38 results about "Stokes wave" patented technology

An automatic and continuous method is presented to improve the accuracy of fiber optic distributed temperature measurements derived from Raman back scatterings utilizing two light sources with different wavelengths, by choosing the wavelengths of the two sources so the primary source's return anti-Stokes component overlaps with the incident wavelength of the secondary light source thereby canceling out the non-identical attenuations generated by the wavelength differences between Stokes and anti-Stokes bands.

System and method for correcting the potential errors occurring in a fiber optic temperature measurement system are disclosed. In one respect, a dual light sources configuration is provided. The primary light source may illuminate a sensing fiber, and an Anti-Stokes band may be detected. The secondary light source may illuminate a sensing fiber, and a Rayleigh band may be detected, where the Rayleigh band is substantially wide enough to cover the Anti-Stokes band of the primary light source. A ratio between these Anti-Stokes and the Rayleigh bands may be used to measure the temperature and undesired errors due to the perturbations falling on the sensing fiber is continuously corrected.

The invention discloses an anti-Strokes Raman fiber laser achieving multi-wavelength output and aims at providing a laser of which an output wavelength is adjustable and the output wavelength is smaller than a pump wavelength. The fiber laser is composed of a pulse light source, a continuous light source, a wavelength division multiplexer, a high raster, an optical fiber, a low raster and a filter. The central wavelength of the output light of the pulse light source is located at n stage Raman Strokes wavelength of the obtained light wavelength, the output light wavelength of the continuous light source is located at a first stage Raman Strokes wavelength of the output light wavelength of the pulse light source, a zero-dispersion wavelength of the optical fiber is located near the output light wavelength of the pulse light source, the central wavelength of the high raster and the central wavelength of the low raster are equal to the obtained laser wavelength, the input arm working wavelength of the wavelength division multiplexer is respectively equal to the central wavelength of the pulse light source and the central wavelength of the continuous light source, and the central wavelength of the filter is equal to the obtained light wavelength. The anti-Strokes Raman fiber laser is simple in structure, adjustable in the light wavelength and can output a laser shorter than the pump wavelength.

A multi-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser based optical fiber temperature sensor which is formed according to an optical fiber Brillouin gain effect, an er-doped optical fiber amplifying effect, a multi-level Brillouin scattering temperature effect and a heterodyning beat frequency demodulation principle comprises a narrow line width single frequency laser, an optical branching device, a polarization controller, an opto-isolator, an optical circulator, a single-mode sensing fiber, an er-doped optical fiber amplifier, an er-doped optical fiber being not pumped, a high-speed photoelectric detector and a frequency analyzer. The multi-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser based optical fiber temperature sensor has the advantages of being many in the number of wavelengths, narrow in line width, fixed in wavelength interval and stable in output. The multi-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser based optical fiber temperature sensor achieves heterodyning best frequency demodulating detection of a high-order stokes wave and high-accuracy high-sensitivity temperature measuring with the single-mode optical fiber which provides gain for the fiber laser being served as a temperature sending detect unit.

The invention discloses a multi-wavelength light source based on the stimulated raman scattering effect. The multi-wavelength light source comprises an optical grating coupler, a silicon-based annulet filter, a silicon-based waveguide and an output coupling waveguide. The silicon-based annulet filter is an Add-Drop type and comprises a silicon-based annulet, a first straight waveguide and a second straight waveguide. The pump light is input into the first straight waveguide through the optical grating coupler, the pump light is coupled to the silicon-based annulet filter through the first straight waveguide, the needed-wavelength light obtained through filtration enters the silicon-based waveguide, the stimulated raman scattering is carried out through the silicon-based waveguide to generate a one-level stokes wave input into the second straight waveguide, one part of the one-level stokes wave is coupled to the output coupling waveguide through the second straight waveguide, equal-interval and multi-wavelength lasers are output, and the rest of the one-level stokes wave is coupled to the silicon-based annulet filter to be input into the silicon-based annulet again. The multi-wavelength light source with fixed wavelength intervals is achieved through the free spectrum range of the silicon-based annulet and the stimulated raman scattering of the silicon-based waveguide, and the multi-wavelength light source has the advantages of being compact in structure, low in power consumption and the like, and is suitable for optical communication systems.

A limiter for limiting selected frequency components by generating Stokes waves in a stimulated Brillouin scattering medium. The generated Stokes waves create a seed that is provided to another stimulated Brillouin scattering medium. The seed selecting the undesired frequency components to be attenuated.

The invention discloses a wavelength division multiplexer, which belongs to the field of optical fiber sensor, and comprises four ports arranged on a shell, and two double-fiber collimators, two single-fiber collimators and four wavelength division multiplexing filters, which are arranged in the shell, wherein the two double-fiber collimators are connected by one of the respective tail fibers of the two double-fiber collimators, and the other respective tail fibers of the two double-fiber collimator are connected to the two ports among the four ports; the tail fibers of the two single-fiber collimators are connected to the rest two ports among the four ports respectively; two anti-stokes-wavelength wavelength division multiplexing filters among the four wavelength division multiplexing filters are spaced and arranged at an included angle between a double-fiber collimator and a single-fiber collimator; and the other two anti-stokes-wavelength wavelength division multiplexing filters are spaced and arranged at an included angle between the other double-fiber collimator and the other single-fiber collimator. The insulation degree of the device is high, and the device can be formed into a distributed optical fiber temperature sensor and can improve the temperature resolution of a system.

The invention discloses a wide tuning photoelectric hybrid oscillator and a microwave signal generation method. A signal light source output end of the oscillator is connected with an input end of a phase modulator, the input end of the phase modulator is connected with a second port of a light circulator through a non-linear fiber, an output end of a pump light source is connected with a first port of the light circulator through a polarization controller, a third port of the light circulator is connected with a photoelectric conversion link through a light filter, an output end of the photoelectric conversion link is connected with a radio frequency driving end of the phase modulator, another output end of the photoelectric conversion link is taken as a microwave signal output end, wavelength of the pump light source is greater than wavelength of a signal light source, frequency of the signal light source is at least f greater than frequency of the pump light source, the f is Stokes frequency shift, and the light filter is used for filtering Stokes waves generated by the non-linear fiber. The wide tuning photoelectric hybrid oscillator is suitable for generation of wide frequency tuning low phase noise microwave signals, bandwidth of the signals is dozens of MHz, a sub-oscillation mode can be effectively inhibited, and good stability is realized.

A mechanism for mitigating the effects of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in electromagnetic waveguides such as optical fibers is disclosed. In particular, the illustrative embodiment of the present invention incorporates a plurality of evenly-spaced wavelength-selective mirrors, such as fiber Bragg gratings, into the waveguide that are designed to convey a forward-propagating incident wave and to reflect the backward-propagating Stokes wave induced by the incident wave. This prevents the build up of the backward-propagating Stokes wave and mitigates the deleterious effects of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

The present application is directed to a laser system using Stimulated Raman Scattering and harmonic conversion to produce a continuous wave ultraviolet wavelength output signal. More specifically, the laser system includes a pump source configured to generate at least one pump signal, a resonant cavity resonant at a Stokes wavelength in optical communication with the pump source, a SRS gain device positioned within the resonant cavity and configured to generate at least one SRS output signal at a Stokes wavelength when pumped with the pump signal, and a harmonic conversion device positioned within the resonant cavity and configured to produce a continuous wave second harmonic output signal of the SRS output signal.

The invention provides a device for generating high-efficiency multi-wavelength ultra-short pulse lasers to solve the problem that the self-phase modulation process, the self-focusing process and the multiple-photon dissociation process in the transient stimulated raman scattering process under the ultra-short pulse pumping are seriously influenced, and relates to the technical field of non-linear optical equipment. A raman pool is composed of a stainless steel pipe, a fused quartz incidence window without a coating film, and an exit window without a coating film, and pure hydrogen, methane, deuterium gas and the like or mixed gas formed by mixing the pure hydrogen or the methane or the deuterium with inert gas or mixed gas formed by multiple types of raman media can be filled into the raman pool. More stokes wavelength output can be obtained by mixing working gas media, the magnitude of the output stokes wavelength can be adjusted due to the addition of buffer gas, and dense flint materials are selected as materials of an equilateral dispersing prism. The dispersing prism, a fifth focus lens and laser mode selection pinholes are used in cooperation so that different types of laser wavelength output can be selected and energy measurement can be conducted. The device is suitable for the technical field of non-linear optical equipment.

The invention belongs to the technical field of optical fiber sensing and provides a suspended core pohotonic crystal fiber refractive index sensor based on a four-wave mixing effect. The suspended core pohotonic crystal optical fiber refractive index sensor is composed of a high-power laser device, two half wave plates, a polarizer, a coupling lens, a suspended core pohotonic crystal optical fiber and a spectrograph. A covering layer of the suspended core pohotonic crystal optical fiber is provided with a plurality of air holes which are suspended at the periphery of a quartz fiber core through a sub-wavelength quartz arm; the fiber core of the fiber is small and the air holes of the covering layer are large; high nonlinear coefficient of the optical fiber is ensured, the length of the sensing optical fiber is reduced, and the air holes can be conveniently filled with liquid. Furthermore, the invention provides a manufacturing method of the suspended core pohotonic crystal fiber refractive index sensor based on the four-wave mixing effect; a zero dispersion wavelength of the suspended core pohotonic crystal fiber is close to a pumping wavelength so that generated Stokes waves and anti-Stokes waves are very sensitive to optical fiber dispersion and the refractive index sensing with the ultra-high sensitivity can be realized; the sensitivity can reach up to 105nm/RIU (Refractive Index Unit). The temperature crossing sensibility is avoided and the high-precision sensing measurement on reflective index micro-variables of the external environment is realized.

The invention relates to a sensitivity adjustable distributed fiber sensing system based on high-order Stokes waves, belongs to a distributed fiber sensing system, and solves the problem that the detection sensitivity of a present distributed fiber sensing system is low and cannot be adjusted. The sensitivity adjustable distributed fiber sensing system based on high-order Stokes waves comprises an adjustable single-frequency laser, a semiconductor laser, a phase-locked loop, a first polarization controller, a second polarization controller, an electro-optical modulator, a unidirectional erbium doped fiber amplifier, a light circulator, an adjustable optical filter, a photoelectric detector, data collection card and a resonant cavity; and the resonant cavity further comprises a bidirectional erbium doped fiber amplifier, a first bidirectional optical demultiplexer, a second bidirectional optical demultiplexer and a single-mode sensing fiber. The system of the invention is suitable for the distributed fiber sensing field.

The invention discloses a high-precision distributed optical fiber temperature sensing system. According to the system, different sampling rates are set for a data acquisition unit according to the characteristic of different wavelengths of stokes and anti-stokes to ensure that each pair of acquired stokes and anti-stokes data corresponds to a position on an optical fiber; the influence of the different wavelengths of the stokes and the anti-stokes on spatial resolution, positioning precision and temperature precision is eliminated fundamentally; the three key indexes of the system are improved; and the application scope of the distributed optical fiber temperature sensing system is expanded.

The invention discloses a fully electronically controlled double-Stokes optical wavelength tuning device, comprising a femtosecond laser (1), an ultrashort pulse power and polarization state adjustment part, a high nonlinear polarization-maintaining pohotonic crystal fiber (7), an optical fiber collimation and beam expanding mirror (8), an optical filter (9), double-Stokes optical pulse delay adjustment part and a CARS microimaging system (18), wherein optical soliton with a wavelength capable of being continuously adjusted within a wide range is generated by the soliton self frequency shifteffect in the high nonlinear polarization-maintaining pohotonic crystal fiber and is used as a Stokes optical pulse, and the ultrashort pulse optical power entering the high nonlinear polarization-maintaining pohotonic crystal fiber and the linear polarization direction are changed by an electronically controlled liquid crystal wave plate and an electronically controlled liquid crystal polarization rotating sheet, so that the independent and flexible adjustment of the wavelengths of the optical solitons of a fast axis and a slow axis can be achieved. The fully electronically controlled double-Stokes optical wavelength tuning device disclosed by the invention enhances the tuning stability of an excitation source of the CARS microimaging system, realizes the independent and flexible adjustment of double-Stokes wavelength, and improves the imaging rate of the CARS microimaging system.

The invention discloses a high-accuracy distributed optical fiber sensing system based on a narrow linewidth high-order Brillouin Stokes wave. The system comprises an adjustable semiconductor laser (1a), a single-frequency semiconductor laser (1b), a frequency locking device (2), a first polarization controller (3a), a second polarization controller (3b), an acousto-optic modulator (4), a one-wayoptical fiber amplifier (5a), a bidirectional optical fiber amplifier (5b), an optical circulator (6), a multi-wavelength narrow linewidth Brillouin optical fiber laser (7), an adjustable optical filter (8), a photoelectric detector (9) and a data collection card (10), wherein the multi-wavelength narrow linewidth Brillouin optical fiber laser (7) consists of an automatic following multi-wavelength narrow-band filter (7a), a sensing optical fiber (7b), a bidirectional Er-doped optical fiber amplifier (5b) and a Faraday polariscope (7c). The system is reasonable in design, the multi-wavelengthnarrow linewidth Brillouin optical fiber laser is used, and a high-order Brillouin Stokes wave frequency shift amount is detected to realize high-accuracy temperature and strain detection.