Modified Holographic Exposure to Fabricate Varied Bragg Grating in an Identical Chip

A new fabricating method is demonstrated to realize two different Bragg gratings in an identical chip using traditional holographic exposure. Polyimide is used to protect one Bragg grating during the first period. The technical process of this method is as simple as that of standard holographic exposure.

Multi-wavelength fiber laser based on broadband fiber grating and HiBi fiber loop mirror

A fiber laser based on broadband C-band fiber grating (CFG) and high birefringence (HiBi) fiber loop mirror (FLM) is demonstrated, which uses the comb-like reflection performance of the HiBi FLM. Under different polarization states, different output lasers are gained by choosing the polarization states of the light in the cavity using the polarization controller. By this method, a single wavelength or dual wavelength laser beam can be output, and multi-wavelength oscillates can be achieved.

Multiwavelength Actively Mode-locked Fiber Laser with a Double-ring Configuration and Integrated Cascaded Sampled Fiber Bragg Gratings

A modified multiwavelength actively mode-locked fiber ring laser is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In this kind of laser, stable multiwavelengths lasing is achieved by integrating cascaded sampled fiber Bragg gratings(SFBGs) into the laser cavity. To implement actively mode-locking technique, a double-ring cavity configuration is used to assure that the cavity lengths for all wavelengths lasing are identical. Thus, simultaneous mode locking of all wavelengths has been successfully achieved by using the same mode-locking signal.

A microwave photonic filter based on multi-wavelength fiber laser and infinite impulse response

A microwave photonic filter(MPF) based on multi-wavelength fiber laser and infinite impulse response(IIR) is proposed. The filter uses a multi-wavelength fiber laser as the light source, two sections of polarization maintaining fiber(PMF) and three polarization controllers(PCs) as the laser frequency selection device. By adjusting the PC to change the effective length of the PMF, the laser can obtain three wavelength spacings, which are 0.44 nm, 0.78 nm and 1.08 nm, respectively. And the corresponding free spectral ranges(FSRs) are 8.46 GHz, 4.66 GHz and 3.44 GHz, respectively. Thus changing the wavelength spacing of the laser can make the FSR variable. An IIR filter is introduced based on a finite impulse response(FIR) filter. Then the 3-d B bandwidth of the MPF is reduced, and the main side-lobe suppression ratio(MSSR) is increased. By adjusting the gain of the radio frequency(RF) signal amplifier, the frequency response of the filter can be enhanced.

A multi-wavelength fiber laser based on superimposed fiber grating and chirp fiber Bragg grating for wavelength selection

In this paper,a new type of multi-wavelength fiber laser is proposed and demonstrated experimentally.Superimposed fiber grating(SIFG) and chirp fiber Bragg grating(CFBG) are used for wavelength selection.Based on gain equalization technology,by finely adjusting the stress device in the cavity,the gain and loss are equal,so as to suppress the modal competition and achieve multi-wavelength lasing at room temperature.The experimental results show that the laser can output stable multi-wavelength lasers simultaneously.The laser coupling loss is small,the structure is simple,and it is convenient for integration,so it can be widely used in dense wavelength division multiplexing(DWDM) system and optical fiber sensors.

A variable coefficient microwave photonic filter based on multi-wavelength fiber laser and Mach-Zehnder interferometer

A microwave photonic filter(MPF) with variable coefficient is proposed and demonstrated, which is constructed by a multi-wavelength fiber laser and Mach-Zehnder interferometer(MZI). Through changing the slope characteristics of Mach-Zehnder interference spectrum adjusted by optical variable delay line(OVDL), the conversion from phase modulation(PM) to intensity modulation(IM) is realized. The multi-wavelength fiber laser with Lyot-Sagnac optical filter has variable wavelength spacing. So the designed filter has a variable number of taps and tap weights. As a result, the tunable range of passband center frequency is 2.6 GHz. The reconfigurability of MPF can be also realized by adjusting the output of fiber laser.

A widely tunable microwave photonic notch filter with adjustable bandwidth based on multi-wavelength fiber laser

A widely tunable microwave photonic notch filter with adjustable bandwidth based on multi-wavelength fiber laser is proposed and demonstrated. The multi-wavelength fiber laser generates the multi-taps of the microwave photonic filter （MPF）. In order to obtain notch frequency response, a Fourier-domain optical processor （FD-OP） is introduced to con- trol the amplitude and phase of the optical carrier and phase modulation sidebands. By adjusting the polarization con- troller （PC）, different numbers of taps are got, such as 6, 8, 10 and 121 And the wavelength-spacing of the multi-wavelength laser is 0.4 nm. The bandwidth of the notch filter is changed by adjusting the number of taps and the corresponding bandwidths are 4.41 GHz, 3.30 GHz, 2.64 GHz and 2.19 GHz, respectively. With the additional phase shift introduced by FD-OP, the notch position is continuously ttmed in the whole free spectral range （FSR） of 27.94 GHz. The center frequency of the notch filter can be continuously tuned from 13.97 GHz to 41.91 GHz.

Reconfigurable single-shot incoherent optical signal processing system for chirped microwave signal compression

We propose and demonstrate a reconfigurable and single-shot incoherent optical signal processing system for chirped microwave signal compression, using a programmable optical filter and a multiwavelength laser(MWL). The system is implemented by temporally modulating a specially shaped MWL followed by a suitable linear dispersive medium. A microwave dispersion value up to 1.33 ns/GHz over several GHz bandwidth is achieved based on this approach. Here we demonstrate a singleshot compression for different linearly chirped microwave signals over several GHz bandwidth. In addition, the robustness of the proposed system when input RF signals are largely distorted is also discussed.