{"title":"A method of metasurface collimating pulsed laser diode for lidar emission system","authors":"Zewu Liu, Lei Yang, Chengxiang Guo, Hongbo Xie","doi":"10.1117/12.2687862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2687862","url":null,"abstract":"Metasurfaces can overcome the shortcomings of traditional lenses, such as large volume, heavy weight and difficult aberration correction. However, based on the diffraction principle, metasurfaces have serious chromatic aberration and lower efficiency than traditional glass lenses, so they need to be used with monochromatic laser illumination. Therefore, metasurfaces are the best choice for lidar systems to realize miniaturization and lightweight design. The lidar emitting system usually uses a 905nm pulsed laser diode (PLD) as the light source, which requires two cylindrical lenses to collimate the laser beam in the X and Y directions separately. In this paper, two metasurfaces is designed in different areas of the same substrate to collimate the laser beam. By folding the light path through the right-angle prism, the beam passes through two metasurfaces successively, which are responsible for collimating the rays in the X and Y directions respectively. After collimation, the divergence angles of the rays are less than 0.3°×0.1°. By attaching a microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror behind the metasurfaces to realize scanning, we can obtain the lidar emitting system. By using metasurfaces to replace the traditional cylindrical lenses, the weight and size of the lidar emitting system can be greatly reduced. With further research on metasurface technology, metasurfaces are expected to replace the traditional lenses and even the scanning device in lidar, so as to realize highly integrated chip-level lidar.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"1 1","pages":"127650P - 127650P-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139216651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yong Hu, Shaoliang Yu, Qingyang Du, Xiaoshun Jiang
{"title":"Low threshold Brillouin lasing with hybrid modes of coupled silica microtoroids","authors":"Yong Hu, Shaoliang Yu, Qingyang Du, Xiaoshun Jiang","doi":"10.1117/12.2686831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2686831","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally demonstrated a stimulated Brillouin laser with hybrid modes, utilizing two coupled silica microtoroid cavities. The first cavity consists of paired modes with a frequency difference close, but not exactly equal, to its Brillouin frequency shift. The second cavity has a resonant mode that is close to one of the modes of the first cavity. The strong coupling between the two similar frequency modes induces mode splitting, resulting in the generation of a hybrid paired mode. This hybrid mode comprises one eigenmode from the first cavity and the super-modes of the coupled microtoroids. By finely tuning the coupling strength to match the frequency difference between the paired modes and the Brillouin shift, we achieve Brillouin lasing. Furthermore, the offset of the frequency shifting in the hybrid modes configuration is much smaller than the Brillouin frequency shift, significantly reducing coupling loss and enabling the realization of a lowthreshold Brillouin laser. We experimentally observed a lasing threshold as low as 0.45 mW, which is two orders of magnitude lower than that of the direct super-modes frequency matching method. This novel approach relaxes the strict requirement of exact frequency matching conditions for Brillouin lasing, making it an excellent platform for compact and ultra-low threshold Brillouin lasers.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"26 1","pages":"127730P - 127730P-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139217640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-power and narrow-linewidth semiconductor laser with silicon nitride microring","authors":"Xin Zhang, Yilu Wu, Qingsong Bai, Yuqi Hu, Wei Xiong, Zhengmao Wu, Dan Lu, Jiagui Wu, Guangqiong Xia","doi":"10.1117/12.2688993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2688993","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a high power InGAsP distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser coupling with an ultra-high-Q silicon nitride microring, we proposed a hybrid integration semiconductor laser scheme for realizing high power and narrow linewidth. For such a scheme, the high power DFB laser serves as the light source, whose output is efficiently coupled into the input waveguide port of ultra-high-Q silicon nitride microring through a silicon lens. Under the optical feedback provided by the Rayleigh scattering in the inhomogeneity silicon nitride microring, the laser may be driven into the self-injected locking state, under which the lasing linewidth can be obviously narrowed. The experimental results demonstrate that, adopting such a hybrid integration scheme, the lasing linewidth can be narrowed to 10 kHz and meanwhile the output power is maintained at the level of 20 mW. The hybrid integration semiconductor lasers have application prospects in some fields simultaneously requiring high coherence and high power, such as LiDAR and long-distance coherence communication.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"45 1","pages":"1276405 - 1276405-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139220606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and design of optical system for the defocused light field cameras","authors":"Weiqi Lu, Jiacheng Zhu, Weimin Shen","doi":"10.1117/12.2689079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2689079","url":null,"abstract":"As a snapshot 3D imaging technology, light field imaging is able to obtain the 3D information of objects in a single exposure and widely used in numerous fields. The paper analyzed the 3D imaging principles of defocused light field camera and elaborated the relationships between its performance indexes and structural parameters, then a performance index system of defocused light field camera was established. An image-telecentric optical system of defocused light field camera with wavelength range of 0.4-0.9μm, field-of-view of 24.5°, F-number of 5 was designed detailly. Aimed at the lack of a unified image quality evaluation method for defocused light field camera, it was proposed to add pupil aberration as an additional evaluation index on the basis of classical image quality evaluation. The result indicates that the designed defocused light field camera achieved excellent image quality and all indexes met the requirements.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"2 1","pages":"127650U - 127650U-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139224011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qichao Wang, Qiang Zhang, Xinyan Ma, Kun Yin, Hui Yu
{"title":"Design of a high phase-shift efficiency wide-tuning silicon nitride filter","authors":"Qichao Wang, Qiang Zhang, Xinyan Ma, Kun Yin, Hui Yu","doi":"10.1117/12.2685992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2685992","url":null,"abstract":"Silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits with ultra-low loss are widely used in applications such as telecommunications and optical sensing. However, the radiation loss increases rapidly as the radius is reduced, resulting in large-sized silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits. The weak thermo-optical effect limits the high-efficiency, low-power consumption applications. In this paper, a stepped index waveguide structure is studied to reduce the bending loss by enhancing the mode confinement. A bend with a radius of 30μm is designed using Ansys MODE. Polymer with a high thermo-optic coefficient is used as the cladding of the silicon nitride waveguide to improve the tuning performance of the phase shifter. The grooves around the waveguide also acts as an adiabatic trench to increase the efficiency of the thermal electrode. A π phase shift under thermal tuned power of 7.5mW is achieved with a 300μm long silicon nitride waveguide. Finally, a cascaded silicon nitride micro-ring resonator with radius of 50μm is designed to achieve an efficient filter with a wide tuning range of 116nm. This scheme provides a novel approach for high-density, wide-tunable and miniaturized devices in silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"8 1","pages":"1276406 - 1276406-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139224240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiaqi Li, Lin Li, Lihui Wang, Leijin Li, Shaoyong Li
{"title":"Active milliseconds zooming and tracking optics based on liquid lenses and a high-speed gaze controller","authors":"Jiaqi Li, Lin Li, Lihui Wang, Leijin Li, Shaoyong Li","doi":"10.1117/12.2686749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2686749","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional method of monitoring cameras is employed in robot vision, surveillance cameras, and so on. However, it cannot track as fast as expected due to the large inertia of the camera and mechanical pan-tilt. It also decreases the optical resolution because of the digital zoom on the interest area. Therefore, we proposed high-speed zooming and tracking optics that consists of an optical zooming unit and an active tracking unit. The two units are designed with coaxial optical paths by a beam splitter. The zooming unit is built with three liquid lenses, one glass lens, and a high-speed camera. It can continuously change the magnification from 1x to 2x. By controlling the optical powers of three liquid lenses, the focal length of the zooming unit can be changed from 40 to 80 mm within milliseconds. The tracking unit composed of a high-speed mirror-based gaze controller, a high-speed camera, and pupil shift optics, can track the object and keep it in the center of both views. In addition, the zooming unit provides a compensation algorithm for the zooming unit to achieve adaptive zoom accurately. The experiment shows that the zooming unit performs adaptive optical zoom, and the tracking unit recognizes the object by adaptive tracking algorithm within 6 milliseconds.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"23 1","pages":"1276505 - 1276505-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139224731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruixi Tang, Xinyu Zheng, Qianqian Zhang, Jiang Wang, Ning Wang, Jie Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Yong Zhu
{"title":"A study on the improvement of sensitivity consistency in Sagnac photoacoustic sensing system","authors":"Ruixi Tang, Xinyu Zheng, Qianqian Zhang, Jiang Wang, Ning Wang, Jie Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Yong Zhu","doi":"10.1117/12.2687229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2687229","url":null,"abstract":"Fiber optic acoustic sensing system based on Sagnac interference is widely used in the field of perimeter security. However, the sensitivity of acoustic response varies drastically with frequency, which has become a bottleneck limiting the development of Sagnac photoacoustic sensing technology. An elastic structure is proposed to improve the sensitivity consistency of the photoacoustic sensing system based on Sagnac interference at different frequencies. The elastic structure of optical fiber pickup was optimized by finite element analysis, Solidworks and Comsol. Simulation results show that the designed titanium alloy-based elastomeric structure with a diameter of 110 mm, a height of 100 mm, and an elastomer wall thickness of 3 mm has significantly improved the consistency of the sensitivity of the acoustic response at different frequencies. This work provides a possibility for the application scenario expansion of photoacoustic sensing system based on Sagnac interference.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"10 1","pages":"1277208 - 1277208-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139225259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huajian Jin, Zijian Lin, Weijie Hao, Y. Ye, Sheng Xu, Qun Yan, Tailiang Guo, Enguo Chen
{"title":"Design of micro-LED pico-projection optical engine based on an image fiber","authors":"Huajian Jin, Zijian Lin, Weijie Hao, Y. Ye, Sheng Xu, Qun Yan, Tailiang Guo, Enguo Chen","doi":"10.1117/12.2687360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2687360","url":null,"abstract":"Micro light-emitting diode (Micro-LED) has the advantages of high brightness, low power consumption, and long life. It has great potential and broad application prospects. Using micro-LED as the light source and image source of the projection system can greatly reduce the size and power consumption of the system. However, the electrical module and the optical module of the micro-LED pico-projection system cannot be separated. This paper uses image fiber to effectively separate the electrical module and optical module in the optical engine, and designs a micro-LED pico-projection optical engine based on an image fiber. This optical engine is composed of a projection lens group, an image fiber and a micro-LED. The projection lens group is composed of 5 spherical lenses, with the total length of 6.752mm and the focal length of 2.8mm. The modulation transfer function (MTF) is higher than 0.8@32lp/mm, and the distortion is below 2%. The image fiber adopts a multi-core fiber with a diameter of 2mm and a resolution of 32lp/mm. Finally, the overall simulation model of the optical engine is built to prove its feasibility.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"16 1","pages":"127650A - 127650A-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139225456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sergey N. Mantsevich, E. Kostyleva, Vladimir Khorkin
{"title":"Dual optical frequency combs generation with frequency-shifted feedback laser, method, and applications","authors":"Sergey N. Mantsevich, E. Kostyleva, Vladimir Khorkin","doi":"10.1117/12.2687195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2687195","url":null,"abstract":"Generation of dual-combs in frequency shifted feedback laser seeded only with optical amplifier spontaneous emission and containing single frequency shifting loop with single acousto-optic tunable filter as the frequency shifter is demonstrated. It is also shown that it is possible to obtain a pair of dual-combs simultaneously and to implement further down-conversion achieving the frequency spacing between the spectral components of the resulting optical comb equal to the frequency difference of these dual-combs and amounting to several tens of kHz. The OFC with 40 kHz frequency spacing containing more than 5000 spectral lines was observed. It is demonstrated that the generated dual-combs may be applied for optical materials refraction coefficient measurements.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"69 1","pages":"127680R - 127680R-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139232173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. A. Sovetsky, A. Matveyev, A. A. Zykov, V. Zaitsev, L. Matveev
{"title":"OCT-specific signal features for semi-automatic semantic scans annotation and segmentation","authors":"A. A. Sovetsky, A. Matveyev, A. A. Zykov, V. Zaitsev, L. Matveev","doi":"10.1117/12.2686858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2686858","url":null,"abstract":"Computer vision approaches have grown exponentially in recent years. Training AI models often requires annotated data. To increase effectiveness of this procedure one can use semi-automatic semantic annotation tools where some simplified approaches (based either on some pretrained models or visible features parameters) are implemented and manually tuned to isolate specific objects. OCT-signals contain information-bearing specific speckle structure and signal attenuation patterns. The parameters of these patterns corresponds to tangible tissue properties (such as scatterers spatial distributions), therefore can be used to construct semi-automatic semantic annotation tools. Using OCT-signal simulation approaches we evaluate the parameters of speckle patterns and attenuation coefficients and propose novel semantic annotation tools for OCT scans. We demonstrate the performance of semi-automatic 3D segmentation and annotation. This tool can be used as a supportive tool for AI applications as well as independent tool for semi-automatic scans segmentations and further characterization.","PeriodicalId":149506,"journal":{"name":"SPIE/COS Photonics Asia","volume":"119 1","pages":"127700O - 127700O-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139230260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}