We propose a tunable acoustic metasurface using a nested structure as the microunit, which is constituted by two distinct resonators. Thanks to the coupling resonance for the microunit and by simply adjusting the rotation angle of the inner split cav...
We demonstrate a dual-wavelength broad-area diode laser system with narrow linewidth and wide spectral tunability using a composite external cavity comprising a volume Bragg grating and a Littrow-type transmission grating. One wavelength is stabilize...
A series of lead-free Rb2ZrCl6:xTe4+ (x = 0%, 0.1%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 2.0%, 3.0%, 5.0%, 10.0%) perovskite materials were synthesized through a hydrothermal method in this work. The substitution of Te4+ for Zr in Rb2ZrCl6 was investigated to examine the eff...
To keep pace with the demands of modern photonic integration technology, the electro-optic modulator should feature multi-parameter tunable components and a compact size. Here, we propose a hybrid structure that can modulate the multi-parameters of s...
In order to resolve spectral alias due to under sampling in traditional stationary-wave integrated Fourier transform (SWIFT) spectrometers, an all-on-chip waveguide based on dual tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) stationary-wave integrated Fo...
A photomixing-based frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) system is effective for future secure terahertz (THz) wireless communications. Conventional photomixing systems are typically composed of two lasers, which result in an increased system siz...
Nanocantilevers have become key components of nanomechanical sensors that exploit changes in their resonant frequencies or static deflection in response to the environment. It is necessary that they can operate at a given, but adjustable, resonant fr...
The transmission spectrum of a narrow-band interference filter is crucial and highly influenced by factors such as the temperature and angle, thus requiring precise and online measurements. The traditional method of measuring the transmission spectru...
Terahertz (THz) molecular fingerprint spectroscopy provides a powerful label-free tool for detecting trace-amount analytes. Introducing extra microstructures such as metasurfaces to confine the field energy is essential to improve the sensitivity. Ho...
We theoretically investigated a polyethylene-based rectangular and guided mode resonance (GMR) structure with a circular pattern by using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method in the terahertz region. As the refractive index of the grating...
The vast majority of gaseous chemical substances exhibit fundamental rovibrational absorption bands in the mid-infrared spectral region (2.5–25 μm), and the absorption of light by these fundamental bands provides a nearly universal means for...
Electric light has been widely adopted in numerous applications, including signage, display, and illumination. Enhancing its efficiency and quality has been the focal point until now. Long exposure to intensive blue-light-enriched white light is, how...
Artificial lighting is ubiquitous in modern society, with detrimental effects on sleep and health. The reason for this is that light is responsible not only for vision but also for non-visual functions, such as the regulation of the circadian system....
In this work, we investigated the luminous and melanopic efficiency of the radiation (LER/MER) performances of phosphor-converted LEDs (PC LEDs) with tunable spectral characteristics, namely peak wavelength, full width at half maximum (FWHM), and emi...
In this study, tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) combined with wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS) was used to develop a trace C2H2 sensor based on the principle of gas absorption spectroscopy. The core of this sensor is an int...
In this paper, we report a mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) dual-band photodetector capable of voltage-controllable detection band selection. The voltage-tunable dual-band photodetector is based on the multiple stacks of sub-mon...
Commercially available biomedical wearable sensors to measure tensile force/strain still struggle with miniaturization in terms of weight, size, and conformability. Flexible and epidermal electronic devices have been utilized in these applications to...
The ability to precisely obtain tunable spectrum of lead halide perovskite quantum dots (QDs) is very important for applications, such as in lighting and display. Herein, we report a microchannel reactor method for synthesis of CsPbBr3 QDs with tunab...
Ferroelectric varactors should have high tunability at low permittivity and a working electric field to obtain better impedance matching and stable tunability. In this work, (Ba0.91Ca0.09)(SnxZr0.2−xTi0.8)O3-2 mol% CuO-1 mol% Li2CO3 (abbreviate...
This paper proposes a novel sensing system based on a tunable delay line interferometer. The tunable delay line interferometer has been used to interpret strain, bringing us high accuracy as well as tunability. The shifted wavelength of the fiber Bra...
The variable noise spectrum for many actual application scenarios requires a sound absorber to adapt to this variation. An adjustable sound absorber of multiple parallel-connection Helmholtz resonators with tunable apertures (TA–MPCHRs) is prep...
Spectral tunable technology has to meet the requirements of strong robustness and wide spectral range. We propose a method for the transmission and manipulation of infrared topological photonic crystal valley states based on tunable refractive index...
In this paper, we propose a broadband absorption-controllable absorber based on nested nanostructure graphene and a narrowband frequency-tunable absorber utilizing gold-graphene hybrid structure in the terahertz regime. The numerical simulation resul...
In this paper, we propose a dual-mode frequency selective rasorber (FSR) with tunable transmission and absorption windows at the X-band, which shows a broad passband in each transmission window. The proposed tunable FSR consists of a lossy absorption...
We present a tunable terahertz (THz) metamaterial using an electric split-ring resonator (eSRR), which exhibits polarization-sensitive characteristics. The proposed eSRR is composed of double symmetrical semicircles and two central metal bars. By cha...
Tunable laser sources with a wide wavelength tuning range, mode-hop-free (MHF) operation, and high spectral purity are essential for applications such as high-resolution spectroscopy, coherent detection, and intelligent fiber sensing. In this paper,...
In this paper, a tunable dielectric metamaterial absorber with temperature-based vanadium dioxide (VO2) is proposed. In contrast to previous studies, both the metal phase of VO2 and the semiconductor phase are applied to manipulate the Mie resonant m...
A system comprising a gold nanoisland film (Au NIF) covered with a liquid crystal (LC) material is introduced. By applying a voltage across the LC bulk, we demonstrate that changes in the refractive-index and orientation significantly modified the hy...
As much of metamaterials’ properties originate from resonances, the novel characteristics displayed by acoustic metamaterials are a narrow bandwidth and high dispersive in nature. However, for practical applications, broadband is often a necess...
We give a theoretical study on the near field enhancement and far field spectrum of an adjacent graphene-wrapped sphere dimer with different radii. The Fano profile is found in the near field enhancement spectrum of such a symmetry-broken dimer syste...
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Metal halides with efficient, stable, and tunable white light emission are ideal for lighting applications, because their emission properties can be effectively optimized through rational doping and precise compositional engineering. However, the syn...
The realization of broad-wavelength tunability of the structural color in Double layered Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers (DCLCEs), along with good flexibility and processability, presents a significant challenge. This research introduces a faci...
Two-dimensional (2D) bismuth oxyhalides (BiOX) have attracted much attention as potential optoelectronic materials. To explore their application diversity, we herewith systematically investigate the tunable properties of 2D BiOX using first-principle...
Artificial intelligence used in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight control systems tends to leave UAV control systems without any radio communication emissions, whose signatures in an electromagnetic spectrum (ES) are widely used to detect UAVs. Th...
In this work, we investigate the role of an external electric field in modulating the spectrum and electronic structure behavior of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and its physical mechanisms. Through theoretical studies, it is found that the external...
In the literature, three-stage switching networks have been considered for nodes in elastic optical networks, where switches with spectrum conversion capability are placed in the first and third stages (wavelength–space–wavelength—W...
The limited occupied space and various noise spectrum requires an adjustable sound absorber with a smart structure and tunable sound absorption performance. The hexagonal acoustic metamaterial cell of the multiple parallel-connection resonators with...
A tunable microwave-pulse-generation scheme is proposed and demonstrated by employing an actively mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) based on a microwave photonic filter (MPF). The MPF mainly consists of a phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (...
The limited availability of powerful, tunable, and reliable mid-infrared sources has historically prevented their widespread adoption in spectroscopy applications, even if most greenhouse gases’ fundamental absorption lines are found in this re...
A wavelength band-pass filter with asymmetric dual circular ring resonators in a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure is proposed and numerically simulated. For the interaction of the local discrete state and the continuous spectrum caused by the s...
In recent decades, new nonlinear optical materials have been actively developed to create coherent tunable light sources in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) part of the spectrum used in a variety of scientific fields. In the present review, the main attenti...
Soft actuators are compliant material-based devices capable of producing large deformations upon external stimuli. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are a type of soft actuators that operate on voltage stimuli. Apart from soft robotics, these act...
The development of tunable optical filters in the mid-infrared (MIR) region is crucial for a variety of applications, including environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, and communication systems. This paper presents the design, fabrication, and...
There are two types of metasurfaces, reflect-array and transmit-array,—which are classified on the basis of structural features. In this paper, we design a transmit-array metasurface for y-polarized incidence which is characterized by having a...
Functional nanoporous materials are categorized as an important class of nanostructured materials because of their tunable porosity and pore geometry (size, shape, and distribution) and their unique chemical and physical properties as compared with o...
All-solid-state tunable lasers have been widely used in many fields including multi-photon microscopy, time-resolved photoluminescence, atomic physics, and so on owing to their broadband output spectrum range, good beam quality, and low noise. To cov...
This study presents a cost-effective Hybrid Metamaterial Absorber (HMA) featuring a simple circular-patterned cylindrical design, comprising an indium antimonide (InSb) resonator on a thin copper sheet. Through numerical simulations, we demonstrate t...
A novel vernier effect filter is designed utilizing two cascaded Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs). Integrating the filter into an erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL), the tunability of laser wavelength is achieved. Each MZI comprises two sequent...
To enable accurate evaluation of satellite laser communication terminals under solar outage interference, this paper presents the design and implementation of a solar radiation simulation system targeting the 1540–1560 nm communication band. Th...
Soft actuators are compliant material-based devices capable of producing large deformation upon external stimuli. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) are a type of soft actuator that operates on voltage stimuli. Apart from soft robotics, these actua...
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