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A simple optical circuit made by a cascade of two graphene-on-silicon electro absorption modulators (EAMs) of different length is used for the optical pre-emphasis of 10 Gb/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signals by delay-inverse-weight…

Integrated thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) modulators are emerging as an appealing solution to high-speed data processing and transmission due to their high modulation speed and low driving voltage. The key step in fabricating integrated…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-27 Yifan Qi , Gongcheng Yue , Ting Hao , Yang Li

In this paper, we propose a low complexity graph-based linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) equalizer in order to remove inter-symbol and inter-stream interference in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Pinar Sen , Ali Ozgur Yilmaz

A 16-channel optical phased array is fabricated on a gallium arsenide photonic integrated circuit platform with a low-complexity process. Tested with a 1064 nm external laser, the array demonstrates 0.92{\deg} beamwidth, 15.3{\deg}…

We report a highly efficient tunable THz reflector in graphene. By applying a small gate voltage (up to 3 V), the reflectance of graphene is modulated from a minimum of 0.79% to a maximum of 33.4% using graphene/ionic liquid structures at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Yang Wu , Xuepeng Qiu , Hongwei Liu , Jingbo Liu , Yuanfu Chen , Lin Ke , Hyunsoo Yang

We develop an improved phase calibration method of a reflective spatial light modulator (SLM) using interferometry by employing novel phase masks. We generate the optimised phase masks by using Iterative Fourier Transform Algorithm (IFTA)…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Amar Deo Chandra , Ayan Banerjee

High harmonic generation (HHG) from semiconductors and insulators has become a very active area of research due to its great potential for developing compact HHG devices. Here we show that by growing monolayers (ML) of insulators on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Néstor F. Aguirre , Fernando Martín

We propose and discuss terahertz electro-absorption modulators based on graphene plasmonic structures. The active device consists of a self-gated pair of graphene layers, which are patterned to structures supporting THz plasmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez , Rusen Yan , Mingda Zhu , Debdeep Jena , Lei Liu , Huili Grace Xing

Dynamic color modulation in the composite structure of graphene microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)- photonic crystal microcavity is investigated in this work. The designed photonic crystal microcavity has three resonant standing wave…

Phase-change materials (PCMs) have emerged as promising active elements in silicon (Si) photonic systems. In this work, we design, fabricate, and characterize a hybrid Si-PCM optical modulator. By integrating vanadium dioxide (a PCM) within…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Kevin J. Miller , Kent A. Hallman , Richard F. Haglund , Sharon M. Weiss

Perturbations to the effective refractive index from nanometer-scale fabrication variations in waveguide geometry plague high index-contrast photonic platforms including the ubiquitous sub-micron silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process. Such…

Experiments with trapped ions and neutral atoms typically employ optical modulators in order to control the phase, frequency, and amplitude of light directed to individual atoms. These elements are expensive, bulky, consume substantial…

Transmitting data using the phases on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a promising solution for future energy-efficient communication systems. Recent work showed that a virtual phased massive multiuser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Wai-Yiu Keung , Hei Victor Cheng , Wing-Kin Ma

We present in this letter a scheme for optical interferometry. We utilize coherent-beam-stimulated two-mode squeezed light, which interacts with a phase shifter and is then squeezed again before detection. Our theoretical device has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 William N. Plick , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. S. Agarwal

Portable mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy and sensing applications require widely tunable, narrow linewidth, chip-scale, single-mode sources without sacrificing significant output power. However, no such lasers have been demonstrated…

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

We successfully demonstrate a monolithic integrated dual-polarization (DP) IQ modulator based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform with a silicon substrate, which consists of IQ modulators, spot-size converters (SSCs) and a…

We present the experimental evidence of RF demodulation by a graphene monolayer embedded in a coplanar structure. The demodulator was tested in the frequency range from 100 MHz to 25 GHz using amplitude modulated input signals. An input…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mircea Dragoman , Dan Neculoiu , Alina Cismaru , George Deligeorgis , George Konstantinidis , Daniela Dragoman

The coherent dynamics of a quantum mechanical two-level system passing through an anti-crossing of two energy levels can give rise to Landau-Zener-St\"uckelberg-Majorana (LZSM) interference. LZSM interference spectroscopy has proven to be a…

Reconfigurable photonic systems featuring minimal power consumption are crucial for integrated optical devices in real-world technology. Current active devices available in foundries, however, use volatile methods to modulate light,…