{"title":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics Topic Codes and Topics","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3533274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3533274","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 1: SiGeSn Infrared Photon. and Quantum Electronics","pages":"C4-C4"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10885402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143403925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mingjun Zhao;Leah Dickstein;Akshay S. Nadig;Wenjun Zhou;Santosh Aparanji;Hector Garcia Estrada;Shing-Jiuan Liu;Ting Zhou;Weijian Yang;Aaron Lord;Vivek J. Srinivasan
{"title":"Comprehensive Optimization of Interferometric Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (iDWS)","authors":"Mingjun Zhao;Leah Dickstein;Akshay S. Nadig;Wenjun Zhou;Santosh Aparanji;Hector Garcia Estrada;Shing-Jiuan Liu;Ting Zhou;Weijian Yang;Aaron Lord;Vivek J. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3537642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3537642","url":null,"abstract":"Light speckle fluctuations provide a means for noninvasive measurements of cerebral blood flow index (CBFi). While conventional Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) quantifies these fluctuations to provide marginal brain sensitivity for CBFi in adult humans, new techniques have emerged to improve diffuse light throughput and brain sensitivity. Here we further optimize one such approach, interferometric diffusing wave spectroscopy (iDWS), with respect to the number of independent channels, camera duty cycle and full well capacity, incident laser power, noise and artifact mitigation, and data processing. We build the system on a cart and define conditions for stable operation. We show pulsatile CBFi monitoring at 4–4.5 cm source-collector separation in adults with moderate pigmentation (Fitzpatrick 4). We also report preliminary clinical measurements of patient CBFi in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit (Neuro ICU). These results push the boundaries of iDWS CBFi monitoring performance beyond previous reports.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 4: Adv. in Neurophoton. for Non-Inv. Brain Mon.","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Metrics and Loss Mechanisms in Horticulture Luminescent Solar Concentrators","authors":"Zhijie Xu;Yue Yu;Ioannis Papakonstantinou","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3540601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3540601","url":null,"abstract":"Horticulture Luminescent Solar Concentrators (HLSCs) represent an innovative concept developed in recent years to promote crop yields, building upon the foundation of traditional Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs). Unlike traditional LSCs, HLSCs focus on converting energy from one part of the solar spectrum (typically green) to a specific range (usually red) and aim for the converted photons to exit the device from the bottom surface rather than the edge surfaces. Thus, beyond spectral conversion, HLSCs are especially notable for their light extraction capabilities. Efficient spectral conversion and outcoupling efficiency are achieved by optimizing luminescent materials and introducing light extraction techniques. In this study, we start by examining the specific requirements of horticulture to clarify the motivation for using HLSCs. We re-evaluate and propose new optical metrics tailored to HLSCs. Additionally, we analyse potential loss channels for direct red emission and converted red emission. Utilizing Monte Carlo ray tracing method and experimental data, we further explore the factors influencing these loss channels. The key evaluation metrics for HLSC and LSC are compared to highlight the distinctions between the two, emphasizing the innovative features of the HLSC device. Our work provides a fundamental discussion on HLSCs and offers design guidelines for future HLSC research.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 6: Photon. for Climate Chng. Mitigation and Adapt.","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oxide-Aperture Scaling of Cryogenic Microcavity Surface Emitting Laser for Ultrafast Optical Link","authors":"Derek Chaw;Haonan Wu;Zetai Liu;Milton Feng","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3540892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3540892","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of cryogenic computing including quantum computers and superconducting processors requires energy-efficient data links capable of operating between room and cryogenic temperatures. In this work, we report the first high-speed microcavity laser achieved by scaling the oxide-aperture diameter of Cryo-VCSEL from 6.8 μm (typical cavity size) to 1.8 μm (microcavity) for ultrafast optical links. We investigated the scaling of laser cavity size through measurements of the oxide-aperture diameter and calculations of laser spectrum modal separation. The microcavity Cryo-VCSEL demonstrates an ultrahigh bandwidth, f-3dB > 50 GHz at a minimal bias current of 1mA (I/ITH = 3.5x) at 40 K. Furthermore, it achieves a 112 Gbps PAM-4 data rate with TDECQ = 3.30 dB at I = 6 mA, revealing that microcavity lasers are a viable solution for ultrafast data links, achieving energy efficiency of less than 10 fJ/bit.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 2: Pwr. and Effic. Scaling in Semiconductor Lasers","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter Ossieur;Bart Moeneclaey;Gertjan Coudyzer;Joris Lambrecht;Jan Craninckx;Ewout Martens;Joris Van Driessche;Cedric Bruynsteen;Jonas De Busscher;Jakob Declercq;Ye Gu;Shengpu Niu;Tinus Pannier;Nishant Singh;Lucas Van Severen;Laurens Bogaert;Dennis Maes;Tom Vanackere;Ewoud Vissers;Jing Zhang;Sulakshna Kumari;Ruud Oldenbeuving;Xuebing Zhang;Gijs Van Elzakker;Joris Van Campenhout;Philippe Absil;Bart Kuyken;Xin Yin;Guy Torfs;Jeroen Missinne;Geert Van Steenberge;Gunther Roelkens;Johan Bauwelinck
{"title":"Integrated Photonics and Electronics for Optical Transceivers Supporting AI/ML Applications","authors":"Peter Ossieur;Bart Moeneclaey;Gertjan Coudyzer;Joris Lambrecht;Jan Craninckx;Ewout Martens;Joris Van Driessche;Cedric Bruynsteen;Jonas De Busscher;Jakob Declercq;Ye Gu;Shengpu Niu;Tinus Pannier;Nishant Singh;Lucas Van Severen;Laurens Bogaert;Dennis Maes;Tom Vanackere;Ewoud Vissers;Jing Zhang;Sulakshna Kumari;Ruud Oldenbeuving;Xuebing Zhang;Gijs Van Elzakker;Joris Van Campenhout;Philippe Absil;Bart Kuyken;Xin Yin;Guy Torfs;Jeroen Missinne;Geert Van Steenberge;Gunther Roelkens;Johan Bauwelinck","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3539379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3539379","url":null,"abstract":"The recent proliferation of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications relying on large language models is fueling unprecedented demand for compute capacity. Associated with this is a need to scale capacities of short-reach optical transceivers towards multiplex Terabit/s, while maintaining integration density (frontpanel or beachfront density) and energy efficiency (pJ/bit). One option to scale transceiver capacity is to increase the bandwidth per lane from today's 200 G to 400 G or even higher: coherent transceiver technology is then expected to play an ever more important role. Photonics and electronics with higher bandwidths beyond 100 GHz will play a crucial role. Integration of thin-film LiNbO3 modulator onto a Silicon Photonics platform is shown to be a viable option to meet the needs for new generations of optical transceivers. Front-end electronics such as linear modulator drivers and transimpedance amplifiers can rely on traveling-wave design approaches to allow continued bandwidth scaling despite (relative) slowing transistor speeds. Novel wireline data converter architectures can be used to overcome limitations of existing implementations. Maintaining signal integrity from photonics and electronics can be facilitated using both 2.5D and 3D integration approaches. While the introduction of novel materials and architectures will require time to further mature, optical transceivers operating at baudrates up to and beyond 200 Gbaud are now just beyond the horizon.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 3: AI/ML Integrated Opto-electronics","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143521527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Achleitner;Alessandro Trenti;Philip Walther;Hannes Huebel
{"title":"Distribution of GHz Sequential Time-Bin Entanglement in a Metropolitan Fiber Network","authors":"Martin Achleitner;Alessandro Trenti;Philip Walther;Hannes Huebel","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3539921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3539921","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient generation and high-quality distribution of entanglement is becoming increasingly more relevant in the field of quantum technologies, with important applications such as multiparty computation as well as quantum key distribution (QKD) on the rise. Quantum communication protocols based on entanglement offer an inherent quantum based randomness for key generation and provide in general higher security compared to prepare and measure implementations. Moreover, the future quantum internet will also be based on the distribution of entanglement for securely connecting quantum computers in a network. In this work we show the feasibility of using sequential time-bin entangled states for quantum key distribution in metropolitan networks using off-the-shelf components. The time-bin encoding ensures high fidelity distribution robust against random polarisation fluctuations occuring in optical fibers. Modulated laser pulses in the GHz frequency range are used to generate time-bin entangled photon pairs. The entangled photons are then sent over an about 30 km long (9.5 dB loss) fiber link within the Vienna fiber network, showing high degree of distributed entanglement with a measured 93% quantum visibility.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 5: Quantum Materials and Quantum Devices","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143489171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abdullah Demir;Ali Kaan Sünnetçioğlu;Kaveh Ebadi;Babak Olyaeefar
{"title":"Technological Approaches Addressing Reliable Output Power Limits in High Power Edge-Emitting Lasers","authors":"Abdullah Demir;Ali Kaan Sünnetçioğlu;Kaveh Ebadi;Babak Olyaeefar","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3533568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3533568","url":null,"abstract":"High-power edge-emitting lasers are essential in numerous applications due to their energy-efficient lasing and compact size. However, their reliable output power is often limited by catastrophic optical mirror damage (COMD), primarily caused by self-heating and elevated facet temperatures. Despite advancements in material growth, facet passivation, epitaxial design, and packaging, reliability remains a significant issue. This study introduces two innovative waveguide designs to mitigate self-heating and enhance reliable output power: a 2-section waveguide and a distributed waveguide (DWG). Both designs separate the heat-generating lasing region from the output facet by incorporating a passive section that is electrically isolated but optically connected to the laser section. The 2-section design places a long passive section near the facet, significantly reducing its temperature, while the DWG design employs periodic lasing and passive sections to enhance heat dissipation along an extended cavity length. Experimental results show that both designs effectively lower facet temperatures below the laser body temperature, enabling higher power operation. The 2-section lasers achieve COMD-free operation under high power, thereby improving reliability. These results demonstrate that advanced waveguide structures can significantly enhance the reliability of the laser output facet and pave the way for semiconductor lasers with significantly increased lifetime.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 2: Pwr. and Effic. Scaling in Semiconductor Lasers","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143403901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing External Cavity Laser Diode Performance Through Optimized Fano Spectrum Feedback Configuration","authors":"Hongbo Qiao;Yunxiang Sun;Zhibiao Hao;Changzheng Sun;Lai Wang;Bing Xiong;Jian Wang;Hongtao Li;Yanjun Han;Lin Gan;Yi Luo","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3536449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3536449","url":null,"abstract":"Laser diodes with narrow linewidth are essential for optical communication, spectral analysis, and precision measurement. This study reinterprets the linewidth narrowing mechanism in external-cavity diode lasers (ECDLs) from a perspective that the noise-induced frequency fluctuations are suppressed by the rapidly varying phase in frequency domain introduced by the external cavity. We highlight the importance of the localized high slope in the rising edge of the feedback spectrum in forming stable narrow linewidth laser modes. Based upon this understanding, we introduce an alternative to traditional Lorentzian optical feedback. We demonstrated that asymmetric lineshapes, such as Fano, can serve as the optical feedback of ECDLs with enhanced performance. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations reveal that Fano-based external cavity lasers, benefiting from a feedback spectrum with a steeper local slope than Lorentz-based cavities, can achieve superior linewidth narrowing under the same fabrication conditions. This study offers a novel approach for the design and application of narrow linewidth laser diodes.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 5: Quantum Materials and Quantum Devices","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143465729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}