{"title":"Mechanical Resonance Multiplexed Magnetic Communication via Magnetoelastic Heterostructured WGM Resonator","authors":"Jianglong Li;Jiamin Rong;Enbo Xing;Tao Jia;Guohui Xing;Hongbo Yue;Huimin Zhou;Yanru Zhou;Wenyao Liu;Jun Tang;Jun Liu","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3605609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3605609","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic communication offers stable signal propagation in non-line-of-sight, underwater, and cross-medium environments. Optical whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators, known for their ultrahigh quality factors and sensitivity to weak perturbations, inherently support multiple mechanical modes and can be used for multi-channel parallel magnetic communication. However, the mechanical resonance modes are sparsely distributed and exhibit inconsistent response strengths, which limits the number and reliability of available communication channels. Therefore, we introduce a magneto- elastic heterostructured resonator integrating Terfenol-D to enhance magnetoelastic coupling, which significantly augments the density of frequency domain communication channels with nearly uniform response. Experimental results demonstrate the use of 10 parallel mechanical subcarriers to achieve a total data rate of 12.5 kbps—an order-of-magnitude improvement over single channel designs—with potential for further scalability. By employing multimodal resonance multiplexing with a microcavity-based sensor, our work establishes a new paradigm for high-capacity, short-range magnetic communication in complex environments.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 20","pages":"9742-9750"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuangshuang Han;Fang Wang;Yuchang Wen;Kecheng Li;Hao Zhang;Xinyi Zhao;Xu Wang;Yufang Liu
{"title":"Wide-Range and Sensitivity-Tunable Optical Fiber Microstructures for High-Temperature Detection System","authors":"Shuangshuang Han;Fang Wang;Yuchang Wen;Kecheng Li;Hao Zhang;Xinyi Zhao;Xu Wang;Yufang Liu","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3604456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3604456","url":null,"abstract":"We propose fiber microstructures based on the dispersion-compensated fiber (DCF) for industrial high- temperature detection (1000 °C). The single mode fiber - dispersion compensated fiber - single mode fiber (SDS) sensor achieves a temperature sensitivity of 47.35 pm/°C in the range of 30–110 °C, which is four times greater than that of a typical fiber Bragg grating (10 pm/°C). The single mode fiber - dispersion compensated fiber (SD) sensor based on the Michelson interference (MI) principle is fabricated by splicing a DCF at the end of a single mode fiber (SMF), which effectively suppresses multimode interference and attenuates interference peaks using Fresnel reflection. The sensitivities of the SD fiber sensors with DCF lengths of 7 mm, 8 mm and 9 mm are 62.38 pm/°C, 53.45 pm/°C and 51.25 pm/°C, respectively, in the temperature range of 30–200 °C, and the free spectral range (FSR) of the interference spectra decreases with increasing DCF length. After high-temperature annealing of the fiber microstructures, the internal stress of the DCF can be effectively released, which improves the dispersion compensation performance and reduces the transmission loss. We select SD fiber sensors with a DCF length of 7 mm for high-temperature annealing and then repeat the high-temperature experiments over a wide range of 30–800 °C, and the interference spectra all show consistent redshifts. The temperature sensitivity in the range of 500–800 °C is as high as 106 pm/°C. The refractive index difference between the DCF core and cladding changes as the temperature increases from 800–1000 °C, and the redshift trend of the interference spectrum with increasing temperature is reversed to a blueshift at 920 °C. This sensor, characterized by a wide temperature range, adjustable sensitivity and good repeatability and stability in high-temperature environments, has significant application potential in industrial production.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 20","pages":"9751-9760"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thulium Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers Utilizing Hollow Core Anti-Resonant Fiber Filled With Mxene Ti3c2Tx as Saturable Absorber","authors":"Hang Ren;Zhanhong Nie;Yijian Zhuo;Hao Wu;Zhenglin Wu;Xing Luo;Jiachen Wang;Fanlong Dong;Yanqi Ge;Shoufei Gao;Yinging Wang;Shuangchen Ruan;Chunyu Guo","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3582214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3582214","url":null,"abstract":"We present a simple and compact saturable absorber (SA) fabricated by filling a hollow-core anti-resonant fiber (HC-ARF) with MXene Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub>. The proposed SA exhibits exceptional nonlinear saturable absorption property with a modulation depth of 30% at 2 μm and a remarkably low insertion loss of 3.5 dB, which is realized by manipulating the MXene Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub> thickness coated to the outer tubes of the HC-ARF. Conventional soliton mode locking can be achieved by incorporating the SA into a thulium-doped fiber laser. The pulse width is 1.72 ps and the pulse signal to noise ratio is larger than 70 dB. To the best of our knowledge, it is confirmed for the first time that the filling HC-ARF with MXene Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub> as SA can achieve mode-locking ultrashort pulses operating in the 2 μm band. We believe this work can open a new avenue for exploring the integration of HC-ARF filled with various two-dimensional materials as SA devices.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 18","pages":"8885-8890"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144918189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DRL-Assisted QoT-Aware Service Provisioning in Multi-Band Elastic Optical Networks","authors":"Yiran Teng;Carlos Natalino;Farhad Arpanaei;Haiyuan Li;Alfonso Sánchez-Macián;Paolo Monti;Shuangyi Yan;Dimitra Simeonidou","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3601402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3601402","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-band (MB) optical transmission is a promising solution to support the ever-increasing network capacity demand of 5G/6G applications by exploiting extra optical spectrum beyond the C- and L-bands, such as the L+C+S-band. The extensive spectrum resources and complex physical layer interactions in MB systems present challenges for traditional resource management solutions that are evaluated only for the C-band. Effective algorithms tailored for MB optical networks are needed to enable optical networks to provision services efficiently, thereby reducing service blocking and improving network throughput. In this study, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-assisted framework for dynamic service provisioning in MB elastic optical networks. The proposed DRL framework aims to minimize long-term bit-rate blocking and includes several innovations. First, an accurate quality of transmission estimation model is employed to profile the performance of the supported modulation formats for each channel on pre-computed routes. Within the DRL agent design, a novel state representation incorporating both route-level and band-level features is designed to enhance the DRL agent's ability to perceive the network conditions. Moreover, a new reward function has been developed to enhance performance and accelerate convergence. Simulations are performed using a number of L+C+S MB systems with and without traffic grooming support. The results indicate that the proposed DRL-assisted framework can reduce bit rate blocking by an average of 35% to 85% compared to the existing heuristic methods from the literature while maintaining an appropriate inference time.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 19","pages":"9090-9101"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuromorphic Photonic Spiking Neural Network for Medical Data Classification Based on VCSEL-SA","authors":"Yuhan Tang;Lili Li;Xiao Jiang;Zhouping Huang;Xinyu Zhang;Zhiyong Xiao;Wenjun Zhou;Yiyuan Xie","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3601335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3601335","url":null,"abstract":"Neuromorphic photonic computinghas emerged as a transformative approach in information processing and artificial intelligence, leveraging its inherent advantages of high bandwidth and low latency. In this study, we present an energy-efficient photonic spiking neural network (PSNN) that utilizes a threshold- based encoding scheme to convert medical data into optical stimulus pulses. These pulses are processed through vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers with an embedded saturable absorber (VCSELs-SA), effectively emulating biological synaptic transmission for classification tasks. The network is trained using the Remote Supervised Method (ReSuMe), a supervised learning algorithm that optimizes synaptic weights to align the output spike and the target spike. Combined with Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP), the system demonstrates exceptional classification performance on benchmark medical datasets, achieving training set accuracies of 95.6% and 97.9% on the Pima Indian Diabetes and Wisconsin Breast Cancer datasets, respectively. These results not only validate the efficacy and reliability of our proposed PSNN but also underscore its potential for advanced medical data analysis. To the best of our knowledge, this study represents the first application of PSNN for medical dataset classification. Furthermore, this work expands the application scope of PSNN, highlighting their promise for broader adoption in the medical field as photonic computing technology continues to evolve.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 19","pages":"9290-9299"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Silicon Photonic Tunable CROW Filter With Ultra-Narrow Bandwidth for Carrier-Extracted Self-Coherent Detection","authors":"Haojie Zhu;Yuhao Fang;Weiqi Lu;Jiwei Xie;Dayu Shi;Puzhen Yuan;Yiwei Xie;William Shieh","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3601577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3601577","url":null,"abstract":"The growing demand for high-capacity short-reach optical interconnects in datacenters and 5G fronthaul networks imposes stringent requirements on spectral efficiency, footprint and power consumption. In such applications, silicon photonic (SiP) self-coherent detection emerges as an attractive solution. As an advanced SiP device, microring resonator (MRR) also gains a significant attention due to its design flexibility and wavelength selectivity, heightening its application potential in optical communication systems such as self-coherent detection systems. In this work, we demonstrate a silicon photonic tunable ultra-narrow-bandwidth (UNB) coupled resonator optical waveguide (CROW) filer based on second-order add-drop microring resonators. Under the minimal insertion loss condition for the drop port, we optimize the coupling coefficients to achieve an UNB CROW filter with a low insertion loss. Significantly, the CROW filter has been demonstrated with a 1.26-GHz 3-dB bandwidth, 4.62-GHz 20-dB bandwidth, approximately 4-dB insertion loss and 60-dB extinction ratio (ER) based on a 1-μm-wide ridge waveguide which has a weaker sidewall scattering compared with a strip waveguide. Due to its ultra-narrow bandwidth and high ER, it can provide a good rejection of signal components for a self-coherent signal, thereby a pure optical carrier can be extracted to realize coherent detection without an additional local oscillator (LO). Applied in the carrier-extracted self-coherent (CESC) detection system, achieving a 168.3 Gb/s transmission rate over 100-km standard single mode fiber (SSMF), the performance of this CROW filter is well verified.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 19","pages":"9318-9324"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145061842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wavelength Dependence of Spatial Mode Dispersion in High-Density Randomly Coupled Multi-Core Fiber Cables","authors":"Takayoshi Mori;Ryota Imada;Taiji Sakamoto;Yusuke Yamada;Kazuhide Nakajima","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3601229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3601229","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally and numerically investigate the spatial mode dispersion (SMD) characteristics of randomly coupled multi-core fibers (RC-MCFs) in high-density optical cables. Our experimental results show that cabling tends to reduce both the absolute value and the wavelength dependence of SMD, regardless of the number of cores and refractive index profiles of the RC-MCFs. Heat-cycle tests with temperature variations ranging from –30 °C to +70 °C indicate that SMD variations due to temperature changes remain within 1 ps/<inline-formula><tex-math>$sqrt {text{km}} $</tex-math></inline-formula> across the S–L band. Numerical simulations using a 2-core model suggest that the wavelength dependence of SMD is correlated with the wavelength dependence of the coupling coefficient at the most frequent bending radius (mode bending radius) in the cable. These results demonstrate that the SMD wavelength dependence of RC-MCF in the high-density cable can be reduced by simultaneously optimizing the core pitch, twist rate, and mode bending radius.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 19","pages":"9396-9402"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145061960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jie Feng;Yu Wu;Ruoqi Yang;Rujian Gao;Wei Tang;Kai Jiao;Rongping Wang;Xunsi Wang
{"title":"Mid-Infrared Low-Loss Large-NA GRIN Fiber via Periodic-layered Chalcogenide Glasses","authors":"Jie Feng;Yu Wu;Ruoqi Yang;Rujian Gao;Wei Tang;Kai Jiao;Rongping Wang;Xunsi Wang","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3600909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3600909","url":null,"abstract":"Given the limitations of traditional methods in fabricating mid-infrared gradient-refractive-index (GRIN) fibers with large numerical apertures (NA) at the micrometer scale, this paper proposes a sub-wavelength multilayer periodic structure (MPS) (<λ/n) to achieve the desired GRIN distribution. The proposed fiber structure is designed based on Maxwell-Garnett's effective medium theory (EMT) and fabricated using an innovative isolation-extrusion technique. These fibers not only exhibit a large numerical aperture (NA = 1.448), but also enable the precise control of refractive index gradient profiles. Furthermore, this study explores the intrinsic relationship between the gradient refractive index distribution and the optical field transmission characteristics in the mid-infrared range.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 19","pages":"9414-9424"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145061935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generation of High-Power Femtosecond Cylindrical Vector Beam in an All-Fiber Mamyshev Oscillator","authors":"Jinbo Wang;Zhi Yang;Zhenyu Zhao;Minglei Chen;Zhiguo Lv","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3600892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3600892","url":null,"abstract":"Cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) have attracted significant attention due to their axial symmetry in both polarization and field intensity. However, directly generating high average power ultrashort CVBs in an all-fiber architecture remains a considerable technical challenge. Herein, we integrate all-fiber Mamyshev oscillator (MO) with mode selective coupler (MSC) to generate CVBs exhibiting high average power and short pulse duration. Optimization of the intracavity polarization state and intracavity nonlinear effects enables the generation of CVBs with an average power of 500 mW and the corresponding pulse width compressed to 251 fs. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of high average power, femtosecond CVBs generation in an all-fiber MO. Further optimization in pump power and gain management allows for the generation of harmonic CVBs up to the ninth-order, corresponding to a repetition rate of approximately 210 MHz. These results present an effective approach for generating CVBs in all-fiber lasers, significantly advancing the development of high average power, ultrashort CVBs, and providing an important experimental foundation for the exploration of high repetition frequency CVBs.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 19","pages":"9425-9431"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145061868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Boyang Ni;Dan Zhu;Zhouyang Pan;Jiewen Ding;Shilong Pan
{"title":"Microwave Photonic Frequency Measurement With Large Bandwidth Enabled by Multiple Frequency-to-Time Mapping Curves","authors":"Boyang Ni;Dan Zhu;Zhouyang Pan;Jiewen Ding;Shilong Pan","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2025.3600877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3600877","url":null,"abstract":"A microwave photonic frequency measurement system with a large bandwidth enabled by multiple frequency-to-time mapping (FTTM) curves is proposed and demonstrated. The optical sideband of the signal under test (SUT) is simultaneously mixed with the multiple frequency-sweeping optical sidebands generated from a semiconductor laser working in the period-one state. Multiple FTTM curves are achieved in a single channel due to the use of multiple frequency-sweeping optical sidebands and the square-law detection feature of the photodetector. The mixing products then pass through an electrical bandpass filter and an envelope detector to obtain electrical pulses at low speed. Multiple FTTM curves are exploited jointly to map the frequency of the SUT to the number and time locations of the generated electrical pulses, which can be captured with a low sampling rate. In this way, without introducing complex structures, the measurement bandwidth of the system can be effectively increased while guaranteeing the time and frequency resolutions. In a proof-of-concept experiment, four FTTM curves are realized by using the −1<sup>st</sup> and the −2<sup>nd</sup>-order frequency-sweeping optical sidebands. The instantaneous measurement bandwidth is extended to 39.8 GHz, with the working frequency range from 7.6 to 47.4 GHz and a root-mean-square error of 35 MHz. The frequency resolution is better than 50 MHz when the sweeping period is 50 μs.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"43 19","pages":"9233-9245"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}