42 results about "Nonlinear medium" patented technology

An optical computation system includes a light source configured to produce a pump beam, an optical modulator configured to modulate the pump beam based on the modulation mask to generate a modulated beam, a non-linear medium configured to convert a portion of the modulated beam to a second harmonic (SH) beam and to produce an output including the SH beam and an unconverted portion of the pump beam, and a dichroic mirror configured to receive the output of the non-linear medium and to decouple the SH beam and the unconverted portion of the pump beam, a detector configured to detect a first optical power of the unconverted portion of the pump beam and to detect a second optical power of the SH beam, and a controller configured to generate an updated modulation mask based on the first and second optical powers for transmission to the optical modulator.

The classical channel employs a transmit laser and classical modulator. The quantum channel employs a nonlinear medium and spontaneous parametric down conversion producing quantum entangled signal and idler photon pairs which are encoded. The classical and quantum channels are combined to define a propagated hybrid signal. The receiver splits the hybrid signal on basis of wavelength into classical and quantum channels. The quantum receiver employs optical parametric amplification, supplied with energy from a second harmonic generation device synchronized to the classical carrier wavelength. A photodetector and extracts a quantum message from the quantum signal.

A wireless communication system includes a transmitter, a plurality of passive substantially linear medium portions including one or more first portions and a second portion, one or more passive substantially nonlinear medium portions disposed proximate the substantially linear medium portions, and for each first portion, a dielectrically lossy or magnetically lossy first material disposed on the first portion. When the transmitter transmits first and second radio waves, the substantially linear and nonlinear medium portions receive the first and second radio waves and generate first and second signals propagating therein, where at least one intermodulation signal is generated in the one or more substantially nonlinear medium portions from the first and second signals, and the one or more first materials reduces the generation of the at least one intermodulation signal by at least 2 dB.

The invention relates to the field of ultrafast laser, and discloses a nonlinear femtosecond pulse energy self-stabilizing device. Comprising a nonlinear self-phase modulation module, a reflector, a grating, a lens and a filter which are arranged in sequence, and the nonlinear self-phase modulation module, the reflector, the grating, the lens and the filter form a light beam transmission path; the nonlinear self-phase modulation module comprises a conical lens, a low-dispersion lens and a nonlinear medium; the reflecting mirrors are reflecting mirrors with consistent reflection spectrums; the grating is used for expanding a spectrum carrying energy fluctuation information in a spatial domain to form frequency domain spatial distribution related to energy; the lens is used for focusing or collimating the light beam expanded by the grating; the filter is a liquid crystal filter and is used for dynamically setting a filtering range; abnormal disturbance in the light path is identified by using the generative adversarial network, and a compensation strategy is generated; the abnormal disturbance comprises sudden mechanical vibration and nonlinear coefficient mutation at the initial stage of medium damage.

The application provides a nonlinear optical effect generation method, relates to the field of optoelectronic technology, and comprises the following steps: fixing and placing a polar ion crystal as a nonlinear medium, the polar ion crystal being a diatomic crystal or a polyatomic crystal with an optical phonon mode; using a modulated terahertz wave to excite a stimulated phonon polariton in the nonlinear medium, so as to enhance the nonlinear efficiency of signal light incident on the nonlinear medium; and adjusting the polarization angle and the incident angle of the signal light and / or the modulated terahertz wave, so as to generate a nonlinear optical effect. The application is based on the characteristics of the interaction between light and matter modulated by the stimulated phonon polariton, and the nonlinear polarizability is greatly improved by using the stimulated phonon polariton, so that the weak light nonlinear effect of most wavelengths of light can be realized efficiently; and the nonlinear optical effect has the advantages of high refresh rate, wide spectral response, low threshold and low power consumption.

The application discloses a phase-sensitive pre-amplification method based on an electro-absorption modulated laser, and is applied to a star-ground laser communication system receiving end. A distributed feedback laser in the electro-absorption modulated laser amplifies weak pump light after long distance transmission, and generates idler light under the nonlinear effect of a laser cavity; an electro-absorption modulator in the electro-absorption modulated laser detects phase error information between signal light, pump light and idler light, and constructs an optical injection phase-locked loop through a feedback loop, so that stable control of the three-wave phase relationship is realized. Under the phase stability condition, the output light of the electro-absorption modulated laser is fed into a later-stage nonlinear medium to complete phase-sensitive pre-amplification. The phase-sensitive pre-amplification method based on the electro-absorption modulated laser has the advantages of simple structure and easy integration, can realize pump light amplification, idler light generation and phase error suppression under the condition of weak pump light, and effectively improves the receiving sensitivity performance of the star-ground laser communication system.

The invention discloses a disc Mmyshev mode-locked laser, and belongs to the technical field of ultrafast laser. The disc Mmyshev mode-locked laser comprises a laser gain module, a first nonlinear medium, a second nonlinear medium, a first interference filter, a second interference filter, a dispersion compensation module, an output coupling mirror, a first concave reflecting mirror, a second concave reflecting mirror, a high reflecting mirror, a third concave reflecting mirror and a fourth concave reflecting mirror. According to the disc Mmyshev mode-locked laser, a Mmyshev filtering mechanism is introduced into the disc Mmyshev mode-locked laser, and mode-locked self-starting and ultra-short pulse output under the condition of high average power are achieved. The disc Mmyshev mode-locked laser does not need an SESAM or Kerr mode-locked medium, can obtain stable ultrashort pulses smaller than 100 femtoseconds, has high stability, self-starting, good beam quality and structural expandability, and is suitable for application fields such as precise micromachining and extreme ultraviolet lithography driving sources.

This utility model relates to a nonlinear compression device based on an ultrashort femtosecond pulse generated by a perforated cavity mirror, belonging to the field of nonlinear compression devices. The device includes: a perforated cavity mirror with at least one through-hole at a specific position, diameter, and tilt angle, the through-hole ensuring that the incident direction of the input laser beam matches the self-reproducing mode, and the output beam is output in reverse through the same through-hole; a concave reflector coaxial with the perforated cavity mirror; and a nonlinear medium filling the space between the perforated cavity mirror and the concave reflector. The perforated cavity mirror, concave reflector, and nonlinear medium combine to form a multi-cavity laser cavity, where the laser beam undergoes multiple reflections between the perforated cavity mirror and the concave reflector to form a self-reproducing mode. This nonlinear compression device based on an ultrashort femtosecond pulse generated by a perforated cavity mirror effectively solves the problems of damage risk, space occupation, and adjustment difficulty existing in the prior art by introducing a perforated cavity mirror to replace the traditional reflector injection structure.

This invention discloses a continuous terahertz wave radiation source based on optical parametric oscillation in a waveguide cavity, its usage method, and its fabrication method, belonging to the field of optical communication technology. The continuous terahertz parametric oscillation radiation source includes a nonlinear dielectric waveguide layer and a substrate waveguide layer disposed on the upper and lower surfaces of the nonlinear dielectric waveguide layer. Reflective films are disposed on two opposite sides of the nonlinear dielectric waveguide layer to form a waveguide cavity within the nonlinear dielectric waveguide layer. The thickness and width of the nonlinear dielectric waveguide layer both satisfy the wave vector matching condition, and the thickness of the nonlinear dielectric waveguide layer is 5~50 μm. By obtaining a large nonlinear coupling coefficient, a small terahertz propagation loss, and achieving wave vector matching, the continuous terahertz wave radiation source provided by this invention can achieve high terahertz conversion efficiency, the waveguide cavity has a high quality factor, enhances the effective field strength within the nonlinear dielectric waveguide layer, and significantly reduces the terahertz parametric oscillation threshold.

The present disclosure provides an optical transceiver chip for an interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope and an interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope. The optical transceiver chip comprises: an on-chip micro-ring resonator comprising a nonlinear medium and configured to be able to couple to a pump light source and receive a pump light signal from the pump light source, and based on a third-order nonlinear effect of the nonlinear medium, generate a non-coherent wide-spectrum optical frequency comb signal from the pump light signal; a fiber coupling device configured to be coupled to the on-chip micro-ring resonator and receive the non-coherent wide-spectrum optical frequency comb signal, the fiber coupling device is further configured to be able to couple to a sensing fiber of the interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope, and provide the non-coherent wide-spectrum optical frequency comb signal to the sensing fiber of the interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope and receive a return light signal from the sensing fiber; and a photoelectric detection device configured to be coupled to the fiber coupling device, receive the return light signal and detect an interference light signal based on interference between the return light signals.

The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for the nonlinear spectral broadening of temporally incoherent or partially coherent optical pulses of a pulsed laser beam, which have a pulse duration not limited by bandwidth. In one embodiment of the method, the pulsed laser beam is split into two partial beams, which are spectrally shifted relative to each other by a frequency difference Δf. The spectrally shifted partial beams are then at least partially superimposed such that they interfere in the time domain during or after superposition and form at least one modulated pulsed laser beam, the pulses of which exhibit a temporal modulation of intensity with a period Δt = 1 / Δf.The pulses of the modulated pulsed laser beam are then spectrally broadened by self- or cross-phase modulation in an optically nonlinear medium, achieving a large spectral broadening through this modulation. This method and setup are particularly advantageous for IFE driver lasers.

An all-optical signal processor includes one or more input ports configured to receive one or more optical signal channels, a first nonlinear optical processor configured to receive an input signal from the input port and having one or more sections of a first nonlinear medium, an optical phase conjugator optically configured to receive the output signal of the first nonlinear optical processor, a second nonlinear optical processor configured to receive an output signal from the optical phase conjugator and having one or more sections of a second nonlinear medium, and one or more output ports configured to receive the output signal from the second nonlinear optical processor. Variations of the all-optical signal processor can include a single nonlinear optical processor through which an output of the optical phase conjugator co-propagates or counter-propagates with the input signal.

The invention provides a space-time soliton order regulation and control method based on a panda type polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber resonator, and belongs to the field of photonic crystal fibers and fiber resonators, and the method comprises the steps: introducing two symmetrical boron-doped stress regions into a fiber microstructure cladding, and changing the wire drawing temperature to synchronously regulate and control dispersion and birefringence. The anisotropic torsion panda-shaped polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber is prepared by adjusting the wavelength and the torsion period at the same time and used for generating an OAM mode. The panda-type polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber is adopted as a nonlinear medium, pure high even order dispersion soliton pulse output and a corresponding broadband optical frequency comb are obtained through polarization control over a pumping source, and output space-time soliton order regulation and control are achieved.

This invention relates to the field of non-electric variable control or adjustment technology, and discloses a method for dynamically adjusting the visual comfort of a display screen based on ambient light sensing. The method includes: acquiring multi-dimensional sensing data of a controlled object under operating conditions, including ambient background illuminance, apparent temperature, and mechanical load data; calculating the intrinsic mechanical temperature data of the controlled object using the mechanical load data, and establishing a cross-modal characteristic verification loop; calculating the cross-modal physical deviation value of the two types of temperature data; and when the deviation value exceeds a preset threshold, correcting the weights of the radiation prediction model using the intrinsic mechanical temperature data, determining the target brightness gain, and adjusting the output brightness of the display screen. This invention utilizes mechanical load data to construct a logical verification closed loop, eliminating optical sensing distortion caused by nonlinear media, enhancing the stability of control decisions, and reducing operator visual fatigue.

The invention belongs to the technical field of optical devices, and particularly discloses a two-dimensional material integrated microcavity and a nonlinear optical frequency conversion device and system composed of the two-dimensional material integrated microcavity. The two-dimensional material integrated microcavity comprises an echo wall microcavity and a two-dimensional material monomolecular layer, the two-dimensional material monomolecular layer is modified on the surface of the echo wall microcavity, and the two-dimensional material nonlinear dielectric layer induces resonance light existing in the echo wall microcavity to generate a nonlinear optical effect. The nonlinear optical effect at least comprises a second-order nonlinear optical effect. According to the two-dimensional material integrated microcavity, the two-dimensional material molecular layer is modified on the surface of the echo wall microcavity, and a nonlinear polarization coefficient matched with a resonant light mode is introduced through the nonlinear dielectric layer, so that resonant light in the cavity is induced to generate nonlinear polarization light waves; and meanwhile, the high-efficiency nonlinear optical effect is realized by utilizing dynamically coordinated double-resonance phase matching between the multi-mode resonance light in the cavity and the nonlinear polarized light wave.

A real-time measurement method and apparatus for long-wave infrared pulse spectra based on nonlinear frequency upconversion is disclosed. The method utilizes a non-oxide semiconductor crystal as the nonlinear medium and employs a narrowband pulse with a center wavelength in the range of 2-2.5 μm as the sampling light. This pulse is summed with the long-wave infrared pulse to be measured, and the resulting summed pulse is received and detected by a near-infrared real-time spectrometer. The combination of the selected sampling light wavelength and the selected crystal generates an ultra-wide phase-matching bandwidth. Through a linear frequency mapping relationship, the spectrum of the long-wave infrared pulse to be measured can be inverted from the detected summed pulse spectrum. By analyzing the spectrum acquired by the near-infrared spectrometer in real time, the spectrum of the long-wave infrared pulse to be measured can be directly and in real-time reconstructed. This invention overcomes the limitations of Fourier transform spectrometers and traditional grating spectrometers in real-time measurement, achieving real-time, mechanical-scan-free measurement of long-wave infrared pulse spectra without requiring a specific repetition frequency for the long-wave infrared pulse.

The invention relates to an optical parametric oscillator (2) comprising: - a laser source system (10) producing a pump light beam (100); - a dichroic mirror (20) receiving the pump light beam and transmitting a first combination light beam (102); - a focusing optical system (30) receiving the first combination light beam; - a non-linear medium (40), the non-linear medium producing as output a second combination light beam (104); - a focusing optical system (32) receiving the second combination light beam; - a dichroic mirror (22) receiving the second combination light beam, the dichroic mirror reflecting, in a first direction, the signal light beam (108); and - a hollow optical fiber (70) receiving the signal light beam, the hollow optical fiber being wound onto itself.

The invention relates to an optical system comprising a laser source (1) generating pulsed laser radiation consisting of a temporal sequence of laser pulses and at least one pulse compression device (3) located in the beam path and having a nonlinear medium (7), wherein the laser pulses undergo a nonlinear spectral broadening during the propagation through the medium (7) and a chirp is applied to the laser pulses. The object of the invention is to provide an optical system which makes it possible to generate nonlinearly compressed laser pulses with an improved temporal pulse contrast or with an improved pulse quality. According to the invention, a group delay dispersion which varies along the beam path and at least partially compensates the chirp is applied to the laser pulses by the pulse compression device (3).

The invention belongs to the field of laser generating equipment, and particularly discloses a 3.1 [mu] m wave band and 4.3 [mu] m wave band switchable intermediate infrared fiber laser. The output pump light is switched to be the first pump light or the second pump light by changing the peak power / pulse width of the pulse of the pump source; the hollow-core optical fiber is filled with a fixed gas as a nonlinear medium, and hydrogen excites rotational Raman scattering under the action of the first pump light to generate Raman laser with a 1.7 [mu] m wave band and excites vibration Raman scattering under the action of the second pump light to generate Raman laser with a 4.3 [mu] m wave band; dysprosium ions in the dysprosium-doped fluoride optical fiber can generate energy level transition under the action of Raman light in the 1.7 [mu] m wave band to generate output laser in the 3.1 [mu] m wave band on one hand, and do not absorb Raman light near the 4.3 [mu] m wave band on the other hand, and the fluoride optical fiber has low loss in the wave band, so that the Raman laser in the 4.3 [mu] m wave band can permeate in a lossless manner and is directly output. Through ingenious combination of the three, single-wavelength switching output of infrared laser in two wavelengths is realized.

The invention relates to a method for generating super-continuum spectrum light, comprising: providing frequency comb pump light and auxiliary pump light wherein an auxiliary center frequency is spectrally offset from a frequency comb center frequency by an auxiliary pump detuning amount; pumping a non-linear medium, the non-linear medium being associated with generating a dispersive wave at a dispersive wave frequency, the dispersive wave frequency being frequency shifted by a dispersive wave detuning amount relative to the frequency comb center frequency; performing spectral conversion on the frequency comb pump light through a cascade four-wave mixing process induced by the auxiliary pump light so as to generate cascade frequency comb light; generating a dispersive wave at the dispersive wave frequency, the generation of the dispersive wave being induced by the cascade frequency comb light, the induction being due to the integral multiple of the detuning amount of the auxiliary pump being located within the spectral range of the detuning amount of the dispersive wave; and outputting the cascaded frequency combed light and the dispersed wave, thereby providing the super-continuum spectrum light.

This invention discloses a nonlinear compression system and method based on spatiotemporal beam splitting, belonging to the field of ultrashort pulse laser technology. The method utilizes a spatiotemporal beam splitting module to separate an initial ultrashort pulse laser into multiple sub-pulses in both spatial and temporal dimensions. These sub-pulses are then injected into a multi-pass cavity structure, causing spectral broadening in each sub-pulse as it passes through the nonlinear medium multiple times. The spectrally broadened sub-pulses are then superimposed through spatial and temporal beam combining, followed by dispersion compensation to obtain the compressed ultrashort pulse output. By controlling the spatiotemporal distribution of the pulse in the nonlinear medium, the peak intensity of a single sub-pulse during the nonlinear process is reduced, which is beneficial for achieving stable nonlinear compression under high-energy conditions.

The application discloses a single-seed-source-based all-fiber flat ultraviolet-mid-infrared supercontinuum laser, which comprises a seed laser, two-stage ytterbium-erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, a high-nonlinear fiber NL-1550, a large-mode-field ytterbium-erbium-doped fiber amplifier, a large-mode-field ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier, a photonic crystal fiber and a passive fluorine-doped fiber which are connected in sequence; wherein the seed laser outputs seed pulse laser of 1.55 mu m, and finally outputs supercontinuum laser with a spectral range of 370-4500 nm, covering ultraviolet-mid-infrared bands. The application adopts an all-fiber structure, has high stability and portability, reduces the loss in the process of light transmission and the system complexity, realizes double-wavelength pumping through a seed source, and realizes super-flat spectral output covering ultraviolet to mid-infrared through a multi-stage amplification structure and a multi-stage nonlinear medium structure.

The application provides a multi-pass cell structure light pulse spectrum shape consistency regulation compression method and system. The method makes the structure light pulse multiple round trip propagation in the multi-pass cell and realizes the spectrum broadening dominated by self-phase modulation through the nonlinear medium, carries out spatial-spectrum interference measurement on the measured light after the spectrum broadening of the multi-pass cell and the dispersion compensation, restores the wavelength resolution spatial complex light field data, and establishes the evaluation index for representing the spectrum shape spatial consistency with the spectrum overlap index V. According to the evaluation index, the input structure light parameters, the multi-pass cell propagation parameters and the dispersion compensation parameters are feedback adjusted, so that the quantitative evaluation and optimization control of the structure light pulse spectrum broadening process and the compression output quality are realized, and the output pulse with the target spectrum width, the higher spectrum shape spatial consistency, the good compressibility and the higher peak power is obtained.

The invention relates to a source (1) for generating squeezed states for Gaussian boson sampling, comprising a laser (2), an optical component (3) and a waveguide (4), wherein the laser (2) is optically connected to the optical component (3) for transmitting the laser beam emitted by the laser, the optical component (3) is optically connected to the waveguide (4) for transmitting the laser beam, wherein the optical component (3) is configured to couple the laser beam into the waveguide (4) such that a spatial mode of order ≥ 1 is excited in the waveguide (4), and the waveguide (4) has a nonlinear medium, such that a squeezed signal-idler state having signal and idler beams is generated in the waveguide (4) with the spatial mode.In this way, a source for generating squeezed states for Gaussian boson sampling with improved spectral purity and brightness is provided.

A system and method that may enable the generation of highly-efficient, high-power, narrow-linewidth, and tunable light sources from microwave frequencies to mid-infrared wavelengths is disclosed. The light source comprises a nonlinear medium coupled to a multi-modal cavity and a high-energy pump source. The nonlinear medium provides three-wave mixing between modes present in the cavity to generate, for example, terahertz waves. The broadband cavity enables cascading nonlinear processes. By engineering the Q-factors of the cavity's many modes, red-shifted (stokes) cascaded nonlinear processes strongly dominate over their blue-shifted (anti-stokes) counterparts, resulting in a quasi-complete depletion of the pump energy into the THz mode.

The present invention relates to a non-linear resonant-structure optical transistor operating at a single frequency, comprising a non-linear medium that amplifies a signal wave through inverse second-harmonic generation or inverse third-harmonic generation interaction with a second-harmonic wave or a third-harmonic wave, and being in an off state in which no output wave is present at a collector when only a pump wave is input into an emitter of the optical transistor, and being in an on state in which a signal wave is amplified and output to the collector when the pump wave is input into the emitter and the signal wave is input into a base, wherein an input wave at the base controls an input wave at the emitter so as to control the on-off state and intensity of the output wave at the collector, thereby simultaneously implementing amplification and switching of the optical signal. In this manner, the present invention provides an optical transistor operating with a single-frequency light wave, and an optical system comprising same.

A method for generating frequency converted laser radiation is disclosed. The disclosure provides a method enabling generation of a frequency converted wavelength division multiplexed light source that is easy to implement at low cost. Adjustment of the center frequency and the mode spacing in a frequency converted wavelength division multiplexed light source is also disclosed. A related method of use discloses generating pump laser radiation through combination of multiple pump sources in a wavelength division multiplexed arrangement; passing the pump laser radiation through the non-linear medium of a singly resonant, single-frequency optical parametric oscillator, wherein the pump laser radiation is continuous wave or pulsed, wherein the pulse duration in the latter case is longer than the time the optical parametric oscillation requires to reach its steady state; and coupling out the non-resonant idler or signal laser radiation from the optical parametric oscillator as usable frequency converted laser radiation. Moreover, the invention relates to a laser device for carrying out the method of the invention.

A method includes steps for creating at least two replicas of an input pulse to be characterised, varying the relative amplitude of the two replicas within a range, creating a nonlinear signal at each case of said amplitude variation, measuring the spectra of the nonlinear signals and recovering the spectral amplitude and phase of the input pulse with a proper algorithm. The system includes a replicator for creating at least two replicas of the input pulse and varying their relative amplitude within a range of relative amplitudes, a nonlinear medium, which obtains a nonlinear signal for each relative amplitude, and an analyzer, associated to the nonlinear signal, for measuring and characterising spectrally each nonlinear signal.

A cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating (X-FROG) system causes a reference beam and an unknown beam to interact within a nonlinear medium in a cross-correlation or multiplication to produce X-FROG spectra and an X-FROG spectrogram. A dedicated frequency resolved optical gating (FROG) system is included within the apparatus to characterize the reference beam and to provide that characterization information to the computer or other processor that performs phase retrieval on the X-FROG spectrogram. A single reference beam is directed into the system and is split three ways by a zero dispersion difference beamsplitter, with a portion of the reference beam directed into the FROG system and a portion of the reference beam directed into the X-FROG system. The apparatus includes a trigger for initiating the reference beam characterization.