The optical feedback tolerance (OFT) of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser was investigated experimentally. The static and modulation performance of the DBR laser under optical feedback was examined by evaluating its relative intensity noise (...
Operation of a polarization interferometer for measurement of the wavelength changes of a tunable semiconductor laser was investigated. A λ/8 waveplate made from liquid crystalline polymer is placed in one of interferometers’ arms in order to generat...
Optical excitation of mechanical resonators has long been a research interest, since it has great applications in the physical and engineering field. Previous optomechanical methods rely on the wavelength-dependent, optical anti-damping effects, with...
A novel high-speed directly modulated two-section distributed-feedback (TS-DFB) semiconductor laser based on the detuned-loading effect is proposed and simulated. A grating structure is designed by the reconstruction-equivalent-chirp (REC) technique....
Stabilization of silicon micro-resonators is a key requirement for their inclusion in larger photonic integrated circuits. In particular, thermal refractive index shift in non-linear applications can detune devices from their optimal working point. A...
In recent years, the achievement of the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect based on the guided-mode resonance (GMR) effect has attracted extensive attention. However, few works have achieved a double EIT-like effect using this meth...
InP-based InGaAs/GaAsSb ‘W’-type quantum well (QW) photonic-crystal (PC) surface- emitting lasers (SELs) of 2.2 μm wavelength range are fabricated and room-temperature lasing emissions by optical pumping are demonstrated for the first...
In this study, a scheme for generating tunable microwave frequency combs (MFCs) based on optical mutual injection is proposed and experimentally investigated. The scheme is based on the optical injection of lasers to generate MFCs, and constitutes a...
Collective atomic recoil lasing (CARL) is a process during which an ensemble of cold atoms, driven by a far-detuned laser beam, spontaneously organize themselves in periodic structures on the scale of the optical wavelength. The principle was envisag...
Quantum-dot (QD) photonic-crystal (PC) surface-emitting laser (SEL) devices with bottom distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) were fabricated based on vertical-cavity SEL structure with top DBR completely removed. Two-dimensional (2D) PCs were deeply etc...
The double resonance phenomenon of EIT is studied through the ladder three-level Rydberg system. A probe laser with the wavelength
In this paper, the magic wavelength of the 87Sr optical lattice clock is determined by a method that bypasses the need for lattice trap depth modulation. Instead, it relies on an additional AC Stark shift generated by a dipole beam operating nea...
We demonstrate polarization-independent simultaneous all-optical phase-preserving amplitude regeneration and wavelength conversion of NRZ differential phase shift keying (DPSK) data by four-wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)...
Actively mode-locked fiber ring lasers (AMLLs) with loss modulators are used to generate approximately
A novel type of multichannel and multistate all-optical switch using a single sample-grating quantum-dot-distributed feedback semiconductor optical amplifier has been proposed and theoretically demonstrated. The multichannel device, which operates be...
A magic optical dipole trap (ODT) can confine atoms in the ground state and a highly excited state with the same light shifts, resulting in a long-range coherent lifetime between them, which plays an important role in high-fidelity quantum logic gate...
In atomic physics experiments, a frequency-stabilized or ‘locked’ laser source is commonly required. Many established techniques are available for locking close to an atomic resonance. However, in many instances, such as atomic magnetomet...
All-silicon microring resonator photodiodes are attractive for silicon photonics integrated circuits due to their compactness, wavelength division multiplexing ability, and the absence of germanium growth. To analyze and evaluate the performance of t...
The optical Vernier effect has been widely studied due to its remarkable effect in improving the sensitivity and resolution of optical sensors. This effect relies on the overlapping envelope of two signals with slightly detuned frequencies. In the ap...
An all-diode laser-based master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) configuration for the generation of ns-pulses with high peak power, stable wavelength and small spectral line width is presented. The MOPA emits alternating at two wavelengths in the s...
While generating high harmonics in long media of helium gas, at certain laser intensities and chirp, the spectral shift and split of the harmonic lines were experimentally observed, sometimes exceeding one harmonic order. Beyond reporting these resul...
The existence of an anisotropic tensor part of atomic states with an angular momentum greater than 1/2 causes their dynamic polarizabilities to be very sensitive to the polarization direction of the laser field. Therefore, the magic wavelength of the...
Nonlinear absorption (NLA) in silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) is strongly affected by plasmonic field enhancement. However, its wavelength- and energy-dependent evolution on the red side of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) band remains insufficientl...
Optical frequency comb synthesizers with a wide spectral range are an essential tool for many research areas such as spectroscopy, precision metrology, optical communication, and sensing. Recent studies have demonstrated the direct generation of freq...
Holographic volume phase gratings are recorded in an epoxy-based, free-surface, volume holographic recording material. Light-induced gratings are formed by photo-triggered mass migration caused by component diffusion. The material resolution enables...
We theoretically investigate the optical bistability in superconductor–semiconductor photonic crystals composed of graphene. The photonic crystals are symmetric to the center and arranged alternately by the superconductor (HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ...
In this paper, a novel approach to achieving a wideband tunable dual-passband microwave photonic filter (MPF) is proposed based on optical-injected distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor lasers and a dual-output Mach–Zehnder modulator (DOMZM)...
Due to the ability of optical modulators to achieve rapid modulation of optical signals, meeting the demands of high-speed data transmission, modulators based on different novel nanomaterials have become one of the research hotspots over the past dac...
Spectra of the small Fabry–Perot interferometer (FPI) of the size of the order of the wavelength, with the main mode excited by a quantum field from a nano–LED or a laser, are investigated. The input field is detuned from the FPI mode wit...
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...
To achieve the rapid and accurate classification and identification of soybean components, this study selected soybeans harvested by the 4LZ-1.5 soybean combine harvester as the research subject. Hyperspectral images of soybean samples were collected...
Bilirubin is an important biomarker, where a small unbound fraction dissociated from albumin can cross the blood–brain barrier and induce neurotoxicity, such as kernicterus, at low nanomolar levels. Accurate detection of this low-level fraction...
The development and investigation of miniature narrow-line coherent light sources based on microresonators with low-power-consumption whispering gallery modes (WGMs) is an actual trend in modern photonics. Raman WGM microlasers can operate at wavelen...
Fiber optic parametric and phase sensitive amplifiers (PSA) are interesting for modern day communication technologies due to their low noise and high gain amplification properties with a potential for all optical signal processing and wide band opera...
In this study, we present a thermal-aware design of a compact hybrid plasmonic grating (HPG) TE-pass polarizer on X-cut lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) for fiber-optic gyroscopes (FOGs). In a three-dimensional simulation, the optimization of the...