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Photonics, Volume 8, Issue 1

2021 January - 24 articles

Cover Story: Externally modulated DFB lasers (EML) and vertically illuminated photodetectors are presented and evaluated for intra-data center communication. Due to their excellent high-speed behavior and operation wavelength of 1310 nm, the chips are compatible with current systems and candidates for upgrading existing transceivers to higher baud rates. In order to demonstrate the capability of the EML and the photodetector chips for 100 GBaud transmission, an experiment is performed. Even without pre-distortion and DSP-post-compensation, the experiment clearly shows open eye diagrams and almost error-free transmission at 100 GBaud, confirming the potential for next-generation intra-data center communications. For later field use, even better performance with higher order PAM modulation is expected because the EML and photodetector chips will be hybrid integrated with drivers and TIAs. View this paper
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Articles (24)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,645 Views
8 Pages

19 January 2021

We present a giant sensitivity displacement sensor combining the push-pull method and enhanced Vernier effect. The displacement sensor consists in two interferometers that are composed by two cleaved standard optical fibers coupled by a 3 dB coupler...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,423 Views
20 Pages

Spiral Caustics of Vortex Beams

  • Viktor A. Soifer,
  • Sergey I. Kharitonov,
  • Svetlana N. Khonina,
  • Yurii S. Strelkov and
  • Alexey P. Porfirev

19 January 2021

We discuss the nonparaxial focusing of laser light into a three-dimensional (3D) spiral distribution. For calculating the tangential and normal components of the electromagnetic field on a preset curved surface we propose an asymptotic method, using...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,515 Views
30 Pages

Diagnosis of Glioma Molecular Markers by Terahertz Technologies

  • Olga Cherkasova,
  • Yan Peng,
  • Maria Konnikova,
  • Yuri Kistenev,
  • Chenjun Shi,
  • Denis Vrazhnov,
  • Oleg Shevelev,
  • Evgeny Zavjalov,
  • Sergei Kuznetsov and
  • Alexander Shkurinov

16 January 2021

This review considers glioma molecular markers in brain tissues and body fluids, shows the pathways of their formation, and describes traditional methods of analysis. The most important optical properties of glioma markers in the terahertz (THz) freq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,345 Views
15 Pages

Violation of Leggett–Garg Inequalities in a Kerr-Type Chaotic System

  • Joanna K. Kalaga,
  • Anna Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk,
  • Mateusz Nowotarski and
  • Wiesław Leoński

15 January 2021

We consider a quantum nonlinear Kerr-like oscillator externally pumped by a series of ultrashort coherent pulses to analyze the quantum time-correlations appearing while the system evolves. For that purpose, we examine the violation of the Leggett&nd...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,303 Views
15 Pages

Neural Network DPD for Aggrandizing SM-VCSEL-SSMF-Based Radio over Fiber Link Performance

  • Muhammad Usman Hadi,
  • Muhammad Awais,
  • Mohsin Raza,
  • Kiran Khurshid and
  • Hyun Jung

14 January 2021

This paper demonstrates an unprecedented novel neural network (NN)-based digital predistortion (DPD) solution to overcome the signal impairments and nonlinearities in Analog Optical fronthauls using radio over fiber (RoF) systems. DPD is realized wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,320 Views
8 Pages

Study of Phase Transition in MOCVD Grown Ga2O3 from κ to β Phase by Ex Situ and In Situ Annealing

  • Junhee Lee,
  • Honghyuk Kim,
  • Lakshay Gautam,
  • Kun He,
  • Xiaobing Hu,
  • Vinayak P. Dravid and
  • Manijeh Razeghi

13 January 2021

We report the post-growth thermal annealing and the subsequent phase transition of Ga2O3 grown on c-plane sapphire substrates by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). We demonstrated the post-growth thermal annealing at temperatures higher...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,038 Views
9 Pages

InP-Components for 100 GBaud Optical Data Center Communication

  • Patrick Runge,
  • Tobias Beckerwerth,
  • Ute Troppenz,
  • Marko Gruner,
  • Hendrik Boerma,
  • Martin Möhrle and
  • Martin Schell

13 January 2021

Externally modulated DFB lasers (EML) and vertically illuminated photodetectors are presented. Because of their excellent high-speed behavior and operation wavelength of 1310 nm, the devices are of interest for intra-data center communication. Since...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,182 Views
7 Pages

An Eye-Safe, SBS-Free Coherent Fiber Laser LIDAR Transmitter with Millijoule Energy and High Average Power

  • Mehmetcan Akbulut,
  • Leonid Kotov,
  • Kort Wiersma,
  • Jie Zong,
  • Maohe Li,
  • Andy Miller,
  • Arturo Chavez-Pirson and
  • Nasser Peyghambarian

12 January 2021

We report on an eye-safe, transform-limited, millijoule energy, and high average power fiber laser. The high gain and short length of the NP phosphate-glass fibers enable the SBS-free operation with kW level peak power. The output energy is up to 1.3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,400 Views
14 Pages

Design and Simulation of Photonic Crystal Fiber for Liquid Sensing

  • Abdul Mu’iz Maidi,
  • Izaddeen Yakasai,
  • Pg Emeroylariffion Abas,
  • Malik Muhammad Nauman,
  • Rosyzie Anna Apong,
  • Shubi Kaijage and
  • Feroza Begum

12 January 2021

A simple hexagonal lattice photonic crystal fiber model with liquid-infiltrated core for different liquids: water, ethanol and benzene, has been proposed. In the proposed structure, three air hole rings are present in the cladding and three equal siz...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,670 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2021

High speed photodetectors operating at a telecommunication band (from 1260 to 1625 nm) have been well studied with the development of an optical fiber communication system. Recent innovations of photonic systems have raised new requirements on the ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,800 Views
11 Pages

10 January 2021

Photoacoustic imaging is a promising medical imaging technique that provides excellent function imaging of an underlying biological tissue or organ. However, it is limited in providing structural information compared to other imaging modalities, such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,960 Views
13 Pages

Analysis of the Spatial Properties of Correlated Photon in Collinear Phase-Matching

  • Lin Yin,
  • Jianjun Li,
  • Wenchao Zhai,
  • Maopeng Xia,
  • Youbo Hu and
  • Xiaobing Zheng

In this paper, the spatial properties of correlated photon in collinear phase-matching in the process of spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) are researched. Based on the study of the phase-matching angle, non-collinear angle, and correlated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,012 Views
13 Pages

Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics Based on Spin-VCSELs with Optical Feedback

  • Tingting Song,
  • Yiyuan Xie,
  • Yichen Ye,
  • Bocheng Liu,
  • Junxiong Chai,
  • Xiao Jiang and
  • Yanli Zheng

In this paper, the nonlinear dynamics of a novel model based on optically pumped spin-polarized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (spin-VCSELs) with optical feedback is investigated numerically. Due to optical feedback being the external distur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,959 Views
12 Pages

Interconnecting networks adopting Fast Optical Switches (FOS) can achieve high bandwidth, low latency, and low power consumption. We propose and demonstrate a novel interconnecting topology based on FOS (FOSquare) with distributed fast flow control w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,029 Views
15 Pages

In this work, we propose to use four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) and multi-core fibers (MCFs) to support very high capacity datacenter interconnect (DCI) links. The limitations imposed by inter-core crosstalk (ICXT) on the performance of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,098 Views
13 Pages

31 December 2020

As a novel mode of indoor wireless communication, visible light communication (VLC) should consider the illumination functions besides the primary communication function. Dimming control is one of the most crucial illumination functions for VLC syste...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
3,151 Views
7 Pages

31 December 2020

We numerically demonstrate one-way zero reflection using the transfer matrix method. Using simulations, we adjusted the thickness of SiO2 layers in a simple SiO2-Au-SiO2 layer structure. We found two solutions, 47 nm-10 nm-32 nm and 71 nm-10 nm-60 nm...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,601 Views
25 Pages

MEMS Scanning Mirrors for Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Christophe Gorecki and
  • Sylwester Bargiel

30 December 2020

This contribution presents an overview of advances in scanning micromirrors based on MEMS (Micro-electro-mechanical systems) technologies to achieve beam scanning for OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography). The use of MEMS scanners for miniaturized OCT p...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,167 Views
12 Pages

Intensity and Coherence Characteristics of a Radial Phase-Locked Multi-Gaussian Schell-Model Vortex Beam Array in Atmospheric Turbulence

  • Jialu Zhao,
  • Guiqiu Wang,
  • Xiaolu Ma,
  • Haiyang Zhong,
  • Hongming Yin,
  • Yaochuan Wang and
  • Dajun Liu

29 December 2020

The theoretical descriptions for a radial phase-locked multi-Gaussian Schell-model vortex (RPLMGSMV) beam array is first given. The normalized intensity and coherence distributions of a RPLMGSMV beam array propagating in free space and atmospheric tu...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,022 Views
11 Pages

25 December 2020

Accurate segmented mirror wavefront sensing and control is essential for next-generation large aperture telescope system design. In this paper, a direct tip–tilt and piston error detection technique based on model-based phase retrieval with mul...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,474 Views
8 Pages

Multiple Filamentation Effects on THz Radiation Pattern from Laser Plasma in Air

  • Aleksandr Ushakov,
  • Pavel Chizhov,
  • Vladimir Bukin,
  • Daniil Shipilo,
  • Nikolay Panov,
  • Olga Kosareva and
  • Sergey Garnov

25 December 2020

An experimental study of few filaments interaction impact on the terahertz radiation pattern has demonstrated that interaction of two close propagating beams leads to formation of a superfilament-like structure with on-axis terahertz yield. Mutual de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,144 Views
9 Pages

Transverse Load and Temperature Sensing Using Multiplexed Long-Period Fiber Gratings

  • Ismael Torres-Gómez,
  • Alejandro Martínez-Rios,
  • Gilberto Anzueto-Sánchez,
  • Daniel. E. Ceballos-Herrera and
  • Guillermo Salceda-Delgado

22 December 2020

The simultaneous measurement of transverse load and temperature using two long-period fiber gratings multiplexed in the wavelength domain is presented experimentally. For this, a mechanically induced long-period fiber grating (MI-LPFG) and a long-per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,458 Views
9 Pages

22 December 2020

We propose a modulation-based adaptive power allocation (MBAPA) technique for nonlinear distortion mitigation in intermediate frequency over fiber (IFoF) systems. The technique allocates the spectral power of each IF band according to the required si...

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Photonics - ISSN 2304-6732