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We introduce a new optical component - a rotated chirped volume Bragg grating (r-CBG) - that spatially resolves the spectrum of a normally incident light beam in a compact footprint and without the need for subsequent free-space propagation…

The unique spectral behavior exhibited by a class of non-uniform Bragg periodic structures, namely chirped and apodized fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) influenced by parity and time reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, is presented. The…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-18 S. Vignesh Raja , A. Govindarajan , A. Mahalingam , M. Lakshmanan

Semiconductor quantum dots embedded in circular Bragg gratings (CBGs) are among the most efficient integrated single-photon sources. However, the fully etched rings of conventional CBGs restrict the implementation of charge and Stark tuning…

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) demand tailored spectral responses for various applications. On-chip Bragg filters offer a promising solution, yet their static nature hampers scalability. Current tunable filters rely on volatile…

Time-varying media, characterized by dynamic or spacetime-modulated constitutive parameters such as permittivity and permeability, have recently emerged as a transformative paradigm for advanced wave control, transcending the constraints…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Youxiu Yu , Hao Hu , Qianru Yang , Linyang Zou , Dongjue Liu , Hao Chi Zhang , Yu Luo

A high speed quasi-distributed demodulation method based on the microwave photonics and the chromatic dispersion effect is designed and implemented for weak fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). Due to the effect of dispersion compensation fiber…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-04 Lei Zhou , ZhengYing Li , Na Xiang

We introduce an experimental technique for complete phase-sensitive characterization of arbitrary unitary spectral-temporal transformations of optical modes. Our method recovers the complex spectral transfer function, or Green's function,…

We investigate the dynamics of modulational instability (MI) in $\cal PT$-symmetric fiber Bragg gratings with a phenomenon of intermodulation known as four-wave mixing (FWM). Although the impact of FWM has already been analyzed in the…

We reveal previously unnoticed Type II perfect absorption and amplification modes of optical scattering system. These modes, in contrast to the counterparts in recent works [Phys. Rev. A 82, 031801 (2010); Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 093902…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-05 C. Y. Huang , R. Zhang , J. L. Han , J. Zheng , J. Q. Xu

Fiber Bragg Gratings have been advantageously used to improve the chaotic properties of semiconductor lasers. Though these components are known to be highly sensitive to environmental conditions, feedback phase fluctuations are often…

We develop a systematic theory for optimising single-photon frequency conversion using optical Bragg scattering. The efficiency and phase-matching conditions for the desired Bragg scattering conversion as well as spurious scattering and…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-27 Simon Lefrancois , Alex S. Clark , Benjamin J. Eggleton

Energy conversion in a physical system requires time-translation invariance breaking according to Noether's theorem. Closely associated with this symmetry-conservation relation, the frequencies of electromagnetic waves are found to be…

Based on the interaction between different spatial modes, semiconductor Bragg-reflection waveguides provide a highly functional platform for non-linear optics. Therefore, the control and engineering of the properties of each spatial mode is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 B. Pressl , T. Günthner , K. Laiho , J. Geßler , M. Kamp , S. Höfling , C. Schneider , G. Weihs

Time varying media recently emerged as promising candidates to fulfill the dream of controlling the wave frequency without nonlinear effects. However, frequency conversion remains limited by the dynamics of the variations of the propagation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Benjamin Apffel , Emmanuel Fort

The first demonstration of narrowband spectral filtering of multimode light on a 3D integrated photonic chip using photonic lanterns and waveguide Bragg gratings is reported. The photonic lanterns with multi-notch waveguide Bragg gratings…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-12 Izabela Spaleniak , Simon Gross , Nemanja Jovanovic , Robert J. Williams , Jon S. Lawrence , Michael J. Ireland , Michael J. Withford

We study the low frequency wave propagation behavior of sandwich beams containing periodically embedded internal resonators. A closed form expression for the propagation constant is obtained using a phased array approach and verified using…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Bhisham Sharma , Chin-Teh Sun

Photonic time-stretch overcomes the speed limitation of conventional digitizers, and enables the observation of non-repetitive and statistically rare phenomena that occur on short timescales. In most of the time-stretch applications, large…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-15 Liao Chen , Xin Dong , Ningning Yang , Lei Zhang , Xi Zhou , Zihui Lei , Chi Zhang , Xinliang Zhang

We discuss a phase-sensitive technique for remote interrogation of passive Bragg grating Fabry-Perot resonators. It is based on Pound-Drever-Hall laser frequency locking, using radio-frequency phase modulation sidebands to derive an error…

Space-time modulation adds another powerful degree of freedom to the manipulation of classical wave systems. It opens the door for complex control of wave behavior beyond the reach of stationary systems, such as nonreciprocal wave transport…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Junfei Li , Xiaohui Zhu , Chen Shen , Xiuyuan Peng , Steven A. Cummer

We investigate the modulational instability of plane waves in quadratic nonlinear materials with linear and nonlinear quasi-phase-matching gratings. Exact Floquet calculations, confirmed by numerical simulations, show that the periodicity…

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