The focusing characteristics of Fresnel zone plate (FZP) on vortex beams at 1550 nm are investigated. Employing the Fresnel diffraction integral, the diffraction characteristics on different circular structures are calculated. Many calculations and measurements of the transmission light field-phase distribution demonstrate that the focusing characteristics of the vortex beam through FZP are similar to Gaussian beam. The effect of radius-dependent phase delay on the focus position is verified. At the same time, it is proved that the topological charge has nothing to do with the major focal position and the FZP will not change the topological charge of the incident vortex beam.
An optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) secure communications system scheme with rapid reconfigurable polarization shift key (Pol-SK) bipolar user code is proposed and demonstrated. Compared to fix code OCDMA, by constantly changing the user code, the performance of anti-eavesdropping is greatly improved. The Pol-SK OCDMA experiment with a 10 Gchip/s user code and a 1.25 Gb/s user data of payload has been realized, which means this scheme has better tolerance and could be easily realized.
The semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is a key device for all optical signal processing based on its nonlinearity, which depends on its group velocity dispersion (GVD). A simple scheme to measure the GVD of the SOA is proposed with some computations from the measured gain spectra based on the relationship between GVD and the optical gain from the Kramers-Kronig relation. The dispersion is relatively flat in the range of 1530 nm~1610 nm, and lightly depends on the input power and the injection current. The peak-gain wavelength and zero-dispersion wavelength red-shift with the input power increasing and blue-shift with the injection current increasing, and the zero-dispersion wavelength is greater than the peak-gain wavelength on the longer wavelength side.
Advanced modulation formats, such as DPSK, DQPSK, QAM, have become the mainstream technologies in the optical
network over 40Gb/s, the DPSK format is the fundamental of all advanced modulation formats. Optical buffers, as a key
element for temporarily storing packets in order to synchronization or contention resolution in optical nodes, must be
adapted to this new requirement. Different from other current buffers to store the NRZ or RZ format, an all-optical buffer
of storing DPSK packets based on nonlinear polarization rotation in SOA is proposed and demonstrated. In this buffer, a
section of PMF is used as fiber delay line to maintain the polarization states unchanged, the driver current of SOA is
optimized, and no amplifier is required in the fiber loop. A packet delay resolution of 400ns is obtained and storage for
tens rounds is demonstrated without significant signal degradation. Using proposed the new tunable DPSK demodulator,
bit error rate has been measured after buffering for tens rounds for 10Gb/s data payload. Configurations for First-in
First-out (FIFO) buffer or First-in Last-out (FILO) buffer are proposed based on this buffer. The buffer is easy control
and suitable for integration. The terminal contention caused by different clients can be mitigated by managing packets
delays in future all-optical network, such as optical packet switching network and WDM switching network.
An all-optical multibit correlator using the multistage cascaded quantum dots semiconductor optical amplifiers Mach-Zehnder interferometer (QD-SOA MZI) is presented with the example of an 8-bits correlator. The simulations demonstrate the correlator pulse with ultrahigh quality at the bit rate of 500 Gbps. For the ultrahigh bit-rate applications, the ultrafast dynamics of the QD-SOA are investigated with the pulse/spectra distortion, gain dynamics, phase dynamics, and the frequency chirp of the optical pulse. All-optical logical gates XOR and AND based on the QD-SOA MZI are simulated with the consideration of many nonlinear dynamics, such as the carrier injection, carrier depletion, carrier density fluctuation, carrier heating, and the spectra hole-burning in the rate equations scheme.
The amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) is the important noise source for EDFA, affecting the EDFA based fiber laser seriously. The theory and practice have shown that the ASE is closely related with pump methods, so the study on the ASE of EDF under the condition of the pulse pumping has important academic significations. What’s more, the mode-locked laser based on EDFA fiber ring could be pumping by the pulse to realized mode-lock, and the ASE will impact its characteristics. In this paper, the effects of pump pulse with different width and amplitude on the ASE were investigated by the theoretical and experiment methods. Beginning with the carrier density rate equation, we can get each level of the distribution of the number of particles carriers along with the change of time based on the relationship between the average number of photons of the spontaneous radiation and the number of particles carriers distribution. An approximate analytic solution of output ASE noise average is derived when pump signal is small.Building an experimental system, the results show that the output amplitude of ASE is proportional to the input width of pump pulse when the pump pulse is small. It's also shows that the output amplitude of ASE is proportional to the input amplitude of pump pulse. The new phenomena can be used for the all-optical measurement of a pulse width.
Most gases have their absorption peaks in the U-band, and so, we used ordinary single-mode fiber as the gain medium and a double-clad Er-Yb co-doped fiber laser as the pump source to set up a U-band 1665nm fiber Raman amplifier system for gas detection.
We constructed a fiber Raman amplifier with an ordinary single-mode fiber in the U-band located on the 1.66μm for the
first time. This paper studies the gain characteristics of FRA by using the pump sources with different property and
different power. Experiments showed the system amplified steadily when pump power was tens of milliwatt. To the
same pump sources, as pump power is increased, the gain of the signal improves obviously. In the case of identical pump
powers, FRA' gain is also concerns with the pump source's type and the pump way. When the double-clad Er-Yb codoped
fiber laser was used as the pump source, though our 1.66μm fiber Raman amplifier, the signal was amplified
effectively and the maximal peak gain reached 5.11dB.
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