长波发光垂直腔表面发射激光器及其制备方法

目前,常规的边缘发射半导体激光器由于工作效率高和调制能力强,在光通信中发挥了重要的作用。然而,边缘发射半导体激光器具有一些缺点或问题,这使得它们难以在许多应用中使用。 长波(1.32μm～1.55μm)垂直腔表面发射激光器由于在1.32μm处具有最小的纤维色散和在1.55μm处具有最小的纤维损失。

Supercontinuum generation in a Bragg fiber:a novel proposal

We propose a silica-core dispersion-decreasing Bragg fiber （DDBF） of mode effective area as large as 55 μm^2 for supercontinuum （SO） generation at the pump wavelength of 1060 nm. Using a fast and simple matrix method to model propagation in the DDBF,we have presented a general criterion to obtain the shortest length of the DDBF that would result in a broad SO spectrum. The proposed DDBF design should be amenable for reproducible fabrication through the well-developed MCVD fiber manufacturing technology and the concept has potential for realization as a practical device.

1.55-μm supercontinuum based on dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fiber

A dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fiber with normal dispersion is designed for generating flat wideband supercontanuum, and the supercontinuum generation in this fiber is numerically analyzed. The results show that by appropriately designing the photonic crystal fiber, it can achieve flattened dispersion in the normal dispersion region. It is found that a fiber characterized by a flattened dispersion with a small normal dispersion is suitable for a flat wideband supercontinuum generation. In the process of spectral broadening, self-phase modulation effect plays a dominant role. By filtering the supercontinuum, pulses with different central wavelength over a wide spectral range can be obtained. The pulse width is determined by the bandwidth of the filter.

Pulse Amplification in Dispersion-Decreasing Fibers with Symbolic Computation

The pulse amplification in the dispersion-decreasing fiber （DDF） is investigated via symbolic computation to solve the variable-coefficient higher-order nonlinear Schrfdinger equation with the effects of third-order dispersion, self-steepening, and stimulated Raman scattering. The analytic one-soliton solution of this model is obtained with a set of parametric conditions. Based on this solution, the fundamental soliton is shown to be amplified in the DDF. The comparison of the amplitude of pulses for different dispersion profiles of the DDF is also performed through the graphical analysis. The results of this paper would be of certain value to the study of signal amplification and pulse compression.

Design of optimum supercontinuum spectrum generation in a dispersion decreasing fiber

In this paper,the optimum supercontinuum(SC)spectrum generation in a dispersion decreasing fiber is presented.Three normalized parameters for the pump pulse and SC fiber are introduced.It is found that the shape of an SC spectrum is uniquely specified by the input soliton order,the normalized dispersion slope and the normalized effective fiber length.For a pumping condition with a given input soliton order and a given normalized dispersion slope,by optimizing the normalized effective fiber length,the residual spectral peak in the SC spectrum can be suppressed effectively,and a broad SC spectrum with optimum spectral flatness can be obtained.

Antioxidant and immunomodulatory activities of a polysaccharide from Flammulina velutipes

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the antioxidant and immunomodulatory activities of a unique polysaccharide from the medicinal fungus Flammulina velutipes in vitro.METHODS: Using water extraction and alcohol precipitation, crude polysaccharides were obtained. After purification by DEAE-cellulose 52 ion exchange chromatography and Sephacryl S-300 HR gel filtration chromatography, High performance liquid chromatography equipped with evaporative light-scattering detector, Infrared radiation and Nuclear magnetic resonance were used to evaluate the structure of the polysaccharide. Its immunomodulatory activity was measured by examining the production of nitric oxide(NO) and cytokine secretion, and via lymphocyte proliferation experiments. Its effects on the scavenging activities of hydroxyl radical, superoxide anion and reducing power were also measured.RESULTS: A water-soluble polysaccharide, Flammulina velutipes polysaccharide I-A(FVP I-A), was obtained with a molecular mass of 8.14×104Da determined by high performance gel permeation chromatography. An in vitro antioxidant assay indicated that FVP I-A could scavenge hydroxyl radical, superoxide anion and possessed reducing power and could largely promote NO production and augment the interleukin-1β, interleukin-6, and tumor necrosis factor-α secretion by RAW264.7 macrophages(P<0.05). Moreover, FVP I-A could promote lymphocyte proliferation(P<0.05), and synergistically enhance the augmentation of the proliferation of mouse lymphocytes by concanavalin A and lipopolysaccharides(P<0.01, P<0.05).CONCLUSION: The FVP I-A obtained from Flammulina velutipes possessed antioxidant activity and could enhance non-specific and specific immune responses in vitro.

Novel design of highly nonlinear photonic crystal fibers with flattened dispersion

Novel highly nonlinear photonic crystal fibers(HN-PCFs) with flattened dispersion are proposed by omitting 19 air holes as the fiber core.The simulation results show that the high nonlinearity and the flattened dispersion can be achieved simultaneously by employing only two types of air holes in the cladding.To reduce the confinement loss,the modified designs are presented.The confinement loss is below 0.1 dB/km at 1.55 μm,when seven layers of air-hole rings are introduced to the cladding.After modifying,the dispersion can change from-0.5 ps/(nm.km) to+0.5 ps/(nm.km) in the range from 1.35 μm to 2.06 μm,and the effective mode area is as low as 2.27 μm 2 at 1.55 μm.

Rayleigh backscattering minimization in single fiber colorless WDM-PON using intensity remodulation technique

The performance of colorless wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network(WDM-PON) systems suffers from the transmission impairments mainly due to Rayleigh backscattering(RB).In this paper,we propose and demonstrate a single fiber colorless WDM-PON which enhances the tolerance to RB induced noise.The high extinction ratio in both return-to-zero(RZ)-shaped differential phase shift keying(DPSK) downstream(DS) data signal and intensity-remodulated upstream(US) data signal helps to improve the tolerance to RB induced noise.Simulation results show that downstream and upstream signals can achieve error-free performance at 10 Gbit/s with negligible penalty and improve the tolerance to RB induced noise over 25 km standard single-mode fiber.