Optics lettersPub Date : 2026-10-15Epub Date: 2026-09-21DOI: 10.1364/OL.616154
Chuan Li, Jie Wang, Ruifeng Wang, Guishi Wang, Xuezhe Xu, Xiaoming Gao, Kun Liu
{"title":"Full-range CO<sub>2</sub> detection using dual-path WMS-DAS and multi-regime adaptive fusion.","authors":"Chuan Li, Jie Wang, Ruifeng Wang, Guishi Wang, Xuezhe Xu, Xiaoming Gao, Kun Liu","doi":"10.1364/OL.616154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.616154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) offers high sensitivity, selectivity, robustness, and real-time detection. However, most TDLAS-based sensors have a limited dynamic range, typically below 10<sup>4</sup>. Here, we propose a TDLAS-based method for full-dynamic-range CO<sub>2</sub> detection. A dual-path absorption cell is combined with a wavelength modulation spectroscopy-direct absorption spectroscopy (WMS-DAS) measurement strategy to realize full-range detection. A dual-logistic adaptive weighting algorithm is developed to fuse adjacent channels and suppress range-boundary discontinuities, enabling smooth and continuous transitions across adjacent detection regimes without hard switching. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed configuration and detection scheme enable CO<sub>2</sub> measurements from sub-ppm levels to 100% concentration, with a dynamic range of 3.3 × 10<sup>6</sup>, while achieving a 1σ detection limit of 0.3 ppm at an integration time of 72 s. The proposed method shows strong potential for applications ranging from trace-level environmental monitoring to industrial gas purity analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5705-5708"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228415","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 : 2026-10-15Epub Date: 2026-09-21DOI: 10.1364/OL.610844
Yuhang Huang, Xinyue Zhang, Lianhua Li, Shuyang Xie, Jun Wang, Jie Zhou, Kai Liu
{"title":"Neural capture-to-display compression for multi-depth holographic display.","authors":"Yuhang Huang, Xinyue Zhang, Lianhua Li, Shuyang Xie, Jun Wang, Jie Zhou, Kai Liu","doi":"10.1364/OL.610844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.610844","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We propose an end-to-end neural capture-to-display compression framework for multi-depth holographic display. Instead of reconstructing the captured amplitude-depth representation, the upstream codec decodes a holography-oriented amplitude-phase representation. The resulting complex field is propagated to the spatial light modulator plane, where its amplitude and phase are compressed by a downstream hologram codec. The framework is optimized by a rate-distortion objective combining upstream bitrate, downstream bitrate, and multi-depth holographic reconstruction distortion. Compared with a jointly optimized pipeline that reconstructs amplitude and depth before hologram generation, this yields a 37.46% BD-rate reduction in total bitrate.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5810-5813"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228445","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 : 2026-10-15Epub Date: 2026-09-18DOI: 10.1364/OL.614182
JiaJun Chen, Jiangnan Xiao, XinLei Li, RuMeng Zhang, ShuQi Li
{"title":"Simplified single-photodetector direct detection of independent dual-single-sideband OFDM signals.","authors":"JiaJun Chen, Jiangnan Xiao, XinLei Li, RuMeng Zhang, ShuQi Li","doi":"10.1364/OL.614182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.614182","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An independent dual-single-sideband (IDSSB) signal carries distinct data on its two optical sidebands, and conventional IDSSB receivers require two sideband-separation optical bandpass filters (OBPFs) and two photodetectors (PDs). We propose a simplified IDSSB direct-detection optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme using one in-phase/quadrature (IQ) modulator and one PD together with a single noniterative digital signal processing (DSP) chain that recovers two independent left- and right-sideband quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) OFDM streams from the synthesized 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) OFDM signal formed after photodetection. Simulations demonstrate 2 × 5.23-Gb/s transmission over 10-km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF), with the bit error rates (BERs) of both sideband signals below 3.8 × 10<sup>-3</sup>. The optimum carrier-to-signal power ratio (CSPR) is found to be 2 dB. Compared with a conventional dual-OBPF/dual-PD receiver operating on the same transmitted waveform, the proposed receiver incurs an approximately 0.7-dB sensitivity penalty.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5701-5704"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228460","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":"Tuning fork-cantilever coupled dual-resonance fiber-optic photoacoustic sensor for simultaneous dual-gas detection.","authors":"Yuchen Guan, Guojie Wu, Xianfeng Xie, Jiayang Sun, Hui Zhang, Qiang Wang, Wei Peng, Liang Mei, Zhenfeng Gong","doi":"10.1364/OL.612165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.612165","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a fiber-optic tuning-fork-cantilever coupled photoacoustic (TFCC-PA) sensor for the simultaneous detection of methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) and acetylene (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>). The sensor integrates a custom square-head 6063 aluminum-alloy tuning fork (ATF) and a laser-cut polyethylene terephthalate cantilever within a single nonresonant photoacoustic cell. Synchronous dual-channel readout is achieved using two Fabry-Perot (F-P) white-light interferometers combined with frequency-division-multiplexed demodulation. The low-frequency cantilever is suited to slowly relaxing CH<sub>4</sub>, whereas the higher-frequency tuning fork is used to detect rapidly relaxing C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>. Following structural optimization using COMSOL Multiphysics, experiments confirmed well-separated operating frequencies with negligible interchannel crosstalk. Both gases exhibited linear concentration responses with <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> values of 0.99. At an integration time of 1 s, the detection limits were 6.54 ppm for CH<sub>4</sub> and 1.06 ppm for C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>. Allan-Werle analysis yielded minimum detection limits of 167 ppb and 96.5 ppb, respectively. The proposed TFCC-PA sensor provides a robust and intrinsically safe solution for high-sensitivity multicomponent gas sensing applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5786-5789"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228470","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":"Co-localized microwave-to-optical transduction via electrostatic actuation.","authors":"Peiqin Chen, Liping Zeng, Yifei Zhang, Hengrui Liang, Chenglong You, You Wang, Haizhi Song, Daquan Yang, Guangcan Guo, Jindao Tang, Guangwei Deng","doi":"10.1364/OL.614943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.614943","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microwave-to-optical transduction bridges microwave photons used in superconducting quantum circuits and optical photons suitable for long-distance transmission, making it a key enabling technology for distributed quantum networks. Scalable implementation, however, requires device architectures that combine practical conversion performance with low fabrication complexity, whereas many existing approaches rely on heterogeneous material integration. Here, we demonstrate a co-localized microwave-to-optical transducer that integrates electrostatic excitation, mechanical mediation, and optical readout within a single optomechanical cavity. The electrostatic actuator is implemented using only a single metallization layer, reducing device complexity and avoiding the need for separate electromechanical and optomechanical resonators. This compact, fabrication-friendly architecture offers a practical route toward scalable integrated microwave photonics and future chip-scale microwave-to-optical interfaces for hybrid quantum systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5673-5676"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228373","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":"Metallic-layer-free multilayer absorber for visible and near-infrared bands.","authors":"Jiabao Sun, Rongxuan Zhu, Yijun Sun, Ke Chai, Xuyang Wang, Pintu Ghosh, Huanzheng Zhu, Xiaoyu Dong, Zhenfang Yu, Yuanfang Lin, Qiang Li","doi":"10.1364/OL.611069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.611069","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Broadband visible (VIS, 0.4-0.78 μm) and near-infrared (NIR, 0.78-1.1 μm) absorbers that avoid metallic and metal-like materials are attractive for integrated photonics, optical sensing, and energy-related optoelectronics. However, scalable VIS-NIR absorbers without conventional metallic layers or conducting metal-like materials such as indium tin oxide (ITO) remain insufficiently developed. Here, we demonstrate a planar absorber based on sputter-deposited indium antimonide (InSb), Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>, and SiO<sub>2</sub>, where VIS-NIR denotes the full 0.4-1.1 μm operating band. Unlike absorbers that rely on metallic reflectors or conducting metal-like oxide layers, the present structure uses dielectric/semiconductor layers to realize broadband absorption. The device achieves average absorptance values of 91.47% over VIS-NIR, 86.93% in the VIS band, and 96.85% in the NIR band. This work provides a scalable dielectric/semiconductor route toward broadband optical absorbers without metallic or metal-like materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5814-5817"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228379","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 : 2026-10-15Epub Date: 2026-09-22DOI: 10.1364/OL.611977
Changjian Li, Xin Cui, Fenglin Xian, Jingfei Ye, Gaige Zheng
{"title":"Dynamically reconfigurable polarization-entangled photon-pair generation in an anisotropic resonant photonic time crystal.","authors":"Changjian Li, Xin Cui, Fenglin Xian, Jingfei Ye, Gaige Zheng","doi":"10.1364/OL.611977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.611977","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We theoretically investigate dynamically reconfigurable polarization-entangled photon-pair generation in an anisotropic resonant photonic time crystal. Periodic switching between two anisotropic resonant states produces Floquet coupling among the <i>HH</i>, <i>HV</i>, <i>VH</i>, and <i>VV</i> pair-generation channels. An eight-dimensional Bogoliubov-de Gennes model shows that the modulation-axis angle and relative temporal phase enable switching among |Φ<sup>+</sup>⟩-,|Φ<sup>-</sup>⟩-, and |Ψ<sup>+</sup>⟩-like outputs without altering the structure. At a representative operating point, the pair brightness reaches <i>N</i><sub>pair</sub>=1.34, with a concurrence of 0.963 and a Bell-state fidelity of 0.982. Exact time-ordered calculations agree closely with the rotating-wave approximation. The proposed platform provides a compact route toward programmable entangled-photon generation and time-modulated quantum photonics.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5898-5901"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228392","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 : 2026-10-15Epub Date: 2026-09-18DOI: 10.1364/OL.609688
Qixuan Yang, Yutong Li, Shutian Liu, Zhengjun Liu
{"title":"Single-shot non-invasive imaging through highly dynamic scattering media via autocorrelation-domain deconvolution.","authors":"Qixuan Yang, Yutong Li, Shutian Liu, Zhengjun Liu","doi":"10.1364/OL.609688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.609688","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Imaging through dynamic scattering media remains challenging, because speckle patterns decorrelate during camera exposure. Here, we present a physics-based single-shot non-invasive imaging framework for dynamic scattering media. Enhancing speckle correlation imaging, the dynamically blurred autocorrelation is restored through autocorrelation-domain deconvolution using an analytical blur kernel. The restored autocorrelation is subsequently used for object recovery, with phase retrieval or a physics-informed network under severe degradation. Experimental results on dynamic ground glass and biological slide samples demonstrate robust object reconstruction under dynamic scattering conditions where conventional methods fail.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5713-5716"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228402","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":"InGaN/GaN MQW optoelectronic chips for compact coffee concentration sensing.","authors":"Xumin Gao, Yue Yu, Xiangyu Sheng, Sirui Wu, Jialei Yuan, Mingyuan Xie, Yongjin Wang, Zheng Shi","doi":"10.1364/OL.618224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.618224","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study develops a compact InGaN/GaN multiple-quantum-well (MQW) optoelectronic platform for coffee concentration measurement. The platform consists of two wavelength-distinct MQW chips assembled in a back-to-back configuration, with the blue-band device serving as the emitter and the green-band device as the preferred photodetector. The green-band photodetector exhibits broader spectral overlap with the blue emitter, providing an optical basis for detector selection. By monitoring the zero-bias photocurrent of the detector, concentration-dependent optical changes in the sensing path are converted into an electrical signal. Over the investigated concentration range of 0%-100%, the green-detector configuration exhibits a clear concentration-dependent photocurrent response, while transient measurements at fixed 20%-80% concentrations reveal a sub-100-ms optoelectronic response, with repeated modulation showing stable operation. These results demonstrate the feasibility of the wavelength-distinct emitter-detector architecture for compact coffee concentration measurement.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5914-5917"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228413","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 : 2026-10-15Epub Date: 2026-09-21DOI: 10.1364/OL.605537
Jian Wu, Wenfeng Fan, Qi Zheng, Wei Quan
{"title":"Spin dynamics and torque-mediated relaxation mechanisms of a nonbirefringent optomechanical microrotor in vacuum.","authors":"Jian Wu, Wenfeng Fan, Qi Zheng, Wei Quan","doi":"10.1364/OL.605537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.605537","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The vacuum-levitated microrotor has emerged as a versatile strategy for nondestructive detection and precision measurement, which always relies on spin angular momentum transfer from circularly polarized light. Here, we present a deflection optical torque introduction scheme that is independent of beam polarization for a nonbirefringent microparticle. Without active feedback cooling, the stably trapped pressure level achieved is one order of magnitude lower than that attainable with the conventional levitated microrotor method, reaching down to 1.6 × 10<sup>-4</sup> mbar, and a maximum rotational frequency of 0.48 MHz is obtained. From rotation relaxation measurements, the input optical torque is inferred to be (1.384 ± 0.005) × 10<sup>-17</sup> N·m. This work establishes a clean, stable high-speed rotating platform under vacuum conditions, paving the way for ultrasensitive torque measurements and enabling potential applications in optically levitated gyroscopes.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"51 20","pages":"5758-5761"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228416","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}