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Photonics, Volume 7, Issue 2

2020 June - 22 articles

Cover Story: A new conceptual platform for nonreciprocal space wave manipulation with unitary efficiency beyond the limits dictated by Lorentz reciprocity is introduced. The proposed concept is based on nonreciprocal metagratings composed of stationary bianisotropic inclusions synthesizing real moving media. As an example of nonreciprocal wave manipulation, the figure shows nonreciprocal circulation for space waves. The proposed platform does not require continuous profile of spatiotemporal modulation, but it simply consists of a periodic array of identical bianisotropic inclusions. In the proposed concept, there is no fundamental limit on conversion efficiency and no up- or downconversion of frequency happens. The period in the array is comparable to the wavelength, avoiding severe challenges to translate these concepts to higher frequencies. View this paper.
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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,993 Views
23 Pages

End-to-End Real-Time Demonstration of the Slotted, SDN-Controlled NEPHELE Optical Datacenter Network

  • Konstantinos Tokas,
  • Giannis Patronas,
  • Christos Spatharakis,
  • Paraskevas Bakopoulos,
  • Angelos Kyriakos,
  • Giada Landi,
  • Eitan Zahavi,
  • Kostas Christodoulopoulos,
  • Muzzamil Aziz and
  • Hercules Avramopoulos
  • + 4 authors

The NEPHELE hybrid electro-optical datacenter network (DCN) architecture is proposed as a dynamic network solution to provide high capacity, scalability, and cost efficiency in comparison to the existing DCN infrastructures. The details of the NEPHEL...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,781 Views
15 Pages

Scattering Properties of PT-Symmetric Chiral Metamaterials

  • Ioannis Katsantonis,
  • Sotiris Droulias,
  • Costas M. Soukoulis,
  • Eleftherios N. Economou and
  • Maria Kafesaki

The combination of gain and loss in optical systems that respect parity–time (PT)-symmetry has pointed recently to a variety of novel optical phenomena and possibilities. Many of them can be realized by combining the PT-symmetry concepts with metamat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,051 Views
8 Pages

A Novel Microalgae Harvesting Method Using Laser Micromachined Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers

  • Konstantina Tourlouki,
  • Vasiliki Tsavatopoulou,
  • Dimitris Alexandropoulos,
  • Ioannis D. Manariotis and
  • Simone Mazzucato

Microalgae are an ideal source for next-generation biofuels due to their high photosynthetic rate. However, a key process limitation in microalgal biofuel production is harvesting of biomass and extraction of lipids in a cost-effective manner. The ha...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,831 Views
4 Pages

With the advent of integrated photonics, a crucial role is played by semiconductor diode lasers (SDLs) as coherent light sources. Old paradigms of semiconductor laser dynamics, like optical injection, external feedback and the coupling of lasers, reg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semiconductor Laser Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,512 Views
13 Pages

Recent Advances in Integrated Photonic Jet-Based Photonics

  • Igor V. Minin,
  • Cheng-Yang Liu,
  • Yury E. Geints and
  • Oleg V. Minin

The study of accelerating Airy-family beams has made significant progress, not only in terms of numerical and experimental investigations, but also in conjunction with many potential applications. However, the curvature of such beams (and hence their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,903 Views
10 Pages

Size Dependence of the Resonant Third-Order Nonlinear Refraction of Colloidal PbS Quantum Dots

  • Ivan D. Skurlov,
  • Evgeniia A. Ponomareva,
  • Azat O. Ismagilov,
  • Sergey E. Putilin,
  • Ilia A. Vovk,
  • Anastasiia V. Sokolova,
  • Anton N. Tcypkin and
  • Aleksandr P. Litvin

Due to their high resonant third-order nonlinear response, lead sulfide quantum dots (QDs) are potential materials for applications in the field of nonlinear optics. In this paper, we implement the Z-scan method to study the resonant nonlinear respon...

(This article belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,174 Views
6 Pages

The dependence of the terahertz energy generated by two-color femtosecond ionizing pulses on intensities of both one-color components is studied. The numerical calculations are supported with analytical formulas which help to reveal the nature of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,887 Views
14 Pages

Statistical Characteristics of a Twisted Anisotropic Gaussian Schell-Model Beam in Turbulent Ocean

  • Yonglei Liu,
  • Yuefeng Zhao,
  • Xianlong Liu,
  • Chunhao Liang,
  • Lin Liu,
  • Fei Wang and
  • Yangjian Cai

The analytical expression of the cross-spectral density function of a twisted anisotropic Gaussian Schell-model (TAGSM) beam transmitting in turbulent ocean is derived by applying a tensor method. The statistical properties, including spectral densit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in the Study of Light Propagation in Optical Fibers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,089 Views
16 Pages

New Solutions of Laser-Induced Fluorescence for Oil Pollution Monitoring at Sea

  • Oleg Bukin,
  • Dmitry Proschenko,
  • Chekhlenok Alexey,
  • Denis Korovetskiy,
  • Ilya Bukin,
  • Viktoria Yurchik,
  • Irina Sokolova and
  • Andrey Nadezhkin

Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectral features for oil products of different states (solutions in the seawater and thin slicks) are discussed in this article. This research was done to evaluate LIF application for the identification of oil produc...

(This article belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,828 Views
8 Pages

Free Electron Laser Measurement of Liquid Carbon Reflectivity in the Extreme Ultraviolet

  • Sumana L. Raj,
  • Shane W. Devlin,
  • Riccardo Mincigrucci,
  • Craig P. Schwartz,
  • Emiliano Principi,
  • Filippo Bencivenga,
  • Laura Foglia,
  • Alessandro Gessini,
  • Alberto Simoncig and
  • Richard J. Saykally
  • + 2 authors

Ultrafast time-resolved extreme ultraviolet (EUV) reflectivity measurements of optically pumped amorphous carbon (a-C) have been performed with the FERMI free electron laser (FEL). This work extends the energy range used in previous reflectivity stud...

(This article belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,010 Views
10 Pages

Wave Front Tuning of Coupled Hyperbolic Surface Waves on Anisotropic Interfaces

  • Taavi Repän,
  • Osamu Takayama and
  • Andrei V. Lavrinenko

A photonic surface wave, a propagating optical mode localized at the interface of two media, can play a significant role in controlling the flow of light at nanoscale. Among various types of such waves, surface waves with hyperbolic dispersion or sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,017 Views
11 Pages

Liquid-Filled Highly Asymmetric Photonic Crystal Fiber Sagnac Interferometer Temperature Sensor

  • Yashar E. Monfared,
  • Amir Ahmadian,
  • Vigneswaran Dhasarathan and
  • Chunhao Liang

In this paper, we theoretically designed and numerically studied a high-resolution and ultrasensitive photonic crystal fiber temperature sensor by selective filling of a liquid with high thermo-optic coefficient in one of the airholes of the fiber. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Fiber Interferometric Sensors: New Production Methodologies and Novel Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,131 Views
11 Pages

The paper describes a Raman-laser system with high performance for an absolute gravimeter that was based on 87Rb atom interferometer. As our gravimeter is a part of the standard acceleration of gravity of China, the Raman lasers’ characteristic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,544 Views
7 Pages

Research of Constructive and Technological Methods for Forming a Silicon Disk Resonator with Whispering Gallery Modes

  • Anastasia Yakuhina,
  • Alexey Kadochkin,
  • Vladimir Amelichev,
  • Dmitry Gorelov and
  • Sergey Generalov

This article presents the results of a computer simulation of whispering gallery modes in the structure of a silicon disk resonator with a wedge-shaped profile made on a silicon-on-isolator base (SOI). The rationale for the choice of silicon as a mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,317 Views
16 Pages

Image Processing for Laser Imaging Using Adaptive Homomorphic Filtering and Total Variation

  • Youchen Fan,
  • Laixian Zhang,
  • Huichao Guo,
  • Hongxing Hao and
  • Kechang Qian

Laser active imaging technology has important practical value and broad application prospects in military fields such as target detection, radar reconnaissance, and precise guidance. However, factors such as uneven laser illuminance, atmospheric back...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,390 Views
7 Pages

We introduce a metasurface platform for nonreciprocal wave manipulation. We study metagratings composed of nonreciprocal bianisotropic particles supporting synthetic motion, which enable nonreciprocal energy transfer between tailored Floquet channels...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,106 Views
19 Pages

We study the transmission of electromagnetic waves through layered structures of metallic and left-handed media. Resonant band structures of transmission coefficients are obtained as functions of the incidence angle, the geometric parameters, and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,115 Views
8 Pages

Generation of over 1000 Diffraction Spots from 2D Graded Photonic Super-Crystals

  • Safaa Hassan,
  • Yan Jiang,
  • Khadijah Alnasser,
  • Noah Hurley,
  • Hualiang Zhang,
  • Usha Philipose and
  • Yuankun Lin

For the first time, we are able to generate over 1000 diffraction spots from a graded photonic super-crystal with a unit super-cell size of 12a × 12a where a is the lattice constant and hole radii are gradually changed in dual directions. The diffrac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optical Materials and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,620 Views
12 Pages

An optical 90° hybrid based on an InGaAsP/InP deep-ridged 4 × 4 multimode interference (MMI) coupler is proposed and fabricated. Manufacturing tolerances on structural parameters of the 90° hybrid including multimode waveguide width and...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,832 Views
15 Pages

We numerically studied the chaotic dynamics of a laser diode (LD) system with optical injection, where a chaotic signal, which is generated by an LD with optical feedback, is applied to the drive current of the master LD. To quantify the orbital inst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semiconductor Laser Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,867 Views
11 Pages

Collective Lattice Resonances in All-Dielectric Nanostructures under Oblique Incidence

  • Anton D. Utyushev,
  • Vadim I. Zakomirnyi,
  • Alexander E. Ershov,
  • Valeriy S. Gerasimov,
  • Sergey V. Karpov and
  • Ilia L. Rasskazov

Collective lattice resonances (CLRs) emerging under oblique incidence in 2D finite-size arrays of Si nanospheres have been studied with the coupled dipole model. We show that hybridization between the Mie resonances localized on a single nanoparticle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,577 Views
11 Pages

Geometry Tailoring of Emission from Semiconductor Nanowires and Nanocones

  • Nicklas Anttu,
  • Henrik Mäntynen,
  • Anastasiia Sorokina,
  • Pyry Kivisaari,
  • Toufik Sadi and
  • Harri Lipsanen

Semiconductor nanowires are of interest as light emitters in applications such as light-emitting diodes and single-photon sources. Due to the three-dimensional geometry in combination with a size comparable to the wavelength of the emitted light, nan...

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