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2021
Volume: 19 Issue 1
15 Article(s)

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Integrated Optics
Intelligent algorithms: new avenues for designing nanophotonic devices [Invited] | On the Cover
Lifeng Ma, Jing Li, Zhouhui Liu, Yuxuan Zhang, Nianen Zhang, Shuqiao Zheng, and Cuicui Lu
The research on nanophotonic devices has made great progress during the past decades. It is the unremitting pursuit of researchers that realize various device functions to meet practical applications. However, most of the traditional methods rely on human experience and physical inspiration for structural design and parameter optimization, which usually require a lot of resources, and the performance of the designed device is limited. Intelligent algorithms, which are composed of rich optimized algorithms, show a vigorous development trend in the field of nanophotonic devices in recent years. The design of nanophotonic devices by intelligent algorithms can break the restrictions of traditional methods and predict novel configurations, which is universal and efficient for different materials, different structures, different modes, different wavelengths, etc. In this review, intelligent algorithms for designing nanophotonic devices are introduced from their concepts to their applications, including deep learning methods, the gradient-based inverse design method, swarm intelligence algorithms, individual inspired algorithms, and some other algorithms. The design principle based on intelligent algorithms and the design of typical new nanophotonic devices are reviewed. Intelligent algorithms can play an important role in designing complex functions and improving the performances of nanophotonic devices, which provide new avenues for the realization of photonic chips.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 011301 (2021)
Research Articles
Biophotonics
Effect of purification, dehydration, and coagulation processes on the optical parameters of biological tissues
Halil Arslan, and Bahar Pehlivanoz
In this study, the effects of purification, dehydration, and coagulation processes on the absorption and reduced scattering coefficients of chicken liver tissues have been investigated by using a single integrating sphere system. The purification process performed on the tissue samples to remove blood residue has been found to cause a slight change in the optical parameters. Although the dehydration process brings about an increase in the absorption coefficient due to the water loss, no direct relationship has been observed between the reduced scattering coefficient and the dehydration level of the tissue. In addition, it has been observed that there was a relatively small increase in the absorption coefficient and a significant increase in the reduced scattering coefficient after the coagulation process. Therefore, it can be said that the optical penetration depth decreased significantly after dehydration and coagulation processes unlike blood purification. Moreover, fluence rate distributions inside the fresh, blood purified, dehydrated, and coagulated tissue models have been investigated by using the Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport in multilayered tissues simulation code.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 011701 (2021)
Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Physical layer data encryption using two-level constellation masking in 3D-CAP-PON
Shuaidong Chen, Bo Liu, Yaya Mao, Jianxin Ren, Xiumin Song, Rahat Ullah, Delin Zhao, Lei Jiang, Shun Han, Jianye Zhao, Jiajia Shen, and Xueyang Liu
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 010601 (2021)
Wavelength synchronization technology for UDWDM-PON transmitter based on injection locking
Ju Wang, Ting Jia, Shuaishuai Wang, Tianyu Li, Chuang Ma, Tianyuan Xie, Yang Yu, and Jinlong Yu
We propose a concept of wavelength synchronization to ensure the stability of ultra-dense channels in an ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (UDWDM-PON) transmitter. A mode-locked laser is used to provide wavelength references for users. By injection locking the semiconductor laser, the separation of the wavelength reference is realized in an optical line terminal. The downlink and uplink wavelength references are interlaced and distributed to facilitate the synchronization of uplink carriers. In the optical network unit, the uplink optical carriers are filtered by injection locking semiconductor lasers, which achieve wavelength synchronization for the uplink users. In this Letter, an adaptive wavelength synchronization transmitter for UDWDM-PON is realized with a channel spacing of 5 GHz.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 010602 (2021)
Generation of nanosecond cylindrical vector beams in two-mode fiber and its applications of stimulated Raman scattering
Wending Zhang, Lu Zhang, Chao Meng, and Feng Gao
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 010603 (2021)
Imaging Systems and Image Processing
Photonic aided vector millimeter-wave signal generation without digital-to-analog converter
Yanyi Wang, Kaihui Wang, Wen Zhou, and Jianjun Yu
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 011101 (2021)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Optical Sensing
Novel laser Doppler tachometer
Wentao Li, and Jian Zhou
In order to improve the accuracy and universality of the rotational speed measurement, an instantaneous rotational speed measurement method based on laser Doppler technology is proposed. The composition and working principle of the new system are discussed in detail. Theoretical and experimental results show that the new rotational speed measurement system belongs to the non-contact method, which eliminates the quantization error of the contact method and greatly improves the applicability and accuracy. Compared to the commonly used method, the measurement accuracy of the new rotational speed measurement system will not be affected by the system’s installation angle deviation, and it does not need to measure the radius of the rotating body, so the influence of the radius fluctuation of the rotating body on the measurement accuracy can be avoided while outputting the rotational speed in real time. The relative error of the rotational speed measurement is less than 0.06% (1σ).
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 011201 (2021)
Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics
Demonstration of joule-level chirped pulse amplification based on tiled Ti:sapphire amplifier
Keyang Liu, Yanqi Liu, Yunhai Tang, Junchi Chen, Cheng Wang, Xingyan Liu, Xiaobin Wang, Yingbin Long, Yi Xu, Yujie Peng, Xiaoming Lu, Zhengzheng Liu, and Yuxin Leng
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 011401 (2021)
Microwave Photonics
Instantaneous frequency analysis of broadband LFM signals by photonics-assisted equivalent frequency sampling
Yuewen Zhou, Fangzheng Zhang, and Shilong Pan
We propose a photonics-assisted equivalent frequency sampling (EFS) method to analyze the instantaneous frequency of broadband linearly frequency modulated (LFM) microwave signals. The proposed EFS method is implemented by a photonic scanning receiver, which is operated with a frequency scanning rate slightly different from the repetition rate of the LFM signals. Compared with the broadband LFM signal analysis based on temporal sampling, the proposed method avoids the use of high-speed analog to digital converters, and the instantaneous frequency acquisition realized by frequency-to-time mapping is also simplified since real-time Fourier transformation is not required. Feasibility of the proposed method is verified through an experiment, in which frequency analysis of Kα-band LFM signals with a bandwidth up to 3 GHz is demonstrated with a moderate sampling rate of 100 MSa/s. The proposed method is highly demanded for analyzing the instantaneous frequency of broadband LFM signals used in radar and electronic warfare systems.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 013901 (2021)
Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics
Chiral plasmonic nanostructure of twistedly stacked nanogaps
Jian Zhang, Rui Tu, Chao Huang, Xiaoli Yao, Xin Hu, Haixiong Ge, and Xuefeng Zhang
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 013601 (2021)
Process-controllable modulation of plasmon-induced transparency in terahertz metamaterials | Editors' Pick
Hao Sun, Jie Yang, Hengzhu Liu, Dan Wu, and Xin Zheng
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 013602 (2021)
Nonlinear Optics
Facile preparation of silver nanoparticles in bulk silicate glass by high-repetition-rate picosecond laser pulses
Danyang Shen, Jing Qian, Chengwei Wang, Guande Wang, Xuehui Wang, and Quanzhong Zhao
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 011901 (2021)
Optics in Interdisciplinary Research
Magnetically tunable Airy-like beam of magnetostatic surface spin waves | Editors' Pick
Haitao Dai, Zolkefl A. Y. Mohamed, Aixiang Xiao, Yongxiang Xue, Ziyang Guo, Yu Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, and Changlong Liu
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 013501 (2021)
Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
Visual Optics and Displays
Immersive autostereoscopic display based on curved screen and parallax barrier
Junda Guo, Zhihui Diao, Shufeng Yan, Enqi Zhang, and Lingsheng Kong
In this Letter, we present a display system based on a curved screen and parallax barrier, which provides stereo images with a horizontal field of view of 360° without wearing any eyewear, to achieve an immersive autostereoscopic effect. The display principle and characteristics of this display system are studied theoretically in detail. Three consecutive pixels on a curved screen and parallax barrier form a display unit, which can generate separate viewing zones for the left and right eyes, respectively. Simulation and experimental results show that the non-crosstalk effect can be obtained in the viewing zones, which proves the effectiveness of this display system. This study provides some new ideas for the improvement of the autostereoscopic display and to enable envisioned applications in virtual reality technology.
Chinese Optics Letters
  • Publication Date: Jan. 10, 2021
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 013301 (2021)