{"title":"Performance improvement of an upconversion device through optimized carrier injection balance.","authors":"Xiaoyu Wang, Yuanhong Hu, Lixiang Chen, Haijun Jiang, Zhoudao Wang, Yanlian Lei","doi":"10.1364/OL.551584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.551584","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Enhancing carrier injection balance in near-infrared (NIR) to visible upconversion devices (UCDs) is crucial for improving efficiency and stability. This study presents the incorporation of an insulating polymer (polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)) between an aluminum cathode and an electron transport layer to reduce excess electrons in a light-emitting layer, thus balancing electrode-injected electrons and NIR-generated holes. The optimized device achieved a fivefold increase in maximum luminance and upconversion efficiency compared to the control. Additionally, it demonstrated a fast optical response, a broad optical modulation range, and significant potential for bioimaging applications, achieving a maximum resolution of 1693 dpi. This approach provides an effective solution for enhancing carrier injection balance in UCDs.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1361-1364"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optics lettersPub Date : 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1364/OL.541177
Chao Liu, Ziyang Zhao, Tianjing Guo, Jie Xu, Xiaohua Deng, Kai Yuan, Rongxin Tang, Kosmas L Tsakmakidis, Lujun Hong
{"title":"Robust multimode interference and conversion in topological unidirectional surface magnetoplasmons.","authors":"Chao Liu, Ziyang Zhao, Tianjing Guo, Jie Xu, Xiaohua Deng, Kai Yuan, Rongxin Tang, Kosmas L Tsakmakidis, Lujun Hong","doi":"10.1364/OL.541177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.541177","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We have theoretically investigated surface magnetoplasmons (SMPs) in an yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) sandwiched waveguide. The dispersion demonstrated that this waveguide can support topological unidirectional SMPs. Based on unidirectional SMPs, magnetically controllable multimode interference (MMI) is verified in both symmetric and asymmetric waveguides. Due to the coupling between the modes along two YIG-air interfaces, the asymmetric waveguide supports a unidirectional even mode within a single-mode frequency range. Moreover, these modes are topologically protected when a disorder is introduced. Utilizing robust unidirectional SMP MMI (USMMI), tunable splitters have been achieved. It has been demonstrated that mode conversion between different modes can be realized. These results provide many degrees of freedom to manipulate topological waves.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1253-1256"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optics lettersPub Date : 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1364/OL.543303
H Y Kim, Z Pi, E Goulielmakis
{"title":"Carrier-envelope-phase-independent field sampling of single-cycle transients using homochromatic attosecond streaking.","authors":"H Y Kim, Z Pi, E Goulielmakis","doi":"10.1364/OL.543303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.543303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The recent development of homochromatic attosecond streaking (HAS) has enabled a novel, highly precise method for ultrafast metrology of attosecond electron pulses as well as for real-time sampling of the instantaneous field waveforms of light transients. Here, we evaluate the potential of HAS as a method for precisely sampling the field waveform of non-phase-stabilized single-cycle transients of light. We show that the extreme nonlinearity of field emission and the core properties of HAS as a field sampling technique allow one to track the waveform of a single carrier-envelope phase (CEP) setting whose field dynamics results in the most energetic electron cutoff. Our results establish HAS as a robust, compact, all-solid-state method for characterizing light fields with attosecond-level precision and as a powerful tool in light field synthesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1093-1096"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cascaded stimulated polariton scattering in a dual-Stokes cavity terahertz parametric oscillator.","authors":"Feilong Gao, Zecheng Wang, Qi Song, Yiyan Xie, Mingzhe Jiang, Bingyuan Zhang","doi":"10.1364/OL.546597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.546597","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Terahertz polariton sources based on the stimulated polariton scattering (SPS) can generate the terahertz wave with a narrow linewidth and continuous tunability. A single SPS process has limited conversion efficiency due to the Manley-Rowe relation. In this Letter, we implement a dual-Stokes cavity structure within an intracavity terahertz parametric oscillator (TPO) to achieve a two-order cascaded SPS process. As a result, the dual-Stokes cavity TPO demonstrates an increment of 29% in terahertz output power compared to that obtained in the non-cascaded SPS configuration.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1401-1404"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fano resonances of coupled magnetic-dipole modes in a dielectric triplet for precise discrimination of deep-subwavelength microspheres.","authors":"Guoyan Dong, Yiran Wang, Xiang Zhao, Yutao Qin, Zheng Zhu, Jiaxiang He","doi":"10.1364/OL.547319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.547319","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mie resonances in dielectric particles play a crucial role in light-matter interaction, characterized by strong multipolar optical responses and low dissipative losses. This study presents an innovative methodology for precise discrimination of the size and quantity of deep-subwavelength microspheres by leveraging Fano resonances in coupled magnetic-dipole (MD) modes of a CaTiO<sub>3</sub>-ceramic-particle triplet. The multifaceted characteristics of coupled MD resonances exhibit high sensitivity and specificity in detecting minute changes in the ambient environment. The alignment of theoretical and experimental results demonstrates the reliability and accuracy of our approach, highlighting its versatility and adaptability. This principle of deep-subwavelength measurement can also be appreciated at the nanoscale, indicating great potential for its applications in biological detection, chemical sensing, and environmental monitoring. The multifaceted Fano resonances of coupled Mie dipole modes establish a robust framework for future research in real-time monitoring and precision detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1196-1199"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optics lettersPub Date : 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1364/OL.547762
Haiwei Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Zhilin Ye, Xin Chen, ChunYu Huang, Peng Zhan, Xin Ou, Shining Zhu, Xiaopeng Hu
{"title":"Continuous-wave second-harmonic generation of green light in periodically poled thin-film lithium tantalate.","authors":"Haiwei Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Zhilin Ye, Xin Chen, ChunYu Huang, Peng Zhan, Xin Ou, Shining Zhu, Xiaopeng Hu","doi":"10.1364/OL.547762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.547762","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thin-film lithium tantalate (TFLT) is attracting increasing attention in nonlinear generation of visible lasers due to its large second-order nonlinearity and reduced photorefractive effect. In this Letter, we design and fabricate a periodically poled TFLT waveguide for frequency doubling of a near-infrared laser operating at around 1064 nm. Continuous-wave 1.87-mW second-harmonic green light was obtained from the TFLT waveguide, and the nonlinear conversion efficiency is about 11.7%. The periodically poled TFLT waveguide exhibits a narrow wavelength acceptance bandwidth, a large nonlinear coefficient, and a stable output in the visible. The study present in this work will pave the way for the application of TFLT in nonlinear integrated photonics.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1125-1127"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optics lettersPub Date : 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1364/OL.550372
Balazs Plosz, Athanasios Lekosiotis, Mohammad Sabbah, Federico Belli, Christian Brahms, John C Travers
{"title":"Supercontinuum generation in a methane-filled hollow-core antiresonant fiber.","authors":"Balazs Plosz, Athanasios Lekosiotis, Mohammad Sabbah, Federico Belli, Christian Brahms, John C Travers","doi":"10.1364/OL.550372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.550372","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report the generation of a multi-octave supercontinuum spanning from 350 nm to 1700 nm with exceptional spectral flatness and high conversion efficiency to both visible and near-infrared regions, by pumping a methane-filled hollow-core antiresonant fiber with 1030 nm laser pulses. The dynamics exhibited signs of both modulational instability (MI) and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). Fiber lengths ranging from 15 cm to 200 cm were investigated along with gas pressures up to 50 bar and pump pulse durations from 220 fs up to 10 ps. The best supercontinuum, in terms of spectral width and flatness, was achieved with 220 fs pulses, 25 bar filling pressure, and 60 cm propagation length. Comparison with argon-filled fiber with matched nonlinearity and dispersion showed that the Raman contribution enhances the supercontinuum generation process compared to a pure modulational instability-based process. The average power was scaled up by increasing the pulse repetition rate to 50 kHz, but further scaling was hindered by linear and nonlinear absorption, leading to fiber damage.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1285-1288"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optics lettersPub Date : 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1364/OL.550726
Qian Shen, Jiasong Sun, Shun Zhou, Yao Fan, Zhuoshi Li, Qian Chen, Maciej Trusiak, Malgorzata Kujawinska, Chao Zuo
{"title":"Iterative Kramers-Kronig method for non-interferometric quantitative phase imaging: beyond the first-order Born and Rytov approximations.","authors":"Qian Shen, Jiasong Sun, Shun Zhou, Yao Fan, Zhuoshi Li, Qian Chen, Maciej Trusiak, Malgorzata Kujawinska, Chao Zuo","doi":"10.1364/OL.550726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.550726","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traditional non-interferometric quantitative phase imaging (QPI) methods often face challenges in realizing rapid and accurate imaging of large-phase samples, mainly due to slow convergence and dependence on object approximation models. In this Letter, we propose a new, to the best of our knowledge, non-interferometric QPI approach that leverages iterative Kramers-Kronig (KK) relations, named iKK-QPI, to achieve high-accuracy quantitative measurement of objects with large-phase values. In the current KK relations reconstruction framework, we impose real-part constraints on the cepstrum, breaking the restriction of weak scattering condition. With only a few iterations, iKK-QPI extends the phase range that can be reliably retrieved by non-interferometric QPI, exceeding the first-order Born and Rytov approximations. The capability of iKK-QPI is demonstrated by imaging a microlens array and COS-7 cells. We accurately reconstruct objects with large-phase ranges 6 rad (error < ± 5%), three times that of the KK relations-based method, opening up the possibility for non-interferometric QPI to measure biological and industrial samples with large-phase features.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1144-1147"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optics lettersPub Date : 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1364/OL.550284
Yu Bai, Bohan Zhou, Weizhi Du, Yifan Cui, Almantas Galvanauskas
{"title":"One millijoule mid-IR nanosecond pulses at ∼2.78 µm in a robust single transverse mode from a coiled 46 µm core low-NA Er:ZBLAN fiber amplifier.","authors":"Yu Bai, Bohan Zhou, Weizhi Du, Yifan Cui, Almantas Galvanauskas","doi":"10.1364/OL.550284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.550284","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We demonstrate high-energy nanosecond pulse amplification at ∼2.78 µm in a robust single transverse mode from a coiled large core low-numerical aperture (NA) Er:ZBLAN fiber amplifier. The highest energy achieved is 1.01 mJ from a 46 µm core Er:ZBLAN fiber, seeded with a preamplifier in a single-mode fiber 30 ns long pulses from a ring-cavity Q-switched Er:ZBLAN fiber laser. Near-diffraction-limited beams with M<sup>2</sup> = 1.09 were obtained using coiling-induced high-order mode filtering in a custom-fabricated 46 µm diameter and ∼0.064 NA core fiber. This constitutes, to the best of our knowledge, the highest-energy nanosecond duration pulses in a single transverse mode from an Er:ZBLAN fiber laser system to date.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1140-1143"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optics lettersPub Date : 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1364/OL.553776
Gebrehiwot Tesfay Zeweldi, Nasrollah Karampour, Martin Rochette
{"title":"Polarization-dependent fluoride fiber coupler and application to pulsed laser triggering.","authors":"Gebrehiwot Tesfay Zeweldi, Nasrollah Karampour, Martin Rochette","doi":"10.1364/OL.553776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.553776","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present the first ZBLAN-based polarization-dependent optical fiber coupler (OFC). The polarization extinction ratio (PER) reaches 2.5 dB/4.0 dB at the through-port/cross-port of the single-mode OFC. With an unpolarized light input, the OFC provides a coupling ratio of 73.5%/26.5% at the through-port/cross-port, with an excess loss of 1.47 dB at a wavelength of 1.918 μm. The OFC is used as the polarization-dependent element combined with nonlinear polarization evolution that triggers the pulsation of a mode-locked fiber laser. This approach generates fundamental solitons with a duration of 1.83 ps at a wavelength of 1.918 μm. The soft-glass OFC supports a power of at least 320 mW without damage. The polarization-dependent ZBLAN OFC is expected to play an important role in mid-infrared (MIR) fiber optics.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 4","pages":"1365-1368"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}