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{"title":"High-Precision Triangular Waveform With Tunable Symmetry Photonic Generation Based on Image-Reject Down Conversion","authors":"Miaoxia Yan;Jing Li;Qi Qu;Weichen Zhao;Li Pei;Tigang Ning","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3591043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3591043","url":null,"abstract":"A high-precision triangular waveform with tunable symmetry photonic generation scheme based on in-phase/quadrature-phase modulation and image-reject down conversion is proposed and analyzed. The optical carrier from the laser diode is split into two paths: one is injected into the I/Q modulator driven by a sinusoidal signal, while the other is injected into a frequency shifter to introduce a frequency offset. Different channels have different frequency offsets. The modulated and frequency-shifted signals enter the image-reject mixer to realize optical down conversion and suppress the frequency mixing interference in the frequency conversion process. Finally, the signals from both channels are coupled to synthesize the first to sixth-order harmonic fitting in the Fourier series. High-precision triangular waveforms generation with tunable symmetry coefficients and repetition frequency of 5 GHz are obtained by simulation. In order to verify the mechanism, a proof-of-concept experiment is carried out. This scheme effectively expands the multi-channel spectrum and enables high-precision functional waveform fitting.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 4","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144831865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heater-Tuned Single-Grating Distributed Bragg Reflector Lasers With a Thermal Confinement Waveguide Structure","authors":"Su Ik Park;Oh Kee Kwon;Chul Wook Lee;Dong-Soo Shin;Jong-In Shim","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3588833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3588833","url":null,"abstract":"To evaluate the effect of thermally isolated waveguide structure in a heater-based tunable distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser, the temperature distribution and thermo-optical characteristics are investigated at various heater powers. The reflection spectrum of the DBR is designed, and the tuning characteristics of the fabricated DBR laser are compared with simulation results. It is found that the waveguide temperature increases linearly with the heater power, whereas the effective refractive index increases nonlinearly, resulting in the corresponding nonlinear wavelength-tuning characteristics. In order to obtain efficient thermal tuning characteristics, a thermal isolation structure of the reverse-mesa waveguide is introduced. In this device, the temperature of the waveguide core increases steeply at low tuning power levels, resulting in highly efficient wavelength tuning properties. On the other hand, at high tuning power, the DBR reflection spectrum broadens and the side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) performances degrades. These effects are found to be caused mainly by non-uniform temperature distribution along the longitudinal direction.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 5","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144989999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"High-Modulation Bandwidth and Low-Conversion Loss UTC-PD Optoelectronic Mixer","authors":"Jihong Ye;Yongqing Huang;Mingxi Yang;Shuhu Tan;Xuejie Wang;Xiaomin Ren","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3587600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3587600","url":null,"abstract":"The optoelectronic mixer is a critical component in millimeter-wave (MMW) and terahertz (THz) systems, facilitating the integration between optical fiber and wireless communication technologies. This study elucidates the optoelectronic mixing principles of the uni-traveling carrier photodiode (UTC-PD) and design a structure with high modulation bandwidth and low conversion loss. The designed mixer achieves a modulation bandwidth of 28.1 GHz with a conversion loss of 9.5 dB at a local oscillator (LO) signal frequency of 60 GHz. At LO signal frequency of 100 GHz, the modulation bandwidth decreases to 26.8 GHz, with a corresponding conversion loss of 16.4 dB.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 5","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144990024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Color Crosstalk in Two-Color Mid-Infrared LEDs With and Without Cavity Enhancement","authors":"David A. Montealegre;Weitao Dai;Matthew Z. Bellus;Logan M. Nichols;John P. Prineas","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3586201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3586201","url":null,"abstract":"Mid-infrared (3–<inline-formula> <tex-math>$5~mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>m) LEDs have assumed greater importance optical gas sensors and have been explored for use in midinfrared LED arrays, in both cases to replace thermal pixels. Compared to thermal pixels, mid-infrared LEDs have near instantaneous settling times, achieve higher radiance, can have multi-spectral output, and are safer. Multispectral output creates the possibility of emission into narrowed bands for either sensing multiple gas species or creating dual emission thermal pixel arrays. However, their adoption for these applications is hindered by spectral crosstalk from emission tails at room temperature, and additionally by low efficiency, problematic in dense LED arrays with strict power density requirements. This work explores three approaches to designing two-color mid-infrared LED arrays, targeting reduced spectral crosstalk and lower power requirements: 1) monolithic two-color LEDs; 2) monolithic two-color cavity LEDs; and 3) filtered single-color cavity LEDs combined spatially. Performance metrics, such as power-to-temperature efficiency and radiance-to-crosstalk ratios, are compared across designs. Incorporation of cavities narrows emission, improves spectral radiance by 5–<inline-formula> <tex-math>$10times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and overlap with the emission band, lowers power requirements by ~2–<inline-formula> <tex-math>$3times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and can reduce crosstalk. In-band to cross-band radiance ratio is generally limited to around 10–<inline-formula> <tex-math>$1000times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> for monolithic two-color devices; two single color devices allow external filtering which improves the ratio to <inline-formula> <tex-math>$10^{5}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>–<inline-formula> <tex-math>$10^{7}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Results provide a framework for use of mid-infrared LEDs in multi-gas sensing and two-color mid-infrared LED arrays.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 4","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"High-Power Noise-Like Pulse Generation in a Tm-Ho Co-Doped Fiber Laser","authors":"Longwei Luo;Huanhuan Li;Xinhao Zhou;Can Li;Junjie Zhang;Shiqing Xu","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3584001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3584001","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we demonstrate a high-performance passively mode-locked thulium-holmium (Tm-Ho) co-doped fiber laser utilizing a single-mode fiber-few-mode fiber-single-mode fiber (SMF-FMF-SMF) structure as an effective saturable absorber (SA) for noise-like pulse (NLP) generation. By solely adjusting the output coupling ratio from 30% to 50%, the maximum average output power at a pump power of 4.5 W is significantly increased from 238 mW to 391.2 mW in a single-pulse operation. The corresponding maximum pulse energy reaches 99.5 nJ at a repetition rate of 3.933 MHz, with a broad 3 dB bandwidth of 33.40 nm centered at 1948 nm. The laser exhibits excellent stability, as evidenced by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 69 dB. These results highlight the effectiveness of the SMF-FMF-SMF structure in improving output power and pulse characteristics, offering a promising approach for advancing high-energy mode-locked fiber lasers.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 4","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantum Noise on the Optical Power Spectra of Photonic Oscillators","authors":"Constantinos Valagiannopoulos;Athanasios Gavrielides;Vassilios Kovanis","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3583999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3583999","url":null,"abstract":"Semiconductor lasers are examined in the presence of quantum noise emanated from the gain medium. A pendulum-type, third order differential law for the phase of electric field is employed and the optical power spectrum of the system is rigorously derived as a sum of Lorentzians. The influence of injection level, linewidth enhancement factor, input detuning, and noise strength on the photonic oscillator response is identified. The followed methodology paves the way towards the analytical treatment of quantum noise effect in multiple photonic integrated circuits hosting tunable limit cycles, powerful resonances, and associated hysteresis phenomena.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 4","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thermal and Stress Analysis on Multi-Ridge GaN-Based Laser Diodes","authors":"Minghang Liang;Jiahao Dong;Yu He;Jingxian Liang;Pengyan Wen","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3583998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3583998","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal effects and stress play important roles in both performance and reliability of GaN-based laser diodes, particularly in multi-ridge lasers designed for high-power applications. In this paper, we studied the temperature and stress distributions within a five-ridge GaN-based laser diode. In the cross-ridge direction, the laser chip with a ridge spacing configuration of 64-76-76-<inline-formula> <tex-math>$64~mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula> m exhibited the best temperature uniformity while an isometric ridge spacing of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$60~mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula> m demonstrated the best stress uniformity. Furthermore, we proposed a tapered heatsink design to enhance the temperature and stress uniformity along the ridge. Our results indicated that, in comparison with the conventional structure, the tapered heatsink reduced the temperature difference along the ridge by 59%, leading to relatively lower temperature at both facets. Additionally, the tapered heatsink reduced the average stress by 26%. This study provides theoretical foundations and practical guidelines for the thermal and stress design of semiconductor lasers.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 4","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhanced Performance of Extended Wavelength InxGa1–xAs Focal Plane Arrays via Compositional Overshooting of InxAl1–xAs Buffer Layer","authors":"Xiaojuan Chen;Bowen Liu;Jifeng Cheng;Liyi Yang;Runze Xia;Yingjie Ma;Xiumei Shao;Yi Gu;Xue Li;Haimei Gong;Jiaxiong Fang","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3583238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3583238","url":null,"abstract":"Performances of In0.75 Ga0.25 As focal plane arrays (FPAs) with an extended cutoff wavelength of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$2.2~mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>m are remarkably improved by largely increasing the overshooting composition of the linearly-grading Inx Al<inline-formula> <tex-math>${}_{text {1-x}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> As buffer layer. Zinc-diffused planar <inline-formula> <tex-math>$640times 488$ </tex-math></inline-formula> FPAs with a pixel pitch of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$23~mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>m are fabricated on both the regular and the large overshooting epi-wafers with x=0.77 and x=0.85 for the end compositions of the linearly-grading Inx Al<inline-formula> <tex-math>${}_{text {1-x}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> As, respectively. An order of magnitude lower dark current density of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.1 times 10 ^{-10}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> A/cm2 is achieved at 150 K for the large overshooting FPAs when comparing with <inline-formula> <tex-math>$2.1times 10 ^{-9}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> A/cm2 for the regular FPAs. Suppressed dark signal and dark noise voltages are observed simultaneously over the measured whole integration time range. Moreover, the measured non-uniformity of the light response signal voltage drastically dropped from 16.4% to 2.9% while the peak detectivity substantially jumped from <inline-formula> <tex-math>$7.1 times 10 ^{12}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to <inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.8 times 10 ^{13}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> cmHz<inline-formula> <tex-math>${}^{1/2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>W−1. A signal to noise ratio enhanced laboratory imaging demonstration is also provided. These results suggest the large overshooting epitaxial technology can serve as a highly viable route for the lattice-mismatched Inx Ga<inline-formula> <tex-math>${}_{text {1-x}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> As FPAs towards further performance enhancement.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 4","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Frequency-Modulated Optical Injection Effects in Semiconductor Nano-Lasers","authors":"Yuanlong Fan;Jing Zhang;Teng Shi;K. Alan Shore","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3583245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3583245","url":null,"abstract":"The response of semiconductor nano-lasers to frequency-modulated optical injection is studied theoretically. Such frequency modulation dynamically changes the detuning between the target slave laser and the injecting master laser. A comparison is also made of the behaviour of regular semiconductor lasers when subject to frequency-modulated optical injection. It is shown that both quantitatively and qualitatively different dynamical behaviours arise as the depth and frequency of the frequency modulation are changed. Such differences are revealed in the detail of the laser power spectra. A comparison is also made of the response of regular semiconductor lasers to frequency modulated optical injection where a range of behaviours is again made apparent via the power spectra. It is indicated that there is significant scope for further investigation of the phenomena revealed here.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 4","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 Dependence of Optical-Loop-Based Coherent Ising Machine on Operating Conditions","authors":"Kyo Inoue;Shogo Kitahara;Koji Igarashi","doi":"10.1109/JQE.2025.3583102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2025.3583102","url":null,"abstract":"Coherent Ising machines (CIMs) are optical computers designed to solve combinatorial optimization problems based on the Ising model. Among several variants, the optical-loop-based CIM, which utilizes optical pulses with binary phases circulating in a loop equipped with a pulse-pumped phase-sensitive amplifier (PSA) and a measurement feedback circuit, has experimentally demonstrated high performance in terms of the number of pulses and connectivity. This study numerically investigates the dependence of its calculation performance on operating conditions such as the noise level, coupling strength between pulses, and PSA pump increment rate. The CIM solving Max-Cut problems is simulated using a difference equation based on a traveling-wave model under various operating conditions. The results indicate that noise is not a critical factor, there is an optimal condition for the coupling strength, depending on the graph structure, and slower pump-increment rate leads to higher scores. Under optimal conditions, the simulation produces better calculation results than those previously reported in an experimental study.","PeriodicalId":13200,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics","volume":"61 4","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}