BIASED BEARINGS-ONLY PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR BISTATIC SYSTEM

According to the biased angles provided by the bistatic sensors, the necessary condition of observability and Cramer-Rao low bounds for the bistatic system are derived and analyzed, respectively. Additionally, a dual Kalman filter method is presented with the purpose of eliminating the effect of biased angles on the state variable estimation. Finally, Monte-Carlo simulations are conducted in the observable scenario. Simulation results show that the proposed theory holds true, and the dual Kalman filter method can estimate state variable and biased angles simultaneously. Furthermore, the estimated results can achieve their Cramer-Rao tow bounds.

Mathematical Description of Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter Orthogonal Polarizing Method

The transfer function of the optical splitting system of the acousto-optic tunable filter （AOTF） is deduced to be a reference to optical design. The characteristic matrix （ transfer function） of AOTF is used to describe quantitatively the characters of polarization elements in the orthogonal polarizing system. According to the characteristic matrix, the included angle of polarizer＇s transmission direction and polarization analyzer＇s transmission direction should be 90°. As a result the signal to noise ratio increased about 20 times though the light intensity was reduced to 54.3%,because both the transmittances of polarizer and polarization analyzer are 0. 74, which is an intrinsic character. The orthogonal polarizing method is an effective method to get rid of the influence of zero order light and improve the spectrum resolution and signal-to-noise ratio.

Design of coating for broadband polarization-independent beam splitters and analysis of its optical performance

A design of coating on the entrance surface of the beam splitters with a transparent thin film of certain refractive index and thickness was presented.For this kind of beam splitters,it was possible to realize polarization-independent beam-splitting for chosen wavelength λ with incident angle .In addition,the simulation results using the coating designable software(Auto film) were consistent with the theoretical results,and the beam splitters are not sensitive to the small errors of film-thickness and film refractive-index over a broad spectra.

Design of Polarization-independent Wavelength-interleave Coupler in Fluorinated Polyimide Waveguide

Based on the measurement of dispersion characteristic and birefractive index of the fluorinated polyimide film,a statistical optimum design method is proposed and used to realize the design of 32- and 36-wavelengths optical waveguide wavelength-interleave coupler(i,e.,interleaver) with the optimization of polarization fluctuation and wavelength interval of 0.8 nm at 1 550 nm.The largest cross coupling ratios of the two interleavers are respectively less than 1.8% and 3.5%,while the least through coupling ratios are respectively greater than 98.2% and 96.5%.The output differences due to polarization fluctuation are less than ±1.7% and ±3.2%.

Multichannel Adaptive Polarization Mode Dispersion Compensation with One Compensator in Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Transmission Systems

A simple two-section polarization mode dispersion(PMD) compensator is proposed for multichannel PMD compensation, which can compensate two or even more channels simultaneously. Because of the statistical characteristics and the frequency-dependence of PMD, for current single mode fiber with moderate PMD, the probability that all channels are severely degraded at the same time is extremely small, which makes it possible to compensate a dense wavelength division multiplexing(DWDM) transmission system with moderate PMD using this compensator. It is shown that the outage probability of a 40×43 Gb/s DWDM transmission system using this compensator is decreased significantly from 3.6×10-3 to 3.6×10-5.

Automatic Carrier Landing System with Gust-rejection Capability

A new direct-lift control carrier landing mode is advanced, and it is proved to be very effective to keep the attitude angle and path angle constant when the aircraft is in the blind area of tracking radar and the guidance system is shut off. The direct-lift control mode is achieved with the symmetric deflection of the flaps and dynamic decoupling for minor disturbance of the angle of attack. This mode changes an aircraft' s model from a short-period oscillation model to a non-oscillation one, which could evidently increase the gust-rejection capability of the aircraft.

Polarization Analysis of an Asymmetrically Etched Rib Waveguide Coupler for Sensing Applications

Deeply etched rib waveguides on silicon on insulator platform were not addressed well in research publications. We have analyzed single mode condition and polarization independence of a deeply etched rib waveguide （DE-RW） structure from biosensing perspective. With this rib structure, an asymmetrically etched integrated optic directional coupler has been numerically modeled to have the same coupling length for quasi- TE and TM modes. The coupling coefficients with the glucose solution as an upper cladding were calculated using a full vector mode solver, and the bulk refractive index sensitivity of the sensor was found as 28.305 × 10^-2/RIU for a fundamental quasi-TE mode.

A switchable and tunable ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser with a Sagnac loop mirror

A switchable and tunable ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser(YDFL) is reported and demonstrated. Employing a Sagnac loop mirror fabricated by an 85-cm-long polarization-maintaining fiber(PMF), the proposed YDFL can operate with stable dual-wavelength lasing or tunable single-wavelength lasing around 1 064 nm. Both stable dual-wavelength lasing and tunable single-wavelength lasing are achieved by adjusting a polarization controller in the Sagnac loop mirror. The experimental results show that the output of the proposed fiber laser with two different operation modes is rather stable at room temperature.

Tunable thin-film filter with low angle sensitivity

Conventional angle-tuned thin-film filters have serious angle sensitivity for their low spacer effective refractive index, and it is difficult to fabricate their angle control system. In this paper, we propose and fabricate a novel 100 GHz angletuned thin-film filter stack with low angle sensitivity, which uses the high refractive index material TiO2 as the spacer, and its incident angle can be expanded to 25°. Compared with the traditional Ta2O5-SiO2 thin-film filter stack, the novel stack has fewer layers. Using the polarization beam splitters and the half wave plates, the polarization sensitivity of the angle-tuned filter can also be suppressed. Simulation results and the experiments show that the thin-film filter with low angle sensitivity has an effective tuning range of 33 nm, which can cover the whole C-band, and its angle control system is easy to be fabricated.