CN111490444B - Pulse optical fiber amplifier and optical signal power amplification method - Google Patents
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Abstract
The embodiment of the application discloses a pulse fiber amplifier, includes: the device comprises an input side photoelectric detection unit, a pre-amplification stage amplification unit, at least one power amplification stage amplification unit and an output side photoelectric detection unit; the input side photoelectric detection unit and the amplification unit at the pre-amplification stage are connected through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber; the pre-amplifier stage amplification unit is connected with the first-stage power amplifier stage amplification unit through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber, and the final-stage power amplifier stage amplification unit is connected with the output side photoelectric detection unit through a light path; the output end of the multimode pump laser is connected with the input end of the multimode pump beam splitter; the multimode pump beam splitter splits the pump light of the multimode pump laser into at least two paths; one path of the split pump light is output to the pre-amplification stage amplification unit, and the rest pump light in the split pump light is output to each power amplification stage amplification unit respectively. The embodiment of the application also discloses an optical signal power amplification method.
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Technical Field
The embodiment of the application relates to a pulse optical fiber amplifier based on a multimode pump and a multimode pump beam splitter and an optical signal power amplification method.
Background
The conventional pulse fiber amplifier generally adopts a two-stage or multi-stage structure in order to improve the output pulse peak power and ensure a certain output signal-to-noise ratio, and mainly comprises a pre-amplifier stage formed by a single-mode pump laser and a single-mode active fiber, and a power amplifier stage formed by a multimode pump and a double-cladding active fiber, wherein the multi-stage power amplifier stage is sometimes included in order to amplify the pulse peak power to obtain higher pulse peak power.
The pre-amplification of a conventional pulsed fiber amplifier generally uses a single-mode fiber with a fiber core doped with erbium ions as an active fiber, and thus only a single-mode pump laser can be used for pumping in a fiber core pumping manner. Because the absorption spectrum of erbium ions is located near 9xxnm, a single-mode 9xxnm pump laser is generally used as a pump source in a pre-amplifier stage of a conventional pulse fiber amplifier, and a single-mode active erbium-doped fiber is pumped by a single-mode wavelength division multiplexer, so that the peak power of a pulse signal is initially improved.
The power amplifier stage of the conventional pulse fiber amplifier generally uses a multimode 9xxnm pump laser as a pump source, a multimode pump-signal beam combiner pumps the double-cladding active fiber, and the peak power of a pulse signal output by the preamplifier stage is obviously improved after the pulse signal is amplified by the power amplifier stage.
The two-stage or multi-stage structure of the conventional pulse optical fiber amplifier has the advantages that the two-stage or multi-stage hierarchical amplification structure is adopted, so that higher pulse peak power can be ensured, better optical signal-to-noise ratio can be obtained, the optical conversion efficiency of the pump-pulse signal of the amplifier is ensured to be kept at a higher level, and the overall power consumption of the amplifier is reduced.
Although the advantages of the multi-stage structure of the conventional pulse optical fiber amplifier are obvious, the problems of excessive pumping quantity and types, complex circuit and control design, large overall size and power consumption of the pulse amplifier and the like exist, and the cost is always high.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of this, the embodiments of the present application provide a pulse fiber amplifier, which can effectively simplify the structure of the existing amplifier, and significantly improve the output pulse peak power.
The embodiment of the application provides a pulse fiber amplifier, including: the photoelectric detection unit on the input side, the amplification unit of the pre-amplification stage, the amplification unit of at least one power amplification stage and the photoelectric detection unit on the output side;
the input side photoelectric detection unit and the amplification unit at the pre-amplification stage are connected through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber; the pre-amplification stage amplification unit is connected with a first-stage power amplification stage amplification unit in the at least one power amplification stage amplification unit through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber, and a last-stage power amplification stage amplification unit in the at least one power amplification stage amplification unit is connected with the output side photoelectric detection unit through an optical path;
a multimode pump laser for outputting pump light; the output end of the multimode pump laser is connected with the input end of the multimode pump beam splitter;
the multimode pump beam splitter is used for splitting the pump light of the multimode pump laser into at least two paths; one of the at least two paths of the split pump light is output to the pre-amplification stage amplification unit, and the rest pump light of the at least two paths of the split pump light is output to the at least one power amplification stage amplification unit respectively, so that each power amplification stage amplification unit is connected with one split pump light.
As an implementation manner, each of the at least one power amplifier stage amplifying unit is connected to the pump light splitting interface of the multimode pump beam splitter through a delay fiber.
As an implementation manner, the preamplifier stage amplifying unit includes a preamplifier stage pump-signal combiner and a preamplifier stage optical isolator, where the preamplifier stage pump-signal combiner and the preamplifier stage optical isolator are connected by an optical path;
the power amplifier stage amplification unit comprises a power amplifier stage pumping-signal wave combiner and a power amplifier stage optical isolator, and the pumping-signal wave combiner is connected with the power amplifier stage optical isolator through a light path.
As one implementation manner, the input side photoelectric detection unit comprises a pre-amplifier stage coupler, a pre-amplifier stage optical isolator and a pre-amplifier stage photoelectric detector;
the input end of the pre-amplifier stage coupler is connected with an input optical path, the first output end of the pre-amplifier stage coupler is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator, and the second output end of the pre-amplifier stage coupler is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage photoelectric detector; the output end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator is connected with the common end of the pre-amplifier stage pump-signal combiner through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber;
the photoelectric detection unit of the output side comprises a power amplifier stage coupler and a power amplifier stage photoelectric detector;
the input of power amplifier stage coupler with power amplifier stage optical isolator's of final stage power amplifier stage amplifying unit output is connected, power amplifier stage coupler's first output is connected with output light path, power amplifier stage coupler's second output with power amplifier stage photoelectric detector's output is connected.
As an implementation manner, one of the split lights of the multimode pump beam splitter is connected to the pump end of the pre-amplifier stage pump-signal combiner, and the common end of the pre-amplifier stage pump-signal combiner is connected to the output end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber; the signal end of the pre-amplifier stage pumping-signal combiner is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator;
the residual optical path in the split light of the multimode pump beam splitter is connected with the pump end of the power amplifier stage pump-signal beam combiner through a delay optical fiber, the common end of the power amplifier stage pump-signal beam combiner is connected with the output end of the power amplifier stage isolator of the previous power amplifier stage amplification unit or the output end of the pre-amplifier stage isolator of the pre-amplifier stage amplification unit through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber, and the signal end of the power amplifier stage pump-signal beam combiner is connected with the input end of the power amplifier stage isolator of the power amplifier stage amplification unit.
As an implementation manner, when there is one power amplifier stage amplification unit, the pre-amplifier stage amplification unit is connected to the power amplifier stage amplification unit through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber, and the power amplifier stage amplification unit is directly connected to the output side photoelectric detection unit through an optical path.
As an implementation manner, the multimode pump beam splitter splits pump light of the multimode pump laser into two paths, where one path of the two paths is output to a pump end of a pre-amplifier stage pump-signal beam combiner of the pre-amplifier stage amplifying unit, and a common end of the pre-amplifier stage pump-signal beam combiner is connected to an output end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator through a pre-amplifier stage double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber; the signal end of the pre-amplifier stage pumping-signal beam combiner is connected with the input end of the isolator of the pre-amplifier stage amplifying unit; the other end of the pre-amplifier stage double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber is connected with the output end of an isolator of the input side photoelectric detection unit, the input end of the isolator of the input side photoelectric detection unit is connected with the first end of a coupler of the input side photoelectric detection unit, and the second end of the coupler of the input side photoelectric detection unit is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage photoelectric detector;
the multimode pumping beam splitter inputs the other path of the pumping split light to the pumping end of the pumping-signal beam combiner of the power amplification stage amplification unit through a delay optical fiber, the common end of the pump-signal beam combiner of the power amplifier stage amplification unit is connected with the output end of the isolator of the pre-amplifier stage amplification unit through the double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber of the power amplifier stage, the signal end of the pumping-signal beam combiner of the power amplifier stage amplification unit is connected with the input end of the isolator of the power amplifier stage amplification unit, the output end of the isolator of the power amplifier stage amplifying unit is connected with the input end of the coupler of the power amplifier stage photoelectric detector, the first end of the coupler of the power amplifier stage photoelectric detection unit is connected with the output light path, and the second end of the coupler of the power amplifier stage photoelectric detection unit is connected with the output end of the power amplifier stage photoelectric detector.
The embodiment of the application further provides an optical signal power amplification method, which is used for performing power amplification on the input optical signal by using the pulse optical fiber amplifier.
According to the pulse optical fiber amplifier, the whole amplifier only uses one multimode pump laser and one multimode pump beam splitter for pumping, the design is simplified, meanwhile, the pulse peak power output by the preamplifier stage is greatly improved, and higher pulse peak power can be obtained. In order to prevent the spontaneous emission power in the active fiber from being too high to form lasing to damage the pulse fiber amplifier of the embodiment of the application, delay fibers with different lengths are arranged between the multimode pumping beam splitter and each stage of signal-pumping beam combiner, so that the reliability of the amplifier is ensured. The whole pulse amplifier is only provided with one multimode pump laser for pumping, and has the advantages of simple structure, lower power consumption, simple control, reduced manufacturing cost and reduced size of the whole machine.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a pulse fiber amplifier according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of another structure of a pulse fiber amplifier according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
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1,13, 15, 31: a coupler;
2,14, 16, 32: a photodetector;
3,6, 12, 17, 20, 26, 30: an optical isolator;
4,9, 18, 21, 27: double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber;
5,11, 19, 22, 29: a pump-signal combiner;
7: a 1 × 2 multimode pump beam splitter;
24: a 1 × N multimode pump beam splitter;
8,25: a multimode pump laser;
10, 23, 28: a delay fiber.
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The essence of the technical solution of the embodiments of the present application is explained in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In the embodiment of the application, with the preliminary amplification structure in the conventional pulse fiber amplifier by single mode pumping and single mode active fiber change for multimode pumping and double-clad active fiber, the pulse fiber amplifier after the change can no longer receive the restriction that single mode pumping power is not enough and active fiber pumping injection power of fibre core pumping is low to can improve the pulse peak power of pulse fiber amplifier preliminary amplification output by a wide margin, guarantee certain output optical signal to noise ratio simultaneously again.
The multimode pump laser has the characteristics of small volume and high output power, and the embodiment of the application makes full use of the characteristics of the multimode pump laser, and the multimode pump laser with larger output power is split by the multimode beam splitter and is respectively input into the pump-signal combiner of the pre-amplifier stage and the power amplifier stage of the pulse fiber amplifier to be used as the pre-amplifier stage and the power amplifier stage of the pump pulse fiber laser.
In addition, the pump-on sequence of the pump in the pulse fiber amplifier is crucial, and in the conventional pulse fiber amplifier, the pump is generally turned on in sequence, and the pulse signal will be injected into the active fiber before the pump light, which may cause the performance degradation and even damage of the pulse fiber amplifier if the pump light is injected into the active fiber before the pulse signal. When the pump light is injected into the active fiber before the pulse signal, two situations easily occur, namely: if only the pump light but not the signal light exists in the active optical fiber, the upper-level inversion particles in the active optical fiber are consumed by the spontaneous radiation in the optical fiber, so that the pulse signal cannot be amplified due to the low number of the inversion particles after being injected into the active optical fiber; case two: if the spontaneous radiation power level in the active optical fiber is high and devices in the optical fiber or at two ends of the optical fiber have high reflection surfaces, a lasing phenomenon easily occurs, and a pump and passive devices are damaged. According to the pulse fiber laser, only one pump laser is used, in order to ensure that signal light is injected into an active fiber before pump light, delay fibers with different lengths are added at each output end of a multimode pump beam splitter and the input end of a pump-signal combiner of each power amplifier stage, the length of each delay fiber is matched with the transmission delay of pulse signal light, the signal light and the pump light are ensured to be injected into the active fiber at the same time, and the two situations are avoided.
The embodiment of the application can also use a high-power multimode pump laser to be subjected to light splitting through the 1 XN multi-path multimode coupler and then input the light split into the pre-amplification stage and the multi-stage power amplification stage of the pump pulse optical fiber amplifier, and the splitting ratio of each path of the 1 XN multi-path multimode coupler can be adjusted according to the design requirement of a light path. Delay optical fibers with different lengths are respectively connected between the output end of the 1 XN multi-path multi-mode coupler loop and the pump-signal input end of the pre-amplifier stage and the pump-signal input end of the multi-stage power amplifier stage, and the length of each delay optical fiber is determined by the time delay of signal transmission.
The essence of the technical solution of the embodiments of the present application is further explained below with reference to the drawings.
The embodiment of the application provides a pulse fiber amplifier, including: the photoelectric detection unit on the input side, the amplification unit of the pre-amplification stage, the amplification unit of at least one power amplification stage and the photoelectric detection unit on the output side;
in the embodiment of the application, the number of the power amplification stage amplification units is at least one, or more than two, and the amplification stages of the pulse optical fiber amplifier can be set as required to set a plurality of power amplification stage amplification units.
In the embodiment of the application, the amplifying unit of the pre-amplifier stage comprises a pre-amplifier stage pumping-signal combiner and a pre-amplifier stage optical isolator, wherein the pre-amplifier stage pumping-signal combiner is connected with the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator through an optical path; the power amplifier stage amplification unit comprises a power amplifier stage pumping-signal wave combiner and a power amplifier stage optical isolator, and the pumping-signal wave combiner is connected with the optical isolator through an optical path.
The input side photoelectric detection unit and the amplification unit at the pre-amplification stage are connected through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber; the pre-amplification unit is connected with a first-stage power amplification unit in the at least one power amplification unit through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber, and a last-stage power amplification unit in the at least one power amplification unit is connected with the output side photoelectric detection unit through an optical path;
a multimode pump laser for outputting pump light; the output end of the multimode pump laser is connected with the input end of the multimode pump beam splitter;
the multimode pump beam splitter is used for splitting the pump light of the multimode pump laser into at least two paths; one of the at least two paths of the split pump light is output to the pre-amplification stage amplification unit, and the rest pump light of the at least two paths of the split pump light is output to the at least one power amplification stage amplification unit respectively, so that each power amplification stage amplification unit is connected with one split pump light.
The input side photoelectric detection unit comprises a pre-amplifier stage coupler, a pre-amplifier stage optical isolator and a pre-amplifier stage photoelectric detector;
the input end of the pre-amplifier stage coupler is connected with an input optical path, the first output end of the pre-amplifier stage coupler is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator, and the second output end of the pre-amplifier stage coupler is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage photoelectric detector; the output end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator is connected with the common end of the pre-amplifier stage pump-signal combiner through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber;
the photoelectric detection unit of the output side comprises a power amplifier stage coupler and a power amplifier stage photoelectric detector;
the input of power amplifier stage coupler with the output of power amplifier stage optical isolator of final stage power amplifier stage amplification unit is connected, the first output and the output light path of power amplifier stage coupler are connected, the second output of power amplifier stage coupler with power amplifier stage photoelectric detector's output is connected.
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a structure of a pulse fiber amplifier according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 1, the pulse fiber amplifier according to the embodiment of the present disclosure only includes a first-stage power amplifier stage amplification unit, and the structure includes: the multimode pump laser system comprises a multimode pump laser 8, a multimode pump beam splitter 7, an isolator 3, a photoelectric detector 2, a coupler 1, a pump-signal beam combiner 5, an isolator 3, a pump-signal beam combiner 11, an isolator 12, a coupler 13 and a photoelectric detector 14, wherein the output end of the multimode pump laser 8 is connected with the input end of the multimode pump beam splitter 7, the multimode pump beam splitter 7 splits multimode pump light according to design requirements in any proportion, and the multimode pump beam splitter 7 splits the multimode pump light of the multimode pump laser 8 into two paths in the example; one output of a multimode pump beam splitter 7 is connected with a pump end of a pump-signal combiner 5, a common end of the pump-signal combiner 5 is connected with a preset-level double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber 4, a signal end of the pump-signal combiner 5 is connected with an input of a preset-level output isolator 6, the other end of the preset-level double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber 4 is connected with an output of a preset-level input isolator 3, an input end of the isolator 3 is connected with a large end (a first output end) of a preset-level input coupler 1, a small end (a second output end) of the input coupler 1 is connected with an input PIN PIN of a preset-level photoelectric detector 2, signal light is input from the input end and is output from the isolator 6 after being amplified by the preset level; another optical splitting path of the multimode pumping beam splitter 7 passes through a multimode delay fiber 10 and then is input to a pumping end of a pumping-signal combiner 11, a common end of the pumping-signal combiner 11 is connected to a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber 9 of the power amplifier stage, the other end of the double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber 9 is connected to an output end of the pre-amplifier stage output isolator 6, a signal end of the pumping-signal combiner 11 is connected to an input end of an output isolator 12 of the power amplifier stage, an output end of the isolator 12 is connected to an input end of an output coupler 13, a small end (a second output end) of the output coupler 13 is connected to an output PIN of a photodetector 14, a large end (a first output end) of the output coupler 13 is used as an output of a pulse fiber amplifier, and the pulse fiber amplifier in this example is used as a power amplifier stage of a two-stage pulse fiber amplifier. In fig. 1, the input PINs PIN of the coupler 1 and the photodetector 2, and the output PINs PIN of the coupler 12 and the photodetector 14 are respectively input detection and output detection of the module, which is convenient for monitoring and managing the pulse optical fiber amplifier according to the embodiment of the present application.
Fig. 2 is a schematic view of another structure of the pulse fiber amplifier according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 2, the pulse fiber amplifier according to the embodiment of the present disclosure includes more than two stages of power amplifier stage amplification units, specifically, how many stages of power amplifier stage amplification units are arranged, which can be set according to actual optical signal amplification requirements, and at this time, the multimode pump beam splitter splits a corresponding amount of pump light from the multimode pump laser according to the number of the power amplifier stage amplification units; the pulse fiber amplifier of the present example includes: the multi-mode pump laser comprises a multi-mode pump laser 25, a multi-mode pump beam splitter 24, an isolator 3, a photoelectric detector 16, a coupler 15, a pump-signal beam combiner 19, an isolator 20, a pump-signal beam combiner 22, an isolator 26, a pump-signal beam combiner 29, an isolator 30, a coupler 31 and a photoelectric detector 32, wherein the output end of the multi-mode pump laser 25 is connected with the input end of the multi-mode pump beam splitter 24, and the multi-mode pump beam splitter 24 splits the multi-mode pump light according to the total number of pre-amplifier stage amplification units and power amplifier stage amplification units, so that each amplification unit is guaranteed to have the split pump light. One output of a light splitting path of the multimode pump beam splitter 24 is connected to a pump end of a pump-signal combiner 19, a common end of the pump-signal combiner 19 is connected to the double-clad erbium-ytterbium-codoped fiber 18 of the preset stage, a signal end of the pump-signal combiner 19 is connected to an input of an output isolator 20 of the preset stage, the other end of the double-clad erbium-ytterbium-codoped fiber 18 of the preset stage is connected to an output of an input isolator 17 of the preset stage, an input end of the isolator 17 is connected to a large end (a first output end) of an input coupler 15 of the preset stage, a small end (a second output end) of the input coupler 15 is connected to an input PIN of a photodetector 16 of the preset stage, and signal light is input from an input end and is output from the isolator 20 after being amplified by the preset stage; the remaining light splitting paths of the multimode pump beam splitter 24 are respectively input to the pump ends of the pump-signal combiner 22 and the pump-signal combiner 30 through multimode delay fibers 23 and 28, the common ends of the pump-signal combiner 22 and the pump-signal combiner 30 are respectively connected to the double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fibers 21 and 27 of the power amplifier stage, the other ends of the double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fibers 21 and 27 are respectively connected to the output end of the output isolator 20 of the pre-amplifier stage and the isolator in the amplifying unit of the previous power amplifier stage, the signal ends of the pump-signal combiner 22 and the pump-signal combiner 30 are respectively connected to the input end of the output isolator 26 of the power amplifier stage and the output isolator in the amplifying unit of the next power amplifier stage, the signal end of the pump-signal combiner 30 in the amplifying unit of the last power amplifier stage is connected to the isolator 30, the output end of the isolator 30 is connected to the input end of the output coupler 31, the small end (second output end) of the output coupler 31 is connected to the output PIN of the photodetector 32, and the large end (first output end) of the output coupler 31 serves as the output of the pulse fiber amplifier, which serves as the power amplifier stage of the multi-stage pulse fiber amplifier in this example.
In fig. 2, the function of each component of the multimode pump laser is identical to that shown in fig. 1. The difference is that the whole optical path structure includes N-stage amplification, the multimode pump signal is also divided into N stages by a plurality of cascaded multimode pump beam splitters 24 to pump each stage, and each stage has a multimode delay fiber with a specific length.
In the embodiment of the present application, the photodetection optical paths where the photodetectors 2 and 16 are located constitute the input-side photodetection unit, and the photodetection optical paths where the photodetectors 14 and 32 are located constitute the output-side photodetection unit. The components included in the pre-amplifier stage amplifying unit and the power amplifier stage amplifying unit are roughly divided according to the corresponding functions, and those skilled in the art should understand that the pre-amplifier stage amplifying unit and the power amplifier stage amplifying unit may also be divided according to other ways, and under the condition that the essence of the technical scheme of the embodiment of the present application is not affected, the corresponding technical means replacement should be included in the acquirable scope of the embodiment of the present application.
According to the pulse optical fiber amplifier, the whole amplifier only uses one multimode pump laser and one multimode pump beam splitter for pumping, the design is simplified, meanwhile, the pulse peak power output by a preamplifier stage is greatly improved, and higher pulse peak power can be obtained. In order to prevent the spontaneous emission power in the active fiber from being too high to form lasing to damage the pulse fiber amplifier of the embodiment of the application, delay fibers with different lengths are arranged between the multimode pumping beam splitter and each stage of signal-pumping beam combiner, so that the reliability of the amplifier is ensured. The whole pulse amplifier is only provided with one multimode pump laser for pumping, and has the advantages of simple structure, lower power consumption, simple control, reduced manufacturing cost and reduced size of the whole machine.
It should be appreciated that reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, the appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. It should be understood that, in the various embodiments of the present invention, the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not imply an order of execution, and the order of execution of the processes should be determined by their functions and internal logics, and should not limit the implementation processes of the embodiments of the present invention in any way. The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.
It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element identified by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other manners. The above-described device embodiments are only illustrative, for example, the division of the unit is only one logical function division, and there may be other division ways in actual implementation, such as: multiple units or components may be combined, or may be integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not implemented. In addition, the coupling, direct coupling or communication connection between the components shown or discussed may be through some interfaces, and the indirect coupling or communication connection between the devices or units may be electrical, mechanical or other forms.
The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units; can be located in one place or distributed on a plurality of network units; some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.
In addition, all the functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may be separately regarded as one unit, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit; the integrated unit may be implemented in the form of hardware, or in the form of hardware plus a software functional unit.
The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all such changes or substitutions are included in the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the appended claims.
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1. A pulsed fiber amplifier, comprising: the device comprises an input side photoelectric detection unit, a pre-amplification stage amplification unit, at least one power amplification stage amplification unit and an output side photoelectric detection unit;
the input side photoelectric detection unit and the amplification unit at the pre-amplification stage are connected through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber; the pre-amplifier stage amplification unit is connected with a first-stage amplifier stage amplification unit in the at least one amplifier stage amplification unit through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber, and a last-stage amplifier stage amplification unit in the at least one amplifier stage amplification unit is connected with the output side photoelectric detection unit through an optical path;
a multimode pump laser for outputting pump light; the output end of the multimode pump laser is connected with the input end of the multimode pump beam splitter;
the multimode pump beam splitter is used for splitting the pump light of the multimode pump laser into at least two paths; one of the at least two paths of the split pump light is output to the pre-amplification stage amplification unit, and the rest pump light of the at least two paths of the split pump light is output to the at least one power amplification stage amplification unit respectively, so that each power amplification stage amplification unit is connected with one split pump light; each power amplification unit in the at least one power amplification stage amplification unit is connected with the pump light splitting interface of the multimode pump beam splitter through delay optical fibers with different lengths, and the length of each delay optical fiber is matched with the transmission delay of pulse signal light.
2. The pulsed fiber amplifier of claim 1, wherein said pre-amplifier stage amplification unit comprises a pre-amplifier stage pump-signal combiner and a pre-amplifier stage optical isolator, said pre-amplifier stage pump-signal combiner and said pre-amplifier stage optical isolator optically connected;
the power amplifier stage amplifying unit comprises a power amplifier stage pumping-signal wave combiner and a power amplifier stage optical isolator, and the pumping-signal wave combiner is connected with the power amplifier stage optical isolator through an optical path.
3. The pulsed fiber amplifier of claim 2, wherein said input-side photodetection unit comprises a pre-stage coupler, a pre-stage opto-isolator, and a pre-stage photodetector;
the input end of the pre-amplifier stage coupler is connected with an input optical path, the first output end of the pre-amplifier stage coupler is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator, and the second output end of the pre-amplifier stage coupler is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage photoelectric detector; the output end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator is connected with the common end of the pre-amplifier stage pump-signal combiner through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber;
the output side photoelectric detection unit comprises a power amplifier coupler and a power amplifier photoelectric detector;
the input of power amplifier stage coupler with power amplifier stage optical isolator's of final stage power amplifier stage amplifying unit output is connected, power amplifier stage coupler's first output is connected with output light path, power amplifier stage coupler's second output with power amplifier stage photoelectric detector's output is connected.
4. The pulsed fiber amplifier of claim 3,
one path of split light of the multimode pumping beam splitter is connected with a pumping end of the pre-amplifier stage pumping-signal combiner, and a common end of the pre-amplifier stage pumping-signal combiner is connected with an output end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber; the signal end of the pre-amplifier stage pumping-signal combiner is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage optical isolator;
the residual optical path in the light splitting of the multimode pumping beam splitter is connected with the pumping end of the power amplifier stage pumping-signal combiner through a delay optical fiber, the public end of the power amplifier stage pumping-signal combiner is connected with the output end of the power amplifier stage isolator of the previous power amplifier stage amplification unit or the pre-amplifier stage isolator of the pre-amplifier stage amplification unit through a double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber, and the signal end of the power amplifier stage pumping-signal combiner is connected with the input end of the power amplifier stage isolator of the power amplifier stage amplification unit.
5. The pulse fiber amplifier of claim 3, wherein when there is one amplifying unit, the amplifying unit of the pre-amplifying stage and the amplifying unit of the amplifying stage are connected by erbium ytterbium co-doped fiber with double cladding, and the amplifying unit of the amplifying stage and the output side photodetecting unit are directly connected by an optical path.
6. The pulsed fiber amplifier of claim 5,
the multimode pump beam splitter splits pump light of the multimode pump laser into two paths, wherein one path of the pump light is output to a pump end of a pre-amplifier pump-signal beam combiner of the pre-amplifier amplifying unit, and a common end of the pre-amplifier pump-signal beam combiner is connected with an output end of the pre-amplifier optical isolator through a pre-amplifier double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber; the signal end of the pre-amplifier stage pumping-signal beam combiner is connected with the input end of the isolator of the pre-amplifier stage amplifying unit; the other end of the pre-amplifier stage double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber is connected with the output end of an isolator of the input side photoelectric detection unit, the input end of the isolator of the input side photoelectric detection unit is connected with the first end of a coupler of the input side photoelectric detection unit, and the second end of the coupler of the input side photoelectric detection unit is connected with the input end of the pre-amplifier stage photoelectric detector;
the multimode pump beam splitter inputs the other path of the pump split light to the pump end of the pump-signal beam combiner of the power amplifier stage amplification unit through a delay optical fiber, the common end of the pump-signal beam combiner of the power amplifier stage amplification unit is connected with the output end of the isolator of the pre-amplifier stage amplification unit through the double-clad erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber of the power amplifier stage, the signal end of the pumping-signal beam combiner of the power amplifier stage amplification unit is connected with the input end of the isolator of the power amplifier stage amplification unit, the output end of the isolator of the power amplifier stage amplifying unit is connected with the input end of the coupler of the power amplifier stage photoelectric detector, the first end of the coupler of the power amplifier stage photoelectric detection unit is connected with the output light path, and the second end of the coupler of the power amplifier stage photoelectric detection unit is connected with the output end of the power amplifier stage photoelectric detector.
7. A method of optical signal power amplification, the method comprising: power amplifying an input optical signal using the pulsed optical fiber amplifier of any one of claims 1 to 6.
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