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2017
Volume: 15 Issue 2
19 Article(s)

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Optoelectronics
Vertical integration of self-rolled-up microtube and silicon waveguides: a two-channel optical add–drop multiplexer
Setareh Sedaghat, and Abbas Zarifkar
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 022501 (2017)
Upstream dispersion management of 25 Gb/s duobinary and PAM-4 signals to support 0–40  km differential reach | On the Cover
Honglin Ji, Lilin Yi, Lei Xue, and Weisheng Hu
We extensively discuss 25 Gb/s per wavelength capacity in both IEEE and ITU-T standardization to support the increasing bandwidth requirement. In this Letter, we propose to use the optical dispersion compensation technique in an optical line terminal (OLT) combined with a bandwidth-limited electro-absorption modulated laser in an optical network unit to achieve 25 Gb/s capacity for the upstream link. We evaluate the positive and negative dispersion tolerances of 25 Gb/s electrical duo-binary (EDB) and pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM-4) signals. We achieve 39.5 and 31 dB upstream loss budgets for the 25 Gb/s EDB and PAM-4 signals by using 600 and 500 ps/nm optical dispersion compensation in OLT, respectively, both supporting 0–40 km differential reach.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 022502 (2017)
Research Articles
Atmospheric and oceanic optics
Retrieval of Cn2 profile from differential column image motion lidar using the regularization method
Zhi Cheng, Fengfu Tan, Xu Jing, Feng He, Lai’an Qin, and Zaihong Hou
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 020101 (2017)
Optical and hygroscopic properties of Asian dust particles based on a horizontal Mie lidar: case study at Hefei, China
Guangyu Bo, Chidong Xu, Aiyue Li, Yanfei Wang, Haiyan Chen, and Yuqiang Jiang
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 020102 (2017)
Diffraction and Gratings
Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Generation of passively Q-switched fiber laser at 1  μm by using MoSSe as a saturable absorber
H. Ahmad, S. A. Reduan, S. N. Aidit, and Z. C. Tiu
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 020601 (2017)
Air turbulence effects on performance of optical wireless communication with crosstalk in server backplane
D. Elmakias, D. Bykhovsky, and S. Arnon
Free space optical interconnections (FSOIs) are anticipated to become a prevalent technology for short-range high-speed communication. FSOIs use lasers in board-to-board and rack-to-rack communication to achieve improved performance in next generation servers and are expected to help meet the growing demand for massive amounts of inter-card data communication. An array of transmitters and receivers arranged to create an optical bus for inter-card and card-to-backplane communication could be the solution. However, both chip heating and cooling fans produce temperature gradients and hot air flow that results in air turbulence inside the server, which induces signal fading and, hence, influences the communication performance. In addition, the proximity between neighboring transmitters and receivers in the array leads to crosstalk in the received signal, which further contributes to signal degradation. In this Letter, the primary objective is to experimentally examine the off-axis crosstalk between links in the presence of turbulence inside a server chassis. The effects of geometrical and inter-chassis turbulence characteristics are investigated and first-and second-order statistics are derived.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 020602 (2017)
Temperature-insensitive refractive index sensor based on Mach–Zehnder interferometer with two microcavities
Yinfeng Wang, Sumei Wang, Lan Jiang, Hua Huang, Liuchao Zhang, Peng Wang, Lingya Lv, and Zhitao Cao
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 020603 (2017)
Holography
Integrated Optics
Numerical evaluation of radiation and optical coupling occurring in optical coupler
Mansour Bacha, and Abderrahmane Belghoraf
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 021301 (2017)
Lasers and Laser Optics
Propagation of a filamentary femtosecond laser beam with high intensities at an air-solid interface
Zuoye Liu, Yanghua Zhang, Jingjie Ding, Shaohua Sun, and Bitao Hu
The propagation of a filamentary laser beam at an air-glass surface is studied by setting the incident angle satisfying the total reflection condition. The images of the trajectory of the filamentary laser beam inside the sample and the output far-field spatial profiles are measured with varying incident laser pulse energies. Different from the general total reflection, a transmitted laser beam is detected along the propagation direction of the incident laser beam. The energy ratio of the transmitted laser beam depends on the pulse energies of the incident laser beam. The background energy reservoir surrounding the filament core can break the law of total reflection at the air-glass surface, resulting in the regeneration of the transmitted laser beam.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 021401 (2017)
Intra-cavity round-trip loss measurement of all-solid-state single-frequency laser by introducing extra nonlinear loss
Yongrui Guo, Huadong Lu, Qiwei Yin, and Jing Su
A scheme for measuring the intra-cavity round-trip loss of an all-solid-state single-frequency laser by inserting a type-I noncritical phase-matching nonlinear crystal introducing nonlinear loss into the resonator is presented. The intra-cavity round-trip loss is theoretically deduced by analyzing the dependence of the fundamental-wave (FW) and second-harmonic-wave (SHW) powers on the pump factor and the nonlinear conversion factor of the single-frequency laser and experimentally measuring them by recording different FW and SHW powers, which are decided by the temperature of the nonlinear crystal. The measured intra-cavity round-trip loss and pump factor are 4.84% and 6.91% W 1, respectively. The standard deviations of the measured intra-cavity round-trip loss and the pump factor are 0.26% and 0.07%, respectively. This scheme is very suitable for measuring the intra-cavity round-trip loss of a high-gain solid-state single-frequency laser.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 021402 (2017)
Experimental research of laser-induced periodic surface structures in a typical liquid by a femtosecond laser
Youwang Hu, Haoming Yue, Ji’an Duan, Cong Wang, Jianying Zhou, Yunpeng Lu, Kai Yin, Xinran Dong, Wenyi Su, and Xiaoyan Sun
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 021404 (2017)
Nonlinear Optics
Origin and suppression of back conversion in a phase-matched nonlinear frequency down-conversion process
Jingui Ma, Jing Wang, Peng Yuan, Guoqiang Xie, and Liejia Qian
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 021901 (2017)
Optical Design and Fabrication
Periodic surface structures on Ni–Fe film induced by a single femtosecond laser pulse with diffraction rings | Editors' Pick
Kan Zhou, Xin Jia, Huixia Xi, Jukun Liu, Donghai Feng, Shian Zhang, Zhenrong Sun, and Tianqing Jia
This Letter reports the formation of periodic surface structures on Ni–Fe film irradiated by a single femtosecond laser pulse. A concave lens with a focus length of 150 mm is placed in front of an objective (100×, NA=0.9), which transforms the Gaussian laser field into a ring distribution by the Fresnel diffraction. Periodic ripples form on the ablation area after the irradiation of a single femtosecond laser pulse, which depends on the laser polarization and laser fluence. We propose that the ring structure of the laser field leads to a similar transient distribution of the permittivity on the sample surface, which further launches the surface plasmon polaritons. The interaction of the incident laser with surface plasmon polaritons dominates the formation of periodic surface structures.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 022201 (2017)
Optics at Surfaces
Observing the spin Hall effect of pseudothermal light through weak measurement
Bin Cao, Dong Wei, Pei Zhang, Hong Gao, and Fuli Li
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 022401 (2017)
Remote Sensing and Sensors
Efficient multi-bands image compression method for remote cameras
Jin Li, Fengdeng Liu, and Zilong Liu
In this Letter, we propose an efficient compression algorithm for multi-spectral images having a few bands. First, we propose a low-complexity removing spectral redundancy approach to improve compression performance. Then, a bit plane encoding approach is applied to each band to complete the compression. Finally, the experiments are performed on multi-spectral images. The experiment results show that the proposed compression algorithm has good compressive property. Compared with traditional approaches, the proposed method can decrease the average peak signal noise ratio by 0.36 dB at 0.5 bpp. The processing speed reaches 23.81 MPixels/s at the working frequency of 88 MHz, which is higher than the traditional methods. The proposed method satisfies the project application.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 022801 (2017)
Thin films
Optical property of an antireflection coating fabricated by an optimal spin-coating method with a pH-modified SiO2 nanoparticle solution
Chyan-Chyi Wu, Cheng-Chih Hsu, Yu-Chian Lin, Chia-Wei Chiang, and Ching-Lian Dai
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2017
  • Vol. 15, Issue 2, 023101 (2017)