Photonics, Volume 8, Issue 10

We consider a space-division multiplexing elastic optical network (SDM-EON) that supports super-channels (SChs). A Sch comprises a set of contiguous frequency slots on multiple cores in a multi-core fiber. The problem of finding a lightpath using SCh...

Polarization dependence in integrated silicon photonics has a detrimental effect on the manipulation of quantum state with different polarizations in the quantum technology. Those limits have profound implications for further technological developmen...

Statistical optics, and optical coherence in particular, developed into a stand-alone branch of physical optics in the second half of the 20th century and has found a number of ground-breaking applications in astronomical measurements, medical diagno...

Purpose: evaluation of the efficiency of the “hot spot” method for the fragmentation of urinary stones. Materials and methods: A retrospective analysis of clinical records of 1666 patients with urolithiasis who underwent percutaneous nephrolithoextra...

The inherent impairments of visible light communication (VLC) in terms of nonlinearity of light-emitting diode (LED) and the optical multipath restrict bit error rate (BER) performance. In this paper, a model-driven deep learning (DL) equalization sc...

Image fusion and reconstruction from muldti-images taken by distributed or mobile cameras need accurate calibration to avoid image mismatching. This calibration process becomes difficult in fog when no clear nearby reference is available. In this wor...

Given the more intensive deployments of emerging Internet of Things applications with beyond-fifth-generation communication, the access network becomes bandwidth-hungry to support more kinds of services, requiring higher resource utilization of the o...

All pseudo-Schell model sources have been shown to possess the same continuous set of circularly symmetric modes, all of them presenting a conical wavefront. For keeping energy at a finite level, the mode amplitude along the radial coordinate is modu...

In aeronautics, hard landing is a critical condition as the aircraft approaches the runway with a vertical velocity that exceeds 2 m/s. Beyond that level, the energy that should be then absorbed by the whole structure could cause severe damage to the...

Postfilamentation channel resulting from filamentation of freely propagating 744-nm, 5-mJ, 110-fs pulse in the corridor air is examined experimentally and in simulations. The longitudinal extension of postfilament was determined to be 55–95 m from th...

We review our recent experimental results on the cascaded Raman conversion of highly multimode laser diode (LD) pump radiation into the first- and higher-order Stokes radiation in multimode graded-index fibers. A linear cavity composed of fiber Bragg...

This paper shows the possibility of transmitting 3D holographic information in real time with a TV frame rate over conventional radio channels by transmitting two two-dimensional signals in two image modes: depth map and surface texture of the object...

Chest X-ray fluoroscopy is a commonly used medical imaging method, which has a wide range of applications in the diagnosis of lung diseases and other fields. However, due to low contrast and relatively close linear attenuation coefficients, some earl...

The development of novel high-gradient accelerating structures operating at THz frequencies is critical for future free-electron lasers and TeV scale linear colliders. To reach high energies with reasonable length requires high accelerating gradients...

We describe two methods, based on Michelson interferometery, that enable the determination of the absolute wavelength of current-modulated semiconductor lasers. By non-linear regression of the instantaneous frequency of the interference signal, the r...

In the context of cutaneous carcinoma diagnosis based on in vivo optical biopsy, Diffuse Reflectance (DR) spectra, acquired using a Spatially Resolved (SR) sensor configuration, can be analyzed to distinguish healthy from pathological tissues. The pr...

It is well known that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a light field is conserved on propagation. In this work, in contrast to the OAM, we analytically study conservation of the topological charge (TC), which is often confused with OAM, but has...

In this paper, a highly sensitive biosensor based on partially immobilized silver nanopillars is proposed. The working frequency of this sensor is in the terahertz band, and the range of the detected refractive index is 1.33 to 1.38. We set air holes...

It is crucial to be time and resource-efficient when enabling and optimizing novel applications and functionalities of optical fibers, as well as accurate computation of the vectorial field components and the corresponding propagation constants of th...

In this work, we proposed a flexible broadband metamaterial perfect absorber (FBMPA) by exploiting a pasted conductive-graphene ink on a polyimide substrate. For the flat FBMPA, an absorption over 90% was found to cover a wide frequency range (from 7...

Phytoplankton monitoring is essential for better understanding and mitigation of phytoplankton bloom formation. We present a microfluidic cytometer with two imaging modalities for onsite detection and identification of phytoplankton: a lensless imagi...

A scheme for controlling the frequency difference of output pulse pair with double frequency shift loops is proposed. The frequency shift system includes two loop elements of 20 and 200 MHz. The first one carries out a single selective positive frequ...

We present a numerical design of the plasmonic memristive switching device operated at the telecommunication wavelength of 1.55 μm, which consists of a triangle-shaped metal taper mounted on top of a Si waveguide, with rational doping in the area bel...

The optical trapping, sensing, and imaging of nanostructures and biological samples are research hotspots in the fields of biomedicine and nanophotonics. However, because of the diffraction limit of light, traditional optical tweezers and microscopy...

This study proposes different fitting methods for different types of targets in the 400–900 nm wavelength range, based on convex optimization algorithms, to achieve the effect of high-precision spectral reconstruction for small space-borne spectromet...

In this work, a photonic device integration platform capable of integration of active-passive InP-based photonic devices without the use of material regrowth is introduced. The platform makes use of an adiabatic active-layer waveguide connection (ALW...

With the widespread use of remote sensing images, low-resolution target detection in remote sensing images has become a hot research topic in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we propose a Target Detection on Super-Resolution Reconstructio...

The strain coefficient of an optical fibre sensing cable is a critical parameter for a distributed optical fibre sensing system. The conventional tensile load test method tends to underestimate the strain coefficient of sensing cables due to slippage...

III-nitride light-emitting devices have been subjects of intense research for the last several decades owing to the versatility of their applications for fundamental research, as well as their widespread commercial utilization. Nitride light-emitters...

In optical communications, differential phase shift keying (DPSK) provides a desired modulation format that offers high tolerance to nonlinear effects in high-speed transmissions. A DPSK demodulator converts the phase-coded signal into an intensity-c...

During surgery for colon cancer, monitoring of the oxygen saturation of hemoglobin in the tissues under study makes it possible to assess the degree of blood supply to the anastomosis areas of the colon. Adequate blood supply in this area is decisive...

We compared two approaches to non-invasive proximal sensing of the early changes in fresh-cut lettuce leaf quality: hyperspectral imaging and imaging of variable chlorophyll fluorescence contained in the leaves. The estimations made by the imaging te...

Solar cells based on mono-like cast silicon (MLC-Si) have been attracting increasing attention in the photovoltaic (PV) market due to their high energy conversion efficiency and low cost. As in the production of monocrystalline silicon (MC-Si) and po...

Light–heat converters are promising for further development of contact laser surgery. The simplest converter consists of an optical fiber with a strong absorbing layer at the tip. We studied the time dependence of the tip temperature at different CW...

Along with geometric and color indicators, thermography is another valuable source of information for wound monitoring. The interaction of geometry with thermography can provide predictive indicators of wound evolution; however, existing processes ar...

A 1.55 μm AlGaInAs multi-quantum-well (MQW) ridge waveguide polarization mode controller (PMC) is proposed. The design is based on an asymmetric half-ridge waveguide structure in which the ridge is shallow etched on one side and has a deeply etched m...

Specialty fibers have introduced new functionalities and opportunities in distributed fiber sensing applications. Particularly, Brillouin optical time domain analysis (BOTDA) systems have leveraged the unique features of specialty fibers to achieve p...

A technique based on speckle interferometry for observing microstructures beyond the diffraction limit by detecting the spatial phase distribution of scattered light from microstructures has previously been reported. In this study, the development of...

The rise of broadband cellular networks and 5G networks enable new rates of data transfer. This paper introduces a new design to measure the permittivity in the GHz range of non-magnetic materials. We tested the proposed design with a wide range of m...

With the rapid development of virtual/augmented reality and cloud services, the capacity demand for optical communication systems is ever-increasing. To further increase system capacity, current researches focus on efficient and reliable system manag...

The optimization of solid-state laser cavities requires a deep understanding of the gain module, the most critical laser component. This study proposes a procedure for evaluating the performance of the solid-state laser gain module. The thermal effec...

There are extensive studies on the development of composite solutions involving various types of materials. Therefore, this works aims to incorporate two polymers of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) and poly(3,4-ethylenethiophene) (PEDOT) to develop a...

Optical nonlinearity involved switching draws an important consideration in nonlinear optical studies. Based on that, we explored nonlinear absorption processes in silver nanoparticles synthesized by liquid phase laser ablation technique employing a...

It has been proven that visible light with a wavelength of about 405 nm exhibits an antimicrobial effect on bacteria and fungi if the irradiation doses are high enough. Hence, the question arises as to whether this violet light would also be suitable...

In this study, a novel composite Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) substrate is proposed for ultrasensitive detection. Consisting of gold sinusoidal nanograting and silver colloidal nanoparticles (AgNPs-AuSG), this type of SERS substrate is ea...

We applied room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy for the compositional engineering of a CH₃NH₃Pb(Cl,I)₃ light harvester in an alloy-based perovskite solar cell. This spectroscopic characterization determines the optimal Cl concentratio...

The laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy was systematically utilized for remote sensing of different soils and rocks for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. Laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy measurements were carried out by the dev...

Nonlinear impairment is one of the critical limits to enhancing the performance of high-speed communication systems. Traditional digital signal processing (DSP)-based nonlinear channel equalization schemes are influenced by limited bandwidth, high po...

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The study of twisted bilayer 2D materials has revealed many interesting physics properties. A twisted moiré photonic crystal is an optical analog of twisted bilayer 2D materials. The optical properties in twisted photonic crystals have not yet been f...