{"title":"High-SNR OAM mode division multiplexing based on delta-sigma modulation using a power domain layer.","authors":"Sihan Wang, Xiaolong Pan, Ran Gao, Dong Guo, Huan Chang, Zhipei Li, Sitong Zhou, Cheng Du, Wei Yan, Fei Wang, Qi Zhang, Xiangjun Xin","doi":"10.1364/OL.566649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.566649","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode-division multiplexing (MDM) systems exist with mode cross talk, which requires high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to improve transmission performance. In this Letter, a novel, to the best of our knowledge, scheme, based on power domain layered delta-sigma modulation (PDL-DSM) was proposed, which composes a high-order signal into two low-order signals and quantizes them using two parallel DSMs. The transmission efficiency of the quantized signals is optimized by using power domain multiplexing, and the quantization noise of the high-power signals is eliminated to improve the overall SNR of the system. The experimental results show that the PDL-DSM scheme achieves the transmission of 65,536 QAM signals, and the bit error rate (BER) is below the hard-decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) threshold for -3 dBm and 5 dBm in two modes. Under the same experimental conditions, the PDL-DSM outperforms the multi-stage noise-shaping (MASH) scheme and the 2-bit DSM scheme in both OAM modes. The PDL-DSM scheme outperforms the MASH DSM scheme when transmitting 1,048,576 QAM and increases the receiver sensitivity by 3 dB at the HD-FEC threshold for OAM mode <i>l</i> = 3. Compared with the traditional 2-bit DSM scheme, the PDL-DSM scheme has a SNR gain of the recovered waveform with 15 dB.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4150-4153"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541716","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 : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1364/OL.568492
Haotian Yue, Shan Huang, Xiaoliu Guan, Yongxing Tian, Hanrui Su, Hongbo Shao, Qiang Zhang, Runda Guo, Lei Wang
{"title":"Logistic regression exploration of host-dopant compatibility in MR-TADF-based OLEDs.","authors":"Haotian Yue, Shan Huang, Xiaoliu Guan, Yongxing Tian, Hanrui Su, Hongbo Shao, Qiang Zhang, Runda Guo, Lei Wang","doi":"10.1364/OL.568492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.568492","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The process of selecting an optimal host material for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on multiple resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) materials has remained time-consuming and resource-intensive. To accelerate this process, we utilize the MR-TADF material DtCzB-mDS from our previous work as the dopant, pairing it with 14 commonly used host materials from the literature to fabricate OLEDs for performance evaluation. Subsequently, we apply a logistic regression algorithm from machine learning to derive empirical formulas linking the host-dopant emissive system to key device performance metrics. The analysis of these formulas reveals correlations among the variables; for instance, the highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMO) difference between the host and dopant shows a strong negative correlation with the highest external quantum efficiency (EQE<sub>max</sub>) and luminance, with correlation coefficients of -0.67 and -0.54, respectively. Overall, this work offers valuable insights into optimizing host material selection for enhanced OLED performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4486-4489"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541725","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":"Low-loss thin-film periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides fabricated by femtosecond laser photolithography.","authors":"Guanghui Zhao, Jintian Lin, Renhong Gao, Qifeng Hou, Jianglin Guan, Chuntao Li, Xinzhi Zheng, Minghui Li, Xiaochao Luo, Yingnuo Qiu, Lingling Qiao, Min Wang, Ya Cheng","doi":"10.1364/OL.565825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.565825","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Periodically poled lithium niobate on insulator (PPLNOI) ridge waveguides are essential photonic components for both classical and quantum information processing. However, dry etching of PPLNOI waveguides frequently generates rough sidewalls and variations in the etching rates of oppositely poled lithium niobate ferroelectric domains, leading to relatively high propagation losses (0.25-1 dB/cm), which significantly limits net conversion efficiency and hinders scalable photonic integration. In this work, a low-loss PPLNOI ridge waveguide with a length of 7 mm was fabricated using ultra-smooth sidewalls through photolithography-assisted chemo-mechanical etching followed by high-voltage pulse poling with low cost. The average surface roughness was measured to be only 0.27 nm, resulting in a record-low propagation loss of 0.11 dB/cm in PPLNOI waveguides. Highly efficient second harmonic generation was demonstrated with a normalized efficiency of 1643% W<sup>-1</sup>·cm<sup>-2</sup> without temperature tuning, corresponding to a conversion efficiency of 805%/W, which is close to the best conversion efficiency reported in nanophotonic PPLNOI waveguide fabricated by expensive electron-beam lithography followed by dry etching, and the absolute conversion efficiency reached 15.7% at a pump level of 21.6 mW. The normalized efficiency can be even improved to 1742% W<sup>-1</sup>·cm<sup>-2</sup> at the optimal temperature of 59<sup>ο</sup>C.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4310-4313"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541726","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":"Mechanisms of luminous efficiency enhancement in micro-LEDs via pre-layer structure optimization.","authors":"Shuhui Wang, Rongxing Wu, Shouqiang Lai, Yurong Dai, Yuhan Su, Xinqin Liao, Yijun Lv, Hao-Chung Kuo, Zhong Chen, Tingwei Lu, Tingzhu Wu","doi":"10.1364/OL.564959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.564959","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study presents an optimized design of green-emitting Micro-LED structures, using numerical simulations to elucidate the pivotal role of the Micro-LEDs with the pre-well and pre-layer configuration in alleviating polarization-related electric fields and promoting energy band flattening. The simulation quantitatively demonstrates the structure's effectiveness in enhancing wave function overlap and radiative recombination efficiency. These insights provide a robust theoretical foundation for the experimentally observed enhancements in external quantum efficiency, wavelength stability, and high-speed modulation performance of the optimized devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4394-4397"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541727","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 : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1364/OL.562261
Zhiwei Sun
{"title":"Poincaré sphere and Stokes parameters of orbital angular momentum wave based on Euler's formula.","authors":"Zhiwei Sun","doi":"10.1364/OL.562261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.562261","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The orbital angular momentum (OAM) Poincaré sphere has been developed using the mathematical relationship between Hermite-Gaussian (HG) and Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes. However, it did not exhibit correspondence to spin angular momentum (SAM), the other angular momentum (AM) form. Here, based on Euler's formula, a definition method for general OAM waves is presented, in which the OAM wave is superposed by two orthogonal trigonometric-function waves. As SAM waves exhibit an ellipse in a direction-space, OAM waves exhibit an ellipse in a function-space. Based on this finding, the OAM Poincaré sphere is constructed through polar-spherical coordinate transformation. Finally, a physical monitoring method to monitor OAM Stokes parameters is presented and verified by Rayleigh-Sommerfeld's (RS) diffraction theory computation. This study can be used in AM theoretical research, OAM generation and manipulation, and OAM multiplexing and information encoding.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4382-4385"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541744","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 : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1364/OL.564975
Carlo Silvestri, Y Long Qiang, Krupamaya Panda, Justin Widjaja, Stéphane Coen, C Martijn de Sterke, Antoine F J Runge
{"title":"Pure high-order dispersion dissipative Kerr solitons in optical cavities.","authors":"Carlo Silvestri, Y Long Qiang, Krupamaya Panda, Justin Widjaja, Stéphane Coen, C Martijn de Sterke, Antoine F J Runge","doi":"10.1364/OL.564975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.564975","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through numerical simulations, we demonstrate the existence of an infinite family of temporal cavity solitons (CSs), which balance arbitrary negative pure, even-order dispersion <i>k</i> and self-phase modulation, as well as loss and parametric gain. These correspond to frequency combs with increasingly flatter spectra as <i>k</i> increases. We determine the analytic forms of these solitons at high pump power and detuning and derive that their energy is related to the pulse duration Δ<i>τ</i> as Δ<i>τ</i><sup>-(<i>k</i>-1)</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4262-4265"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541748","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 : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1364/OL.564963
Haiyun Wang, Yakun Wang, Xiaofeng Peng, Lin Liu, Yangjian Cai, Fei Wang
{"title":"Real-time synthesis of twisted Gaussian Schell-model beams and their applications in suppressing the turbulence-induced scintillation and beam wander.","authors":"Haiyun Wang, Yakun Wang, Xiaofeng Peng, Lin Liu, Yangjian Cai, Fei Wang","doi":"10.1364/OL.564963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.564963","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Twist phase is a unique degree of freedom in partially coherent optical fields, which produces photonic orbital angular momentum (OAM) similar to the vortex phase. In this Letter, we report a method for efficiently generating twisted Gaussian Schell-model (TGSM) beams using the Laguerre-Gauss (LG) mode decomposition via a digital micro-mirror device. By judiciously controlling the modal weight of each LG mode, we experimentally generate the high-quality TGSM beams in real time, only involving dozens of LG modes for superposition. Furthermore, experiments are carried out to investigate the intensity scintillation and beam wander behavior of the TGSM beams passing through atmospheric turbulence. We demonstrate for the first time, to our best of knowledge, that the twist phase can greatly reduce the turbulence-induced scintillation and beam wander. Our results show that the TGSM beam makes a 75<i>%</i> reduction of scintillation index compared to its counterpart without twist phase.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4342-4345"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541750","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":"Single-pixel shadowless imaging by a ring detector.","authors":"Zhong Ji, Hanyan Zhao, Jingyang Xing, Jingjing Liu, Hao Wang, Hongling Wan, Yujin Liu, Xueli Chen","doi":"10.1364/OL.564949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.564949","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Active single-pixel imaging technology has shown significant advantages in many fields. However, its dependence on a single light source often leads to shadow artifacts, which reduces the imaging quality. Inspired by surgical shadowless lamps, this study proposes an innovative solution based on a ring detector to overcome this limitation. Taking advantage of the fact that the field of view of active single-pixel imaging depends on the projected pattern area, we explored multiple methods to construct a ring detector consisting of eight detectors. Specifically, eight independent detectors capture images with different shadows, and the shadowless effect is achieved by signal and image superposition. A simpler method is to connect eight detectors in series or in parallel to achieve shadowless imaging in a single acquisition. In addition, we combine a large-area ring detector with an active Bayer-Fourier pattern to achieve shadowless color imaging. Through a simple restoration algorithm, we simplify data processing and successfully separate and reconstruct the red, green, and blue color components. We expect that this simple shadowless imaging technology will have a wide range of applications in fields such as medical imaging and industrial inspection.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4258-4261"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541754","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":"Broadband adiabatic power splitter on an etchless thin-film lithium niobate platform.","authors":"Yushu Fu, Shangrong Li, Shijie Sun, Xia Ning, Ziyu Zhou, Daming Zhang, Xibin Wang","doi":"10.1364/OL.565904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.565904","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) is a promising platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and 3-dB power splitters are the most essential building blocks in PICs. In this Letter, we propose and demonstrate a broadband, fabrication-tolerant 3-dB power splitter based on the photonic bound state in the continuum (BIC) and using a spatial adiabatic passage structure on a polymer-loaded LNOI platform. The simulation results show that the proposed device can achieve a splitting ratio of 50%:50% with an excellent operating bandwidth of 180 nm (from 1450 nm to 1630 nm). The fabricated device on the EpoCore-loaded LNOI platform features a power-splitting ratio of ∼50.13%:49.87% for both output ports within the 1530-1630 nm wavelength range. With its outstanding performance and simple fabrication process, the demonstrated 3-dB power splitter is essential for on-chip optical interconnect systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4146-4149"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541685","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":"Broadband frequency measurement system based on dynamic wavelength tuning synergistically combined with stimulated Brillouin scattering.","authors":"Shuai Zu, Ying Wang, Pengyuan Huang, Yiying Gu, Jingjing Hu, Mingshan Zhao","doi":"10.1364/OL.568948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.568948","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper proposes and validates a broadband frequency measurement system based on dynamic wavelength tuning synergistically combined with stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). By integrating a laser wavelength tuning mechanism with dynamic matching of the Brillouin gain spectrum, a frequency-to-time mapping approach is implemented to achieve microwave frequency measurement covering 9-40 GHz. The root mean square error of the proposed method is experimentally validated to be 20 MHz. The system employs a low-frequency arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) to drive laser wavelength tuning, directly generating a 31 GHz bandwidth swept-frequency signal in the optical domain. Experimental results demonstrate that the system supports both single- and two-tone signal detection and realizes measurement range reconfiguration by adjusting local oscillator frequency. Compared with conventional schemes, this architecture achieves significant breakthroughs in measurement bandwidth, system cost, and reconfigurability, providing a novel, to the best of our knowledge, approach for broadband radio frequency detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":19540,"journal":{"name":"Optics letters","volume":"50 13","pages":"4366-4369"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144541686","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}