Ning Ji-Ping

A Powerful Simple Shooting Method for Designing Multi-Pumped Fibre Raman Amplifiers

A simple shooting method dedicated to the design of multipump discrete Raman fibre amplifiers (RFAs) is proposed and discussed in detail. A novel scheme to provide a good initial guess for backward lightwaves is also proposed to improve the efficiency and robustness of the method. Using the proposed method, a discrete RFA with four backward pumps and 93 signal channels is simulated for the maximum number of interaction waves considered simultaneously in the RFA design reported previously, to our best knowledge. The numerical simulation results show that the proposed method is fast and robust. It can be used in the design of RFAs with various configurations including co-, counter- and bi-directional-pump schemes to provide an actual modelling.

A Novel Method for Multi-Pumped Fibre Raman Amplifier Gain Adjustment

A novel method for gain adjustment of multi-pumped fibre Raman amplifiers is proposed and numerically demonstrated. The method uses the areas under the curves of the pump power evolution along the gain fibre and the Newton–Raphson method to find an appropriate power combination of the pumps to realize the desired gain profile. Compared with the previously proposed methods, our method has two advantages: first, it can maintain the gain profile while changing the gain magnitude to the desired value; second, it is independent of the actual pumping scheme of the amplifier, i.e. it can be used for fibre Raman amplifiers with all kinds of pumping schemes including co-, counter-, or bi-directional pumping. Numerical simulations are provided to verify the proposed method and to demonstrate its effectiveness.

1.34μm Nd:YVO4 high efficiency laser end-pumped by diode-laser of flat-concave cavity type

The parameters of 1.34μm Nd:YVO4 laser end-pumped with flat-concave cavity are theoretically analysed. The analysis in this paper may be helpful to the designing of kindred lasers. The operation of 1.34μm Nd:YVO4 laser end-pumped by a diode-laser with flat-concave cavity is achieved. The output power of 3.51W at 1.34μm and optical to optical conversion efficiency of 39.0% are obtained at the pump power of 9.0W.

High Power Er/Yb Codoped Double Clad Fiber Pulsed Amplifier Based on an All-Fiber Configuration

We report an all-fiber two-stage high power pulsed amplifier, seeded with a 1550 nm, 1 kHz repetition rate rectangular pulse, and based on Er/Yb co-doped double clad fiber. All the characteristics are measured in the experiment. The maximal slope efficiency is 22.56%, which is the highest we know of at such a low repetition rate, and the maximal output signal power is 1W. The various factors that affect the pulsed amplifier performance are analyzed. A high output power while keeping high power conversion efficiency can be obtained with careful selection of the input power, pump power and repetition rate. The experimental results show that the crucial parameters should be optimized when designing all-fiber pulsed amplifiers.

A New Method to Analyse Two-Side Tapered Waveguides

We discuss the characters of two-side tapered waveguides. Then, based on some approximations, a simple but practical and efficient method is developed to design the taper waveguide. The results are compared with other methods in a good agreement.