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2020
Volume: 18 Issue 11
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Research Articles
Atomic and Molecular Optics
Scaling law in nonsequential double ionization by counter-rotating two-color circularly polarized laser fields
Mian Peng, and Lihua Bai
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 110201 (2020)
Diffraction and Gratings
Chirped pulse amplification: review and prospective from diffractive optics [Invited] | Editors' Pick
Changhe Zhou
It is well-known that the chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technique won the award for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to Mourou and Strickland. The compression and stretching using gratings is the essence of the CPA technique for amplifying femtosecond laser pulses. It seems the public is less aware that there are also other structures for compression and stretching of femtosecond laser pulses using other diffractive gratings, such as doubled-density gratings and deep-etched gratings. Therefore, from the view of diffractive optics, the CPA technique is reviewed with different approaches and experimental implementations that are not only useful for a more comprehensive retrospective overview of CPA, but also for the prospective of the CPA technique, which might lead us to new areas of picometer and femtometer optics in the future.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 110502 (2020)
Diffraction, Gratings, and Holography
Screen printing of upconversion NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+ with Li+ doped for anti-counterfeiting application
Dongdong Li, Jianye Mo, Chong Wang, Wei Liu, Haibo Ge, Dongdong Han, Aihua Hao, Baoyu Chai, and Jiangbo She
Li ions affect the upconversion efficiency by changing the local crystal field of the luminescent center. Herein, in order to improve the upconversion efficiency of NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+, a series of NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+ micro-particles with different Li+ doping concentrations were synthesized by the hydrothermal synthesis method, respectively. Firstly, the structure and morphology of NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+ upconversion micro-particles (UCMPs) with different doping concentrations were analyzed by X-ray diffraction and a scanning electron microscope (SEM). SEM results show that the UCMPs are not only highly crystallized, but also have hexagons with different Li+ concentrations of NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+. X-ray diffraction shows that the crystal field around Eu3+ changes with the increase of Li+ concentration. Then, the fluorescence spectrum of NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+ was studied under the irradiation of a 980 nm laser. The results show that the fluorescence intensity of NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+ with 2% Li+ is the strongest, which is twice the intensity of NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+ without Li+. Finally, the fluorescence imaging analysis of NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+ with 2% Li+ concentration was carried out. The UCMPs are used to screen printing to evaluate the imaging effect on different sample surfaces. The results show NaYF4:Yb3+/Eu3+ (with 2% Li+) has great application prospects in anti-counterfeiting recognition.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 110501 (2020)
Experimental demonstration of generating arbitrary total angular momentum states
Heng Zhou, Chunqing Gao, Shiyao Fu, Yanwang Zhai, and Jianqiang Zhang
We experimentally demonstrated an approach to generate arbitrary total angular momentum (TAM) states by using two liquid crystal devices. Photons’ TAM, the sum of spin and orbital angular momenta (SAM and OAM) under paraxial approximation, has found many applications in optics and attracted increasing attention in recent years. Our approach is based on the orthogonality of two eigen SAM components, that arbitrary TAM states will be produced through encoding different holograms in one system. The comparison with theoretical predications yields an excellent agreement, including both the separable state and the non-separable state. The proposed scheme takes a step forward for generating complex structured fields and broadens its application to various fields like laser processing and large capacity data transmission.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 110503 (2020)
Flat transmitted serrated-phase high-contrast-index subwavelength grating beam splitter
Gongqing Li, Xiaofeng Duan, Yongqing Huang, Kai Liu, and Xiaomin Ren
We proposed a method to form a flat transmitted serrated-phase (SP) high-contrast-index subwavelength grating (HCG) beam splitter (HBS) for all dielectric materials, which is to alternately arrange two kinds of grating bars with a phase difference of π. Compared to the typical linear-phase (LP) HBS, which consists of two symmetrical deflecting gratings, the SP-HBS is extensible in size, and can achieve excellent splitting ability regardless of normal incidence or small-angle oblique incidence with large deflection angles, higher diffraction efficiency, lower energy loss, and higher tolerance of fabrication accuracy. Furthermore, the incident light can be split in half at any part of the SP-HBS, and the output beams of light maintain the original shape. In this Letter, we designed an SP-HBS with a 44.8° deflection angle and a 90.28% transmissivity.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 110504 (2020)
Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Dual-services generation using an integrated polarization multiplexing modulator
Feng Zhao, Jianjun Yu, and Jingling Li
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 110601 (2020)
Visible light communication for Vehicle to Everything beyond 1 Gb/s based on an LED car headlight and a 2 × 2 PIN array
Chaofan Wang, Guoqiang Li, Fangchen Hu, Yiheng Zhao, Junlian Jia, Peng Zou, Qiuyi Lu, Jiang Chen, Zhongya Li, and Nan Chi
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 110602 (2020)
Infrared and Terahertz Photonics
Terahertz radiation enhancement in photoconductive antennas with embedded split-ring resonators
Hu Deng, Weiwei Qu, Quancheng Liu, Zhixiang Wu, and Liping Shang
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 113701 (2020)
Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics
First-Stokes and second-Stokes multi-wavelength continuous-wave operation in Nd:YVO4/BaWO4 Raman laser under in-band pumping | On the Cover
Li Fan, Xiaoyu Wang, Xiaodong Zhao, Jianhui Wang, Jun Shen, Huibo Fan, Jun Zhu, and Mingya Shen
A continuous-wave Nd:YVO4/BaWO4 Raman laser generating simultaneous multi-wavelength first-Stokes and second-Stokes emissions is demonstrated for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. Investigations concerning different pump spot sizes and crystal lengths were conducted to improve the thermal effect and pump absorption. Three first-Stokes lasers at 1103.6, 1175.9, and 1180.7 nm and two second-Stokes lasers at 1145.7 and 1228.9 nm are obtained simultaneously using the Raman shifts of 925 cm-1 and 332 cm-1 in BaWO4 and 890 cm-1 in YVO4. At the incident pump power of 23.1 W, 1.24 W maximum Raman output power is achieved, corresponding to an optical conversion efficiency of 5.4%. We also present a theoretical analysis of the competition between different Stokes lines.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 111401 (2020)
Design and analysis of a range-extended acidity detector based on a Nile red laser with tandem cuvette system
Yuwei Fang, Junjie Cheng, Shengbo Wang, Chun Gu, Gang Zou, Hai Ming, and Lixin Xu
A range-extended acidity detector based on Nile red was designed and analyzed in this work. In light of the good lasing property and solvatochromism characteristic of Nile red/ethanol solution, we have obtained laser spectra of sulfuric acid in different concentrations doped in this substrate. Moreover, to expand the acidity detection range, we proposed a tandem cuvette system containing rhodamine 6G/ethanol and Nile red/ethanol. Consequently, the detection range could be enlarged from 26 nm to 40 nm, by changing not only the wavelength peak but also by the intensity ratio of dual-wavelength laser output. In addition, by changing the detection and substrate materials, the whole detection range could be expanded, and therefore a wide range of applications in polarity and acidity detection could be implemented via this method.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 111402 (2020)
Impact of pre-pulse current and delay time on 46.9 nm laser with larger inner diameter alumina capillary
Muhammad Usman Khan, Yongpeng Zhao, Dongdi Zhao, Huaiyu Cui, Ziyue Cao, Bo An, and Feifei Zhang
In this Letter, we firstly, to the best of our knowledge, demonstrated the influence of pre-pulse current and delay time on the intensity of a discharge pumped Ne-like Ar soft X-ray laser operating at 46.9 nm by employing an alumina capillary having an inner diameter of 4.8 mm. Specifically, the delay time was changed from 8 to 520 μs in small intervals. The pre-discharge current was increased from 25 A to 250 A through small steps, while keeping the main discharge current constant. Usually, a small pre-discharge current is applied to an Ar-filled capillary to attain a plasma column having sufficient pre-ionization before the injection of the main current. The pre-discharge current of 140 A was declared the best current to obtain lasing with a 4.8 mm diameter capillary. The laser spots were captured at best time delays for the pre-discharge currents of 25, 45, 80, 140, and 250 A, which support the experimental results. We observed that by applying the pre-discharge current of 140 A, the laser spot exhibits small divergence, higher symmetry, and uniformity, which is clear evidence of strong amplification. The laser spot obtained at 140 A is cylindrically symmetric and has a better structure than those reported by all other groups in the literature. Hence, the laser spot indicates that the laser beam is highly focusable and beneficial for the applications of the 46.9 nm laser. Results of this Letter might open a new way to enhance applications of a 46.9 nm capillary discharge soft X-ray laser.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 111403 (2020)
No prior recognition method of modulation mode by partition-fractal and SVM learning method
Shanshan Li, Qi Zhang, Xiangjun Xin, Ran Gao, Sitong Zhou, Ying Tao, Yufei Shen, Huan Chang, Qinghua Tian, Feng Tian, Yongjun Wang, and Leijing Yang
A modulation classification method in combination with partition-fractal and support-vector machine (SVM) learning methods is proposed to realize no prior recognition of the modulation mode in satellite laser communication systems. The effectiveness and accuracy of this method are verified under nine modulation modes and compared with other learning algorithms. The simulation results show when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the modulated signal is more than 8 dB, the classifier accuracy based on the proposed method can achieve more than 98%, especially when in binary phase shift keying and quadrature amplitude shift keying modes, and the classifier achieves 100% identification whatever the SNR changes to. In addition, the proposed method has strong scalability to achieve more modulation mode identification in the future.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 111404 (2020)
Nonlinear Optics
Liquid metal as a broadband saturable absorber for passively Q-switched lasers | Editors' Pick
Tianqi Zhang, Mudong Wang, Yang Xue, Jinlong Xu, Zhenda Xie, and Shining Zhu
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 111901 (2020)
Efficient 671 nm red light generation in annealed proton-exchanged periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguides | Editors' Pick
Yunfei Niu, Lei Yang, Dongjie Guo, Yan Chen, Xiaoyang Li, Gang Zhao, and Xiaopeng Hu
We report efficient generation of 671 nm red light based on quasi-phase-matched second harmonic generation of 1342 nm in LiNbO3 waveguides. The design method and fabrication process of the high-quality annealed proton-exchanged periodically poled channel waveguides were presented. A continuous-wave 1.71 mW red light was obtained with a single-pass conversion efficiency of 47%·W-1·cm-2, which is 88% that of the theoretical value. While for 1 mW quasi-continuous-laser input, the corresponding peak power being 2 W, the conversion efficiency reached up to 60%. Our results indicate that the annealed proton-exchanged periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguide is promising for high-efficiency and low power consumption nonlinear generation of visible light.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 111902 (2020)
Optoelectronics
Ultraviolet-infrared dual-color photodetector based on vertical GaN nanowire array and graphene
Chunhong Zeng, Wenkui Lin, Tao He, Yukun Zhao, Yuhua Sun, Qi Cui, Xuan Zhang, Shulong Lu, Xuemin Zhang, Yameng Xu, Mei Kong, and Baoshun Zhang
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 112501 (2020)
X-ray Optics
High efficiency X-ray diffraction diagnostic spectrometer with multi-curvature bent crystal
Jun Shi, Tong Yao, Miao Li, Guohong Yang, Minxi Wei, Wanli Shang, and Feng Wang
In spectral diagnostic physics experiments of inertial confinement fusion, the spectral signal is weak due to the low diffraction efficiency when using bent crystals. A spectral diagnostic instrument with high efficiency and wide spectral range is urgently needed. A multi-curvature bent crystal with multi-energy focusing ability is proposed based on the traditional conical crystal geometry. It has advantages of wide spectral range, strong focusing ability, and high spectral resolution. It also can eliminate the imaging aberration in principle due to rotational symmetry for the incoming X rays. A spectral diagnostic experiment based on a fabricated multi-curvature α-quartz crystal was accomplished using a titanium X-ray tube of the bent crystal, and the corresponding experimental data using a plane α-quartz crystal was also acquired to demonstrate the strong focusing ability. The result shows that the Kα intensity of the multi-curvature α-quartz crystal is 157 times greater than that of the plane crystal, and the corresponding energy range is about 4.51–5.14 keV. This diagnostic instrument could be combined with a streak camera at a vertical direction so as to intensify the diffracted X-ray signal with a wide spectral range.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 113401 (2020)