Fiber Bragg grating for optical dark soliton generation

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the generation of dark soliton pulse trains at several gigahertz repetition rate by means of a fiber Bragg grating used as a passive filtering element at the output of a mode-locked laser. We show that a proper choice of the grating parameters allows for the transformation of bright pulse train into odd dark pulse trains with continuous-wave (CW) background.     

Complete characterization of terahertz pulse trains generated fromnonlinear processes in optical fibers

The measurement technique of frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) is used to characterize the intensity and phase of terahertz pulse trains generated from nonlinear and dispersive interactions in optical fibers. We show that existing FROG retrieval algorithms are easily adapted to allow the retrieval of periodic pulse characteristics and, using synthetic pulse trains generated from numerical simulations, we demonstrate how FROG can differentiate between periodic pulse trains with fundamentally different intensity and phase characteristics, yet qualitatively similar autocorrelation functions and spectra. Experimental results are presented for the FROG characterization of a 0.3-THz sinusoidal beat signal from a dual wavelength laser source, a 2.5-THz train of dark solitons generated in a high-birefringence fiber, and a 0.6-THz bright polarization domain wall soliton train generated in an ultra-low birefringence fiber. These results are shown to be in good agreement with nonlinear Schrodinger equation simulations     

Three-Wave Trapponic Solitons for Tunable High-Repetition Rate Pulse Train Generation

We demonstrate that the parametric mixing of an ultrashort Zakharov-Manakov (ZM) soliton pulse with a quasi-continuous-wave (CW) signal in a weakly quadratic nonlinear and dispersive medium may lead to the generation of a three-wave soliton with variable speed, or trappon. We show that trappons may provide a novel mechanism of cavityless ultrashort pulse train generation. The timewidth, the amplitude and the repetition rate of the generated pulse trains may be controlled in a stable manner by adjusting the intensity level of the CW signal and/or the ZM short soliton pulse.     

哑铃形高功率全保偏大模场掺镱锁模光纤激光器

采用基于非线性光纤环形镜的哑铃形结构搭建了全光纤全保偏掺镱锁模激光器。通过使用全保偏大模场光纤、高功率光纤器件和优化的腔结构,实现了脉冲宽度在156 ps到8.1 ns范围内可调的高功率、大能量矩形耗散孤子共振脉冲输出,在最大泵浦功率22.7 W下激光器直接输出功率达到5.5 W,脉冲能量达到0.68μJ,峰值功率为84 W。得益于全保偏光纤结构,所设计的激光器具有出色的抗干扰性和稳定性。     

Generation of dark solitons by interaction between similaritons in Raman fiber amplifiers

We present a new method to generate dark soliton trains by exploiting the interaction between two time-delayed optical similaritons with the same wavelength. The temporal overlap of two similariton pulses creates a sinusoidal beating which subsequently evolves into an ultrahigh repetition-rate train of dark solitons through the combined effects of normal dispersion, nonlinearity, and adiabatic Raman gain. The experimental results are in good agreement with numerical predictions. We also investigate how the the repetition rate of the dark soliton train depends on the time separation between the initial pulses, the initial pulse energy, and the Raman gain. Finally, we numerically study the interaction between three similaritons of the same wavelength.     

A high-speed optical star network using TDMA and all-opticaldemultiplexing techniques

The authors demonstrate the use of time-division multiplexing (TDM) to realize a high capacity optical star network. The fundamental element of the demonstration network is a 10 ps, wavelength tunable, low jitter, pulse source. Electrical data is encoded onto three optical pulse trains, and the resultant low duty cycle optical data channels are multiplexed together using 25 ps fiber delay lines. This gives an overall network capacity of 40 Gb/s. A nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) is used to carry out the demultiplexing at the station receiver. The channel to be switched out can be selected by adjusting the phase of the electrical signal used to generate the control pulses for the NOLM. By using external injection into a gain-switched distributed feedback (DFB) laser we are able to obtain very low jitter control pulses of 4-ps duration (RMS jitter <1 ps) after compression of the highly chirped gain switched pulses in a normal dispersive fiber. This enables us to achieve excellent eye openings for the three demultiplexed channels. The difficulty in obtaining complete switching of the signal pulses is presented. This is shown to be due to the deformation of the control pulse in the NOLM (caused by the soliton effect compression). The use of optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) with all-optical switching devices is shown to be an excellent method to allow us to exploit as efficiently as possible the available fiber bandwidth, and to achieve very high bit-rate optical networks     

长腔被动锁模掺镱光纤激光器的方波脉冲产生

报道了一种基于非线性光纤环形镜(NOLM)、工作在耗散孤子共振(DSR)区的长腔被动锁模掺镱光纤激光器,该激光器谐振腔的总长度约为1502 m,可以输出重复频率为133.18 kHz的高能量方波脉冲,且输出脉冲的宽度和单脉冲能量均随泵浦功率的增大而呈线性增大。当泵浦功率增大到414.47 mW时,输出的方波脉冲具有最大宽度(761.6 ns),同时单脉冲能量达到了最大值(60.2 nJ)。通过改变NOLM中单模光纤的长度,进一步研究了谐振腔长度对输出方波脉冲特性的影响,结果表明:谐振腔越长,所得DSR方波脉冲越宽,脉冲峰值功率越低。     

Dual-Wavelength Pulse Train Generation Based on Silicon-on-Insulator Optical Waveguides

In this paper, we present and numerically study a method with pump-probe configuration to generate ∼4.17-THz dual-wavelength ultrahigh-repetition-rate pulse train from the continuous-waves (CW) based on the submicron silicon-on-insulator (SOI) optical waveguides. An original ∼4.17 THz repetition rate pulsed pump, with femtosecond pulse duration, at 2900 nm (mid-wave infrared wavelength-MWIR) and 2-channel CW lights at 1450 nm and 1650 nm (near infrared wavelengths) are simultaneously launched into the silicon waveguide. Results show that, when both of CW lights with high intensity pulsed pump are co-propagating along the SOI waveguide, the CW lights will, respectively, experience normal and anomalous group velocity dispersion (GVD) regimes, leading to developing into two inverted ∼4.17 THz repetition rate pulse train by the combined effects of GVD and nonlinear frequency chirp induced by pulsed pump inside the waveguide. Moreover, the outcome pulse trains have short pulse duration and high extinction ratio (ER) comparing with the original pulsed pump if the systems parameters such as input power and waveguide length are judiciously adjusted.     

Generation of fundamental soliton trains for high-bit-rate opticalfiber communication lines

The authors present a method for the generation of high-quality soliton trains at a high repetition rate of gigahertz to terahertz range. During nonlinear propagation of a continuous-wave (CW) dual-frequency signal through a fiber with effective amplification, a train of practically noninteracting fundamental solitons is formed. It is shown that the effective amplification can be achieved as in usual fibers with an actual amplification as well as in fibers with nonuniform parameters along the fiber axis. The method is demonstrated experimentally. Dual-frequency 25 ps pulses at λ=1.55 μm are reshaped into 0.2 THz combs of 0.49 ps solitons in fiber with slowly decreasing dispersion. It is also shown that stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) can prevent a CW soliton train transmission through optical fibers, and suggests a method for suppression of SBS     

Wavelength and repetition rate tunable optical pulse source using a chirped fiber Bragg grating and a nonlinear optical loop mirror

We experimentally demonstrate a simple and novel scheme for tunable real-repetition-rate multiplication, based on the combined use of fractional Talbot effect in a linearly tunable chirped fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and cross-phase modulation (XPM) effect in a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). By tuning the group-velocity dispersion of the chirped FBG fabricated with the S-bending method using a uniform FBG, we obtain high quality pulses at pseudorepetition rates of 20/spl sim/50 GHz from an original 8.5-ps 10-GHz soliton pulse train. We subsequently convert this pseudorate multiplication into a real-rate multiplication using XPM effect in an NOLM. A wavelength tuning is also achieved over a /spl sim/15-nm range.     

Optimal loop length of a nonlinear optical loop mirror in switchingsolitons

The optimal loop length of a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) for switching solitons was investigated numerically for the case where the wavelengths of the control pulse and signal soliton straddle the dispersion zero. In our analysis, the Raman effect is also included because the wavelength difference between the control and signal pulses is within the Raman gainband. It was found that the control pulse not only imposes phase shift on the copropagating signal, but also transfers part of its energy to the signal. Furthermore, the broadening of the control pulse due to the combined effect of self-phase modulation and group velocity dispersion increases the switching power of the control pulse significantly. The broadening of the control pulse also introduces more uniform phase shift to the signal, thus resulting in a higher switching efficiency. Finally, our results show that the pulse distortion is minimal if a loop length equivalent to one soliton period is employed     

Generation of a 4 /spl times/ 100 GHz pulse-train from a single-wavelength 10-GHz mode-locked laser using superimposed fiber Bragg gratings and nonlinear conversion

In this paper, the design of a simple and practical repetition-rate multiplier based on superimposed-chirped fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is presented. A tenfold increase in the repetition rate of a mode-locked fiber source, by generating a 100-GHz optical pulse train from a 10-GHz train, is demonstrated experimentally. As compared with previous demonstrations, the superimposed FBG filter was specifically designed to decrease the duty cycle of the generated pulse train or, in other words, decrease the pulsewidth. In addition, a fiber nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) is used to eliminate the pulse-to-pulse phase fluctuations in the output high-repetition-rate train and to achieve a wavelength-tunable transform-limited pulse sequence. Moreover, it is shown that nonlinear conversion using the NOLM can be used to simultaneously generate multiwavelength high-repetition-rate optical pulse trains (4 /spl times/ 100 GHz in the example shown here).     

光纤中基于交叉相位调制与喇曼放大的超短光脉冲串的产生

本文提出一种在单模光纤负群速色散区连续波产生超短光脉冲串的新方法，即让波长位于光纤负色散区的连续波和波长位于光纤正色散工铁泵浦脉冲串在光纤中共同传输，在光纤的零色散波位于连续波长与泵浦脉冲波长中间附近的情况下，交叉相位调制与喇曼放大能使连续波演化成比泵浦脉冲窄得多的无调啾，无脉座的超短光脉冲串。数值计算表明，泵浦脉冲愈强，由连续波产生的超短光脉冲宽度愈宽，峰值功率愈高，而且所需的光纤愈短。     

变占空比脉冲测量非线性光环镜阈值特性的实验研究

光阈值器件是多用户光码分多址(OCDMA)系统接收机中抑制基底噪声和互相关旁瓣峰的重要部件。非线性光环镜(NOLM)是实现光阈值的一种有效方法。对基于高非线性光纤(HNLF)NOLM的阈值特性进行了实验研究及数据分析,提出利用改变抽运脉冲占空比分析阈值特性的方法,实验发现抽运脉冲占空比D为1/25时出现阈值点,阈值功率为3.75W。讨论了抽运光与信号光的波长间隔对NOLM输出信号的影响,得出阈值点处的最优波长间隔为5.8nm,脉冲压缩量为114.47ps。实验搭建了接收机阈值系统,眼图分析表明该系统能较好地抑制噪声。     

Recipe for intensity modulation reduction in SOA-based interferometric switches

This paper presents a theoretical and experimental analysis of saturated semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based interferometric switching arrangements. For the first time, it is shown that such devices can provide enhanced intensity modulation reduction to return-to-zero (RZ) formatted input pulse trains, when the SOA is saturated with a strong continuous-wave (CW) input signal. A novel theoretical platform has been developed in the frequency domain, which reveals that the intensity modulation of the input pulse train can be suppressed by more than 10 dB at the output. This stems from the presence of the strong CW signal that transforms the sinusoidal transfer function of the interferometric switch into an almost flat, strongly nonlinear curve. This behavior has also been verified experimentally for both periodically and randomly degraded, in terms of intensity modulation, signals at 10 Gb/s using the ultrafast nonlinear interferometer as the switching device. Performance analysis both in the time and frequency domains is demonstrated, verifying the concept and its theoretical analysis.     

有偏压光伏光折变晶体中低振幅非相干耦合孤子对

从理论上研究了有偏压的光伏光折变晶体中低振幅屏蔽光伏孤子对的特性，给出了明一明、暗一暗屏蔽光伏孤子对的单孤子解。它们起源于对外电场的非均匀空间屏蔽和光伏效应，不同于起源于对外电场非均匀空间屏蔽孤子和起源于光伏效应的光伏孤子，具有有趣的特性。当光伏效应可忽略时，它们的非线性波动方程就转化为低振幅屏蔽孤子对的非线性波动方程，它们就转化为低振幅屏蔽孤子对；当外偏压为零时，它们的非线性波动方程就转化为低振幅闭路和开路光伏孤子对的非线性波动方程，它们就转化为低振幅闭路和开路光伏孤子对。如果载体光束具有相同的偏振和波长以及互不相干时，这些孤子对就能得到，相关的例子在光伏光折变晶体铌酸锂(LiNbO3)中给出。     

Generation of a pseudorandom dark soliton data train and itscoherent detection by one-bit-shifting with a Mach-Zehnderinterferometer

New schemes are described for the generation and detection of a dark soliton pseudorandom data train. The dark soliton data are generated by an AND gate and T-flip-flop circuits. The dark soliton is detected by using a one-bit-shifting technique with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Which converts the dark soliton signal into a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal     

Reduction of amplified spontaneous emission from a transmittedsoliton signal using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror and a nonlinearoptical loop mirror

The amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) from concatenated erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA's) in a 10 Gb/s 500 km soliton transmission system has been successfully reduced through the use of a nonlinear amplifying-loop mirror (NALM). By using the NALM the ratio of the signal peak to ASE was improved from 17.4:1 to 24.9:1. A similar result was obtained for a nonlinear optical-loop mirror (NOLM) with a 6:4 directional coupler. It is noted that pulse transmission through the NALM or the NOLM gives rise to frequency chirp, which means that these fiber devices are not appropriate for use at the midpoint of a long-distance soliton transmission. The chirp characteristics caused by the NALM were also described and the optimum condition for nonlinear switching was obtained     

脉冲泵浦双包层掺Yb3+光纤放大器理论研究

对比研究了在连续泵浦和脉冲泵浦两种情况下,高功率双包层掺Yb3+件光纤放大器的输出特性.计算结果表明:采用脉冲泵浦放大50 kHz高斯脉冲信号,在ASE光抑制方面和光纤放大器热效应方面都优于连续泵浦情况下的光纤放大器.进一步又研究了脉冲泵浦下,从泵浦脉冲峰值功率,掺杂光纤浓度和泵浦波长三方面选择泵浦脉冲宽度,优化放大器输出特性.为提高和设计掺Yb3+抖光纤放大器和MOPA系统的输出功率和稳定性提供了理论依据.     

基于和频效应1.5 μm波段新型高速全光波长转换器

基于周期极化反转铌酸锂(PPLN)光波导的和频(SFG)二阶非线性效应,提出并实验验证了1.5-μm波段信号光到抽运光的高速全光波长转换。输入信号光采用重复频率为40 GHz,脉宽为1.57 ps的皮秒脉冲或是40 Gbit/s的非归零(NRZ)码信号,输入抽运光为连续光,输出抽运光变为脉冲光,并且是输入信号光的反向波长转换。