This paper presents a sub-harmonic mixer operating over the spectral band 332-348 GHz. The mixers employ integrated GaAs membrane Schottky diode technology. The simulated results show that the conversion loss of the mixer is below dB in the band from 333 GHz to 347 GHz with a local oscillator power requirement of 5mW.The minimum is 8.2dB at 344GHz.
The generation of terahertz (THz) pulses based on optical rectification effects in GaAs has become more and
more attractive and practical due to advances in high power ultrashort pulse fiber lasers. Normally coherence
length is a parameter introduced for judging how the phases match by comparing the group velocity of optical
pulses with the phase velocity of one of frequency components, like, for example, a component at 2 THz, of
THz pulses. It is shown in this paper that the coherence length can not characterize the THz pulse generating
process well because it can not count the contribution of all components in the spectrum band of the THz
pulses. An energy conversion efficiency calculation model is proposed in this paper by integrating the
energy of all THz components generated in the optical rectification process in a planar waveguide device.
Based on the calculation model, the evolution of a THz pulse along the longitudinal direction of the
waveguide is simulated and the results are used for design of the optimal waveguide structure for which the
highest energy conversion efficiency could be reached to 1.5 × 10-3.
We demonstrate an ultra-long cavity all-fiber Erbium-doped fiber laser that is passively mode-locked by nonlinear
polarization rotation. The length of the resonant cavity amounts to 4.046 km, which is achieved by incorporating a 4 km
single mode fiber. The laser generates stable mode-locked pulses with a 50.90 kHz fundamental repetition rate. The
maximum average power of output pulses is 2.73 mW, which corresponds to per-pulse energy of 53.63 nJ.
In this paper a theoretical model of self-similar amplifications is studied experimentally in an all-fiber high
power amplifier. The output vs. input characteristics of this amplifier are measured when the various
femtosecond pulses at different energies and different shapes are inputted. It is verified that the all-fiber
high power amplifier system is indeed operating in the way of self-similar amplifications by analyzing the
data of the amplified pulses along with the data of the input pulses. Finally, nearly transform-limited
ultra-short pulses with high average power of 500 mW and time-bandwidth product of 0.342 are obtained by
compressing the output pulses from the fiber amplifier to the ultra-short pulses of 113 fs at the center
wavelength of 1552nm using a segment of DCFs with large negative group velocity dispersion. The results
demonstrated that the operating mode of the amplifier is consistent with the typical self-similar amplification
model.
In this paper, a novel WDM-to-OTDM conversion system which has a simple setup is proposed. The
system is a type of fiber loop consisting of an optical single-side-band (SSB) modulator that is driven by a
RF signal source at 10 GHz, a fiber circulator, a single mode fiber coupler, a fiber amplifier and an
ultra-narrowband high reflectivity fiber Bragg grating (FBG). The multi-wavelength WDM signals with
the spectral sampling interval of 10 GHz (0.08 nm at 1550 nm) is inputted into the system and can be
transformed to an OTDM signal carried by one wavelength. The advantages of this multi-wavelength
conversion system are that the requirement for the input optical power is low, the wavelength conversion is
fast due to the optic-electro effect in a nonlinear optical crystal and the system configuration is compact
without need of time delay lines.
A novel terahertz source that is capable of emitting terahertz radiation based on a phase-matched optical rectification
process pumped by 1550-nm fiber lasers is proposed. The whole device equivalently consists of many THz-emitter
units connected along the direction of optical pulses propagation by optical chirp compensation components such as
photonic crystal fibers and optical semiconductor amplifiers. In each THz-emitter unit, there are two sections adjacent
to each other along the direction of the pumping optical pulse propagation. One of the sections is a segment of
asymmetric dielectric planar waveguide in which a core-layer of GaAs is contacted with a substrate containing an
epilayer of AlxGa1-xAs. The other section is a segment of corrugated waveguide with a GaAs second-order rectangular
grating teeth layer above the same substrate containing an epilayer of AlxGa1-xAs. The terahertz waves could be
generated in the non-grating section by a pulsed fiber laser based on an optical rectification process under the
circumstance of phase matching by exploiting the waveguide mode dispersion. These terahertz waves then could be
coupled into the air and the substrate transversely in the following grating section to form the terahertz radiation.
A GaAs waveguide emitter for terahertz radiation generation based on phase-matched optical rectification process
pumped by 1550-nm fiber lasers is proposed as a potential terahertz source. The device consists of two waveguide
structures which are adjacent to each other along the longitudinal direction of the waveguide. One of these is a segment
of asymmetric dielectric planar waveguide in which a core-layer of GaAs is contacted with a substrate containing an
epilayer of AlxGa1-xAs. The other is a segment of corrugated waveguide with GaAs second-order rectangular grating
teeth layer above the same substrate containing an epilayer of AlxGa1-xAs. The terahertz waves could be generated in
the non-grating section by a pulsed fiber laser based on an optical rectification process under the circumstance of phase
matching by exploring the waveguide mode dispersion, which then could be coupled into the air and the substrate
transversely by the following grating section to form the terahertz radiation. The coupling efficiency is estimated to be
about 60% for an optimal designed terahertz wave emitter.
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