This paper presents an efficient scheme for single-pixel imaging(SPI)utilizing a phase-controlled fiber laser array and an untrained deep neural network.The fiber lasers are arranged in a compact hexagonal structure a...This paper presents an efficient scheme for single-pixel imaging(SPI)utilizing a phase-controlled fiber laser array and an untrained deep neural network.The fiber lasers are arranged in a compact hexagonal structure and coherently combined to generate illuminating light fields.Through the utilization of high-speed electro-optic modulators in each individual fiber laser module,the randomly modulated fiber laser array enables rapid speckle projection onto the object of interest.Furthermore,the untrained deep neural network is incorporated into the image reconstructing process to enhance the quality of the reconstructed images.Through simulations and experiments,we validate the feasibility of the proposed method and successfully achieve high-quality SPI utilizing the coherent fiber laser array at a sampling ratio of 1.6%.Given its potential for high emitting power and rapid modulation,the SPI scheme based on the fiber laser array holds promise for broad applications in remote sensing and other applicable fields.展开更多
The high-power mode-programmable orbital angular momentum(OAM)beam has attracted significant attention in a wide range of applications,such as long-distance optical communication,nonlinear frequency conversion,and bea...The high-power mode-programmable orbital angular momentum(OAM)beam has attracted significant attention in a wide range of applications,such as long-distance optical communication,nonlinear frequency conversion,and beam shaping.Coherent beam combining(CBC)of an optical phased array(OPA)can offer a promising solution for both generating the high-power OAM beam and rapidly switching the OAM modes.However,achieving real-time phase noise locking and formation of desired phase structures in a high-power CBC system faces significant challenges.Here,an internal phase-sensing technique was utilized to generate the high-power OAM beam,which effectively mitigated thermal effects and eliminated the need for large optical devices.An OPA with six elements was employed for experimental demonstration.The first effective generation of over 1.5 kW mode-programmable OAM beam in a continuous-wave domain was presented.Moreover,the results demonstrated that the generated OAM beam could be modulated with multiple dimensions.The topological charge can be switched in real time from-1 to-2.Notably,this OAM beam emitter could function as an OAM beam copier by easily transforming a single OAM beam into an OAM beam array.More importantly,a comprehensive analysis was conducted on power scaling,mode switching speed,and expansion of OAM modes.Additionally,the system’s compact design enabled it to function as a packageable OAM beam emitter.Owing to the advantages of having high power and programmable modes with multiple dimension modulation in phase structures and intensity distribution,this work can pave the way for producing high-power structured light beams and advancing their applications.展开更多
An all-fiberized and narrow-bandwidth master oscillator power amplification(MOPA) system with record output power of 4 kW level and slope efficiency of 78% is demonstrated. Tandem pumping strategy is tentatively intro...An all-fiberized and narrow-bandwidth master oscillator power amplification(MOPA) system with record output power of 4 kW level and slope efficiency of 78% is demonstrated. Tandem pumping strategy is tentatively introduced into the narrow-bandwidth MOPA system for thermally induced mode instability(TMI) suppression. The stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS) effect is balanced by simply using one-stage phase modulation technique. With different phase modulation signals, SBS limited output powers of 336 W, 1.2 kW and 3.94 kW are respectively achieved with spectral bandwidths accounting for 90% power of ~0.025, 0.17 and ~0.89 nm. Compared with our previous 976 nm pumping system, TMI threshold is overall boosted to be >5 times in which tandem pumping increases the TMI threshold of >3times. The beam quality(M~2 factor) of the output laser is well within 1.5 below the TMI threshold while it is ultimately saturated to be 1.86 with the influence of TMI at maximal output power. Except for SBS and TMI, stimulated Raman scattering(SRS) effect will be another challenge for further power scaling. In such a high power MOPA system, multidetrimental effects(SBS, SRS and TMI) will coexist and may be mutual-coupled, which could provide a well platform for further comprehensively investigating and optimizing the high power, narrow-bandwidth fiber amplifiers.展开更多
High-power mode-programmable orbital angular momentum(OAM)beams have received substantial attention in recent years.They are widely used in optical communication,nonlinear frequency conversion,and laser processing.To ...High-power mode-programmable orbital angular momentum(OAM)beams have received substantial attention in recent years.They are widely used in optical communication,nonlinear frequency conversion,and laser processing.To overcome the power limitation of a single beam,coherent beam combining(CBC)of laser arrays is used.However,in specific CBC systems used to generate structured light with a complex wavefront,eliminating phase noise and realizing flexible phase modulation proved to be difficult challenges.In this paper,we propose and demonstrate a two-stage phase control method that can generate OAM beams with different topological charges from a CBC system.During the phase control process,the phase errors are preliminarily compensated by a deep-learning(DL)network,and further eliminated by an optimization algorithm.Moreover,by modulating the expected relative phase vector and cost function,all-electronic flexible programmable switching of the OAM mode is realized.Results indicate that the proposed method combines the characteristics of DL for undesired convergent phase avoidance and the advantages of the optimization algorithm for accuracy improvement,thereby ensuring the high mode purity of the generated OAM beams.This work could provide a valuable reference for future implementation of high-power,fast switchable structured light generation and manipulation.展开更多
We experimentally demonstrated a cascaded internal phase control technique.A laser array with 12 channels was divided into three sub-arrays and a stage array,and phases of the sub-arrays and the stage array were locke...We experimentally demonstrated a cascaded internal phase control technique.A laser array with 12 channels was divided into three sub-arrays and a stage array,and phases of the sub-arrays and the stage array were locked by four phase controllers based on the stochastic parallel gradient descent(SPGD)algorithm,respectively.In this way,the phases of the whole array were locked,and the visibility of the interference pattern of the whole emitted laser array in the far field was∼93%.In addition,the technique has the advantage of element expanding and can be further used in the high-power coherent beam combination(CBC)system due to its compact spatial structure.展开更多
Coherent beam combining of 107 beams has been demonstrated for the first time to the best of our knowledge.When the system was in closed loop,the pattern in far-field was stable and the fringe contrast was>96%.The ...Coherent beam combining of 107 beams has been demonstrated for the first time to the best of our knowledge.When the system was in closed loop,the pattern in far-field was stable and the fringe contrast was>96%.The impact of the dynamic tilt error,the piston error,and power inconsistency was theoretically analyzed.Meanwhile,the distribution law of dynamic tilt error was estimated and the correlation of the tilt dithering of different axis was analyzed statistically.The ratio of power in the central lobe was^22.5%.The phase residue error in the closed loop was~λ∕22,which was evaluated by the root-mean-square error of the signal generated from the photoelectric detector.展开更多
We incorporate deep learning(DL)into tiled aperture coherent beam combining(CBC)systems for the first time,to the best of our knowledge.By using a well-trained convolutional neural network DL model,which has been cons...We incorporate deep learning(DL)into tiled aperture coherent beam combining(CBC)systems for the first time,to the best of our knowledge.By using a well-trained convolutional neural network DL model,which has been constructed at a non-focal-plane to avoid the data collision problem,the relative phase of each beamlet could be accurately estimated,and then the phase error in the CBC system could be compensated directly by a servo phase control system.The feasibility and extensibility of the phase control method have been demonstrated by simulating the coherent combining of different hexagonal arrays.This DL-based phase control method offers a new way of eliminating dynamic phase noise in tiled aperture CBC systems,and it could provide a valuable reference on alleviating the long-standing problem that the phase control bandwidth decreases as the number of array elements increases.展开更多
High-power orbital angular momentum(OAM)beams have distinct advantages in improving capacity and data receiving for free-space optical communication systems at long distances.Utilizing the coherent combination of a be...High-power orbital angular momentum(OAM)beams have distinct advantages in improving capacity and data receiving for free-space optical communication systems at long distances.Utilizing the coherent combination of a beam array technique and helical phase approximation by a piston phase array,we have proposed a generating system for a novel high-power beam carrying OAM,which could overcome the power limitations of a common vortex phase modulator and a single beam.The characteristics of this generating method and the orthogonality of the generated OAM beams with different eigenstates have been theoretically analyzed and verified.Also a high-power OAM beam produced by coherent beam combination(CBC)of a six-element hexagonal fiber amplifier array has been experimentally implemented.Results show that the CBC technique utilized to control the piston phase differences among the array beams has a high efficiency of 96.3%.On the premise of CBC,we have obtained novel vortex beams carrying OAM of±1 by applying an additional piston phase array modulation on the corresponding beam array.The experimental results agree approximately with the theoretical analysis.This work could be beneficial to areas that need high-power OAM beams,such as ultra-long distance free-space optical communications,biomedical treatments,and powerful trapping and manipulation under deep potential wells.展开更多
High-peak-power transform-limited narrow-linewidth nanosecond all-fiber lasers are desired in a range of applications.However,their linewidths will be broadened by self-phase modulation(SPM).We propose a novel concept...High-peak-power transform-limited narrow-linewidth nanosecond all-fiber lasers are desired in a range of applications.However,their linewidths will be broadened by self-phase modulation(SPM).We propose a novel concept that generates transform-limited laser pulses by temporally shaping the pulse seed.The impact of the pulse shape on SPM-induced spectral broadening was studied numerically and experimentally.It was found theoretically that the square-shape pulsed laser is immune to SPM-induced spectral broadening.Based on this principle,we built a high-peak-power,linearly polarized,square-shape nanosecond all-fiber laser in a master oscillator power amplifier(MOPA)configuration.Stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS)limited peak powers of 4.02 kW,5.06 kW,6.52 kW and 9.30 kW were obtained at pulse widths of 8 ns,7 ns,6 ns and 5 ns.Thanks to the square-shape pulsed seed,the linewidths at maximum peak power remained at 129.5 MHz,137.6 MHz,156.2 MHz and 200.1 MHz,respectively,close to the transform-limited values of110.8 MHz,126.6 MHz,147.7 MHz and 177.3 MHz.展开更多
Coherent beam combining of 60 fiber lasers by using the stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm has been demonstrated. The functions of pinhole(s) on the power distributions in the far-field have been systemati...Coherent beam combining of 60 fiber lasers by using the stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm has been demonstrated. The functions of pinhole(s) on the power distributions in the far-field have been systematically simulated on both in-phase and out-of-phase modes. Only one photoelectric detector was used to detect the combined power in the far-field central lobe of the in-phase mode state. When the phase controller was in a closed loop, the contrast of the far-field intensity pattern was as high as ~97% with residual phase error of ~λ/30, and ~34.7% of the total power was contained in the central lobe.展开更多
An all-fiberized high-average-power narrow linewidth ns pulsed laser with linear polarization is demonstrated. The laser system utilizes a typical master oscillator power amplifier(MOPA) configuration. The stimulated ...An all-fiberized high-average-power narrow linewidth ns pulsed laser with linear polarization is demonstrated. The laser system utilizes a typical master oscillator power amplifier(MOPA) configuration. The stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS) is effectively suppressed due to the short fiber length and large mode area in the main amplifier, combined with the narrow pulse duration smaller than the phonon lifetime of SBS effect. A maximal output power of 466 W is obtained with a narrow linewidth of ~203.6 MHz, and the corresponding slope efficiency is ~80.3%. The pulse duration is condensed to be ~4 ns after the amplification, corresponding to the peak power of 8.8 kW and the pulse energy of 46.6 μJ. Neardiffraction-limited beam quality with an M2 factor of 1.32 is obtained at the output power of 442 W and the mode instability(MI) is observed at the maximal output power. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest average output power of the all-fiberized narrow linewidth ns pulsed fiber laser with linear polarization and high beam quality, which is a promising source for the nonlinear frequency conversion, laser lidar, and so on.展开更多
文摘This paper presents an efficient scheme for single-pixel imaging(SPI)utilizing a phase-controlled fiber laser array and an untrained deep neural network.The fiber lasers are arranged in a compact hexagonal structure and coherently combined to generate illuminating light fields.Through the utilization of high-speed electro-optic modulators in each individual fiber laser module,the randomly modulated fiber laser array enables rapid speckle projection onto the object of interest.Furthermore,the untrained deep neural network is incorporated into the image reconstructing process to enhance the quality of the reconstructed images.Through simulations and experiments,we validate the feasibility of the proposed method and successfully achieve high-quality SPI utilizing the coherent fiber laser array at a sampling ratio of 1.6%.Given its potential for high emitting power and rapid modulation,the SPI scheme based on the fiber laser array holds promise for broad applications in remote sensing and other applicable fields.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62275272 and 62075242)Natural ScienceFoundationofHunanProvince,China(No.2019JJ10005)+1 种基金Training Program for Excellent Young Innovators of Changsha(No.kq2206003)Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province(No.QL20220013)。
文摘The high-power mode-programmable orbital angular momentum(OAM)beam has attracted significant attention in a wide range of applications,such as long-distance optical communication,nonlinear frequency conversion,and beam shaping.Coherent beam combining(CBC)of an optical phased array(OPA)can offer a promising solution for both generating the high-power OAM beam and rapidly switching the OAM modes.However,achieving real-time phase noise locking and formation of desired phase structures in a high-power CBC system faces significant challenges.Here,an internal phase-sensing technique was utilized to generate the high-power OAM beam,which effectively mitigated thermal effects and eliminated the need for large optical devices.An OPA with six elements was employed for experimental demonstration.The first effective generation of over 1.5 kW mode-programmable OAM beam in a continuous-wave domain was presented.Moreover,the results demonstrated that the generated OAM beam could be modulated with multiple dimensions.The topological charge can be switched in real time from-1 to-2.Notably,this OAM beam emitter could function as an OAM beam copier by easily transforming a single OAM beam into an OAM beam array.More importantly,a comprehensive analysis was conducted on power scaling,mode switching speed,and expansion of OAM modes.Additionally,the system’s compact design enabled it to function as a packageable OAM beam emitter.Owing to the advantages of having high power and programmable modes with multiple dimension modulation in phase structures and intensity distribution,this work can pave the way for producing high-power structured light beams and advancing their applications.
基金sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61705264 and 61705265)
文摘An all-fiberized and narrow-bandwidth master oscillator power amplification(MOPA) system with record output power of 4 kW level and slope efficiency of 78% is demonstrated. Tandem pumping strategy is tentatively introduced into the narrow-bandwidth MOPA system for thermally induced mode instability(TMI) suppression. The stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS) effect is balanced by simply using one-stage phase modulation technique. With different phase modulation signals, SBS limited output powers of 336 W, 1.2 kW and 3.94 kW are respectively achieved with spectral bandwidths accounting for 90% power of ~0.025, 0.17 and ~0.89 nm. Compared with our previous 976 nm pumping system, TMI threshold is overall boosted to be >5 times in which tandem pumping increases the TMI threshold of >3times. The beam quality(M~2 factor) of the output laser is well within 1.5 below the TMI threshold while it is ultimately saturated to be 1.86 with the influence of TMI at maximal output power. Except for SBS and TMI, stimulated Raman scattering(SRS) effect will be another challenge for further power scaling. In such a high power MOPA system, multidetrimental effects(SBS, SRS and TMI) will coexist and may be mutual-coupled, which could provide a well platform for further comprehensively investigating and optimizing the high power, narrow-bandwidth fiber amplifiers.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(61705264,61705265)Hunan Provincial Innovation Construct Project(2019RS3017)Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2019JJ10005)。
文摘High-power mode-programmable orbital angular momentum(OAM)beams have received substantial attention in recent years.They are widely used in optical communication,nonlinear frequency conversion,and laser processing.To overcome the power limitation of a single beam,coherent beam combining(CBC)of laser arrays is used.However,in specific CBC systems used to generate structured light with a complex wavefront,eliminating phase noise and realizing flexible phase modulation proved to be difficult challenges.In this paper,we propose and demonstrate a two-stage phase control method that can generate OAM beams with different topological charges from a CBC system.During the phase control process,the phase errors are preliminarily compensated by a deep-learning(DL)network,and further eliminated by an optimization algorithm.Moreover,by modulating the expected relative phase vector and cost function,all-electronic flexible programmable switching of the OAM mode is realized.Results indicate that the proposed method combines the characteristics of DL for undesired convergent phase avoidance and the advantages of the optimization algorithm for accuracy improvement,thereby ensuring the high mode purity of the generated OAM beams.This work could provide a valuable reference for future implementation of high-power,fast switchable structured light generation and manipulation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62275272 and 62075242)the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province,China(No.2019JJ10005)+1 种基金the Training Program for Excellent Young Innovators of Changsha(No.kq2206003)the Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province(No.QL20220013).
文摘We experimentally demonstrated a cascaded internal phase control technique.A laser array with 12 channels was divided into three sub-arrays and a stage array,and phases of the sub-arrays and the stage array were locked by four phase controllers based on the stochastic parallel gradient descent(SPGD)algorithm,respectively.In this way,the phases of the whole array were locked,and the visibility of the interference pattern of the whole emitted laser array in the far field was∼93%.In addition,the technique has the advantage of element expanding and can be further used in the high-power coherent beam combination(CBC)system due to its compact spatial structure.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(61705265,61705264)Innovative Research Groups of Hunan Province(2019JJ10005)Training Program for Excellent Young Innovators of Changsha(KQ1905051).
文摘Coherent beam combining of 107 beams has been demonstrated for the first time to the best of our knowledge.When the system was in closed loop,the pattern in far-field was stable and the fringe contrast was>96%.The impact of the dynamic tilt error,the piston error,and power inconsistency was theoretically analyzed.Meanwhile,the distribution law of dynamic tilt error was estimated and the correlation of the tilt dithering of different axis was analyzed statistically.The ratio of power in the central lobe was^22.5%.The phase residue error in the closed loop was~λ∕22,which was evaluated by the root-mean-square error of the signal generated from the photoelectric detector.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61705264 and 61705265)the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province,China(No.2019JJ10005).
文摘We incorporate deep learning(DL)into tiled aperture coherent beam combining(CBC)systems for the first time,to the best of our knowledge.By using a well-trained convolutional neural network DL model,which has been constructed at a non-focal-plane to avoid the data collision problem,the relative phase of each beamlet could be accurately estimated,and then the phase error in the CBC system could be compensated directly by a servo phase control system.The feasibility and extensibility of the phase control method have been demonstrated by simulating the coherent combining of different hexagonal arrays.This DL-based phase control method offers a new way of eliminating dynamic phase noise in tiled aperture CBC systems,and it could provide a valuable reference on alleviating the long-standing problem that the phase control bandwidth decreases as the number of array elements increases.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.61405255,61378034,and 11504424)the Graduate Student Innovation Foundation through the National University of Defense Technology,China(No.B150705)
文摘High-power orbital angular momentum(OAM)beams have distinct advantages in improving capacity and data receiving for free-space optical communication systems at long distances.Utilizing the coherent combination of a beam array technique and helical phase approximation by a piston phase array,we have proposed a generating system for a novel high-power beam carrying OAM,which could overcome the power limitations of a common vortex phase modulator and a single beam.The characteristics of this generating method and the orthogonality of the generated OAM beams with different eigenstates have been theoretically analyzed and verified.Also a high-power OAM beam produced by coherent beam combination(CBC)of a six-element hexagonal fiber amplifier array has been experimentally implemented.Results show that the CBC technique utilized to control the piston phase differences among the array beams has a high efficiency of 96.3%.On the premise of CBC,we have obtained novel vortex beams carrying OAM of±1 by applying an additional piston phase array modulation on the corresponding beam array.The experimental results agree approximately with the theoretical analysis.This work could be beneficial to areas that need high-power OAM beams,such as ultra-long distance free-space optical communications,biomedical treatments,and powerful trapping and manipulation under deep potential wells.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61705265 and 61705264)the National Key R&D Programme of China(No.2017YFF0104603)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2017M620070)
文摘High-peak-power transform-limited narrow-linewidth nanosecond all-fiber lasers are desired in a range of applications.However,their linewidths will be broadened by self-phase modulation(SPM).We propose a novel concept that generates transform-limited laser pulses by temporally shaping the pulse seed.The impact of the pulse shape on SPM-induced spectral broadening was studied numerically and experimentally.It was found theoretically that the square-shape pulsed laser is immune to SPM-induced spectral broadening.Based on this principle,we built a high-peak-power,linearly polarized,square-shape nanosecond all-fiber laser in a master oscillator power amplifier(MOPA)configuration.Stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS)limited peak powers of 4.02 kW,5.06 kW,6.52 kW and 9.30 kW were obtained at pulse widths of 8 ns,7 ns,6 ns and 5 ns.Thanks to the square-shape pulsed seed,the linewidths at maximum peak power remained at 129.5 MHz,137.6 MHz,156.2 MHz and 200.1 MHz,respectively,close to the transform-limited values of110.8 MHz,126.6 MHz,147.7 MHz and 177.3 MHz.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61705265 and 61705264)the Innovative Research Groups of Hunan Province(No. 2019JJ10005)the Training Program for Excellent Young Innovators of Changsha (No. KQ1905051)
文摘Coherent beam combining of 60 fiber lasers by using the stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm has been demonstrated. The functions of pinhole(s) on the power distributions in the far-field have been systematically simulated on both in-phase and out-of-phase modes. Only one photoelectric detector was used to detect the combined power in the far-field central lobe of the in-phase mode state. When the phase controller was in a closed loop, the contrast of the far-field intensity pattern was as high as ~97% with residual phase error of ~λ/30, and ~34.7% of the total power was contained in the central lobe.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFF0104603)in part by the Huo Ying-Dong Education Foundation of China(No.151062)+1 种基金in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61705264 and 61705265)in part by the Postgraduate Research and Innovation Project of Hunan Province(No.CX2016B031)
文摘An all-fiberized high-average-power narrow linewidth ns pulsed laser with linear polarization is demonstrated. The laser system utilizes a typical master oscillator power amplifier(MOPA) configuration. The stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS) is effectively suppressed due to the short fiber length and large mode area in the main amplifier, combined with the narrow pulse duration smaller than the phonon lifetime of SBS effect. A maximal output power of 466 W is obtained with a narrow linewidth of ~203.6 MHz, and the corresponding slope efficiency is ~80.3%. The pulse duration is condensed to be ~4 ns after the amplification, corresponding to the peak power of 8.8 kW and the pulse energy of 46.6 μJ. Neardiffraction-limited beam quality with an M2 factor of 1.32 is obtained at the output power of 442 W and the mode instability(MI) is observed at the maximal output power. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest average output power of the all-fiberized narrow linewidth ns pulsed fiber laser with linear polarization and high beam quality, which is a promising source for the nonlinear frequency conversion, laser lidar, and so on.