Patents by Inventor Zhouming Feng

Zhouming Feng has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11862925
    Abstract: A tunable narrow-linewidth photo-generated microwave source based on polarization control includes a high-reflectivity fiber grating, a high-gain fiber, a low-reflectivity polarization-maintaining fiber grating, a stress adjusting device, a single-mode semiconductor pump laser, an optical wavelength division multiplexer, a polarization beam splitter, a polarization controller, an optical coupler, and a photoelectric detector. Birefringence distribution in the low-reflectivity polarization-maintaining fiber grating is controlled by adjusting a stress magnitude of the stress adjusting device to the low-reflectivity polarization fiber grating, thereby controlling a laser frequency working in different polarization modes in a resonant cavity, and a tunable narrow-linewidth photo-generated microwave source is generated by a beat-frequency technology using a dual-wavelength narrow-linewidth laser with variable frequency intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shanhui Xu, Qilai Zhao, Zhitao Zhang, Changsheng Yang, Zhouming Feng, Zhongmin Yang
  • Publication number: 20220216666
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multimode interference effect-based wide tunable single-frequency optical fiber laser device. The laser device comprises a high-reflectivity chirped optical fiber grating, a high-gain optical fiber, a low-reflectivity chirped optical fiber grating, a pump source, an optical circulator, an optical fiber etalon and an SMS optical fiber structure apparatus. The high-reflectivity chirped optical fiber grating, the high-gain optical fiber and the low-reflectivity chirped optical fiber grating are connected in sequence to form a short linear resonant cavity; the optical circulator, the optical fiber etalon and the SMS optical fiber structure apparatus form a ring cavity, a stress loader is fixed onto the SMS optical fiber structure apparatus, and a transmitting wavelength of the SMS optical fiber structure apparatus is changed and tunable filtering by the SMS optical fiber structure apparatus is realized by loading stress to the SMS optical fiber structure apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Changsheng YANG, Shanhui XU, Linhuan HUANG, Zhongmin YANG, Zhouming FENG
  • Publication number: 20220131329
    Abstract: The invention discloses a multi-wavelength and single-frequency Q-switching optical fiber laser device. The laser device comprises a saturable absorber, a high gain optical fiber, a polarization-maintaining multi-wavelength narrow-band fiber Bragg grating, a resonant cavity temperature control module, a polarization-maintaining wavelength division multiplexer, a pump source and a polarization-maintaining light isolator. By taking a highly doped phosphate optical fiber as a laser gain medium, two ends of the optical fiber device are connected with the saturable absorber and the polarization-maintaining multi-wavelength narrow-band fiber Bragg grating respectively to form a short linear laser cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shanhui XU, Kunyi LI, Changsheng YANG, Qilai ZHAO, Zhouming FENG, Zhongmin YANG
  • Publication number: 20210351558
    Abstract: A tunable narrow-linewidth photo-generated microwave source based on polarization control includes a high-reflectivity fiber grating, a high-gain fiber, a low-reflectivity polarization-maintaining fiber grating, a stress adjusting device, a single-mode semiconductor pump laser, an optical wavelength division multiplexer, a polarization beam splitter, a polarization controller, an optical coupler, and a photoelectric detector. Birefringence distribution in the low-reflectivity polarization-maintaining fiber grating is controlled by adjusting a stress magnitude of the stress adjusting device to the low-reflectivity polarization fiber grating, thereby controlling a laser frequency working in different polarization modes in a resonant cavity, and a tunable narrow-linewidth photo-generated microwave source is generated by a beat-frequency technology using a dual-wavelength narrow-linewidth laser with variable frequency intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shanhui XU, Qilai ZHAO, Zhitao ZHANG, Changsheng YANG, Zhouming FENG, Zhongmin YANG
  • Patent number: 10901247
    Abstract: The present invention provides a repetition frequency-tunable optical frequency comb generated by basis of optical feedback. The optical frequency comb comprises a single-frequency laser resonant cavity, a wavelength division multiplexer, a single-mode semiconductor pump light source, an optical circulator, a first optical fiber coupler, a second optical fiber coupler, a photoelectric detector, a highly-stable signal source, an error signal processing system, a laser frequency modulation device and a tunable laser-delay module. The present invention performs delay-time processing to the single-frequency laser by the tunable laser-delay module, and achieves an optical feedback by the optical circulator for injecting to the resonant cavity, generating a series of tunable laser longitudinal modes with equal frequency space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: South China University of Technology
    Inventors: Shanhui Xu, Qilai Zhao, Zhongmin Yang, Zhouming Feng, Changsheng Yang
  • Patent number: 10693274
    Abstract: A multi-wavelength single-frequency optical fiber laser source for a laser radar system includes a resonant cavity composed of a high-reflectivity chirped optical fiber grating, a high gain optical fiber and a low-reflectivity chirped optical fiber grating, a single-mode semiconductor pump laser served as a pump light source, an optical wavelength division multiplexer, an optical coupler, an optical isolator, an optical circulator, an optical filter module, and a semiconductor optical amplifier. The pump light source performs optical fiber core pumping with respect to the high gain optical fiber. A portion of the wide-spectrum laser is filtered by the optical filter module to obtain a wavelength corresponding to a specific central frequency. Multi-wavelength laser lasing with a narrow linewidth and single longitudinal mode is implemented by combining a short linear resonant cavity structure and the optical filter module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shanhui Xu, Zhongmin Yang, Yuning Zhang, Zhouming Feng, Changsheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20190310498
    Abstract: The present invention provides a repetition frequency-tunable optical frequency comb generated by basis of optical feedback. The optical frequency comb comprises a single-frequency laser resonant cavity, a wavelength division multiplexer, a single-mode semiconductor pump light source, an optical circulator, a first optical fiber coupler, a second optical fiber coupler, a photoelectric detector, a highly-stable signal source, an error signal processing system, a laser frequency modulation device and a tunable laser-delay module. The present invention performs delay-time processing to the single-frequency laser by the tunable laser-delay module, and achieves an optical feedback by the optical circulator for injecting to the resonant cavity, generating a series of tunable laser longitudinal modes with equal frequency space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Shanhui Xu, Qilai Zhao, Zhongmin Yang, Zhouming Feng, Changsheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20190252845
    Abstract: A multi-wavelength single-frequency optical fiber laser source for a laser radar system includes a resonant cavity composed of a high-reflectivity chirped optical fiber grating, a high gain optical fiber and a low-reflectivity chirped optical fiber grating, a single-mode semiconductor pump laser served as a pump light source, an optical wavelength division multiplexer, an optical coupler, an optical isolator, an optical circulator, an optical filter module, and a semiconductor optical amplifier. The pump light source performs optical fiber core pumping with respect to the high gain optical fiber. A portion of the wide-spectrum laser is filtered by the optical filter module to obtain a wavelength corresponding to a specific central frequency. Multi-wavelength laser lasing with a narrow linewidth and single longitudinal mode is implemented by combining a short linear resonant cavity structure and the optical filter module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shanhui XU, Zhongmin YANG, Yuning ZHANG, Zhouming FENG, Changsheng YANG
  • Patent number: 10003167
    Abstract: A width-tunable single-frequency fiber laser light source for coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system including a chirped fiber grating with high reflectivity, a high gain optical fiber, a chirped fiber grating with low reflectivity, a single-mode semiconductor pump laser, an optical wavelength division multiplexer, an optical coupler, an optical circulator, and a tunable optical filter module is provided. The chirped fiber grating with low reflectivity and the chirped fiber grating with high reflectivity together serve as a front cavity mirror and a back cavity mirror of a resonant cavity to realize laser oscillation. After a laser with broad spectrum output from the optical wavelength division multiplexer is split by the optical coupler, a part of the laser passes through the optical circulator to enter the tunable optical filter module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shanhui Xu, Zhongmin Yang, Yuanfei Zhang, Zhouming Feng, Changsheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20180097332
    Abstract: A width-tunable single-frequency fiber laser light source for coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system including a chirped fiber grating with high reflectivity, a high gain optical fiber, a chirped fiber grating with low reflectivity, a single-mode semiconductor pump laser, an optical wavelength division multiplexer, an optical coupler, an optical circulator, and a tunable optical filter module is provided. The chirped fiber grating with low reflectivity and the chirped fiber grating with high reflectivity together serve as a front cavity mirror and a back cavity mirror of a resonant cavity to realize laser oscillation. After a laser with broad spectrum output from the optical wavelength division multiplexer is split by the optical coupler, a part of the laser passes through the optical circulator to enter the tunable optical filter module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shanhui XU, Zhongmin YANG, Yuanfei ZHANG, Zhouming FENG, Changsheng YANG
  • Patent number: 9787050
    Abstract: A tunable narrow-linewidth single-frequency linear-polarization laser device comprising a heat sink, a pumping source packaged on the heat sink, a first and second collimating lenses, a laser back cavity mirror, a thermal optical tunable filter, a rare-earth-ion heavily-doped multicomponent glass optical fiber, a super-structure polarization-maintaining fiber grating, a polarization-maintaining optical isolator, a polarization-maintaining optical fiber, and a thermoelectric refrigerating machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: South China University of Technology
    Inventors: Shanhui Xu, Changsheng Yang, Zhongmin Yang, Zhouming Feng, Qinyuan Zhang, Zhonghong Jiang
  • Publication number: 20160261085
    Abstract: A tunable narrow-linewidth single-frequency linear-polarization laser device comprising a heat sink, a pumping source packaged on the heat sink, a first and second collimating lenses, a laser back cavity mirror, a thermal optical tunable filter, a rare-earth-ion heavily-doped multicomponent glass optical fiber, a super-structure polarization-maintaining fiber grating, a polarization-maintaining optical isolator, a polarization-maintaining optical fiber, and a thermoelectric refrigerating machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: South China University of Technology
    Inventors: Shanhui Xu, Changsheng Yang, Zhongmin Yang, Zhouming Feng, Qinyuan Zhang, Zhonghong Jiang