We report a numerical investigation on terahertz wave propagation in plastic photonic band-gap fibres which are characterized by a 19-unit-cell air core and hexagonal Mr holes with rounded corners in cladding. Using t...We report a numerical investigation on terahertz wave propagation in plastic photonic band-gap fibres which are characterized by a 19-unit-cell air core and hexagonal Mr holes with rounded corners in cladding. Using the finite element method, the leakage loss and absorption loss are calculated and the transmission properties are analysed. The lowest loss of 0.268 dB/m is obtained. Numerical results show that the fibres could liberate the constraints of background materials beyond the transparency region in terahertz wave band, and efficiently minimize the effect of absorption by background materials, which present great advantage of plastic photonic band-gap fibres in long distance terahertz delivery.展开更多
Passively Q-switched quasi-continuous-wave （QCW） diode-pumped Nd：YAG laser with Cr^4＋ ：YAG as saturable absorber is numerically investigated by solving the coupled rate equations. The threshold pump rate for pass...Passively Q-switched quasi-continuous-wave （QCW） diode-pumped Nd：YAG laser with Cr^4＋ ：YAG as saturable absorber is numerically investigated by solving the coupled rate equations. The threshold pump rate for passively Q-switched QCW-pumped laser is derived. The effects of the pump rate and pump-pulse duration on the laser operation characteristics are studied theoretically. The pump power range can be estimated according to the number of output pulses. The numerical simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental results.展开更多
Theoretical investigation of the phase-matching properties for the tunable coherent terahertz wave generation in the isotro- pic semiconductor nonlinear materials of CdTe and GaP is presented according to their optica...Theoretical investigation of the phase-matching properties for the tunable coherent terahertz wave generation in the isotro- pic semiconductor nonlinear materials of CdTe and GaP is presented according to their optical dispersion properties, based on a pulsed dual-wavelength KTP-OPO operating near degenerate point in the process of the difference frequency mixing. The cross-Reststrahlen band dispersion compensation phase-matching technique involved in this interaction is introduced concisely. The optimum lengths of DFG crystals are decided according to the minimum coherence lengths of the crystals in the given pump wavelength ranges. The results of analysis and calculation provide the useful and necessary theoretical basis and guidance for the future experiments.展开更多
This paper investigates the behaviour of the reverse-bias leakage current of the Schottky diode with a thin Al inserting layer inserted between Al0.245Ga0.755N/GaN heterostructure and Ni/Au Schottky contact in the tem...This paper investigates the behaviour of the reverse-bias leakage current of the Schottky diode with a thin Al inserting layer inserted between Al0.245Ga0.755N/GaN heterostructure and Ni/Au Schottky contact in the temperature range of 25 350℃. It compares with the Schottky diode without Aluminium inserting layer. The experimental results show that in the Schottky diode with Al layer the minimum point of I-V curve drifts to the minus voltage, and with the increase of temperature increasing, the minimum point of I V curve returns the 0 point. The temperature dependence of gate-leakage currents in the novelty diode and the traditional diode are studied. The results show that the Al inserting layer introduces interface states between metal and Al0.245Ga0.755N. Aluminium reacted with oxygen formed Al2O3 insulator layer which suppresses the trap tunnelling current and the trend of thermionic field emission current. The reliability of the diode at the high temperature is improved by inserting a thin Al layer.展开更多
We report on a passively Q-switched quasi-cw diode-pumped Nd： YA G including an intracavity optical parametric oscillator. The dynamics of this system is described by solving the coupled equations. The effect of the ...We report on a passively Q-switched quasi-cw diode-pumped Nd： YA G including an intracavity optical parametric oscillator. The dynamics of this system is described by solving the coupled equations. The effect of the initial transmission of Cr^4＋ ： YA G saturable absorber on the signal wave operation is studied. Under optimum conditions, we achieve 2.3m^3 energy at 1.57μm wavelength for 40 Hz repetition rate. The peak power of the pulses amounts to 0.88 MW with the pulse width of 2.6 ns. When the Fresnel reflection losses of the tilters are taken into account, the pulse energy would be higher than 2.3 mJ. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest pulse energy and peak power for such a type of single resonant quasi-cw diode pumped Nd：YAG/Cr^4＋ ：YAG IOPO laser.展开更多
We report on a high power output quasi-continuous-wave nanosecond optical parametric generator （OPG） of congruent periodically poled lithium niobate （PPLN） pumped by a 1 064 nm acousto-optically Q-switched Nd:YVO4...We report on a high power output quasi-continuous-wave nanosecond optical parametric generator （OPG） of congruent periodically poled lithium niobate （PPLN） pumped by a 1 064 nm acousto-optically Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser （duration: 70 ns,repetition rate:45 kHz,spatial beam quality M2<1.3）.The OPG consists of a 38.7 mm long PPLN crystal with a domain period of 28.93 μm. With 5.43 W of average pump power the maximum average output power is 991 mW at 1 517.1 nm signal wave of the PPLN OPG.展开更多
A novel woodpile lattice structure is proposed. Based on plane wave expansion （PWE） method, the complete photonic band gaps （PBGs） of the novel woodpile three^dimensional （3D） terahertz （THz） photonic crystal ...A novel woodpile lattice structure is proposed. Based on plane wave expansion （PWE） method, the complete photonic band gaps （PBGs） of the novel woodpile three^dimensional （3D） terahertz （THz） photonic crystal （PC） with a decreasing symmetry relative to a face-centred-tetragonal （fct） symmetry are optimized by varying some structural parameters and the highest band gap ratio can reach 27.61%. Compared to the traditional woodpile lattice, the novel woodpile lattice has a wider range of the filling ratios to gain high quality PBGs, which provides greater convenience for the manufacturing process. The novel woodpile 3D PC will be very promising for materials of THz Junctional components.展开更多
A low-pump-threshold high-repetition-rate intracavity optical parametric generator （IOPG） by using a periodically poled lithium niobate （PPLN） is reported. The PPLN, which is 18.7mm long and has a grating period o...A low-pump-threshold high-repetition-rate intracavity optical parametric generator （IOPG） by using a periodically poled lithium niobate （PPLN） is reported. The PPLN, which is 18.7mm long and has a grating period of 28.93tzm at room temperature, is inserted in a diode-end-pumped Nd：YV04 laser with an acousto-optic Q switch. The parametric generation threshold is 1.3 W （diode laser power） at a Q-switch repetition rate of 19 kHz. At an incident diode pump power of 5 W, an average signal output power of 280mW has been achieved. The signal pulse duration is approximately 85 ns. By changing the crystal temperature from 120℃ to 250℃, the signal wavelength can be tuned from 1.493μm to 1.538μm.展开更多
A simplified scheme of bend-induced mode distortion is introduced into bent holey fibres, the distorted mode distribution and mode effective area reduction are investigated using the finite difference method. Numerica...A simplified scheme of bend-induced mode distortion is introduced into bent holey fibres, the distorted mode distribution and mode effective area reduction are investigated using the finite difference method. Numerical results show that the modes of bent holey fibres with small bend radius shift away from the core and are deformed greatly, and the mode areas drop significantly as the bend radius decreases, which severely affects the fibre laser performance. The propagation characteristics of bent holey fibres at given wavelength are determined by fill factor and normalized bend radius. Finally, the transition normalized bend radius that represents the location of the mode area beginning to fall off is obtained.展开更多
This paper demonstrates a compact efficient optical parametric generator internal to a Q-switched dlode-endpumped Nd：YVO4 laser with periodically poled MgO：LiNbO3（PPMgLN）. With the Q-switch set at a repetition rat...This paper demonstrates a compact efficient optical parametric generator internal to a Q-switched dlode-endpumped Nd：YVO4 laser with periodically poled MgO：LiNbO3（PPMgLN）. With the Q-switch set at a repetition rate of 25kHz and the PPMgLN crystal operated at room temperature （25℃）, the intracavity optical parametric generator threshold was reached as a diode pump power of 0.9 W. A maximum signal output power of 0.34 W with a pulse width of 25 ns and a beam quality factor of 1.4 was obtained at an incident diode power of 3.4 W, leading to a conversion efficiency of 10% with a slope efficiency of 14.4%. By varying the crystal temperature from 25 to 200℃, the output signal wavelengths were tuned in range of 1506-1565 nm. Over a 30-minutes interval, the instability of the signal power was measured to be less than 1%. In addition, the threshold pump intensity for the intracavity optical parametric generator is theoretically investigated, and the obtained result is in good agreement with the experimental results.展开更多
A new type ultraflattened dispersion square-lattice photonic crystal fiber with two different air-hole diameters in cladding region is proposed and the dispersion is investigated using a compact 2-D finite difference ...A new type ultraflattened dispersion square-lattice photonic crystal fiber with two different air-hole diameters in cladding region is proposed and the dispersion is investigated using a compact 2-D finite difference frequency domain method with the anisotropic perfectly matched layers (PML) absorbing boundary conditions. Through numerical simulation and opti- mizing the geometrical parameters, we find that the photonic crystal fibers proposed can realize ultraflattened dispersion of 0±0.06 ps/(km·nm) in wa...展开更多
Spectral domain polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography （SDPS-OCT） is a depth-resolved polarization-sensitive interferometry which integrates polarization optics into spectral domain optical co- herence ...Spectral domain polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography （SDPS-OCT） is a depth-resolved polarization-sensitive interferometry which integrates polarization optics into spectral domain optical co- herence tomography （SD-OCT）. This configuration can obtain birefringence information of samples and improve the imaging speed. In this paper, horizontally polarized light is used to replace natural light of the source. Then, right-rotated circularly polarized light is the incident sample light. To obtain two orthogonal components of the polarized interferogram, the reflected light of the reference arm is set to be 45° linearly polarized light. These two components are acquired by two spectrometers synchronously. The system was employed to achieve 12.8μm axial resolution and 4.36μm transverse resolution. We have imaged in vitro chicken tendon and muscle tissues with these svstem.展开更多
The nematic liquid crystal(NLC)infiltrated photonic crystal fiber(PCF)used as a switch modulated by electric field is demonstrated.The switch consists of the infiltrated solid core PCF into which Bragg gratings are wr...The nematic liquid crystal(NLC)infiltrated photonic crystal fiber(PCF)used as a switch modulated by electric field is demonstrated.The switch consists of the infiltrated solid core PCF into which Bragg gratings are written.It is confirmed that the switch can achieve an accurate operation through measuring the reflected light with the change of electric field intensity from 1.4 kVrms/mm to 2.1 kVrms/mm.When the electric field intensity exceeds the threshold,the change of only 0.01 kVrms/mm can cause the wavelength shift of 1 nm.It is approved that the switch with such a structure provides a high sensitivity.The reflection peak is stabilized at about 15 dB which is high enough to separate from the factors such as system noise and error,and it can improve the control precision.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 60637010 and 60671036, and the National Basic Research Programme of China under Grant No 2007CB310403.
文摘We report a numerical investigation on terahertz wave propagation in plastic photonic band-gap fibres which are characterized by a 19-unit-cell air core and hexagonal Mr holes with rounded corners in cladding. Using the finite element method, the leakage loss and absorption loss are calculated and the transmission properties are analysed. The lowest loss of 0.268 dB/m is obtained. Numerical results show that the fibres could liberate the constraints of background materials beyond the transparency region in terahertz wave band, and efficiently minimize the effect of absorption by background materials, which present great advantage of plastic photonic band-gap fibres in long distance terahertz delivery.
文摘Passively Q-switched quasi-continuous-wave （QCW） diode-pumped Nd：YAG laser with Cr^4＋ ：YAG as saturable absorber is numerically investigated by solving the coupled rate equations. The threshold pump rate for passively Q-switched QCW-pumped laser is derived. The effects of the pump rate and pump-pulse duration on the laser operation characteristics are studied theoretically. The pump power range can be estimated according to the number of output pulses. The numerical simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental results.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Founda-tion of China (Grant No. 10474071)the Specialized ResearchFund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(Grant No. 20040056010).
文摘Theoretical investigation of the phase-matching properties for the tunable coherent terahertz wave generation in the isotro- pic semiconductor nonlinear materials of CdTe and GaP is presented according to their optical dispersion properties, based on a pulsed dual-wavelength KTP-OPO operating near degenerate point in the process of the difference frequency mixing. The cross-Reststrahlen band dispersion compensation phase-matching technique involved in this interaction is introduced concisely. The optimum lengths of DFG crystals are decided according to the minimum coherence lengths of the crystals in the given pump wavelength ranges. The results of analysis and calculation provide the useful and necessary theoretical basis and guidance for the future experiments.
文摘This paper investigates the behaviour of the reverse-bias leakage current of the Schottky diode with a thin Al inserting layer inserted between Al0.245Ga0.755N/GaN heterostructure and Ni/Au Schottky contact in the temperature range of 25 350℃. It compares with the Schottky diode without Aluminium inserting layer. The experimental results show that in the Schottky diode with Al layer the minimum point of I-V curve drifts to the minus voltage, and with the increase of temperature increasing, the minimum point of I V curve returns the 0 point. The temperature dependence of gate-leakage currents in the novelty diode and the traditional diode are studied. The results show that the Al inserting layer introduces interface states between metal and Al0.245Ga0.755N. Aluminium reacted with oxygen formed Al2O3 insulator layer which suppresses the trap tunnelling current and the trend of thermionic field emission current. The reliability of the diode at the high temperature is improved by inserting a thin Al layer.
文摘We report on a passively Q-switched quasi-cw diode-pumped Nd： YA G including an intracavity optical parametric oscillator. The dynamics of this system is described by solving the coupled equations. The effect of the initial transmission of Cr^4＋ ： YA G saturable absorber on the signal wave operation is studied. Under optimum conditions, we achieve 2.3m^3 energy at 1.57μm wavelength for 40 Hz repetition rate. The peak power of the pulses amounts to 0.88 MW with the pulse width of 2.6 ns. When the Fresnel reflection losses of the tilters are taken into account, the pulse energy would be higher than 2.3 mJ. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest pulse energy and peak power for such a type of single resonant quasi-cw diode pumped Nd：YAG/Cr^4＋ ：YAG IOPO laser.
文摘We report on a high power output quasi-continuous-wave nanosecond optical parametric generator （OPG） of congruent periodically poled lithium niobate （PPLN） pumped by a 1 064 nm acousto-optically Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser （duration: 70 ns,repetition rate:45 kHz,spatial beam quality M2<1.3）.The OPG consists of a 38.7 mm long PPLN crystal with a domain period of 28.93 μm. With 5.43 W of average pump power the maximum average output power is 991 mW at 1 517.1 nm signal wave of the PPLN OPG.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10474071 and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Programme of Higher Education of China under Grant No 20040056010.
文摘A novel woodpile lattice structure is proposed. Based on plane wave expansion （PWE） method, the complete photonic band gaps （PBGs） of the novel woodpile three^dimensional （3D） terahertz （THz） photonic crystal （PC） with a decreasing symmetry relative to a face-centred-tetragonal （fct） symmetry are optimized by varying some structural parameters and the highest band gap ratio can reach 27.61%. Compared to the traditional woodpile lattice, the novel woodpile lattice has a wider range of the filling ratios to gain high quality PBGs, which provides greater convenience for the manufacturing process. The novel woodpile 3D PC will be very promising for materials of THz Junctional components.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10474071, the Science and Technology Cooperation Foundation of Nankai University and Tianjin University and Tianjin Municipal Technological Development Plan.
文摘A low-pump-threshold high-repetition-rate intracavity optical parametric generator （IOPG） by using a periodically poled lithium niobate （PPLN） is reported. The PPLN, which is 18.7mm long and has a grating period of 28.93tzm at room temperature, is inserted in a diode-end-pumped Nd：YV04 laser with an acousto-optic Q switch. The parametric generation threshold is 1.3 W （diode laser power） at a Q-switch repetition rate of 19 kHz. At an incident diode pump power of 5 W, an average signal output power of 280mW has been achieved. The signal pulse duration is approximately 85 ns. By changing the crystal temperature from 120℃ to 250℃, the signal wavelength can be tuned from 1.493μm to 1.538μm.
基金Supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 60637010 and 60671036, and the Optoelectronic Unite Science Research Center of Tianjin under Grant No 013184011.
文摘A simplified scheme of bend-induced mode distortion is introduced into bent holey fibres, the distorted mode distribution and mode effective area reduction are investigated using the finite difference method. Numerical results show that the modes of bent holey fibres with small bend radius shift away from the core and are deformed greatly, and the mode areas drop significantly as the bend radius decreases, which severely affects the fibre laser performance. The propagation characteristics of bent holey fibres at given wavelength are determined by fill factor and normalized bend radius. Finally, the transition normalized bend radius that represents the location of the mode area beginning to fall off is obtained.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 10474071 and 60671036)
文摘This paper demonstrates a compact efficient optical parametric generator internal to a Q-switched dlode-endpumped Nd：YVO4 laser with periodically poled MgO：LiNbO3（PPMgLN）. With the Q-switch set at a repetition rate of 25kHz and the PPMgLN crystal operated at room temperature （25℃）, the intracavity optical parametric generator threshold was reached as a diode pump power of 0.9 W. A maximum signal output power of 0.34 W with a pulse width of 25 ns and a beam quality factor of 1.4 was obtained at an incident diode power of 3.4 W, leading to a conversion efficiency of 10% with a slope efficiency of 14.4%. By varying the crystal temperature from 25 to 200℃, the output signal wavelengths were tuned in range of 1506-1565 nm. Over a 30-minutes interval, the instability of the signal power was measured to be less than 1%. In addition, the threshold pump intensity for the intracavity optical parametric generator is theoretically investigated, and the obtained result is in good agreement with the experimental results.
基金supported by the National Natural ScienceFoundation of China (Grant Nos. 60637010 and 60671036)the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2007CB310403).
文摘A new type ultraflattened dispersion square-lattice photonic crystal fiber with two different air-hole diameters in cladding region is proposed and the dispersion is investigated using a compact 2-D finite difference frequency domain method with the anisotropic perfectly matched layers (PML) absorbing boundary conditions. Through numerical simulation and opti- mizing the geometrical parameters, we find that the photonic crystal fibers proposed can realize ultraflattened dispersion of 0±0.06 ps/(km·nm) in wa...
文摘Spectral domain polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography （SDPS-OCT） is a depth-resolved polarization-sensitive interferometry which integrates polarization optics into spectral domain optical co- herence tomography （SD-OCT）. This configuration can obtain birefringence information of samples and improve the imaging speed. In this paper, horizontally polarized light is used to replace natural light of the source. Then, right-rotated circularly polarized light is the incident sample light. To obtain two orthogonal components of the polarized interferogram, the reflected light of the reference arm is set to be 45° linearly polarized light. These two components are acquired by two spectrometers synchronously. The system was employed to achieve 12.8μm axial resolution and 4.36μm transverse resolution. We have imaged in vitro chicken tendon and muscle tissues with these svstem.
基金the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2010CB327801)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project(No.20090460691)
文摘The nematic liquid crystal(NLC)infiltrated photonic crystal fiber(PCF)used as a switch modulated by electric field is demonstrated.The switch consists of the infiltrated solid core PCF into which Bragg gratings are written.It is confirmed that the switch can achieve an accurate operation through measuring the reflected light with the change of electric field intensity from 1.4 kVrms/mm to 2.1 kVrms/mm.When the electric field intensity exceeds the threshold,the change of only 0.01 kVrms/mm can cause the wavelength shift of 1 nm.It is approved that the switch with such a structure provides a high sensitivity.The reflection peak is stabilized at about 15 dB which is high enough to separate from the factors such as system noise and error,and it can improve the control precision.
