Widely-wavelength-tunable brillouin fiber laser with improved optical signal-to-noise ratio based on parity-time symmetric and saturable absorption effect

A widely-wavelength-tunable Brillouin fiber laser(BFL)with improved optical signal-to-noise ratio(OSNR)based on parity-time(PT)symmetric and saturable absorption(SA)effect is present.This novel BFL realizes PT symmetry and SA effect through polarization-maintaining erbium-doped fiber(PM-EDF)Sagnac loop,which is composed of a PM-EDF,a coupler and two polarization controllers(PCs).By using the inherent birefringence characteristic of PM-EDF,two feedback loops in orthogonal polarization state are formed when the Strokes signal in injected.One of these loops provides gain in the clockwise direction with in the Sagnac loop,while the other loop generates loss in the counterclockwise direction.By adjusting the PCs to control the polarization state of the PM-EDF,a single-longitudinal-mode(SLM)BFL can be achieved,as the PT symmetry is broken when the SA participating stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS)gain and loss are well-matched and the gain surpasses the coupling coefficient.Compared to previous BFLs,the proposed BFL has a more streamlined structure and a wider wavelength tunable range,at the same time,it is not being limited by the bandwidth of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier while still maintaining narrow linewidth SLM output.Additionally,thanks to SA effect of the PM-EDF,the PT symmetric SBS gain contract is enhanced,resulting in a higher optical signal-to-noise(OSNR).The experimental results show that the laser has a wide tunable range of 1526.088 nm to 1565.498 nm,an improved OSNR of 77 dB,and a fine linewidth as small as 140.5 Hz.

基于布里渊光纤振荡器的可调谐窄带微波光子滤波器研究

为了使微波光子滤波器兼具宽调谐范围与高频率选择性,本文基于窄线宽单纵模光纤受激布里渊振荡器首次提出并验证了一种具有宽调谐范围、窄滤波带宽特性的微波光子滤波器。该滤波器的核心是腔长为10 m的布里渊光纤振荡器,受激布里渊散射泵浦光与光载波信号分别由两个不同的可调谐激光器提供,布里渊增益与光调制信号相互作用后,利用该布里渊光纤振荡器压缩光谱线宽,实现窄带微波光子滤波;通过简单地改变泵浦光波长,实现滤波器通带大范围稳定调谐。实验结果表明,该微波光子滤波器在0~20 GHz的频率范围内可稳定调谐,带外抑制比约为20 dB,其3-dB带宽和最大Q值分别为6.2 kHz和3.222×10^(6)。本文提出的单通带微波光子滤波器不仅具有目前已知的最高Q值,同时具有宽可调性、高带外抑制和结构简单等优势。