Two measurement techniques are investigated to characterize photodetector linearity. A model for the two-tone and three-tone photodetector systems is developed to thoroughly investigate the influences of setup compone...Two measurement techniques are investigated to characterize photodetector linearity. A model for the two-tone and three-tone photodetector systems is developed to thoroughly investigate the influences of setup components on the measurement results. We demonstrate that small bias shifts from the quadrature point of the modulator will induce deviation into measurement results of the two-tone system, and the simulation results correspond well to experimental and calculation results.展开更多
Dual-pumped microring-resonator-based optical frequency combs(OFCs) and their temporal characteristics are numerically investigated and experimentally explored. The calculation results obtained by solving the driven a...Dual-pumped microring-resonator-based optical frequency combs(OFCs) and their temporal characteristics are numerically investigated and experimentally explored. The calculation results obtained by solving the driven and damped nonlinear Schr?dinger equation indicate that an ultralow coupled pump power is required to excite the primary comb modes through a non-degenerate four-wave-mixing(FWM) process and, when the pump power is boosted, both the comb mode intensities and spectral bandwidths increase. At low pump powers, the field intensity profile exhibits a cosine variation manner with frequency equal to the separation of the two pumps, while a roll Turing pattern is formed resulting from the increased comb mode intensities and spectral bandwidths at high pump powers. Meanwhile, we found that the power difference between the two pump fields can be transferred to the newly generated comb modes, which are located on both sides of the pump modes, through a cascaded FWM process. Experimentally, the dual-pumped OFCs were realized by coupling two self-oscillating pump fields into a microring resonator. The numerically calculated comb spectrum is verified by generating an OFC with 2.0 THz mode spacing over 160 nm bandwidth. In addition, the formation of a roll Turing pattern at high pump powers is inferred from the measured autocorrelation trace of a 10 free spectral range(FSR) OFC. The experimental observations accord well with the numerical predictions. Due to their large and tunable mode spacing, robustness,and flexibility, the proposed dual-pumped OFCs could find potential applications in a wide range of fields,including arbitrary optical waveform generation, high-capacity optical communications, and signal-processing systems.展开更多
A tunable two-section amplified feedback laser, which employs an amplifier section as the integrated feedback cavity, is designed and fabricated for dual-mode operation with mode separation of 100 GHz. Detailed simula...A tunable two-section amplified feedback laser, which employs an amplifier section as the integrated feedback cavity, is designed and fabricated for dual-mode operation with mode separation of 100 GHz. Detailed simulations and experimental characterizations on the performance of the laser are presented. Promising dual-mode emission with continuous tuning range over 16 GHz（87.41–103.64 GHz） is experimentally demonstrated.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 61574019,61674018 and 61674020the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communicationsthe Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant No 20130005130001
文摘Two measurement techniques are investigated to characterize photodetector linearity. A model for the two-tone and three-tone photodetector systems is developed to thoroughly investigate the influences of setup components on the measurement results. We demonstrate that small bias shifts from the quadrature point of the modulator will induce deviation into measurement results of the two-tone system, and the simulation results correspond well to experimental and calculation results.
基金Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(XDB 24030600)National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFF0200702)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(61690222,61308037,61635013)CASSAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams
文摘Dual-pumped microring-resonator-based optical frequency combs(OFCs) and their temporal characteristics are numerically investigated and experimentally explored. The calculation results obtained by solving the driven and damped nonlinear Schr?dinger equation indicate that an ultralow coupled pump power is required to excite the primary comb modes through a non-degenerate four-wave-mixing(FWM) process and, when the pump power is boosted, both the comb mode intensities and spectral bandwidths increase. At low pump powers, the field intensity profile exhibits a cosine variation manner with frequency equal to the separation of the two pumps, while a roll Turing pattern is formed resulting from the increased comb mode intensities and spectral bandwidths at high pump powers. Meanwhile, we found that the power difference between the two pump fields can be transferred to the newly generated comb modes, which are located on both sides of the pump modes, through a cascaded FWM process. Experimentally, the dual-pumped OFCs were realized by coupling two self-oscillating pump fields into a microring resonator. The numerically calculated comb spectrum is verified by generating an OFC with 2.0 THz mode spacing over 160 nm bandwidth. In addition, the formation of a roll Turing pattern at high pump powers is inferred from the measured autocorrelation trace of a 10 free spectral range(FSR) OFC. The experimental observations accord well with the numerical predictions. Due to their large and tunable mode spacing, robustness,and flexibility, the proposed dual-pumped OFCs could find potential applications in a wide range of fields,including arbitrary optical waveform generation, high-capacity optical communications, and signal-processing systems.
基金supported in part by the National 973 Project of China(No.2011CB301702)the National 863 Project of China(No.2013AA014202)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61201103,61335009,61274045,and 61205031)
文摘A tunable two-section amplified feedback laser, which employs an amplifier section as the integrated feedback cavity, is designed and fabricated for dual-mode operation with mode separation of 100 GHz. Detailed simulations and experimental characterizations on the performance of the laser are presented. Promising dual-mode emission with continuous tuning range over 16 GHz（87.41–103.64 GHz） is experimentally demonstrated.
