曾德尔调制器结构可以将太赫兹信号的产生与调制结合到一起。该研究对太赫兹通信系统的实用化有一定借鉴意义。     

非平衡光纤Mach-Zehnder干涉仪偏振衰落及相位噪声分析

研究了非平衡光纤Mach-Zehnder干涉仪因两束干涉光偏振态变化引起的偏振衰落和相位噪声问题。运用波导耦合理论和光纤偏振光传输理论，通过详细的推导，得到非平衡光纤Mach-Zehnder干涉仪输出光强、可见度以及相位噪声的表达式，分析了干涉仪可见度、相位噪声与干涉仪输入光偏振态之间的关系，提出抑制偏振衰落和相移噪声的方法。     

A variable coefficient microwave photonic filter based on multi-wavelength fiber laser and Mach-Zehnder interferometer

A microwave photonic filter（MPF） with variable coefficient is proposed and demonstrated, which is constructed by a multi-wavelength fiber laser and Mach-Zehnder interferometer（MZI）. Through changing the slope characteristics of Mach-Zehnder interference spectrum adjusted by optical variable delay line（OVDL）, the conversion from phase modulation（PM） to intensity modulation（IM） is realized. The multi-wavelength fiber laser with Lyot-Sagnac optical filter has variable wavelength spacing. So the designed filter has a variable number of taps and tap weights. As a result, the tunable range of passband center frequency is 2.6 GHz. The reconfigurability of MPF can be also realized by adjusting the output of fiber laser.     

非平衡光纤Mach-Zehder干涉仪偏振衰落及相位噪声分析

研究了非平衡光纤Mach-Zehnder干涉仪因两束干涉光偏振态变化引起的偏振衰落和相位噪声问题.运用波导耦合理论和光纤偏振光传输理论,通过详细的推导,得到非平衡光纤Mach-Zehnder干涉仪输出光强、可见度以及相位噪声的表达式,分析了干涉仪可见度、相位噪声与干涉仪输入光偏振态之间的关系,提出抑制偏振衰落和相移噪声的方法.     

Distributed optical fiber perturbation sensing system based on Mach-Zehnder interferometer

A novel distributed optical fiber vibration-sensing system based on Mach-Zehnder interferometer has been designed and experimentally demonstrated. Firstly, the principle of Mach-Zehnder optical path interferometer technique is clarified. The output of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer is proportional to the phase shift induced by the perturbation. Secondly, the system consists of the laser diode (LD) as the light source, fiber, Mach-Zehnder optical interferometers as the sensing units, a 1×N star fiber-optic coupler, an N×1 fiber-optic coupler, a photodiode (PD) detector, and a computer used in signal processing. The entire monitoring region of this system is divided into several small zones, and each small monitoring zone is independent from each other. All of the small monitoring zones have their own sensing unit, which is defined by Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer. A series of sensing units are connected by the star fiber-optic couplers to form a whole sensing net. Thirdly, signal-processing techniques are subsequently used to calculate the phase shift to estimate whether intruders appear. The sensing system is able to locate the vibration signal simultaneously, includ-ing multiple vibrations at different positions, by employing the time-division multiplexed (TDM) technique. Finally, the operation performance of the proposed system is tested in the experiment lab with the conditions as follows: the number of the sensing units is 3, the length of the sensing fiber is 50 m, and the wavelength of the light diode is 1550nm. Based on these investigations, the fiber surrounding alert system is achieved. We have experimen-tally demonstrated that the sensing system can measure both the frequency and position of the vibration in real time, with a spatial positional resolution better than 50 m in an area of 1 km2.