A compact fiber-optic diode-laser sensor system for measuring relative humidity is studied. In such a system, a distributed feedback laser lasing near 1877 nm is used as light source while a high-precision Pt resistance as temperature sensor, an accuracy of 0.1% relative-humidity can be achieved. The laser sensor system is able to lock to the absorption peak and calculate the density of water vapor without any additional reference measurements. Using programs built in to the microcontroller unit, the laser system can switch functions between direct measurement at high density and second-harmonic detection at low density. The system can switch between the two modes automatically and work in a wide dynamic range.
SUN Ke, XIE Liang JU Yu WU XuMing HOU Jie HAN Wei WANG Xin MAN JiangWei LIU Yu YUAN HaiQing LUO ZhenAo XIONG Shang ZHU NingHua
Frequency response is one of the most important characteristics of photodiode (PD). The upper limitation of the bandwidth of a PD is determined by its intrinsic frequency response. Based on the extraction method to extract the intrinsic frequency response,we take a further study to analyze the impact of the reverse bias voltage and the temperature on the frequency response of PDs. With the help of physical model,the experimental data and fitted results based on the reverse bias voltage and temperature separately are discussed,then the most reliable intrinsic frequency response of a PD is obtained.
A new scheme based on the electrical-filtered optical heterodyne technique is proposed for measuring the tuning speed of tunable distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers. In this scheme, a 10 GHz high-pass electrical filter is used and the wavelength switching time of a tunable DBR laser for different tuning frequencies corresponding exactly to different delay lines is measured. The switching time is measured to be nearly 300 ns and can be improved by reducing the equivalent resistance-capacitance (RC) time constant of the device. The distribution of the beat signal of the DBR laser in the time domain is also obtained, and is a good match with the waveforms measured using an optical filter.
Based on the high frequency techniques such as frequency response measurement,equivalent circuit modeling and packaging parasitics compensation,a comprehensive optimization method for packaging high-speed semiconductor laser module is presented in this paper.The experiments show that the small-signal magnitude frequency response of the TO packaged laser module is superior to that of laser diode in frequencies,and the in-band flatness and the phase-frequency linearity are also improved significantly.
LIU Yu CHEN ShuoFu WANG Xin YUAN HaiQing XIE Liang ZHU NingHua
A new technique to generate a millimeter（mm）-wave carrier of 32.57 GHz(fLO=10.85 GHz) with single sideband modulation（SSB） for radio-over-fiber（RoF） systems is experimentally demonstrated by using stimulated Brillouin scattering（SBS）.The SSB is realized by directly amplifying the +3rd sideband of the modulated optical carrier in the process of SBS.The pump wave is provided through a double Brillouin scattering frequency shifting configuration.The use of the same laser source to generate the pump wave ensures the stability of the mm-wave generation system since the relative frequency shift between them can be eliminated.In addition, the mm-wave carrier obtains an RF power gain of 21 dB with the SBS amplification and a 3-dB bandwidth of 10kHz.
