A comprehensive study has been conducted on quantum dot reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD-RSOAs) with optical pumps (OPs). Moreover, few studies have been completed on OP-based QD-RSOAs. A comparison is made between them and QD-RSOAs wi...
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) offer a unique opportunity to overcome the diffraction limit of light. However, this opportunity comes at the cost of the strong absorption of the SPP field in a metal, which unavoidably limits the SPP propagation le...
Atomic state preparation can benefit from a compact and uniform magnetic field source. Simulations and experimental measurements have been used to design, build, and test such a source and then apply it to the optical pumping of atomic helium. This s...
Based on the conjugated complex PVK: Ir(ppy)3, a green-emitting organic quasicrystal microcavity laser is demonstrated driven by optical pumping. The organic laser adopts a sandwich structure of DBR/organic gain membrane/output Ag-layer for the verti...
We describe an all-optical method to achieve—prior to further advanced processing steps—a perfect match of the relevant wavelength-sensitive parameters of an InGaN/GaN semiconductor distributed feedback laser. Instead of permanently etchi...
Accurate knowledge of the rubidium (Rb) vapor density,
Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) provide a non-cryogenic alternative to superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) for detecting weak biomagnetic fields. We report the design, construction, and characterization of a single-cell intrin...
Optically pumped gradiometers have long been utilized in measurement in the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF). With advancements in technologies such as laser diodes and microfabrication, integrated gradiometers with compact sizes have...
The configuration designs of the laser diode (LD) side-pumping laser rods focus on how to solve the space conflict between the pump and heat-removal devices because both want to use the larger lateral surface of the laser rod. The conflict is better...
We present an optically pumped magnetometer working in a new operational mode—the light-shift dispersed Mz (LSD-Mz) mode. It is realized combining various features; (1) high power off-resonant optical pumping; (2) Mz configuration, where pumping ligh...
Space-division multiplexing (SDM) attracts attention to cladding-pumped optical amplifiers, but they suffer from a low pump power conversion efficiency. To address this issue, ytterbium (Yb3+) and erbium (Er3+) co-doping is considered as an effective...
We investigate theoretically the optical response of a zinc–phthalocyanine molecular quantum system near a gold spherical nanoparticle with a radius of 80 nm. The quantum system is irradiated by a strong pump and a weak probe coherent electroma...
In the present work, we investigate the modified nonlinear pump-probe optical properties due to the excitonic–plasmonic interaction of a double semiconductor quantum dot (SQD) molecule coupled to a metal nanoparticle (MNP). More specifically, w...
In order to solve the problem that the cesium optical pump magnetometer is disturbed by the carrier’s interference magnetic field during magnetic field anomaly detection, an interference magnetic field compensation method based on an improved m...
High-precision magnetometers play a crucial role in ocean exploration, geophysical prospecting, and military and security applications. Installing them on human-occupied vehicle (HOV) platforms can greatly enhance ocean exploration capabilities and e...
For biomagnetical applications exploiting physical properties of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP), e.g., magnetic hyperthermia, knowledge about the quantitative spatial MNP distribution is crucial, which can be extracted by magnetorelaxometry (MRX) imagi...
A free-induction-decay (FID) type optically-pumped rubidium atomic magnetometer driven by a radio-frequency (RF) magnetic field is presented in this paper. Influences of parameters, such as the temperature of rubidium vapor cell, the power of pump be...
Ever-increasing demands to improve fuel burn efficiency of aero gas turbines lead to rises in fuel system pressures and temperatures, posing challenges for the structural integrity of the pump housing and creating internal deflections that can advers...
This paper analyzes the noise sources in photoelectric detection circuits with several low-noise operational amplifiers cores. The fabricated circuits are low-noise pre-amplifiers that are used for optically pumped magnetometers. In the proposed circ...
In mobile applications such as geomagnetic surveying, two major effects hamper the use of optically pumped magnetometers: dead zones, sensor orientations where the sensors signal amplitude drops; and heading errors, a dependence of the measured magne...
Diamond is a promising material for terahertz applications. In this work, we use a non-invasive optical pump–terahertz probe method to experimentally study the photoinduced carrier dynamics in doped diamond monocrystals and a new diamond-silico...
n-type doped Ge quantum wells with SiGe barriers represent a promising heterostructure system for the development of radiation emitters in the terahertz range such as electrically pumped quantum cascade lasers and optically pumped quantum fountain la...
Phase transformations induced by short optical pulses are mainstream in studies on the dynamics of cooperative electronic states. We present a semiphenomenological modeling of spatiotemporal effects expected when optical excitons are intricate with t...
We present an analytical calculation of temporal evolution of populations for optically pumped atoms under the influence of weak, circularly polarized light. The differential equations for the populations of magnetic sublevels in the excited state, d...
Uniaxial fatigue testing of micro-mechanical metallic specimens can provide valuable insight into damage formation. Magnetic and piezomagnetic testing are commonly used for qualitative characterization of damage in ferromagnetic specimens. Sensitive...
The time dynamics of nonequilibrium charge carrier relaxation processes in SI GaAs:EL2 (semi-insulating gallium arsenide compensated with EL2 centers) and HR GaAs:Cr (high-resistive gallium arsenide compensated with chromium) were studied by the opti...
Magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) offer a large variety of promising applications in medicine thanks to their exciting physical properties, e.g., magnetic hyperthermia and magnetic drug targeting. For these applications, it is crucial to quantify the amou...
We report, for the first time, the generation of a 1173 nm acousto-optic Q-switched self-Raman vortex laser with an axicon-based annular pump system. A 20 mm long Nd:GdVO4 crystal was used as the self-Raman crystal. Both the fundamental field and the...
Optically pumped alkali atomic magnetometers based on measuring the Zeeman shifts of the atomic energy levels are widely used in many applications because of their low noise and cryogen-free operation. When alkali atomic magnetometers are operated in...
In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the position, orientation, and gain of a magnetic field sensor using a set of (large) electromagnetic coils. We apply the method for calibrating an array of optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) for magn...
Fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG) has proven to be an important tool for the prenatal monitoring of electrical cardiac activity; however, the high cost of superconducting quantum instrumentation (SQUID) poses a limitation for the dissemination of fMCG...
In this study distributed fiber optic sensing has been used to measure strain along a vertical well of a depth of 300 m during a pumping test. The observed strain data has been used in geomechanical simulation, in which a combined analytical and nume...
Magnetography with superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) sensor arrays is a well-established technique for measuring subtle magnetic fields generated by physiological phenomena in the human body. Unfortunately, the SQUID-based systems h...
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a vital tool for understanding neural dynamics, offering a noninvasive technique for measuring subtle magnetic field variations around the scalp generated by synchronized neuronal activity. Two prominent sensor technol...
Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) are new, room-temperature alternatives to superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) for measuring the brain’s magnetic fields. The most used OPM in MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (MEG) are based on alka...
With the gradual maturation of optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) technology, the use of OPMs to acquire weak magnetocardiography (MCG) signals has started to gain widespread application. Due to the complexity of magnetic environments, MCG signals a...
Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) can capture brain activity but are susceptible to magnetic noise. The objective of this study was to evaluate a novel methodology used to reduce magnetic noise in OPM measurements. A portable magnetoencephalograp...
This communication shows the recipe for plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) Al2O3 ultra-thin films with thicknesses below 40 nm. Al2O3 ultra-thin films were deposited by PEALD to improve the rubidium optically pumped atomic magnetometers&...
We report the development of a high-power, cost-effective, and rapidly tunable laser system optimized for rubidium optical pumping in spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) applications. The system combines a spectrally narrowed diode laser bar with a...
A comprehensive study has been conducted on ultra-broadband optically pumped quantum dot (QD) reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD-RSOAs). Furthermore, little work has been done on broadband QD-RSOAs with an optical pump. About 1 μm opt...
Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) Schottky technology stands out for its superior performance in terms of conversion loss for terahertz mixers at room temperatures, which establishes it as a dominant solution in receivers for high-data-rate wireless communicat...
We report on a mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser delivering highly-chirped pulses with several tens of nanojoules of energy around 1560 nm and its exploitation to efficiently pump a fiber optical parametric oscillator (FOPO), thus enabling picosec...
High-average-power narrow-linewidth tunable solid-state lasers in the wavelength region between 2 and 3 μm are attractive light sources for many applications. This paper reports a narrow-linewidth widely tunable laser system based on the polycryst...
The spectral characteristics of pump laser diodes (LDs) introduce significant ambiguity into the performance evaluation of high-power ytterbium-doped fiber lasers (YDFLs), obscuring their intrinsic efficiency and hindering reliable system design. Her...
The design and fabrication of a integrated symmetric directional coupler dependent o the pumping power and operating at a 1534 nm wavelength is reported. The twin-core waveguide was inscribed into Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped phosphate glass by a femtosecond l...
Due to the important application in the study of vibrational circular dichroism and helical dichroism of chiral molecules, the tunable vortex beam at mid-infrared region has attracted increasing attention. Based on orbital angular momentum (OAM) cons...
Silicon-based on-chip light sources are important since they can provide a compact solution for various applications in the field of high-speed optical communications, high-precision sensing, quantum information processing, and so on. We review the p...
We establish a general, device-oriented procedure to extract absolute pump-band metrics from room-temperature UV–Vis (ultraviolet–visible) absorbance—including the absorption coefficient α(λ), per-active-ion cross-secti...
The generation of a quadratic soliton in a pulse-pumped microresonator has attracted significant interest in recent years. The strong second-order nonlinearity and high peak power of pumps offer a straightforward way to increase efficiency. In this c...
Halide perovskites are widely used as components of electronic and optoelectronic devices such as solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), optically pumped lasers, field-effect transistors, photodetectors, and
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