A continuously tunable, coherence-free microwave photonic notch filter is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. This filter is based on two polarization beamsplitters with a high-birefringence linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating used as the tunable component. High stability is obtained. The polarization-maintaining structure is free from the random optical interference problem. By adjusting the operating wavelength, more than 5 GHz free-spectral-range tunability with 40-dB notch rejection is achieved.
Phase sampling and phase shift techniques are introduced in a uniform fiber Bragg grating (FBG) structure to achieve a
multi-bandpass filter with ultranarrow transmission bandwidth. A pair of dual-bandpass transmission windows are
opened at 1542.32, 1542.36, and 1542.66, 1542.71 nm, respectively. The channel spacing between the pair can be
designed by the phase sampling period, as well as the wavelength spacing in the dual-bandpass can be controlled through
the phase shift length. This new kind of bandpass structure can be applied in the ultranarrow filtering in multi-channel,
multi-wavelength distributed feedback Bragg lasing, photonic generation of microwave signal etc.
A continuously tunable, coherence free microwave photonic filter is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The
filter is based on a high-birefringence linearly chirped fibre Bragg grating (Hi-Bi LCFBG) as the tuning component. The
filter response tunability is realized through changing the differential group delay of the Hi-Bi LCFBG by applying
gradient tension or adjusting the operating wavelength. Free spectral range tuning by 1.11 GHz with about 40 dB notch
rejection is achieved.
A novel concept of cavity ring-up (CRU) spectroscopy is proposed for trace gas detection in an amplified fiber loop.
Based on a rate equation approach, the time-evolving CRU signals in the fiber gas sensing loop are studied. The features
of CRU output signals are numerically simulated and discussed. Those systemical studies and theoretical analyses will
guide the future design of the fiber cavity ring-up gas sensing system.
20 ns-width pulses are modulated on a multi-wavelength fiber ring laser and transmit into two fiber Bragg grating based
sensing heads with different wavelength. When the temperature exceeds the threshold at certain position, the light at
corresponding time slot and wavelength will be reflected. Thus, the warning location of temperature increasing will be
easily determined from OTDM (optical time division multiplexing) demodulation technique.
A four-wave mixing assisted multiwavelength semiconductor optical amplifier laser is experimentally demonstrated in a fiber ring cavity. A sampled linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating is used as the wavelength-selective component. Four-wave mixing enhances the number of peak-power-equalized lasing wavelengths and operation stability of the ring laser. The extinction ratio of the 20 multiwavelengths output is greater than 40 dB, and the peak-power difference is less than 3 dB.
A novel design of linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (LCFBG) based sensor, operating at a single optical wavelength
and avoiding the complicated interrogation, is presented and demonstrated. The LCFBG exhibits a good linear relation
between the group delay and the wavelength. When a pulsed optical signal goes through the LCFBG with a fixed
wavelength within the grating bandwidth, it will be reflected at a particular spatial location along the grating and then
will induce a particular time delay, which is direct proportional to the temperature applied on the grating. The time delay
is an absolute parameter as well as the wavelength shift, resulting that it is insensitive to optical power fluctuation and
loss. In order to measure the time delay accurately, the RF modulation technique is employed. The sensor setup is mainly
composed of a narrowband laser source, a Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator driven by RF oscillator signal to
provide an optical carrier, a 3dB fiber coupler to split the modulated signal into two parts, an optical circulator, a LCFBG
with good linear behaviour of group delay spectrum as the sensor head, and two fast photo-detectors. The feasibility of
the proposed sensor is demonstrated by numerical simulation, and the simulation result shows that the LCFBG can be
used as a good temperature sensor.
An optical bandpass filter with two ultranarrow transmission bands, based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG), is presented. The wavelength spacing can be easily changed through controlling the separate distance between two introduced π phase shifts. When it is served in a fiber ring laser, the stable dual-wavelength lasing with ultranarrow wavelength spacing is achieved. This novel device will find potential applications in the generation of various high-frequency microwave signals, fiber sensing, etc.
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