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We design compact waveguide couplers via impedance-tunable transformation optics. By tuning impedance coefficients in the original space, two-dimensional metallic and dielectric waveguide couplers are designed with a high efficiency.…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-04 Jun Cao , Lifa Zhang , Weifeng Jiang , Senlin Yan , Xiaohan Sun

We analyze the interaction of a propagating guided electromagnetic wave with a quantum well embedded in a dielectric slab waveguide. First, we design a quantum well based on InAlGaAs compounds with the transition energy of 0.8eV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Farhad Karimi , Sina Khorasani

A chirped-pulse interleaving method is reported for generation of dual optical frequency combs based on electro-optic phase modulators (EOM) in a free-running all-fiber based system. Methods are discussed to easily modify the linear chirp…

High resolution (900 Hz full-width at half maximum) frequency domain spectroscopy near 0.2Terahertz is achieved using an exact frequency spacing comb-source in the optical communications band, filtering and photo-mixing in a custom…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-19 Rodolfo I. Hermans , Haymen Shams , James P. Seddon , Alwyn J. Seeds , Gabriel Aeppli

Electro-optic modulators from non-linear $\chi^{(2)}$ materials are essential for sensing, metrology and telecommunications because they link the optical domain with the microwave domain. At present, most geometries are suited for fiber…

Photonic integrated circuits are a paramount platform for optoelectronics and nonlinear optics, enabling high confinement nonlinear interactions, where advanced waveguide dispersion engineering can be leveraged to tailor broadband nonlinear…

The coherent transmission technology using digital signal processing and advanced modulation formats, is bringing networks closer to the theoretical capacity limit of optical fibres, the Shannon limit. The in-phase quadrature electro-optic…

We introduce a modular approach for efficiently interfacing photonic integrated circuits with deep-sub-wavelength hybrid plasmonic functionality. We demonstrate that an off-the-shelf silicon-on-insulator waveguide can be post-processed into…

The present work demonstrates an electro-optic polymer based Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulator fabricated utilizing advanced ultraviolet (UV) imprinting and aligned ink-jet printing technologies for patterning and layer deposition. The bottom…

Efficient electro-optic (EO) modulators crucially rely on advanced materials that exhibit strong electro-optic activity and that can be integrated into high-speed and efficient phase shifter structures. In this paper, we demonstrate…

We report on the analysis and prototype-characterization of a dual-electrode electro-optic modulator that can generate both amplitude and phase modulations with a selectable relative phase, termed a universally tunable modulator (UTM). All…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Benedict J Cusack , Benjamin S Sheard , Daniel A Shaddock , Malcolm B Gray , Ping Koy Lam , Stan E Whitcomb

This study presents an effective optical equalization technique for generating ultrahigh baud rate signals. The equalization technique was demonstrated using a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DDMZM) with two-phase shifters having…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-25 Hengsong Yue , Nuo Chen , Tao Chu

Waveguide directional couplers working at 5.712/11.9924 GHz are developed. Even holes symmetrical to the structure are drilled along the central line of the narrow-wall of waveguide, which are used to couple the electromagnetic power from…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiang He , Fengli Zhao , Xiangjian Wang

Waveguide-based interferometric circuits are widely employed in optical communications, sensing and computing applications. In particular, glass-based devices are appealing due to the transparency and bio-compatibility of this substrate, or…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-28 Roberto Memeo , Andrea Crespi , Roberto Osellame

We demonstrate a hybrid distributed fiber sensing system for multi-parameter detection. The integration of phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry ({\Phi}-OTDR) and Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry (B-OTDR) enables…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-02 Jingdong Zhang , Tao Zhu , Huan Zhou , Yang Li , Min Liu , Wei Huang

Multimode silicon photonics, leveraging mode-division multiplexing technologies, offers significant potential to increase capacity of large-scale multiprocessing systems for on-chip optical interconnects. These technologies have…

Integrated electro-optic (EO) frequency combs are essential components for future applications in optical communications, light detection and ranging, optical computation, sensing and spectroscopy. To date, broadband on-chip EO combs are…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-03 Ke Zhang , Wenzhao Sun , Yikun Chen , Hanke Feng , Yiwen Zhang , Zhaoxi Chen , Cheng Wang

Angle-independent, narrowband emission is required for many optoelectronic devices, ranging from high-definition displays to sensors. However, emerging materials for electroluminescent devices, such as organics and perovskites, show…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-17 Andreas Mischok , Sabina Hillebrandt , Seonil Kwon , Malte C. Gather

In the past decade, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) have advanced in various fields, including optical communication, nonlinear photonics, and quantum optics. A critical component is an…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-13 Di Jia , Qiang Luo , Chen Yang , Rui Ma , Xuanyi Yu , Feng Gao , Qifan Yang , Fang Bo , Guoquan Zhang , Jingjun Xu

We demonstrate a hybrid integrated and widely tunable diode laser with an intrinsic linewidth as narrow as 40 Hz, achieved with a single roundtrip through a low-loss feedback circuit that extends the cavity length to 0.5 meter on a chip.…