{"title":"Generation of various bound solitons in a carbon nanotube-based bidirectional mode-locked all-fiber ring laser","authors":"Yan Li, Ping Tang, Jin Zhang, Zixuan Guo, Feng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104217","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104217","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bound solitons, as an interesting physical phenomenon operating at multi-pulse mode, are intensively investigated in unidirectional mode-locked lasers, both theoretically and experimentally. However, they have rarely been observed in bidirectional lasers, especially the bound solitons with anti-phase and in-phase have not even reported. Here, we demonstrate a systematic experimental observation of two-soliton bound states with phase differences of 0 (in-phase), <span><math><mrow><mo>±</mo><mi>π</mi><mo>/</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></math></span>, and <span><math><mi>π</mi></math></span> (anti-phase). The laser is passively mode-locked by a carbon nanotube saturable absorber, with the unsaturated loss, saturation optical intensity, and modulation depth of 40 MW/cm<sup>2</sup>, 52.3%, and 6.1%, respectively. Two synchronous single-soliton pulses in clockwise and counter-clockwise directions, with a repetition frequency of 63.92 MHz, were delivered simultaneously from the fiber laser. Besides, various two-soliton bound states with different pulse separations and phase differences were obtained when the pump power was up to 68<!--> <!--> <!-->mW. Furthermore, not only the same, but also the different bound states were observed between the counter-propagation directions. The short- and long-term stability of the bound states were also investigated in laboratory environments. The results enrich the content of nonlinear dynamics of bound solitons and have potential applications in fiber optical communications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 104217"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoke Gong , Jinghong Wu , Na Zheng , Zhuo Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Lixiang Jia , Wenhao Shi , Mengfen Shen
{"title":"Damage state monitoring of buried pipeline based on distributed acoustic sensing technology","authors":"Xiaoke Gong , Jinghong Wu , Na Zheng , Zhuo Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Lixiang Jia , Wenhao Shi , Mengfen Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Buried water pipelines, as crucial urban infrastructure, play an essential role. However, the damage to the pipeline structure has emerged as a severe public safety hazard. Monitoring the state of the pipeline structure holds great significance for the normal operation of water pipelines. In this paper, a damage monitoring method for buried pipelines based on distributed acoustic sensing technology is proposed. Through a series of field experiments conducted on a pipeline, the feasibility of utilizing the attached fiber − optic cable to acquire vibration information has been demonstrated. The recorded vibration signals can indicate various damage statuses during the pipeline damage process, including rock/soil fall, pipeline seepage, and pipe wall failure. The results suggest that the fiber − optic cable accompanying the pipelines can be exploited as sensing resources to monitor damage risks to the pipelines, which presents advantages in the damage identification and location of buried pipelines. This research provides a valuable reference for the application of distributed acoustic sensing technology in the damage monitoring of urban buried water pipelines.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhanqiang Hui , Zengxiang Qiu , Yue Zhao , Dongdong Han , Tiantian Li , Kelei Miao , Abdel-Hamid Soliman
{"title":"Broadband dual channel mode filter based on triple-core photonic crystal fiber","authors":"Zhanqiang Hui , Zengxiang Qiu , Yue Zhao , Dongdong Han , Tiantian Li , Kelei Miao , Abdel-Hamid Soliman","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104232","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104232","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A novel mode filter based on a triple-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a large bandwidth was proposed. The device uses silica as the substrate material, and its main core can support three modes: LP<sub>01</sub>, LP<sub>11</sub>, and LP<sub>21</sub>. By coating gold film on the inner walls of the air holes in the cladding of the side cores, the coupled LP<sub>01</sub> and LP<sub>11</sub> modes from the main core experience significant attenuation when propagating in the side cores. This enables the mode filter to output only the LP<sub>21</sub> mode. The structure of the mode filter was optimized by using the eigenmode finite difference method and the eigenmode expansion method. The results indicate that when the input wavelength is 1.55 μm, the mode suppression ratios (MSRs) for the filtered LP<sub>01</sub> and LP<sub>11</sub> modes exceed 20 dB. Moreover, the mode filter operates in two working bands with bandwidths of 125 nm (1.5–1.625 μm) and 53 nm (1.766–1.819 μm), covering the S, C, and L bands. The total length of the device is only 46.5 mm. Especially, at 1550 nm, the insertion loss (IL) is as low as 0.024 dB, and the MSR is 19.84 dB. Owing to the advantages of wide bandwidth, low IL, high MSR, and compact structure, this mode filter will find great potential for applications in mode-division multiplexing fiber-optic communication/sensing, quantum information systems, and related fields.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 104232"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microfiber biosensor for detection of ultra-low concentration alpha-fetoprotein based on graphene oxide","authors":"Xi Deng , Yun Peng , Rong Long","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104229","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104229","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is an important hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) marker, however, its ultra-low concentration in the body of patient with early HCC makes it difficult to diagnose early HCC. In this paper, a microfiber biosensor on the basis of graphene oxide (GO) is proposed for the detection of ultra-low concentration AFP antigen. It is difficult to detect AFP antigen biomolecule solutions with ultra-low concentrations directly, because the variation in the concentration has a negligible impact on the refractive index (RI) of the entire solution. However, GO contains plenty of oxygen-containing groups and binding sites. Therefore, it will adsorb plenty of AFP antigen molecules, which will change the effective surround RI, and consequently, it makes the sensor achieve highly sensitive AFP antigen detection. The biosensor we proposed demonstrates high sensitivity of 1.11582 nm/lg (mol/L) in the linear range from 7 zg/mL to 7 pg/mL (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.99647). And the detection limit (LOD) of 78 zg/mL is ultra-low. The biosensor achieves detection of ultra-low concentration AFP antigen solution, which indicates exceptional potential prospects in early diagnosis of HCC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 104229"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yongxu Shen , Chang Wang , Zhihui Sun , Faxiang Zhang , Shaodong Jiang , Xu Liu , Fengxia Gao
{"title":"A Fast recognition method for DVS perimeter security intrusion signals based on transfer learning","authors":"Yongxu Shen , Chang Wang , Zhihui Sun , Faxiang Zhang , Shaodong Jiang , Xu Liu , Fengxia Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104227","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the perimeter security intrusion signal monitoring based on the Distributed Optical Fiber Vibration Sensing (DVS) system, the common approach for identifying intrusion signals in new scenarios is to collect large amounts of data and perform large-scale, long-term retraining of the initial network. However, this process consumes a significant amount of human resources and computational power each time. To address this issue, this paper proposes a transfer learning method. Using 53,000 sample data from six types of events collected in the laboratory, an SE-Densenet model was trained for 300 epochs on three NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs at the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan. Then, through the transfer learning approach, fine-tuning was performed on the new scenario by freezing 1/2 and 1/4 of the network layers and applying a feature extractor method. The fine-tuning training was carried out on a laptop equipped with 16 GB of memory and an Intel Core i7-12700 CPU. Experimental results show that, after 19.81 min of retraining using 600 data points from the new scenario, the feature extractor method achieved a test accuracy of 97.53 %. Compared to the other two methods, the training time was reduced by 20.87 min and 9.34 min, respectively, while the test accuracy increased by 13.76 % and 3.83 %. Compared to retraining with 6000 sufficient data, the transfer learning method improved training time by 6 to 13 times while achieving similar recognition accuracy. This study provides a new, convenient, and efficient method for perimeter security intrusion signal recognition, enabling quick adaptation to new scenarios and application in common engineering upper-level computer systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 104227"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jinhui Wang , Yupeng Li , Jiaxin Xue , Jiaheng Duan
{"title":"Investigation of mean least squares on probabilistic shaping direct detection optical OFDM systems","authors":"Jinhui Wang , Yupeng Li , Jiaxin Xue , Jiaheng Duan","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104234","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104234","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Probabilistic shaping (PS) techniques have been widely used in optical fiber communication systems due to their ability to significantly improve transmission efficiency and spectrum utilization. This paper generates probabilistic shaped 16QAM (PS-16QAM) signals based on the direct detection optical OFDM (DDO-OFDM) system using the block-bit shaping technique for constellation shaping of uniformly distributed 16QAM signals. In the process, considering the impact of inter carrier interference (ICI) and inter symbol interference (ISI) in OFDM signals on the signal quality at the receiver, comb pilot signals are inserted into PS-16QAM signals in the time domain and improve the accuracy of channel vector estimation by the mean least squares (LS) algorithm. We used optical simulation software VPItransmissionMaker10.1 to build the PS-DDO-OFDM system, and used MATLAB for digital signal processing (DSP). The simulation results after a 40-km standard single mode fiber show that the optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) sensitivity of PS-16QAM with mean LS algorithm is improved by 5.6/8.2/10.2 dB, respectively, compared with uniform 16QAM with mean LS algorithm at entropy values of 3.78/3.31/2.82 bits/symbol, and in the PS-16QAM based system, the mean LS algorithm improves the OSNR sensitivity by 5.5/5.5/5.1 dB compared to the common LS algorithm for entropy values of 3.78/3.31/2.82 bits/symbol, respectively. In addition, the error vector magnitude (EVM) values at the receiver side and the convergence analysis of the constellation diagram further validate the significant advantages of the mean LS algorithm in PS-16QAM systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurul Izzah S. Wadi , Suziana Omar , Zulzilawati Jusoh , Muhammad Imran M.A. Khudus , Aeriyn D. Ahmad , Sameer Salam
{"title":"Q-switched neodymium doped all-fiber laser with iron phthalocyanines saturable absorber","authors":"Nurul Izzah S. Wadi , Suziana Omar , Zulzilawati Jusoh , Muhammad Imran M.A. Khudus , Aeriyn D. Ahmad , Sameer Salam","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104235","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104235","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this work, we presented a Q-switched neodymium-doped fiber laser (NDFL) utilizing iron phthalocyanine (FePc) as a saturable absorber (SA) in an all-fiber configuration. The SA was effectively prepared by depositing commercially available FePc powder onto the tip of a ferrule using a dipping process, thereby creating the FePc SA device. Integrating this FePc SA device into the NDFL cavity resulted in stable Q-switched pulses with a minimum duration of 3.29 µs and a maximum frequency of 45.50 kHz. The laser operated at a wavelength of 1089.0 nm, delivering pulse energies of 71.43 nJ and an output power of 3.25 mW at a maximum pump power of 189.56 mW at 808 nm. This represents the first demonstration of a FePc-based Q-switched NDFL operating at 1 µm wavelength region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 104235"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143815813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhi Yong Yau , Yu Gang Shee , Eng Hock Lim , Mohd Adzir Mahdi
{"title":"Optimized power coupling for enhanced wavelength switching in Brillouin-Raman fiber lasers","authors":"Zhi Yong Yau , Yu Gang Shee , Eng Hock Lim , Mohd Adzir Mahdi","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104225","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104225","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we propose a new configuration of switchable wavelength Brillouin Raman Fiber Laser (BRFL) using a simple approach of power coupling. Various power coupling ratios were tested during the experiment, and the combination of a 50/50 coupler and an 80/20 coupler was identified as the most effective for achieving optimal switchable wavelength spacing. When the Raman pump power exceeded 1550 mW, a single Brillouin wavelength spacing was consistently observed. The BRFL achieved a maximum of 441 lines at single spacing (SS) and 213 lines at double spacing (DS). Additionally, the system exhibited remarkable flatness, with the SS achieving a 6 dB flatness and the DS achieving an impressive 1.6 dB flatness. These results underscore the effectiveness of the proposed power coupling method, offering a simple yet powerful solution for switchable multiwavelength BRFL systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 104225"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143815812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiayu Zheng , Tianhong Zhang , Xiang Cai , Xiansong Fang , Fan Zhang
{"title":"End-to-end geometric constellation shaping with artificial parameter setting for long-haul coherent optical transmission","authors":"Jiayu Zheng , Tianhong Zhang , Xiang Cai , Xiansong Fang , Fan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104218","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104218","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For implementing end-to-end (E2E) geometric constellation shaping (GCS) scheme through the gradient backpropagation (BP) method, we proposed an artificial shaping parameter setting approach instead of using black-box artificial neural network (ANN) encoders. This allows us to maintain the shaped constellation axisymmetric and centrosymmetric. Through E2E GCS testing on a 32Gbaud 64-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) 5-channel dual-polarization coherent system transmitting over a 960 km standard single mode fiber (SSMF), we achieve a Q<sup>2</sup>-factor gain up to 0.15 dB and a general mutual information (GMI) gain up to 0.13 bits per four-dimension (0.13bits/4D), compared to transmitting the unshaped square QAM format while using the trained decoder only.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 104218"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stability analysis of mode-locked pulses generated by nonlinear polarization rotation effect using nonlinear optical fiber Jones matrix","authors":"Minseok Kim , Dowon Kim , Hyun Su Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104216","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104216","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We propose a new method to identify the region where mode-locked pulses can be generated by nonlinear polarization rotation effect in optical fibers. The method relies on the Jones matrix of an optical fiber installed within a fiber resonator, which characterizes nonlinear effects and birefringence resulting from bending and twisting. Using the acquired Jones matrix, we enhance theoretical analysis of stable mode-locking regions. We demonstrate that the proposed method can predicts experimental mode-locking regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19663,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fiber Technology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 104216"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143792814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}