7.3 W of single-frequency output power at 2.09 μm from an Ho:YAG monolithic nonplanar ring laser

Single-frequency output power of 7.3 W at 2.09 mu m from a monolithic Ho:YAG nonplanar ring oscillator (NPRO) is demonstrated. Resonantly pumped by a Tm-doped fiber laser at 1.91 mu m, the Ho:YAG NPRO produces 71% of slope efficiency with respect to absorbed pump power and nearly diffraction-limited output with a beam quality parameter of M-2 approximate to 1.1. (c) 2008 Optical Society of America

Fabrication and characterization of active and sequential circuits utilizing Schottky-wrap-gate-controlled GaAs hexagonal nanowire network structures

For realization of hexagonal BDD-based digital systems, active and sequential circuits including inverters, flip flops and ring oscillators are designed and fabricated on GaAs-based hexagonal nanowire networks controlled by Schottky wrap gates (WPGs), and their operations are characterized. Fabricated inverters show comparatively high transfer gain of more than 10. Clear and correct operation of hexagonal set-reset flip flops (SR-FFs) is obtained at room temperature. Fabricated hexagonal D-type flip flop (D-FF) circuits integrating twelve WPG field effect transistors (FETs) show capturing input signal by triggering although the output swing is small. Oscillatory output is successfully obtained in a fabricated 7-stage hexagonal ring oscillator. Obtained results confirm that a good possibility to realize practical digital systems can be implemented by the present circuit approach.

Coupling between cavity mode and heavy-hole exciton and light-hole exciton in semiconductor microcavity

The reflectivity spectra at different incident angles of semiconductor microcavity having heavy-hole exciton and light-hole exciton are calculated ly transfer matrix method using the linear dispersion model. Meanwhile we calculate the energy of three cavity polaritons at different incident angles formed by the coupling between cavity mode and the two exciton modes using the three harmonic oscillators coupling model, and the weights of cavity mode and the two exciton modes in the three cavity polaritons. The results indicate that there is obvious anticross between the high energy cavity polariton and the two low energy cavity polaritons with increasing incident angles, and the weights of three modes(cavity mode, heavy-hole exciton mode and light-hole exciton mode) in the three cavity polaritons increase or decrease.

In-plane propagation of cavity polaritons in a quantum semiconductor microcavity

Considering that the coupling among the heavy-hole exciton, light-hole exciton and the cavity photon can form bipolaritons in a quantum semiconductor microcavity, we calculate the group velocities of the cavity polaritons at different incident angles using the coupling model of three harmonic oscillators. The result indicates that the group velocities of the low and middle branches of the cavity polaritons have extrema, but the group velocities of the high branch increase with the increasing incident angle.

Bloch oscillation under a bichromatic laser: Dynamical delocalization and localization, persistent terahertz emission, and harmonics generation

A novel AC driving configuration is proposed for biased semiconductor superlattices, in which the THz driving is provided by an intense bichromatic cw laser in the visible light range. The frequency difference between two components of the laser is resonant with the Bloch oscillation. Thus, multi-photon processes mediated by the conduction (valence) band states lead to dynamical delocalization and localization of the valence (conduction) electrons, and to the formation and collapse of quasi-minibands. Thus, driven Bloch oscillators are predicted to generate persistent THz emission and harmonics of the dipole field, which are tolerant of the exciton and the relaxation effects.

An ambient proof and wide tuning range LC VCO with automatic amplitude control for tuner applications

This paper represents a LC VCO with AAC (Auto Amplitude Control), in which PMOS FETs are used as active components, and the varactors are directly connected to ground to widen Kvco linear range. The AAC circuitry adds little noise to the VCO and provides it with robust performance over a wide temperature and carrier frequency range. The VCO is fabricated in 50-GHz 0.35-mu m SiGe BiCMOS process. The measurement results show that it has -127.27-dBc/Hz phase noise at 1-MHz offset and a linear gain of 32.4-MHz/V between 990-MHz and 1.14-GHz. The whole circuit draws 6.6-mA current from 5.0-V supply.

Compact and efficient triple-pass optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

Compact and efficient triple-pass optical parametric chirped pulse amplification in a single crystal has been demonstrated. The signal was triple-pass amplified in a single nonlinear crystal by a nanosecond pump pulse. The first-pass optical parametric amplification is completely phase matched in the plane of the maximum effective nonlinearity, and the other two passes work symmetrically near to the first-pass optical parametric amplification plane. This architecture efficiently increases the overall gain, overcomes the optical parametric fluorescence, and clearly simplifies the amplification scheme.

Dynamics of Cavity Polaritons in a GaAs Quantum-well Semiconductor Microcavity

To provide the dynamics of cavity polariton in semiconductor microcavity containing GaAs quantum-well, the dispersions of the three cavity polaritons have been given by the model of three coupled oscillators, meanwhile the linewidths, group velocities and the mass of the three cavity polaritons have been demonstrated. The results indicated that because of the weight occupied by the photon, heavy hole exciton and light hole extiton in the three cavity ploariton the cavity polaritons exhibited different dynamic behaviors.

Tunable and switchable multiwavelength fiber lasers with broadband range based on nonlinear polarization rotation technique

Switchable multiwavelength fiber laser outputs with a wide tuning range are experimentally observed in an ultralong cavity. Because of the long spooled single-mode fiber and filter effect of the cavity, multiwavelength lasers with the spacing of similar to 14.5 nm are obtained. The proposed fiber laser has the capacity of simultaneously emitting the three wavelengths. By means of adjusting the polarization controllers, the arbitrary single- and dual-wavelength operations are achieved in our laser. (C) 2010 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. [DOI: 10.1117/1.3485754]

二维无关联振子系统的量子化及能谱中长程关联的理论分析

量子经典对应是人们一直关心的基本问题．早期的WKB量子论及其推广EBK理论分别给出了一维及多维可积系统周期轨道的作用量量子化条件，但是，这些理论都没有明确的给出周期轨道与量子能级之间的对应关系．另一方面，近年来，人们在数值计算中发现量子能谱中存在着与周期轨道有紧密联系的长程关联，但是目前对长程关联的研究大多局限于数值计算，其背后的动力学原因有待进一步的探讨。应用二维无关联振子系统具有的标度不变性，对量子态密度进行Fourier变换，得到二维无关联振子系统的回归函数．另一方面，在有理环面上积分Hamiltonian运动方程，数值计算给出二维无关联四次振子系统的半经典回归谱。对二维无关联四次振子系统的量子回归谱和经典回归谱进行比较，量子和经典回归谱中的峰(显示了能级之间存在着长程关联)的位置大致一定验证了Berry-Tabor求迹公式的有效性。从可积系统的Be：rry-Tabor公式出发，导出了二维可积系统周期轨道作用量量子化条件，考虑有理环面上周期轨道必须满足的周期性条件，找到了量子能级与经典周期轨道之间的对应关系．这一对应关系表明，二维无关联振子系统的一组能级与一组周期轨道之间存在着一一对应关系。这组能级对应的周期轨道具有相同的拓扑，但每条周期轨道对应的系统能量等于它所对应的量子能级。进一步的，我们用二维无关联振子系统的量子经典对应关系去分析量子能谱中的长程关联。分析表明，当二维无关联振子系统回归函数中的作用量取某一系统能量下某一周期轨道的作用量的值时，那些与这一周期轨道拓扑相同的周期轨道对应的量子能级对回归函数的贡献相干。这些具有相同拓扑的周期轨道对应的量子能级间存在着长程关联。

Calculation of the multimode Franck-Condon factors based on the coherent state method

The equivalence of two ways for the calculation of overlap integrals, i.e. the Sharp Rosenstock generating function method and the Doktorov coherent state method, has been proved. On the basis of the generating function of the overlap integrals, a new closed form expression for the Franck - Condon integrals for overlap multidimensional harmonic oscillators has been exactly derived. In addition, some useful analytical expressions for the calculations of the multimode Franck - Condon factors have been given.