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Photonics, Volume 12, Issue 12

December 2025 - 99 articles

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Articles (99)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
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18 December 2025

High-resolution optical sensing typically relies on complex, high-finesse interferometers, limiting the scalability and cost-effectiveness of extreme-precision metrology. We propose a simple, compact alternative: a metallic-boundary waveguide contain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
369 Views
18 Pages

High-Efficiency, High-Power Designs for ~10 μm-Emitting Quantum Cascade Lasers

  • Huilong Gao,
  • Suraj Suri,
  • Morgan Turville-Heitz,
  • Jeremy D. Kirch,
  • Luke J. Mawst,
  • Robert A. Marsland and
  • Dan Botez

18 December 2025

By employing graded-interfaces modeling, ~10 μm-emitting quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are designed with previously found conditions for record-high wall-plug efficiency (WPE) operation of mid-infrared QCLs: direct resonant-tunneling injection fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
398 Views
17 Pages

18 December 2025

Freeform surfaces play a critical role in complex light-field modulation. However, traditional geometric mapping and standard optimization methods are limited by computational cost and convergence instability in large-scale ray tracing and complex su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
299 Views
17 Pages

Real-Time Detection of Dynamic Targets in Dynamic Scattering Media

  • Ying Jin,
  • Wenbo Zhao,
  • Siyu Guo,
  • Jiakuan Zhang,
  • Lixun Ye,
  • Chen Nie,
  • Yiyang Zhu,
  • Hongfei Yu,
  • Cangtao Zhou and
  • Wanjun Dai

18 December 2025

In dynamic scattering media (such as rain, fog, biological tissues, etc.) environments, scattered light causes severe degradation of target images, directly leading to a sudden drop in the detection confidence of target detection models and a signifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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14 Pages

18 December 2025

We investigate a non-Hermitian two-spin XY model driven by alternating real and imaginary transverse fields and derive an explicit analytic formula for the ground-state entanglement negativity. This provides a systematic analytic characterization of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
419 Views
18 Pages

An Ultra-Sensitive Bimetallic-Coated PCF-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor for Waterborne Pathogen Detection

  • Ariful Hasan,
  • Anik Chowdhury,
  • Abrar Adib,
  • Devjyoti Das,
  • A. H. M. Iftekharul Ferdous,
  • Abu Farzan Mitul,
  • Jobaida Akhtar and
  • Mohammad Istiaque Reja

18 December 2025

This study presents an ultra-sensitive dual-core photonic crystal fiber-based surface plasmon resonance (PCF-SPR) sensor for the detection of waterborne pathogens through refractive index (RI) variation. The proposed sensor integrates a bimetallic co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
302 Views
16 Pages

18 December 2025

We propose a compact, beaconless inter-satellite laser communication tracking system based on direct fiber control to address the complexity and resource demands of conventional pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) architectures. Unlike traditio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
404 Views
14 Pages

Flexible Design of Polarization-Insensitive Metasurface Lens Based on the Equal-Phase Method

  • Xi Xu,
  • Zibo Lu,
  • Shun Zhou,
  • Yuejun Huang,
  • Changda Zhou and
  • Qi Zhang

18 December 2025

We introduce an equal-phase method to design the polarization-insensitive metasurface lens, composed of subwavelength nano-holes etched into a silver film. By calculating the intensity distribution under linearly, circularly, and elliptically polariz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
285 Views
10 Pages

State Space Expansion with Nonlinear Transformation and Upsampling in Experimental Reservoir Computing

  • Anton Kovalev,
  • Evgeniy Popov,
  • Gleb Danilenko,
  • Vladimir Vitkin and
  • Evgeny Viktorov

17 December 2025

The reservoir computing approach based on a semiconductor laser with optoelectronic time-delay feedback is distinguished by its simplicity, speed, and reliability. However, the response of the reservoir to the input signal in this configuration is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
289 Views
12 Pages

A Long-Period Grating Based on Double-Clad Fiber for Multi-Parameter Sensing

  • Wenchao Li,
  • Hongye Wang,
  • Xinyan Ze,
  • Shuqin Wang,
  • Xiangwei Hao,
  • Yan Bai,
  • Shuanglong Cui,
  • Jian Xing and
  • Xuelan He

17 December 2025

This paper proposes a long-period grating (LPG) based on double-clad fibers (DCFs) for multi-parameter sensing. The sensor consists of cascaded-input single-mode fibers (SMF), DCF, and output SMF. Multi-parameter detection is realized by utilizing th...

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