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We study the sensitivity of phase estimation in a lossy Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) using two general, and practical, resources generated by a laser and a nonlinear optical medium with passive optimal elements, which are readily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Changhun Oh , Su-Yong Lee , Hyunchul Nha , Hyunseok Jeong

Silicon photonic Mach-Zehnder switches (MZSs) have been extensively investigated as a promising candidate for practical optical interconnects. However, conventional 2{\times}2 MZSs are usually prone to the size variations of the arm…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Lijia Song , Tangnan Chen , Weixi Liu , Hongxuan Liu , Yingying Peng , Zejie Yu , Huan Li , Yaocheng Shi , Daoxin Dai

THz oscillators generated via frequency-multiplication of microwaves are facing difficulty in achieving low phase noise. Photonics-based techniques, in which optical two tones are translated to a THz wave through opto-electronic conversion,…

Transparent in-line optical power monitoring in Si programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is indispensable for calibrating integrated optical devices such as optical switches and resonators. A Si waveguide (WG) photodetector (PD)…

We introduce a novel interferometric approach for suppressing zero-order diffraction (ZOD) in phase-only computer-generated holography. The technique relies on the destructive interference between the zeroth-order light and a suppression…

We analyze optical soliton propagation in the presence of weak absorption lines with much narrower linewidths as compared to the soliton spectrum width using the novel perturbation analysis technique based on an integral representation in…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-25 V. L. Kalashnikov , E. Sorokin

The distribution of ultra-narrow linewidth laser radiation is an integral part of many challenging metrological applications. Changes in the optical pathlength induced by environmental disturbances compromise the stability and accuracy of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-31 Benjamin Rauf , Maria Carmen Velez Lopez , Pierre Thoumany , Marco Pizzocaro , Davide Calonico

Optical modulators are essential building blocks for high-capacity optical communication and massively parallel computing. Among all types of optical modulators, travelling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulators (TW-MZMs) featuring high speed and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-14 Shuyi Li , Wei Luo , Zhenyu Li , Junqiu Liu

We model the distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization era and investigate its detectability in 21 cm intensity mapping with the future SKA radio telescope. We rely on high resolution hydrodynamical N-body simulations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matteo Viel , Kanan K. Datta , T. Roy Choudhury

Nonlinear precoding and pulse shaping are jointly considered in multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-resolution D/A-converters (DACs) in terms of algorithmic approach as well as large system performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Amine Mezghani , Robert W. Heath

We propose a coupled microdisk laser as a compact and tunable laser source for the generation of a coherent continuous wave THz radiation by photomixing. Using the Schr\"odinger-Bloch model including the nonlinear effect of active medium,…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jung-Wan Ryu , Jinhang Cho , Chil-Min Kim , Susumu Shinohara , Sang Wook Kim

In this paper, we describe an experiment performed at the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers and dedicated to an optical measurement of the Boltzmann constant. With the proposed innovative technique, determining comes down to an ordinary…

We report a demonstration of laser Doppler holography at a sustained acquisition rate of 250 Hz on a 1 Megapixel complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensor array and image display at 10 Hz frame rate. The holograms are optically…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Benjamin Samson , Michael Atlan

Optically levitated mechanical sensors promise isolation from thermal noise far beyond what is possible using flexible materials alone. One way to access this potential is to apply a strong optical trap to a minimally supported mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Tina Müller , Christoph Reinhardt , Jack C. Sankey

Previous multitemperature model (MTM) resolving phonon temperatures at the polarization level and measurements have uncovered remarkable nonequilibrium among different phonon polarizations in laser irradiated graphene and metals. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Zherui Han , Peter Sokalski , Li Shi , Xiulin Ruan

We report a technique for coherence transfer of laser light through a fiber link, where the optical phase noise induced by environmental perturbation via the fiber link is compensated by remote users with passive phase noise correction,…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-30 Liang Hu , Xueyang Tian , Guiling Wu , Mengya Kong , Jianguo Shen , Jianping Chen

The ideal laser source for the emerging research field of nonlinear Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy should offer radiation with a large versatility and deliver both ultra-intense multi-octave spanning single-cycle pulses and user-selectable…

Recently, we demonstrated how an astrophotonic light reformatting device, based on a multicore fibre photonic lantern and a three-dimensional waveguide component, can be used to efficiently reformat the point spread function of a telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Fraser A. Pike , Aurélien Benoît , David G. MacLachlan , Robert J. Harris , Itandehui Gris Sánchez , David Lee , Tim A. Birks , Robert R. Thomson

The Pound-Drever-Hall laser stabilization technique requires a fast, low-noise photodetector. We present a simple photodetector design that uses a transformer as an intermediary between a photodiode and cascaded low-noise radio-frequency…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-02 Shreyas Potnis , Amar C. Vutha

Laser-induced Terahertz (THz) Emission Spectroscopy (TES) has demonstrated its potential utility in the realm of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) devices as an expedient and noncontact estimation methodology. Owing to its discerning response…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Dongxun Yang , Tonouchi Masayoshi