光纤飞秒激光抽运的非线性光学频率变换研究进展

最近十几年来,随着飞秒激光技术及非线性晶体制备技术的逐渐成熟,非线性光学频率变换技术得到了飞速发展。非线性光学频率变换技术的研究旨在突破激光增益介质发射谱线的限制,使激光器输出波长拓展至传统激光器所无法直接输出的波段范围,以满足更加广泛的科研及应用需求。到目前为止,非线性频率变换技术是获得多波长和可调谐飞秒激光的最简捷有效的途径。近些年来,本研究室在研究光纤飞秒激光器的基础上,开展了基于掺Yb3+光子晶体光纤飞秒激光系统抽运不同介质的非线性频率变换研究,主要包括:基于块状晶体的光学参量振荡(OPO)技术、基于砷化镓(GaAs)纳米线的频率上转换、基于高非线性光子晶体光纤的超连续谱及三次谐波的产生。简要介绍国内外相关研究成果,重点综述了本研究室近五年来在上述研究领域的科研成果,分别介绍了OPO技术、砷化镓(GaAs)纳米线的频率上转换和基于高非线性光子晶体光纤的超连续谱及三次谐波的产生技术的基本原理、研究进展以及前沿应用。

Analysis of photonic crystal fiber sensor character

The special character of a PCF which is used as a gas or liquid sensor is discussed. The field distribution is analyzed when the solid core PCF is injected with different medium that has different relative dielectric constant （or refractive index）. And the experiential formulas of the relation between refractive index of some kinds of liquid and their concentration are given, in order to measure the concentration of the relative liquid. At the same time, the effect of propagation constant on PCF sensor character is also discussed. Furthermore, the photonic medium relative dielectric constant, when it is injected with . band-gap （PBG） of PCF （PBG-PCF） is calculated at different different medium. That is the principle basis for this kind of PCF sensors.

Research on the stability of nearly zero flattened dispersion of photonic crystal fibers

To analyze the stability of nearly zero flattened dispersion, the dispersion deviations for three kinds of PCFs are calculated when the hole diameters deviate from their designed values. Numerical results show that around the wavelength of 1.55 μm, the dispersion deviations of both the PCF with three-fold symmetry core and the PCF with hexagonal lattice are much less than that of the PCF with different hole diameters in different rings. Therefore, the stabilities of nearly zero flattened dispersion of the first two kinds of PCFs are much better than that of the last one. Considering the confinement loss, the PCF with three-fold symmetry core is preferable to practical use.

Propagation characteristics of six-core photonic liquid crystal fibers

We demonstrate a new kind of multi-core photonic liquid crystal fibers (PLCFs) which have six liquid crystal cores arrayed in the ring-type geometry and separated by the air holes. Through analyzing the structure of this kind of PLCFs, it can be found that they have the ability to resist the structure deformation. Due to the effective index of the liquid crystal can be adjusted by temperature and wavelength, the energy in the six liquid crystal cores is increased with the temperature increasing and wavelength decreasing. The effective index of the PLCFs is decreased, the effective fundamental mode area is increased and the dispersion properties are gently affected with the wavelength increasing and temperature decreasing.

Bending characteristics of dual-hole PM-PCF based on LP_(01) and LP_(11) modal interference

The bending characteristics of dual-hole polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber(PM-PCF) are demonstrated in this paper. The modal interference is induced by the LP_(01) mode and LP_(11) mode propagating in a single PM-PCF with the same polarization direction. Simulation results demonstrate that the bending radius induces the phase difference between LP_(01) mode and LP_(11) mode, which leads to the change of light interference intensity on the fiber output facet. The relationship between bending radius and normalized interference intensity with three different bending angles is discussed, where the bending angle is defined as the angle between hole axis and the x axis. The bending sensitivity is obtained to be about-188.78/m around the bending radius of 1.5 cm with the bending angle of 90°. The bending characteristics can contribute for online bending detection in widespread areas.

Design of large-core single-mode Yb^(3+)-doped photonic crystal fiber

The effective index of the cladding fundamental space-filling mode in photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is simulated by the effective index method. The variation of the effective index with the structure parameters of the fiber is achieved. For the first time, the relations of the V parameter of Yb3+-doped PCF with the refractive index of core and the structure parameters of the fiber are provided. the single-mode characteristics of large-core Yb3+-doped photonic crystal fibers with 7 and 19 missing air holes in the core are analyzed. The large-core single-mode Yb3+-doped photonic crystal fibers with core diameters of 50 μm, 100 μm and 150 μm are designed. The results provide theory instruction for the design and fabrication of fiber.