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The development of high-power single crystal fiber (SCF) lasers is critically hindered by the lack of a reliable cladding scheme to confine the optical mode and ensure beam quality. Here, we propose and demonstrate a two-step…

Space-division multiplexing (SDM) is one of the key enabling technologies to increase the capacity of fiber communication systems. However, implementing SDM-based systems using multimode fiber has been challenging with the need for compact,…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-08 Wu Zhou , Zunyue Zhang , Hao Chen , Hon Ki Tsang , Yeyu Tong

Metafibers expand the functionalities of conventional optical fibers to unprecedented nanoscale light manipulations by integrating metasurfaces on the fiber tips, becoming an emerging light-coupling platform for both nanoscience and fiber…

This paper introduces an innovative two-core fiber (TCF) optic sensor employing a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) to monitor the optogenetic response of light-sensitive human dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs). The in-fiber MZI, formed using…

The power-balanced hybrid optical imaging system is a special design of a diffractive computational camera, introduced in this paper, with image formation by a refractive lens and Multilevel Phase Mask (MPM). This system provides a long…

Photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) are optical fibres that guide light using a modulated dielectric medium. They provide an exceptionally versatile platform for various applications, thanks to the flexibility with which light-guiding can be…

The flexible endoscope is a minimally invasive tool in clinical settings, but most of them rely on exogenous staining for diagnosis to provide qualitative information. Here, we demonstrated a flexible endoscopic microscopy (FEM) with…

A flexible multimode fiber is an exceptionally efficient tool for in vivo deep tissue imaging. Recent advances in compressive multimode fiber sensing allow for imaging with sub-diffraction spatial resolution and sub-Nyquist speed. At…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-17 Zhouping Lyu , Shih-Te Hung , Carlas S. Smith , Lyubov V. Amitonova

We study the spatially incoherent light generated by a multimode fiber(MMF) in the application of image projection designed for the ultracold-atom experiments. Inspired by previous half-analytic methods concerning the incoherent light, here…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ken Deng , Zhongchi Zhang , Huaichuan Wang , Zihan Zhao , Jiazhong Hu

Over the past years, photonic metasurfaces have demonstrated their remarkable and diverse capabilities for achieving advanced control over light propagation by confining electromagnetic radiation within the deeply subwavelength thickness of…

Concept Factorization (CF), as a novel paradigm of representation learning, has demonstrated superior performance in multi-view clustering tasks. It overcomes limitations such as the non-negativity constraint imposed by traditional matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Qi Jiang , Guoxu Zhou , Qibin Zhao

Optical methods based on thin multimode fibers (MMFs) are promising tools for measuring neuronal activity in deep brain regions of freely moving mice thanks to their small diameter. However, current methods are limited: while fiber…

Recent years have witnessed the tremendous development of fusing fiber-optic imaging with supervised deep learning to enable high-quality imaging of hard-to-reach areas. Nevertheless, the supervised deep learning method imposes strict…

We report two-photon lensless imaging through a novel golden spiral multicore fiber. This unique layout optimizes the sidelobe levels, field of view, cross-talk, group delay and mode density to achieve a sidelobe contrast of atleast 10.9…

In-band full-duplex (FD) operation is practically more suited for short-range communications such as WiFi and small-cell networks, due to its current practical limitations on the self-interference cancellation. In addition, cell-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Hieu V. Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Shree Krishna Sharma , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Oh-Soon Shin

Deep learning-based image fusion approaches have obtained wide attention in recent years, achieving promising performance in terms of visual perception. However, the fusion module in the current deep learning-based methods suffers from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Dongyu Rao , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Guoyang Chen

We have developed a novel integrated platform for liquid photonics based on liquid core optical fiber (LCOF). The platform is created by fusion splicing liquid core optical fiber to standard single-mode optical fiber making it fully…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-28 K. Kieu , L. Schneebeli , R. A. Norwood , N. Peyghambarian

A foil-microchannel plate (MCP) detector, which uses electrostatic lenses and possesses both good position and timing resolutions, has been designed and simulated for beam diagnostics and mass measurements at the next-generation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-01 un-hao Liu , Zhuang Ge , Qian Wang , Geng Wang , Li-na Sheng , Wen-wen Ge , Xing Xu , Peng Shuai , Qi Zeng , Bo Wu

The photonic crystal fibers (PCF) or air-silica microstructured fibers consist of a periodic array of dielectric transverse. By introducing a defect in this structure, it is possible to guide the light by a photonic bandgap effect, whose…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-13 Mohammed Debbal , Mohammed Chikh-Bled

Strong control over experimental conditions in microfluidic channels provides a unique opportunity to study and optimize membraneless microbial fuel cells (MFCs), particularly with respect to the role of flow. However, improved performance…