Optics expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.541656
Zhi-Qiang Li, Zhang-Lang Lin, Huang-Jun Zeng, Hai-Yu Nie, Ge Zhang, Peixiong Zhang, Wenjie Wu, Zhenqiang Chen, Zhen Li, Pavel Loiko, Simone Normani, Xavier Mateos, Hsing-Chih Liang, Valentin Petrov, Weidong Chen
{"title":"Diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked ytterbium-doped compositional mixed calcium aluminate laser.","authors":"Zhi-Qiang Li, Zhang-Lang Lin, Huang-Jun Zeng, Hai-Yu Nie, Ge Zhang, Peixiong Zhang, Wenjie Wu, Zhenqiang Chen, Zhen Li, Pavel Loiko, Simone Normani, Xavier Mateos, Hsing-Chih Liang, Valentin Petrov, Weidong Chen","doi":"10.1364/OE.541656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.541656","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked laser generating 25 fs pulses at 1080 nm is demonstrated with an Yb<sup>3+</sup>-doped compositional mixed calcium aluminate crystal. The Yb:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO<sub>4</sub> laser, which operates at a repetition rate of 65.6 MHz via soft-aperture Kerr-lens mode-locking, is pumped by a spatially single-mode, fiber-coupled diode laser. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first Kerr-lens mode-locked laser that utilizes an Yb<sup>3+</sup>-doped compositional mixed calcium aluminate crystal as the gain medium.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"40507-40513"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688257","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 expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.541513
Hiroyuki Yada, Yuki Ichikawa
{"title":"Green pulse regenerative amplification using a Pr<sup>3+</sup>:LiYF<sub>4</sub> crystal pumped by GaN blue laser diodes.","authors":"Hiroyuki Yada, Yuki Ichikawa","doi":"10.1364/OE.541513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.541513","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Direct regenerative amplifications of green pulses (522 nm) were investigated using a Pr<sup>3+</sup>-doped LiYF<sub>4</sub> crystal pumped by GaN blue laser diodes. Green pulses with two different temporal duration regimes, i.e. sub-picosecond (sub-ps) and sub-nanosecond (sub-ns), were prepared from the second harmonic generation of the mode-locked Yb<sup>3+</sup>-doped fiber laser at the repetition rate of 100.86 kHz and used as a seed for the comparison of the amplification processes. For the sub-ps (0.63 ps) and sub-ns (0.3-0.4 ns) seeds, the amplifications resulted in 1.25 µJ and 1.53 µJ in the pulse energies, 0.60 nm and 0.27 nm bandwidths, and the beam qualities of (M<sup>2</sup>x = 2.26, M<sup>2</sup>y = 1.25) and (M<sup>2</sup>x = 1.47, M<sup>2</sup>y = 1.23), respectively. A comparison of the B integrals confirmed that the wider bandwidth and the lower beam quality of the sub-ps seed amplification versus the sub-ns seed amplification were caused by the nonlinear effects in the sub-ps amplification.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"40499-40506"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688354","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 expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.537889
René Rüddenklau, Fabian Rein, Christian Roubal, Benjamin Rödiger, Christopher Schmidt
{"title":"In-orbit demonstration of acquisition and tracking on OSIRIS4CubeSat.","authors":"René Rüddenklau, Fabian Rein, Christian Roubal, Benjamin Rödiger, Christopher Schmidt","doi":"10.1364/OE.537889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.537889","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>OSIRIS4CubeSat is the smallest commercially available laser communication terminal within the confines of 0.3-units. It was launched as PIXL-1 inside of a 3-unit CubeSat into space to demonstrate optical direct to earth links. This work primarily focuses on the commissioning phase, particularly emphasizing the performance of the active fine pointing and tracking mechanism. This steering mechanism, with a 1 degree radius field of regard, plays a decisive role in compensating for pointing inaccuracies from the satellite's attitude determination and control system. The design and validation of open-loop acquisition and closed-loop tracking are presented. The feedback sensor adapts to changing beacon power levels, that occur during a direct to earth link, by an adaptive gain control. Subsequent evaluation of satellite passes, with telemetry recordings obtained from the deployed CubeSat, showcases superior performance that meets the pointing requirements of the link budget. By using the developed control-loop logic, OSIRIS4CubeSat achieves a mean tracking error of 71 µrad, with a 3σ deviation of 140 µrad down to low power levels of 238 pW. These results serve as validation of OSIRIS4CubeSat, demonstrating its capability to enable high-speed data transmission from low Earth orbit to the Earth's surface at data rates of up to 100 Mbit/s.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"41188-41200"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688380","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 expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.529269
Iryna O Mikhailikova, Denys M Natarov, Sergii V Dukhopelnykov, Ronan Sauleau, Mario Lucido, Oleksandr I Nosych
{"title":"Tunable enhancement of the cylindrical Luneburg lens focusing ability with the aid of a conformal graphene strip.","authors":"Iryna O Mikhailikova, Denys M Natarov, Sergii V Dukhopelnykov, Ronan Sauleau, Mario Lucido, Oleksandr I Nosych","doi":"10.1364/OE.529269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.529269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We consider the plane wave focusing characteristics of the layered cylindrical Luneburg lens equipped with a conformal strip of graphene, in the H-polarization case. The angular width and location of the strip is arbitrary, and its surface impedance is characterized with the aid of the quantum-physics Kubo formalism. We use a mathematically accurate full-wave analytical regularization technique, which is based on the explicit inversion of the problem static part and yields a Fredholm second-kind matrix equation. This guarantees the convergence of the resulting meshless numerical algorithm. We compute the focusing ability of a microsize lens as a function of the frequency in the wide range up to 60 THz. This analysis shows that a graphene strip, placed into the focal area of the Luneburg lens, enhances its focusing ability at the resonance frequency of the strip plasmon mode proportionally to the quality factor. This frequency is defined by the strip width and is tunable with the aid of graphene's chemical potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"41726-41740"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142687984","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 expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.539454
Yongqi Liu, Cheng Chi, Yuefan Shan, Dewen Cheng, Yongtian Wang
{"title":"Polarization-multiplexed zoom Moiré metalens for edge-enhanced imaging.","authors":"Yongqi Liu, Cheng Chi, Yuefan Shan, Dewen Cheng, Yongtian Wang","doi":"10.1364/OE.539454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.539454","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Optical image processing with high operational efficiency has been applied as a pre-processing imaging system for image recognition. Edge-enhanced imaging as a high-efficiency optical image processing method is of great significance for feature extraction and target recognition. However, the edge-enhanced imaging system based on the 4F system and the spatial filter transforms mainly work under coherent light illumination conditions, without continuously zooming to track the spatial position of the target. Here, we demonstrate a polarization-multiplexed zoom Moiré metalens for edge-enhanced imaging under incoherent light illumination. Metalens is designed to generate polarization-dependent optical transfer functions that produce edge-enhanced images with a resolution of 1.2 µm by digital subtraction. Furthermore, continuous zoom at the range of 1-2× is realized by constructing a Moiré metalens composed of cascaded metasurfaces. The cascaded metasurfaces consist of two center-aligned dielectric metasurfaces, each with a Moiré phase sensitive to the rotation angle. By rotating the metasurface, the phase profile of the cascaded metasurfaces changes, and the effect of continuous zoom is realized. The focal length can be actively changed from 38 µm to 77 µm with the focusing efficiency of 50.3%. This metalens can be applied to machine vision, microscopic imaging, and promotes the development of multi-functional integrated optical systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"40666-40681"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688355","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 expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.537728
Zhijia Liu, Longfang Yao, Li Zhang, Duantao Hou, Yiyan Fei, Lan Mi, Baoju Wang, Jiong Ma
{"title":"Adaptive-modulated fast fluctuation super-resolution microscopy.","authors":"Zhijia Liu, Longfang Yao, Li Zhang, Duantao Hou, Yiyan Fei, Lan Mi, Baoju Wang, Jiong Ma","doi":"10.1364/OE.537728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.537728","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fluorescence microscopy has significantly advanced biological imaging at the nanoscale, particularly with the advent of super-resolution microscopy (SRM), which transcends the Abbe diffraction limit. Most cutting-edge SR methods require high-precision optical setups, which constrain the widespread adoption of SRM. Fluorescence fluctuation-based SRM (FF-SRM) can break the diffraction limit without complex optical components, making it particularly well-suited for biological imaging. However, conventional FF-SRM methods, such as super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI), still require specific fluorescent molecular blinking properties. Instead of enhancing the intrinsic blinking characteristics by finding specific fluorescent markers, employing optical methods such as spatial light modulation to adjust the excitation light field allows for easier and more flexible matching of the on-time ratio with the analysis of temporal stochastic intensity fluctuations. Nevertheless, the specific parameters of the modulation patterns have not been thoroughly explored, despite their crucial influence on the reconstruction quality. Herein, we propose adaptive-modulated fast fluctuation super-resolution microscopy. Our method demonstrates theoretically and experimentally that restricting the size of modulation units in a certain range ensures better image quality with fewer artifacts and signal losses. We find it still significantly effective when applied to other FF-SRM. Overall, the further development of the adaptive modulation technique has made it more stable in behavior and maintained high-quality imaging, presenting broader prospects for super resolution imaging based on statistical analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"41173-41187"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142686760","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 expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.540592
Yi-Fei Lu, Mu-Sheng Jiang, Yang Wang, Yan-Yang Zhou, Jia-Ji Li, Yu Zhou, Xiao-Lei Jiang, Hai-Long Zhang, Xiang Wang, Yuyao Guo, Linjie Zhou, Chun Zhou, Hong-Wei Li, Wan-Su Bao
{"title":"Loss tolerance quantum key distribution based on the signal extraction model and advantage distillation technology.","authors":"Yi-Fei Lu, Mu-Sheng Jiang, Yang Wang, Yan-Yang Zhou, Jia-Ji Li, Yu Zhou, Xiao-Lei Jiang, Hai-Long Zhang, Xiang Wang, Yuyao Guo, Linjie Zhou, Chun Zhou, Hong-Wei Li, Wan-Su Bao","doi":"10.1364/OE.540592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.540592","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Compared with traditional networks, quantum key distribution (QKD) offers the ultimate resources, allowing two remote users to share secret symmetric keys regardless of the capabilities of eavesdroppers. However, the widespread application of commercial QKD is still challenging due to the low photon detection efficiency and the extremely high transmission loss. Here we demonstrate a fully commercial phase-encoding QKD system using a signal extraction model and advantage distillation technology to suppress detector noise and perform real-time pre-error correction. 1.89 × 10<sup>-10</sup> in the asymptotic case and 7.43 × 10<sup>-12</sup> in the nonasymptotic case secret key bits per pulse are achieved with a total loss of 70.05 dB. This method not only increases the transmission loss tolerance but also provides a more realistic deployment of quantum communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"41511-41523"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688398","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 expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.533583
Suqin Nan, Lin Luo, Xuanpengfan Zou, Yang Guo, Xianwei Huang, Wei Tan, Xiaohui Zhu, Teng Jiang, Chuang Li, Yanfeng Bai, Xiquan Fu
{"title":"Wide-field scanning ghost imaging based on a local binary pattern and untrained neural network.","authors":"Suqin Nan, Lin Luo, Xuanpengfan Zou, Yang Guo, Xianwei Huang, Wei Tan, Xiaohui Zhu, Teng Jiang, Chuang Li, Yanfeng Bai, Xiquan Fu","doi":"10.1364/OE.533583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.533583","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Continuous scene imaging is an important research goal in the field of autonomous driving, and the key is to ensure the imaging quality and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a method for information fusion in wide-field scanning ghost imaging using a local binary pattern (LBP) based on deep learning. The initial physical model formed by the LBP integrated into a deep neural network, which effectively enhances the expression of image texture details. Then the collected bucket signals are used as labels for adaptive image reconstruction, enabling the acquisition of images at each scanning position without the need for training on any dataset. Moreover, by employing weighted fusion to combine the image data from each scanning position, which effectively eliminates gaps that arise from direct stitching. Both simulation and experimental results demonstrate that our approach is capable of achieving high-quality detailed imaging with fewer measurements. Additionally, we analyze the impact of the projection beam step length, finding that our method yields significantly better imaging quality with larger steps compared to other methods using smaller steps. Our research also has the application prospect in medical detection, remote sensing and other fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"41644-41656"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688048","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 expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.536887
Guohui Xing, Jiamin Rong, Kai Xue, Jianglong Li, Hongbo Yue, Tong Xing, Tao Jia, Wenyao Liu, Yanru Zhou, Enbo Xing, Jun Tang, Jun Liu
{"title":"Dispersion response broadband tunable underwater FMCW blue chirped laser source.","authors":"Guohui Xing, Jiamin Rong, Kai Xue, Jianglong Li, Hongbo Yue, Tong Xing, Tao Jia, Wenyao Liu, Yanru Zhou, Enbo Xing, Jun Tang, Jun Liu","doi":"10.1364/OE.536887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.536887","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) narrow linewidth lasers have served as the cornerstone behind applications such as autonomous driving, wearable technology, virtual reality, and remote sensing mapping. Strongly coherent lasers are typically used for these studies, with a clear demand for linear fast response and wide frequency tuning range. In this paper, profiting from the ultrahigh-quality factor of the crystalline whispering-gallery-mode resonator, by using a self-injection locking mechanism to suppress spontaneous emission noise and improve coherence, sub-kHz linewidth at 450 nm is obtained. Furthermore, based on the dispersive response principle, fast electrical tuning is realized by using the strain-influenced resonator, and the experimental test result reaches 81 pm/V. More importantly, we demonstrate the comprehensive performance of this type of FMCW laser in underwater detection, with a sensitivity of 319 MHz/m at a chirp frequency of 1 kHz.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"41882-41891"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688322","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 expressPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1364/OE.537629
Si Chen, Hao Chen, Yi Fan Gao, Xiao Feng Chen, Zong Bin Hao, Jian Zhang, Zhou Chen, Hai Xiong Ge
{"title":"Fabrication of slanted gratings with high refractive index starting from master nanoimprint mold.","authors":"Si Chen, Hao Chen, Yi Fan Gao, Xiao Feng Chen, Zong Bin Hao, Jian Zhang, Zhou Chen, Hai Xiong Ge","doi":"10.1364/OE.537629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.537629","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recently, nanoimprinting has attracted a new round of attention in the industry due to the boom in demand for augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), metalens and microlens, and even semiconductors. Slanted gratings have great application prospects in AR/VR displays because of their high efficiency in light coupling. UV-Nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) has been identified as one of the most feasible routes for mass manufacture of high refractive index (RI) slanted gratings. This paper presents a fabrication of high RI slanted gratings based on UV-NIL. A comprehensive study on the optical principles of slanted gratings is conducted, followed by simulation-based optimization of the grating parameters. The key element for applying nanoimprint to fabricate slanted gratings is the master mold, which is acquired by a tilted angle etching of metal gratings as an etching mask on silicon wafers with F-based plasma. The influence of experimental parameters, such as the etching power and etching mask thickness on the morphology of the slanted gratings on the master mold are investigated. The working mold was simply duplicated from the master mold by UV-NIL with a low surface energy working mold material. The high RI slanted gratings were achieved by imprinting a UV-curable resin with high RI. Finally, experimental verification was performed to assess the optical performance of the slanted gratings.</p>","PeriodicalId":19691,"journal":{"name":"Optics express","volume":"32 23","pages":"40886-40897"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688292","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}