A novel scheme to achieve linewidth depth narrowing and control of a single frequency Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) fiber laser based on distributed external feedback. Herein, the feedback signal can match the laser phase in real time to avoid the phase jump, thus realizing the laser mode is greatly suppressed. Moreover, it can also effectively suppress the unavoidable spontaneous radiation of the laser active medium, thus narrowing the linewidth in depth during the oscillation process. Based on this, the master laser can be regulated in an external all-optical approach by using a fiber device with controllable physical parameters. Eventually, an ultra-narrow linewidth laser with a spectral signal-to-noise ratio of 64 dB, a side mode suppression ratio of 83 dB, an output linewidth of 115 Hz. In particular, the Lorentz linewidth of the laser can be continuously adjusted from 115 Hz to 8.2 kHz by controlling the intensity of the distributed feedback signal. The proposed controllable mechanism of laser linewidth also provides a new perspective for extreme regulation of laser parameters of other types of lasers.
A narrowband fast tunable acousto-optic filter is proposed and demonstrated based on the acoustically-induced birefringence of dispersion compensating fiber. The band-pass and band-stop filtering characteristics of the filter are realized through the mode coupling caused by the acoustic vibration generated by the device. At the same time, the single wavelength filtering effect with the bandwidth of about 7nm is realized by optimizing the operating distance of Acousto-Optic Interaction (AOI) length. The constructed filter obtains the advantages of narrow band, fast tuning speed, single wavelength, compact size, simple fabrication and zero frequency shift. It has potential applications in the fields of tunable lasers, wavelength division multiplexing optical communication and optical signal processing.
A new method to analyze the wavelength-swept laser spectrum is proposed with the laser energy decomposition to a series of chirp-frequency signals, which is realized by Fractional Fourier Transform (FRFT). It can be promising to obtain a spectrum-concentrated energy distribution. In the proof-of-concept experiment, we use the Delayed Self-Heterodyne (DSH) coherent detection system to get the wavelength-swept laser signal, and the narrow linewidth of a commercial wavelength-swept laser is tested with different sweep speeds from 0.93 nm/s to 1000.03 nm/s. We explore the influence of the time window width of FRFT with different sweep speeds. Specially, we further compare the spectra by FRFT and FT in different time window widths. The narrowest linewidths calculated by FRFT, and FT are 0.14 MHz and 0.84 MHz, respectively. Finally, we compared the dynamic analysis of FRFT and traditional Fourier transform. The proposed analysis method of laser dynamical parameters will promote the understanding of laser dynamics, and benefit for the optical precision measurement applications.
A dual-wavelength narrowband all-fiber acousto-optic tunable bandpass filter (DNAOTBF) was proposed and fabricated via the different vector modes coupling based on the same scalar mode induced by the flexural acoustic wave in dispersion compensation fiber (DCF). In the experiment, the resonant dual-wavelength and coupling efficiency could be electrically tuned simultaneously with a range from 1526nm of 1565nm and the lowest 3-dB bandwidth was 0.92nm.
A new type of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) optical microring resonator on MgF2 substrate is proposed and fabricated by nano-imprint lithography. The measured quality factors of the resonators were in the order of 104 in the C band. Our work provides a new method for fabrication of on-chip whispering gallery mode resonators, which can benefit the applications in communication and sensing fields.
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