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Photonics, Volume 9, Issue 8

2022 August - 88 articles

Cover Story: Butterfly wings with hierarchically organized structures from nanometer to centimeter scales were tested as substrates for plasmonic Au and Ag/Au nanoparticles with potential application in photocatalysis. Au and Ag/Au alloy nanoparticles form a new, hybrid nanostructure with the chitinous photonic nanoarchitecture, modifying the structural color of the butterfly wings. The optical properties of the new hybrid photonic nanoarchitectures are different from both components. The butterfly wings with structural color offer cheap, highly specific surface substrates for plasmonic nanoparticles and a way of engineering the properties of the hybrid nanoarchitectures. The butterflies used were reared in a lab experiment, where one breeding pair may have as many as 600–700 descendants. View this paper
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Articles (88)

  • Article
  • Open Access
121 Citations
15,229 Views
20 Pages

22 August 2022

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles (NPs) were fabricated by using leaves extracted from the thyme plant by employing a green method. The influence of several calcination (annealing) temperatures on the characteristic properties of fabricated ZnO NPs and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,064 Views
13 Pages

20 August 2022

Collector channels are openings located in the trabecular meshwork (TM) of the human eye that function as conduits, connecting the anterior chamber to the episcleral veins. Identifying the positions of collector channel orifices (CCOs) is essential f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,161 Views
11 Pages

Measuring of Transverse Energy Flows in a Focus of an Aluminum Lens

  • Elena Kozlova,
  • Sergey Stafeev,
  • Sergey Fomchenkov,
  • Vladimir Podlipnov,
  • Alexandra Savelyeva and
  • Victor Kotlyar

20 August 2022

In this study, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the propagation of a second-order cylindrical vector beam through an aluminum lens which forms a tight focus at the distance of the wavelength. Simulation by the finite-difference time-do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,720 Views
10 Pages

Biophotonic Effects of Low-Level Laser Therapy at Different Wavelengths for Potential Wound Healing

  • Tzu-Sen Yang,
  • Le-Thanh-Hang Nguyen,
  • Yu-Cheng Hsiao,
  • Li-Chern Pan and
  • Cheng-Jen Chang

19 August 2022

Our objective was to assess the effect of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) administered using a diode laser on the growth processes of human fibroblast cells involved in wound healing. Initially, studies were conducted using a diode laser at wavelength...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,708 Views
9 Pages

High-Power, Narrow-Linewidth Distributed-Feedback Quantum-Cascade Laser for Molecular Spectroscopy

  • Mathieu Bertrand,
  • Aleksandr Shlykov,
  • Mehran Shahmohamadi,
  • Mattias Beck,
  • Stefan Willitsch and
  • Jérôme Faist

19 August 2022

Quantum cascade lasers are versatile light sources in the mid-infrared range for molecular spectroscopy which find a wide range of applications from high-resolution studies to sensing. While devices with either high power or narrow spectral linewidth...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,871 Views
9 Pages

Extreme Narrowing of the Distributed Feedback Fiber Laser Linewidth Due to the Rayleigh Backscattering in a Single-Mode Fiber: Model and Experimental Test

  • Mikhail I. Skvortsov,
  • Sofia R. Abdullina,
  • Evgeny V. Podivilov,
  • Alexander A. Vlasov,
  • Danil R. Kharasov,
  • Edgard A. Fomiryakov,
  • Sergey P. Nikitin,
  • Vladimir N. Treshchikov and
  • Sergey A. Babin

19 August 2022

We present our theoretical model and experimental results on the extreme linewidth narrowing of an erbium-doped fiber distributed feedback (DFB) laser due to an additional random DFB via Rayleigh backscattering in a long single-mode fiber connected t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,345 Views
9 Pages

A Graphene/Gold-Coated Surface Plasmon Sensor for Sodium Nitrate Detection

  • H. A Zain,
  • M. Batumalay,
  • Z. Harith,
  • H. R. A. Rahim and
  • S. W. Harun

19 August 2022

A sodium nitrate sensor with graphene/gold coating is presented in this paper. A Kretschmann setup with angle interrogation was used to detect sodium nitrate in the range of 0–15%. Using a graphene coating on top of the 50 nm gold layer showed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,216 Views
13 Pages

A Surface Plasmon–Polariton in a Symmetric Dielectric Waveguide with Active Graphene Plates

  • Dmitry A. Evseev,
  • Svetlana V. Eliseeva,
  • Dmitry I. Sementsov and
  • Anatolij M. Shutyi

19 August 2022

A theoretical study of the plasmon modes’ characteristics is carried out in a structure consisting of two active graphene layers separated by a dielectric barrier layer. A general dispersion relation is obtained, the numerical analysis of which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,496 Views
13 Pages

Specific Phase Modulation with Dynamic Variable Spectral Width of Nanosecond Optical Pulse in High-Power Lasers

  • Xinlei Qian,
  • Xiaochao Wang,
  • Shouying Xu,
  • Zhuli Xiao,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Shenlei Zhou and
  • Wei Fan

18 August 2022

High-power laser pulse transmitted by phase modulation with certain spectrum distribution can suppress the buildup of transverse stimulated Brillouin scattering (TSBS) in large aperture laser optics and smooth the speckle pattern illuminating the tar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,735 Views
10 Pages

Nonreciprocity Steered with a Spinning Resonator

  • Xiao Shang,
  • Hong Xie,
  • Gongwei Lin and
  • Xiumin Lin

18 August 2022

An approach is presented to study the controllable nonreciprocal transmission in a spinning resonator. It has been demonstrated in optomechanics that an optical signal field can only be affected when it propagates in the same direction as the driving...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,626 Views
19 Pages

18 August 2022

The light scattering properties of particles play important roles in radiative transfer in many dispersed systems, such as turbid atmosphere, ocean water, nanofluids, composite coatings and so on. As one of the scattering property parameters, the sca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,636 Views
12 Pages

18 August 2022

We propose a theoretical model for realizing a photonic two-qubit phase gate in cavity QED using a one-step process. The fidelity and probability of success of the conditional quantum phase gate is very high in the presence of cavity decay. Our schem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,709 Views
17 Pages

Blind Restoration of Images Distorted by Atmospheric Turbulence Based on Deep Transfer Learning

  • Yiming Guo,
  • Xiaoqing Wu,
  • Chun Qing,
  • Changdong Su,
  • Qike Yang and
  • Zhiyuan Wang

18 August 2022

Removing space-time varying blur and geometric distortions simultaneously from an image is a challenging task. Recent methods (including physical-based methods or learning-based methods) commonly default the turbulence-degraded operator as a fixed co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,405 Views
10 Pages

18 August 2022

The binary computer-generated hologram (BCGH) has attracted much attention recently because it can address the high-speed binary spatial light modulator (SLM), such as a digital micromirror device (DMD) SLM. In this paper, our concern is the developm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,620 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Design of Optical Switch Based on Guided Mode Resonances in Dielectric Photonic Crystal Structures

  • Atiq Ur Rehman,
  • Yousuf Khan,
  • Muhammad Irfan,
  • Muhammad A. Butt,
  • Svetlana N. Khonina and
  • Nikolay L. Kazanskiy

17 August 2022

In this work, a novel idea of optical switch design based on guided mode resonance in the photonic crystal structure is numerically investigated. The designed switching device work on the principle of optical amplification and wavelength shift of dat...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,505 Views
12 Pages

17 August 2022

High-efficiency multijunction laser power converters are demonstrated for low temperature applications with an optical input at 808 nm. The photovoltaic power converting III-V semiconductor devices are designed with GaAs absorbing layers, here with 5...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,892 Views
12 Pages

Exciton Transfer Dynamics and Annihilation in Rubidium–Cesium-Alloyed, Quasi-Two-Dimensional Perovskite

  • Lamiaa Abdelrazik,
  • Vidmantas Jašinskas,
  • Žydrūnas Podlipskas,
  • Ramūnas Aleksiejūnas,
  • Gintautas Tamulaitis,
  • Vidmantas Gulbinas and
  • Aurimas Vyšniauskas

17 August 2022

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on perovskite materials are a new group of devices that are currently undergoing rapid development. A significant fraction of these devices is based on quasi-2D perovskites fabricated with large organic cations. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,566 Views
11 Pages

17 August 2022

Transverse mode instability (TMI) has been recognized as onse of the primary limiting factors for the average power scaling of high-brightness fiber lasers. In this work, a static model of the TMI effect based on stimulated thermal Rayleigh scatterin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,925 Views
11 Pages

16 August 2022

Optical wireless power transmission (OWPT) is a promising technology for remote energy supply, especially for powering Internet of things (IoT) terminals. Light-emitting diode (LED)-based power sources of OWPT are attractive for the development of hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,139 Views
13 Pages

Shack–Hartmann Wavefront Sensing Based on Four-Quadrant Binary Phase Modulation

  • Mengmeng Zhao,
  • Wang Zhao,
  • Kangjian Yang,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Ping Yang,
  • Fengjiao Zeng,
  • Lingxi Kong and
  • Chao Yang

16 August 2022

Aiming at the problem that it is difficult for the conventional Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor to achieve high-precision wavefront reconstruction with low spatial sampling, a kind of Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensing technology based on f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,235 Views
13 Pages

Perfect Solar Absorber with Extremely Low Infrared Emissivity

  • Zhaolong Wang,
  • Yinbao Wei,
  • Zhen Liu,
  • Guihui Duan,
  • Dongsheng Yang and
  • Ping Cheng

15 August 2022

We propose a multi-materials solar absorber consisting of regularly arranged cross resonators made of Ni, and nanocylinders made of Ti on their four corners. The finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is used to study the absorption performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,496 Views
16 Pages

Image Quality Assessment for Digital Volume Correlation-Based Optical Coherence Elastography

  • Xianglong Lin,
  • Jinlong Chen,
  • Yongzheng Hu,
  • Xiaowei Feng,
  • Haosen Wang,
  • Haofei Liu and
  • Cuiru Sun

15 August 2022

Optical coherence elastography (OCE) based on digital volume correlation (DVC) has the advantages of full 3D displacements and strain tensor quantification. However, the measurement results are often unreliable due to the poor quality of the optical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,130 Views
12 Pages

Antisymmetric Mode Cancellation for High-Q Cavities in a Double-Disk

  • Seung Hyeon Hong,
  • Young Jin Lee,
  • Seokhyeon Hong,
  • Youngsoo Kim and
  • Soon-Hong Kwon

14 August 2022

High-quality factor dielectric microcavities like whispering-gallery-mode resonators can be widely applied in fields such as laser, optical sensor, switch, and filter. We propose the whispering-gallery-mode double-disk cavity comprising dielectric di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,941 Views
13 Pages

12 August 2022

In this paper, the scalability of slope efficiency of a Yb-doped fiber amplifier operating near 980 nm is studied with the core-pumping scheme. By means of numerical prediction, it is found that the theoretical limit of slope efficiency should be abo...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,483 Views
9 Pages

Yoctosecond Timing Jitter Sensitivity in Tightly Synchronized Mode-Locked Ti:Sapphire Lasers

  • Hao Xu,
  • Haitao Wu,
  • Dong Hou,
  • Haoyuan Lu,
  • Zhaolong Li and
  • Jianye Zhao

12 August 2022

Higher sensitivity in timing jitter measurement has great importance in studies related to precise measurements. Timing jitter noise floors contribute one of the main parts in existing measurements. In this article, a phase error signal is obtained b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,574 Views
19 Pages

12 August 2022

In optical communication systems, photons are lost due to the attenuation of the transmission medium. To efficiently implement quantum information protocols, we need to be able to precisely describe such processes. In this paper, we propose statistic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,089 Views
10 Pages

Comparing the Accuracy of Four Intraocular Lens Formulas in Eyes with Two Types of Widely Used Monofocal Lens Implants

  • Monica Malaescu,
  • Bogdana Tabacaru,
  • Mihnea Munteanu,
  • Leila Al Barri,
  • Adriana Stanila and
  • Horia Tudor Stanca

11 August 2022

The present study aimed to compare the accuracy of intraocular lens calculation formulas Barrett Universal II, Hoffer Q, Holladay 1, and SRK/T in the prediction of postoperative refraction for two widely used monofocal implants: SN60WF and ZCB00. All...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,669 Views
10 Pages

11 August 2022

Infrared (IR) and visible image fusion has become an important technology for maritime environment awareness. In this study, we employed refined features fusion and Sobel loss for maritime IR and visible image fusion. First, we used the encoder in De...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,801 Views
12 Pages

Design of a Broadband Perfect Solar Absorber Based on a Four-Layer Structure with a Cross-Shaped Resonator and Triangular Array

  • Yushan Chen,
  • Kewei You,
  • Jianze Lin,
  • Junwei Zhao,
  • Wenzhuang Ma,
  • Dan Meng,
  • Yuyao Cheng and
  • Jing Liu

11 August 2022

As solar energy is a low-cost and clean energy source, there has been a great deal of interest in how to harvest it. To absorb solar energy efficiently, we designed a broadband metamaterial absorber based on the principle of Fabry–Pérot...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,940 Views
11 Pages

Simulation of an AlGaInAs/InP Electro-Absorption Modulator Monolithically Integrated with Sidewall Grating Distributed Feedback Laser by Quantum Well Intermixing

  • Xiao Sun,
  • Weiqing Cheng,
  • Yiming Sun,
  • Shengwei Ye,
  • Ali Al-Moathin,
  • Yongguang Huang,
  • Ruikang Zhang,
  • Song Liang,
  • Bocang Qiu and
  • Lianping Hou
  • + 3 authors

11 August 2022

A novel AlGaInAs/InP electro-absorption modulated laser (EML) with a simple fabrication process is proposed, in which the electro-absorption modulator (EAM) has a 10 nm blueshift induced by quantum well intermixing (QWI) and is monolithically integra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,446 Views
18 Pages

11 August 2022

Recently, optical coordinate transformation has garnered considerable research interest for manipulating structured light in emerging optical communication applications. Herein, we propose a circle-Cassinian optical coordinate transformation based on...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,998 Views
9 Pages

10 August 2022

In this work, we present a study on the sensing of chemical molecules with Au nanoparticles coated ZnO film by employing the photo-induced enhanced Raman scattering (PIERS) coupled to the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Moreover, the intere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,854 Views
13 Pages

10 August 2022

We demonstrate an efficient sensing of both gaseous and aqueous analytes utilizing Bloch surface waves (BSWs) and guided waves (GWs) excited on a truncated one-dimensional photonic crystal (1DPhC) composed of six TiO2/SiO2 bilayers with a termination...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,353 Views
27 Pages

Customer Edge Downstream Detection for Automatic Restoration Scheme in FTTH-PON Distribution Network

  • Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab-Rahman,
  • Zulhedry Abd. Manaf,
  • Iszan Hana Kaharudin and
  • I-Shyan Hwang

10 August 2022

Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks are seen as the most future-proof technology to offer increasing bandwidth to customers. By utilizing passive optical network (PON) technology, they provide flexibility and capability to carry higher bandwidths as co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,232 Views
11 Pages

Full-Resolution Light-Field Camera via Fourier Dual Photography

  • Yuhang Hu,
  • Manhong Yao,
  • Zhuobin Huang,
  • Junzheng Peng,
  • Zibang Zhang and
  • Jingang Zhong

10 August 2022

Conventional light-field cameras with a micro-lens array suffer from resolution trade-off and shallow depth of field. Here we develop a full-resolution light-field camera based on dual photography. We extend the principle of dual photography from rea...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,062 Views
10 Pages

On the Selective Spectral Sensitivity of Oppositely Placed Double-Barrier Structures

  • Surik Khudaverdyan,
  • Ashok Vaseashta,
  • Gagik Ayvazyan,
  • Ler Matevosyan,
  • Ashot Khudaverdyan,
  • Mane Khachatryan and
  • Elya Makaryan

The characteristics of an oppositely placed double potential barrier photodetector structure were investigated under longitudinal illumination. The functional abilities of the silicon n+-p-n+ structure were studied under longitudinal illumination. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,610 Views
12 Pages

Development of High Refractive Index Polydimethylsiloxane Waveguides Doped with Benzophenone via Solvent-Free Fabrication for Biomedical Pressure Sensing

  • Koffi Novignon Amouzou,
  • Alberto Alonso Romero,
  • Dipankar Sengupta,
  • Satyendra Kumar Mishra,
  • Andréane Richard-Denis,
  • Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong,
  • Yvan Petit,
  • Jean-Marc Lina and
  • Bora Ung

We present the fabrication and characterization of elastomeric optical waveguides, to be used for the manufacture of a conformable, water-resistant, and cost-effective pressure sensor that is amenable to the development of smart wearable health monit...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,951 Views
10 Pages

Improved Accuracy for Measurement of Filament Diameter Based on Image-Based Fitting Method

  • Yingpeng Zhao,
  • Yutong Lin,
  • Dianrong Li,
  • Feichen Wang,
  • Bing Cheng,
  • Qiang Lin,
  • Zhenghui Hu and
  • Bin Wu

Laser diffraction (LD) has many obvious advantages for measuring. However, the measurement accuracy is limited by a number of factors, such as imaging noise, sensor threshold, and fitting methods. In this paper, we present a novel method for measurin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,831 Views
10 Pages

This paper carries out a numerical simulation investigating three different modulation formats: carrier suppressed return to zero (CSRZ), modified duobinary return to zero (MDRZ) and return to zero (RZ). The purpose of this investigation is to find t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,755 Views
16 Pages

As an important atmospheric component, aerosols play a very important role in the radiation budget balance of the earth–atmosphere system. To study the optical characteristics of aerosols, it is necessary to use an inversion algorithm to proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,208 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Plasmonic Au and Ag/Au Nanoparticles and Sodium Citrate on the Optical Properties of Chitin-Based Photonic Nanoarchitectures in Butterfly Wing Scales

  • Krisztián Kertész,
  • Gábor Piszter,
  • Zsolt Endre Horváth,
  • Dániel Zámbó,
  • András Deák and
  • László Péter Biró

Porous butterfly wings with hierarchically organized structures from nanometer to centimeter scales were tested as substrates for carrying plasmonic Au and Ag/Au nanoparticles with potential application in photocatalysis. Wings exhibiting structural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,785 Views
14 Pages

Design and Optimization of a Compact Ultra-Broadband Polarization Beam Splitter for the SCL-Band Based on a Thick Silicon Nitride Platform

  • Georgios Patsamanis,
  • Dimitra Ketzaki,
  • Dimitrios Chatzitheocharis and
  • Konstantinos Vyrsokinos

The polarization beam splitter is an essential photonic integrated circuit in applications where a high-performing on-chip polarization diversity scheme is required. The lower refractive index contrast of the silicon nitride material platform compare...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,415 Views
7 Pages

Nano-Photonic Metrics: Fundamentals and Experimental Demonstration

  • Takuro Ohteki,
  • Shun-ichi Sakai and
  • Naoya Tate

As the popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) increases, there is a considerable demand for the improvement of physical security, owing to the increase in edge devices. However, fabrication and measurement techniques used by attackers are also improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,916 Views
12 Pages

High-Efficiency Broadband Grating Couplers for Silicon Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides

  • Haoyang Tan,
  • Weijie Liu,
  • Yuheng Zhang,
  • Shaojie Yin,
  • Daoxin Dai,
  • Shiming Gao and
  • Xiaowei Guan

We report the designs of on-chip grating couplers for the silicon hybrid plasmonic waveguides, which is the first proposal, to the best of our knowledge, for the direct coupling between a standard single-mode fiber and a hybrid plasmonic waveguide. B...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,291 Views
10 Pages

Photo-Writable Sulfide Glasses Used to Fabricate Core-Clad Fiber Doped with Pr3+ for Mid-IR Luminescence

  • Julie Carcreff,
  • Virginie Nazabal,
  • Johann Troles,
  • Catherine Boussard-Plédel,
  • Pascal Masselin,
  • Florent Starecki,
  • Alain Braud,
  • Patrice Camy and
  • David Le Coq

With the ultimate goal of developing rare-earth doped chalcogenide fiber fabrication for sensing, amplification, and laser applications, a core/clad germanium-gallium sulfide fiber doped with Pr3+ has been fabricated. The compositions of the core and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,159 Views
18 Pages

The Lattice Geometry of Walsh-Function-Based Adaptive Optics

  • Qi Hu,
  • Yuyao Xiao,
  • Jiahe Cui,
  • Raphaël Turcotte and
  • Martin J. Booth

We show that there is an intrinsic link between the use of Walsh aberration modes in adaptive optics (AO) and the mathematics of lattices. The discrete and binary nature of these modes means that there are infinite combinations of Walsh mode coeffici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,343 Views
12 Pages

All-Fiber Photoacoustic Gas Sensing with Interferometric Location

  • Meng Li,
  • Mengpeng Hu,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Jianing Wang,
  • Tongyu Tang,
  • Mai Hu and
  • Qiang Wang

Photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) is a promising gas detection technique with high sensitivity, fast response, and good stability. Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) interferometry offers precise distance detection with high spatial resolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,498 Views
10 Pages

In order to obtain optical nonlinear materials with high transparency and low propagation loss in the visible and infrared range, noble metal materials in the off-resonant band have become a hot spot in the optical field in recent years. Therefore, t...

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