Chunfu Cheng

Design of all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fiber for high coherent broadband supercontinuum generation in the telecommunication window

An all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fiber with nearly zero flattened dispersion at 1550 nm is designed for generating high coherent broadband supercontinuum. It is found that an all normal dispersion photonic crystal fiber with nearly zero flattened dispersion at 1550 nm can be obtained by appropriately designing geometrical parameters and optimizing the index of the first ring of air-holes with filling different index liquid of the photonic crystal fiber. The results show that the optimized design photonic crystal fiber for pumping at 1550 nm is suitable for flat broadband and high coherent supercontinuum generation with only 4 kW input peak power in a 40 cm long of the photonic crystal fiber. It is also found the weaker the dispersion effect is, the more advantage to the high coherent broadband supercontinuum generation due to the self-phase modulation.

TRANSFORM-LIMITED SPECTRAL COMPRESSION BY USING NEGATIVELY CHIRPED PARABOLIC PULSE IN ALL-NORMAL DISPERSION PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS

A theoretical investigation on the parabolic pulse nonlinear propagation and spectral compression in all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) is presented. It is found that use of larger chirp can obtain higher quality transform-limited spectrally compressed parabolic pulses due to almost purely the effects of self-phase modulation (SPM) — because of its all-normal dispersion with smaller group velocity dispersion (GVD). Also, use of long initial negatively chirped parabolic pulses can lead to the most efficient transform-limited spectral compression under the optimal compression condition.

Theoretical investigation on the effect of ASE noise for amplified fiber loop ring-down gas sensing

The effect of spontaneous emission (ASE) noise produced by the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) on the performance of amplified fiber loop ring-down gas sensing systems is theoretically investigated. The results show that the EDFA placed after the gas cell with a smaller ASE noise can improve the measurement accuracy. The more narrower the noise equivalent optical bandwidth of the optical band pass filter following the EDFA is, the up shift of baseline of ring-down signal can be more effectively suppressed and thus improving the measurement accuracy. It is also found the longer ring-down time can be obtained by reducing the input power due to the smaller gain fluctuations of the EDFA.

Continuous-Wave Fiber Cavity Ringdown Pressure Sensing Based on Frequency-Shifted Interferometry

We present a continuous-wave fiber cavity ringdown (FCRD) pressure-sensing method based on frequency-shifted interferometry (FSI). Compared with traditional CRD or FCRD techniques, this FSI-FCRD scheme deduces pressure by measuring the decay rate of continuous light exiting the fiber ringdown cavity (RDC) in the spatial domain (i.e., the CRD distance), without the requirement for optical pulsation and fast electronics. By using a section of fiber with the buffer layer stripped in the fiber RDC as the sensor head, pressures were measured within the range from 0 to 10.4 MPa. The sensitivity of 0.02356/(km∙MPa) was obtained with a measurement error of 0.1%, and the corresponding pressure resolution was 0.05 MPa. It was found that the measurement sensitivity can be improved by enlarging the interaction length of the sensor head. The results show the proposed sensor has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, high sensitivity, and high stability in pressure detection.

Flatly Broadened and Highly Coherent Supercontinuum Generation by Induced Modulation Instability in ANDi-PCF

In this paper, a flatly broadened and highly coherent supercontinuum generation by induced modulation instability in ANDi-PCF is proposed. The numerical results show that the bandwidth of supercontinuun can be increased by increasing the modulation depth and the coherence property of supercontinuum can be improved with the optimal modulation frequency. A highly coherent supercontinuum with the 10 dB bandwidth of 1305 nm and the flatness of less than 10 dB can be obtained when seeding at the modulation depth of 0.3 and modulation frequency of 24 THz.