{"title":"Novel Fiber-Optic Chemical Flow Sensing Technology Based on PHMB Sorption Characteristics for CO2 Under Dynamic Fluid Conditions","authors":"Jia-Fu Xu;Bo Han;Zhi-yuan Liu;Ya-nan Zhang;Yong Zhao","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3708866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3708866","url":null,"abstract":"A novel chemical flow sensing technology was proposed in this paper based on the CO<sub>2</sub> absorption characteristics of Polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB) under dynamic fluid conditions. The sensor was a Fabry-Pérot interferometer with approximately 16.19 μm thickness of PHMB coated on the fiber end face. Through experimental research, it was found that the proposed flow sensing method featured low medium dependency. Its flow response characteristics were only related to the CO<sub>2</sub> concentration in the measured gas, independent of other gas components in the gas. Both the flow measurement range and spectral phase variation range increased with the rise of CO<sub>2</sub> concentration. Meanwhile, the sensitivity of the sensor improved as the thickness of PHMB increased, and the sensor exhibited excellent repeatability and stability. This work provided new insights into the functional development of chemical-sensitive materials, and opened up a new path for the industrial applications of precision flow measurement and substance detection.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 17","pages":"7807-7813"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877936","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":"Demonstration of a D-Band Photonics-Aided Terahertz Wireless Communication System Employing I/Q Mixing and ISFA-ERE Algorithm","authors":"Jiali Chen;Jianjun Yu;Ye Zhou;Xin Lu;Hansong Ma;Qinyi Zhang;Sicong Xu;Yifan Chen;Hanyu Zhang;Zhongxiao Pei;Zhihang Ou;Yubin Zhang;Xin Shi;Kaihui Wang;Wen Zhou","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3710699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3710699","url":null,"abstract":"To address the ever-increasing demand for data throughput in evolving wireless communication systems towards 6G, the D-band (110-170 GHz), with its abundant spectrum resources, emerges as a key carrier for ultra-high-speed transmission. This paper experimentally validates a long-distance, high-capacity photonics-assisted terahertz (THz) wireless communication system. To overcome inherent challenges in the THz band, such as high path loss, the receiver innovatively employs an optoelectronic hybrid I/Q mixer, providing natural diversity reception branches. At the signal processing level, the system jointly utilizes diversity reception technology based on Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) and a novel Interleaved Symbol-wise Frequency Averaging Edge Re-Equalization (ISFA-ERE) algorithm designed to mitigate the edge distortion caused by the conventional ISFA technique. This hardware-algorithm co-design significantly enhances the robustness of channel estimation and equalization. Experimental results demonstrate the successful wireless transmission of Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) signals with a carrier frequency of 128 GHz, a transmission distance of 4.6 km, and a bandwidth of 32 GBaud. Under the 20% soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) threshold, the system achieves a maximum data rate of 60 Gbps, marking a significant advancement towards practical kilometer-level, tens-of-Gbps THz communication.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 17","pages":"7489-7499"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877945","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}
Youngin Kim;Laurenz Kulmer;Maiko Fukui;Chenrui Xu;Samuel Hess;Jong-Bum You;Juerg Leuthold;Hua Wang
{"title":"Monolithically Integrated Reconfigurable Silicon Photonic Transmitter in 45 nm CMOS SOI","authors":"Youngin Kim;Laurenz Kulmer;Maiko Fukui;Chenrui Xu;Samuel Hess;Jong-Bum You;Juerg Leuthold;Hua Wang","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3711783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3711783","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a monolithically integrated electro-optic (EO) modulator that provides modulation format reconfigurability for optical communication applications. The proposed reconfigurable EO modulator consists of two parallel sub-modulators arranged in a nested interferometer configuration. By controlling the power splitting/combining ratios and phases of the signals in the modulators, the proposed EO modulator can be reconfigured on demand to generate PAM2/PAM4 and BPSK/QPSK signals in a single monolithic chip. Moreover, to reduce the π-phase-shift voltage, the sub-modulators are realized as ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder modulators. This relaxes the output voltage swing requirements of co-integrated CMOS drivers, which mitigates the bandwidth-swing trade-off, thereby achieving higher modulation speed. Thanks to the co-design and integration, the monolithically integrated CMOS driver supports energy efficiency up to 3.25 pJ/bit. An active area of the chip, fabricated in a GlobalFoundries 45SPCLO, is only 2.48 mm<sup>2</sup>, including the proposed reconfigurable EO modulator and two monolithically integrated CMOS drivers. The proposed chip achieves a measured data rate of 49, 50, 40, 20 Gbps, while consuming a power of 159, 318, 192, 417 mW of driver power for PAM2, PAM4, BPSK, QPSK modulation, respectively.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 17","pages":"7428-7440"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877900","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}
Robert E. Tench;Wiktor Walasik;Alexandre Amavigan;Jean-Marc Delavaux;Colin C. Baker;Daniel Rhonehouse
{"title":"Novel Single Clad Ho-Doped Fiber With High Slope Efficiency and Low Ion Pairing","authors":"Robert E. Tench;Wiktor Walasik;Alexandre Amavigan;Jean-Marc Delavaux;Colin C. Baker;Daniel Rhonehouse","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3711453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3711453","url":null,"abstract":"We report the design and experimental and simulated performance for a 2050 nm band fiber amplifier with high optical-optical slope efficiency and low ion pairing, using a novel high performance single clad Ho3+- (Ho-) doped fiber from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). We measure an optical-optical slope efficiency of 57% using 1 mW input signal power and 1860 nm pumping which we believe is the highest slope efficiency obtained to date for a single clad single stage copumped HDFA. A new method for non-destructive measurement of the ion pairing coefficient in Ho-doped fibers is introduced and validated. Using this method, we link our 57% slope efficiency to a low ion pairing coefficient of 4% in the NRL Ho-doped fiber as derived from our experimental data. We present an overview and survey of the ion pairing results for Ho-doped fiber amplifiers and lasers reported so far in the literature.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 17","pages":"7701-7705"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877908","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":"Joint Modulation and Coding Recognition for Underwater Wireless Optical Communication in Turbid and Bubble-Disturbed Channels","authors":"Meiwei Kong;Feiying Zhang;Hui Zhou;Han Yu;Qunhui Yang;Chen Chen;Harald Haas","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3706971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3706971","url":null,"abstract":"Joint modulation and coding recognition (JMCR) can provide the receiver with a complete perception of the transmission format, thereby directly supporting adaptive demodulation and decoding. However, under the combined influence of turbidity and bubble disturbance, the received signals will suffer from amplitude attenuation, signal distortion, and time-varying envelope fluctuation, making the reliable recognition of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) extremely challenging. To address this issue, we propose a JMCR method based on a parallel heterogeneous multi-task learning framework for turbid and dynamic underwater environments. This framework is composed of an in-phase and quadrature sequence representation module, a parallel convolutional neural network-residual network feature extraction module, a bidirectional gated recurrent unit-based temporal dependency modeling module, and a correlation-aware multi-task recognition module, which are used to extract complementary features, capture temporal dependencies, and improve joint recognition consistency. For 24 MCSs composed of 4/16/64 quadrature amplitude modulation and 4/8/16 phase shift keying modulation formats, along with low-density parity-check codes (with code rates of 0.50 and 0.75) and Polar codes (with code rates of 0.25 and 0.50) coding schemes, we conduct feasibility verification of the proposed method in composite underwater environments with turbidity and bubble disturbance in the laboratory. The results show that the average JMCR accuracy of the proposed method reaches 92.7% under 16 underwater conditions, which includes the 0.6% performance improvement brought about by the correlation-aware supervision. This indicates that the proposed method has great application potential in composite underwater environments with turbidity and bubble disturbance.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 17","pages":"7543-7553"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877889","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":"Phase-Modulated Dual-Frequency Fiber Lasers: A Power Scalable and Temporally Stable Architecture for High-Power Systems With Enhanced Nonlinearity Suppression","authors":"Jiaxin Song;Hanshuo Wu;Wei Liu;Pengfei Ma","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3712046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3712046","url":null,"abstract":"Temporally stable fiber lasers are essential for high-power applications due to their high nonlinear thresholds, with power scalability being critical for practical use. This work proposes and demonstrates a phase-modulated dual-frequency fiber laser (PM DFFL) architecture by utilizing two phase-modulated single-frequency lasers (PM SFFLs) separated by a controlled frequency interval. The proposed scheme leverages cascaded four-wave mixing to generate a multi-peak spectrum while preserving high temporal stability, thereby substantially reducing the spectral power density and thus alleviating stringent constraints on modulation parameters. When seeded into a Yb-doped fiber amplifier, the PM DFFL delivers a pump-limited output power of 2 kW and exhibits a 36.7 dB improvement in the signal-to-Raman ratio relative to a conventional fiber oscillator. Moreover, when employed as the Raman pump source in a Yb-Raman hybrid gain fiber laser system, the PM DFFL achieves performance comparable to that of high-bandwidth PM SFFLs in mitigating spectral broadening and suppressing second-order Raman scattering. These results validate the PM DFFL as a cost-effective and scalable strategy for high-power, temporally stable laser systems.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 17","pages":"7723-7728"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877886","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}
Zonglin Lei;Xiaoyu Yang;Muxin Jia;Quan Chai;Roman V. Romashko;Jianzhong Zhang
{"title":"Chaotic Pulse Mismatched Compression Φ-OTDR for Extended Sensing Bandwidth","authors":"Zonglin Lei;Xiaoyu Yang;Muxin Jia;Quan Chai;Roman V. Romashko;Jianzhong Zhang","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3709742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3709742","url":null,"abstract":"Phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (Φ-OTDR) offers high-precision detection over long distances, but its sensing bandwidth is inherently limited by the decreasing pulse repetition frequency (PRF) with increasing fiber length. Conventional methods often employ signal multiplexing across different frequency bands to overcome this limitation, which consumes additional frequency resources. To avoid this, we propose a chaotic pulse mismatched compression (CPMC) scheme for Φ-OTDR. By exploiting the quasi-orthogonality of chaotic pulses, the method prevents demodulation failure caused by the time-frequency coherent overlap of adjacent Rayleigh backscattering (RBS) signals, breaks the sensing bandwidth limitation imposed by fiber length, and suppresses the generation of spurious phases induced by the noise floor after pulse compression. As a result, the sensing bandwidth is enhanced without requiring complex system configurations or additional frequency resources, thereby meeting the requirements of most engineering applications.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 17","pages":"7764-7773"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877888","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}
Zong Cao;Xiaobei Zhang;Qi Zhang;Zhifeng Zhou;Yaowen Yao;Zijie Wang;Yanhua Dong;Yi Huang;Tingyun Wang
{"title":"Photothermal-Enabled Simultaneous Flow Rate Detection and Liquid Identification in Microbottle Resonators","authors":"Zong Cao;Xiaobei Zhang;Qi Zhang;Zhifeng Zhou;Yaowen Yao;Zijie Wang;Yanhua Dong;Yi Huang;Tingyun Wang","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3710966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3710966","url":null,"abstract":"Hollow microbottle resonators (HMBRs) are widely utilized for microfluidic sensing, due to inherent microfluidic channels and resonance-enhanced sensitivity. Here, we demonstrate a microfluidic HMBR sensor based on the photothermal effect, capable of high-sensitivity flow rate detection and liquid identification. The principle is the thermal bistability response varying with flow rate and type of internal liquid, which modulate thermal conductivity. Theoretically, the dependence of HMBR thermal conductivity on thermal bistability response is verified, and the influence of flow rate and liquid type on thermal conductivity are simulated. Experimentally, a maximum flow rate sensitivity of -23.543 pm/(μL/min) is obtained even at a low pump power of 10 mW, and identification of liquid type is achieved by analyzing the spectral variations with flow rate. Furthermore, demodulation of these two properties is realized by employing optical barcode method to monitor spectral multimode variations simultaneously. The proposed scheme offers an alternative method for microfluidic sensing and characterization.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 17","pages":"7774-7780"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877928","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":"Toward 100 ppt-Level CH3CN Sensing: A THz Detection Solution Enabled by a Low-Loss Long-Coiled PP/Ag-Coated Hollow Waveguide","authors":"Sheng Liu;Yingdi Fei;Guangning Hou;Xiaowen Li;Feng Liu;Chengbin Jing;Junhao Chu","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3708711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3708711","url":null,"abstract":"Polymer/metal-coated hollow waveguides (HWGs) have emerged as a transformative platform for terahertz (THz) trace gas sensing, which integrate THz wave transmission and gas-wave interaction within a single compact structure. However, existing externally Ag-coated HWG-based acetonitrile (CH<sub>3</sub>CN) sensors are fundamentally limited by inherent structural bottlenecks, restricting their detection limit to 10 ppb and hindering practical field deployment. To address this critical challenge, we develop a low-loss, highly flexible PP/Ag-coated HWG, and demonstrate its capability to push room-temperature CH<sub>3</sub>CN sensing to the 100 ppt-level. Targeting the characteristic absorption peak of CH<sub>3</sub>CN at 275.6 GHz, we optimize the dual-wavelength ultraviolet activation and silver-plating processes, enabling the fabrication of 200 cm-long HWGs with a low transmission loss of 0.96 dB/m. Systematic experimental investigations across 50∼200 cm waveguide lengths and 10∼20 cm bending radii identify the optimal configuration: a 150 cm HWG coiled at a 20 cm radius. The optimized sensor achieves a record LOD of 100 ppt for CH<sub>3</sub>CN, with a high sensitivity of 0.0134 dB/ppb, ultrafast response/recovery times of 3.5/4.0 s, excellent selectivity against 8 common interfering gases, robust thermal stability from −78.5 to 60 °C, and long-term reliability. This work breaks the LOD bottleneck of room-temperature CH<sub>3</sub>CN sensors and provides a versatile, fully engineerable platform for miniaturized high-performance THz gas sensors.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 17","pages":"7814-7820"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877943","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}