Picosecond pulse generation with high extinction ratio employing electroabsorption modulator, fibre compressor, and self-phase-modulation-based pulse reshaper

A wavelength-tunable 3.5 ps pulse generator, which employs an electroabsorption modulator (EAM), a fibre pulse compressor, and a self-phase-modulation (SPM)-based pulse reshaper, is developed. An EAM directly generates 21 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 10 GHz, which are compressed to 6 ps by a fibre pulse compressor. An SPM-based pulse reshaper then eliminates the large pedestal of the compressed pulses. Thus, 3.5 ps pulses with extinction ratio larger than 27 dB and timing jitter as small as 150 fs are obtained.     

Temporal compression of mode-locked pulses for laser-fusion diagnostics

Regenerative compression of mode-locked laser pulses has been developed to provide a temporally short probe pulse for diagnosing laser-fusion plasmas. A single mode-locked pulse injected into a regenerative amplifier is compressed by an intracavity saturable dye. Analysis indicates the best operational mode and choice of experimental parameters. Experiments using Nd:YAG and Eastman A9740 dye demonstrate an eightfold compression from 120 to 15 ps with a shot-to-shot stability of ±4 percent. An oscillator/regenerative compressor system demonstrates a 15 ps probe pulse synchronized within ±5 ps to a 1000 ps target-heating pulse.     

一种超宽带脉冲发生器的设计与仿真

利用双极型晶体管的雪崩特性设计了双管并联的超宽带（Ultra-Wideband，UWB）脉冲发生器，通过添加电感使电路的等效负载增加，在维持脉冲宽度基本不变的情况下使输出脉冲的幅度增加到原来的2．5倍。对电路中各元件参数的选取进行详细的分析说明，给出了参数值与脉冲各项性能的关系。仿真得到的UWB脉冲信号幅度为-38．299V，脉冲宽度约为663．265ps，上升时间459．184ps，下降时间约为969．388ps。     

Gigahertz-rate 100-V pulse generator

A high-density electron-hole plasma generated within a high-efficiency avalanche diode induces a sharp, high-voltage pulse on a transmission line. A novel gigahertz-rate pulse generator has been constructed utilizing the high- efficiency microwave avalanche diode. An impedance discontinuity within the circuit gives rise to a sharp pulse with undistorted waveform, which keeps retriggering the diode for a self-excited pulse generation. The peak- to-peak amplitude of the pulse is 125 V into a 50-/spl Omega/ load. The pulsewidth is 400 ps, the rise time 100 ps, and the fall time 200 ps.     

All-optical pulse width and wavelength conversion at 10 Gb/s usinga nonlinear optical loop mirror

An all-optical pulse width and wavelength converter is demonstrated using a nonlinear optical loop mirror. The conversion of a 10 Gb/s, 8 ps pulse width data stream at 1551 nm to a 23 ps pulse width data stream at 1543 nm is demonstrated. The control pulse energy required for switching is 10 pJ. Bit-error-rate measurements are presented     

激光二极管抽运掺Yb3+光纤放大器获得2.41W超短脉冲输出

对国产掺镱(Yb3 )双包层大模场面积光纤超短脉冲放大器进行了系统的实验研究。以自己搭建的脉冲宽度为2.3ps,重复频率为95MHz的全固态锁模激光器作为种子源,以976nm大功率光纤耦合激光二极管为抽运源,以1.6m国产掺Yb3 双包层大模场面积光纤为增益介质,在11.2W的入纤抽运功率下,将平均功率为100mW的脉冲种子光放大到平均功率2.41W,单脉冲能量达到了25nJ,放大后脉冲的宽度(时域宽度)和光谱都有所展宽。     

利用光纤环形镜开关特性与孤子压缩效应获得无基座超短光脉冲

利用色散渐减光纤中高阶孤子非绝热压缩及非线性环形腔镜的消基座作用获得高质量无基座超短光脉冲.可以把波长为1.55 μm,脉宽为20 ps的光脉冲压缩为1.42 ps无基座超短脉冲.并与直接用色散渐减光纤的非绝热孤子压缩得到的同宽度光脉冲分别在光纤正负色散区传输进行了比较,发现用色散渐减光纤构成的非线性光纤环形腔镜获得的压缩光脉冲具有相对理想的波形和频谱结构,有利于在光纤中长距离稳定传输.     

ps级任意整形脉冲发生器

任意形状激光束需要有一个相应的形状任意可调的电脉冲.在各种任意脉冲产生技术中,FET行波结构可以达到较好的结果.采用20节GaAs FET行波结构,300 ps的触发脉冲经过多个250 ps的延迟,通过计算机控制每个FET状态,实现了输出宽度大于5 ns且脉冲的形状任意可调的脉冲信号.输出脉冲经过滤波和放大,输出幅度达到10 V.     

1030nm皮秒级光参量啁啾脉冲放大抽运源

利用低温工作状态下Yb∶YAG再生放大器,对1030nm光纤锁模激光器输出的250pJ的种子光进行放大。电光开关门宽控制种子光在放大器内20程往返,最大单脉冲能量为217μJ,输出频率10Hz,同时由于其增益窄化效应光谱宽度由8.9nm减小到0.3nm,相应的脉宽由18.0ps被压缩到5.5ps,这与理论模拟结果的0.4nm,4.2ps基本吻合。实验结果论证了采用窄增益带宽的再生放大器可以同时实现亚皮秒光参量啁啾脉冲放大(OPCPA)对抽运脉冲宽度和光谱宽度的要求,避免使用光纤光栅对光谱滤波带来的高阶非线性效应。     

脉冲主动锁模和主被动锁模激光器

本文报导了脉冲式主动、主被动锁模磷酸盐玻璃振荡器的特性.主动锁模的脉冲宽度为200微微秒左右,输出性能比较稳定.对于输出脉宽为7微微秒左右的主被动锁模,出现卫星脉冲的几率与调制器的调制系数有关.使用不同的腔内标准具能产生30微微秒和70微微秒的脉冲,没有观察到卫星脉冲.主被动锁模的性能比被动锁模有所提高.     

用光电导开关产生超宽带电磁辐射的研究

用全固态绝缘结构的横向型半绝缘GaAs光电导开关,在高重复频率飞秒激光脉冲触发下产生超快电脉冲串,经过微带同轴过渡连接至宽带微波天线进行了超宽带电磁辐射和接收的实验,测试了辐射波形及频谱分布,得到了上升时间为200ps、脉宽500ps、重复频率82MHz、辐射频带宽度达6.0GHz以上的电磁波,分析了用光电导开关进行宽带辐射的机理和特性.     

A Single-Chip Ultra-Wideband Receiver With Silicon Integrated Antennas for Inter-Chip Wireless Interconnection

A single-chip ultra-wideband (UWB) receiver was developed using 0.18 mum CMOS technology, and inter-chip wireless data communication by integrated antennas was confirmed. Timing pulse and data pulse with on-off keying were alternately sent from a transmitting antenna. Double Gaussian monocycle pulse (GMP) template generators performed detections of timing and data pulses. A single GMP template, whose probability distribution of the pulse repetition cycle is given by Gaussian, showed a random jitter of 4.87 ps. Dual-Dirac model could explain the probability distribution of the cycle of double GMP template. Obtained random jitter and deterministic jitter were 4.6 ps and 14.4 ps, respectively. The receiver successfully recovered 200 Mbps data at the distance of 0.5 mm.     

160 Gbit/s OTDM signal transmission over 26 km photonic crystal fibre

A 160 Gbit/s (=10 Gbit/s X 16) optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) signal is successfully transmitted over a 26 km-long photonic crystal fibre (PCF). The transmission induced signal pulse broadening is suppressed to only 0.2 ps (from 2.1 to 2.3 ps) because the fabricated PCF has low polarisation-mode dispersion (PMD) of 0.1 ps/km^1/2, and the total chromatic dispersion of the transmission line is suppressed to 0.015 ps/nm by using a dispersion-compensation fibre. The transmitted signal is demultiplexed using four-wave mixing in a 100 mlong dispersion shifted fibre, where a phase modulation-based 10 GHz pump pulse source is newly adopted.     

Compresion and dispersionless transmission of chirped 1.3 mu m DFB ps laser pulses in dispersion-shifted single-mode fibres

Optical pulse compression of high-speed gain-switched ps 1.3 mu m DFB semiconductor laser pulses in dispersion-shifted single-mode fibres is measured with a streak camera. The laser-red-shift chirp is compensated for by the negative chromatic fibre dispersion, resulting in pulse compression and 'dispersionless' transmission of 45 ps pulses over 12 km of fibre.<>     

4 Gb/s soliton data transmission over 136 km using erbium dopedfiber amplifiers

The use of semiconductor-laser-pumped erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and an externally modulated mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor laser to obtain soliton data transmission at 4 Gb/s over 136 km of nondispersion shifted fiber is described. After 136 km of transmission and at low pulse powers, the ~80 ps fiber input pulse width was broadened to ~150 ps. At high pulse powers the output pulse width was maintained at 80 ps, as expected for N=1 solitons. N =3 solitons were also observed at lower data rates     

增益开关半导体激光器的三级脉冲整形方案

增益开关半导体激光器产生的光脉冲宽度往往较宽,且具有一定大小的脉冲基座。为了提高增益开关半导体激光器的脉冲质量,提出了一种三级脉冲整形方案。首先,利用色散补偿光纤将增益开关半导体激光器输出的光脉冲宽度从39.381 ps压缩到26.681 ps,随后利用掺铒光纤放大器和色散位移光纤的高阶孤子效应进一步将光脉冲的宽度压缩到20.916 ps,最后利用半导体光放大器的自相位调制效应区分开脉冲基座与脉冲中心的光谱,并利用光滤波器滤除脉冲基座对应的光谱部分,从而消减脉冲基座,并将脉冲宽度压缩到18.497 ps。实验结果表明,该三级脉冲整形方案可以有效地压缩脉冲宽度以及减小脉冲基座,从而提高增益开关半导体激光器输出光脉冲的质量。     

皮秒拍瓦激光的参数测量系统可靠性分析

皮秒参数测量系统用于提供皮秒拍瓦激光系统的各项状态参数,协助激光系统达到预期的技术指标。针对皮秒拍瓦激光系统的技术指标,皮秒参数测量系统将提供压缩脉冲的能量、脉宽、远场、信噪比等参数。为了判断参数测量系统的工作性能,采用均方根(RMS)误差来描述测量系统的可靠性。经过实验测试,能量测量单元的测量范围为10～1000J,标定实验数据的RMS误差为2.2%。脉宽测量单元的时间测量范围为0.5～18.0ps,时间分辨率为0.07ps,测试数据的RMS误差为3%。远场测量单元的空间测量范围为150倍衍射极限(DL),空间分辨率为0.3倍DL,测试数据的RMS误差为0.15%。信噪比测量单元的时间测量范围为30ps,时间分辨率为0.3ps,动态范围为106。基于拍瓦实验提供的测试数据表明,皮秒参数测量系统能够稳定可靠地提供以上参数的实时测试数据,实现拍瓦装置的运行状态诊断功能。     

Pulse width tunable subpicosecond pulse generation from an activelymodelocked monolithic MQW laser/MQW electroabsorption modulator

Actively modelocked pulses are generated from a 1.59 μm MQW laser integrated with an MQW electroabsorption modulator driven at the monolithic cavity frequency. The pulse width is controlled from 39 ps to 0.55 ps by changing the inverse bias voltage applied to the electroabsorption modulator and by linear pulse compression using a fibre     

Frequency modulation mode-locking and Q-switching of diode-laser-pumped Nd:YLF laser

Using frequency modulation (FM) mode-locking techniques, and pumping with a 500 mW laser diode, the authors have developed a Nd:YLF (yttrium lithium fluoride) laser operating at 1053 nm that produces 49 mW average power in pulse durations of 9 ps. When this system is Q-switched, the energy within the 90 ns pulse envelope is 17 mu J. The average mode-locked pulse duration within this envelope is 21 ps giving rise to a peak power of 22 kW.<>     

被动式探针光系统工程化改造研究

星光Ⅱ激光装置上建立的紫外探针光系统,用星光Ⅱ的子束作为抽运光源,通过倍频和受激喇曼散射,将波长为1054nm、脉宽约为800ps的激光转换成波长为308nm、脉宽约为60ps、能量为1mJ左右的紫外光,作为激光等离子体诊断的光源。原有探针光系统由于受系统结构不稳定及光束质量较差等因素的影响,不能稳定运行。为了提高系统的运行质量和稳定性,对原系统进行了工程化的改造。通过实验验证,探针光系统输出能量能够达到1mJ左右、脉宽约为30ps、均匀性较好、运行成功率大于90%,这一结论满足了激光等离子体诊断光源的要求。