Experiment Study of Fiber Optic Sensing in Railway Security Monitoring

Aiming at some security problems in railway running and the application condition of existing technology, this paper studies some issues of using fiber optic sensing technology in railway security monitoring. Through field experiment measuring the strain of the rail and analyzing the experiment data, the method of diagnosing the health condition of rail and wheel is investigated.

Spectrally programmable Raman fiber laser with adaptive wavefront shaping

Raman fiber lasers(RFLs)have broadband tunability due to cascaded stimulated Raman scattering,providing extensive degrees of freedom for spectral manipulation.However,the spectral diversity of RFLs depends mainly on the wavelength flexibility of the pump,which limits the application of RFLs.Here,a spectrally programmable RFL is developed based on two-dimensional spatial-to-spectral mapping of light in multimode fibers(MMFs).Using an intracavity wavefront shaping method combined with genetic algorithm optimization,we launch light with a selected wavelength(s)at MMF output into the active part of the laser for amplification.In contrast,the light of undesired wavelengths is blocked.We demonstrate spectral shaping of the high-order RFL,including a continuously tunable single wavelength and multiple wavelengths with a designed spectral shape.Due to the simultaneous control of different wavelength regions,each order of Raman Stokes light allows flexible and independent spectral manipulation.Our research exploits light manipulation in a fiber platform with multieigenmodes and nonlinear gain,mapping spatial control to the spectral domain and extending linear light control in MMFs to active light emission,which is of great significance for applications of RFLs in optical imaging,sensing,and spectroscopy.

Digital generation of super-Gaussian perfect vortex beams via wavefront shaping with globally adaptive feedback

High-intensity vortex beams with tunable topological charges and low coherence are highly demanded in applications such as inertial confinement fusion(ICF) and optical communication. However, traditional optical vortices featuring nonuniform intensity distributions are dramatically restricted in application scenarios that require a high-intensity vortex beam owing to their ineffective amplification resulting from the intensity-dependent nonlinear effect. Here, a low-coherence perfect vortex beam(PVB) with a topological charge as high as 140 is realized based on the super-pixel wavefront-shaping technique. More importantly, a globally adaptive feedback algorithm(GAFA) is proposed to efficiently suppress the original intensity fluctuation and achieve a flat-top PVB with dramatically reduced beam speckle contrast. The GAFA-based flat-top PVB generation method can pave the way for high-intensity vortex beam generation,which is crucial for potential applications in ICF, laser processing, optical communication and optical trapping.

Optical rogue wave in random fiber laser

The famous demonstration of optical rogue waves(RWs),a powerful tool to reveal the fundamental physics in different laser scenarios,opened a flourishing time for temporal statistics.Random fiber laser(RFL)has likewise attracted wide attention due to its great potential in multidisciplinary demonstrations and promising applications.However,owing to the distinctive cavity-free structure,it is a scientific challenge to achieve temporal localized RWs in RFLs,whose feedback arises from multiple scattering in disordered medium.Here,we report the exploration of RW in the highly skewed,transient intensity of an incoherently pumped RFL for the first time,to our knowledge,and unfold the involved kinetics successfully.The corresponding frequency domain measurements demonstrate that the RW event arises from a crucial sustained stimulated Brillouin scattering process with intrinsic stochastic nature.This investigation highlights a novel path to fully understanding the complex physics,such as photon propagation and localization,in disordered media.

Statistical properties of Er/Yb co-doped random Rayleigh feedback fiber laser

In this Letter, we experimentally investigate fast temporal intensity dynamics and statistical properties of the claddingpumped Er/Yb co-doped random Rayleigh feedback fiber laser(EYRFL) for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. By using the optical spectral filtering method, strong and fast intensity fluctuations with the generation of extreme events are revealed at the output of EYRFL. The statistics of the intensity fluctuations strongly depends on the wavelength of the filtered radiation, and the intensity probability density function(PDF) with a heavy tail is observed in the far wings of the spectrum. We also find that the PDF of the intensity in the central part of the spectrum deviates from the exponential distribution and has the dependence on the laser operating regimes, which indicates some correlations among different frequency components exist in the EYRFL radiation and may play an important role in the random lasing spectrum stabilization process.