{"title":"Configurable topological beam splitting via antichiral gyromagnetic photonic crystal","authors":"Jianfeng Chen, Zhi-Yuan Li","doi":"10.29026/oes.2022.220001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29026/oes.2022.220001","url":null,"abstract":"Antichiral gyromagnetic photonic crystal (GPC) in a honeycomb lattice with the two interpenetrating triangular sublattices A and B magnetically biased in opposite directions can realize antichiral one-way edge states propagating along the same direction at its two parallel edges. Here, we report the construction and observation of topological beam splitting with the easily adjustable right-to-left ratio in an antichiral GPC. The splitter is compact and configurable, has high transmission efficiency, and allows for multi-channel utilization, crosstalk-proof, and robust against defects and obstacles. This magnificent performance is attributed to the peculiar property that antichiral one-way edge states exist only at zigzag edge but not at armchair edge of antichiral GPC. When we combine two rectangular antichiral GPCs holding left- and right-propagating antichiral one-way edge states respectively, bidirectionally radiating one-way edge states at two parallel zigzag edges can be achieved. Our observations can enrich the understanding of fundamental physics and expand topological photonic applications.","PeriodicalId":208845,"journal":{"name":"Opto-Electronic Science","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121113703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huanhuan Liu, D. Hu, Qizhen Sun, Lei Wei, Kaiwei Li, C. Liao, Bozhe Li, Cong Zhao, Xinyong Dong, Yuhan Tang, Yihong Xiao, G. Keiser, P. Shum
{"title":"Specialty optical fibers for advanced sensing applications","authors":"Huanhuan Liu, D. Hu, Qizhen Sun, Lei Wei, Kaiwei Li, C. Liao, Bozhe Li, Cong Zhao, Xinyong Dong, Yuhan Tang, Yihong Xiao, G. Keiser, P. Shum","doi":"10.29026/oes.2023.220025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29026/oes.2023.220025","url":null,"abstract":"Optical fiber technology has changed the world by enabling extraordinary growth in world-wide communications and sensing. The rapid development and wide deployment of optical fiber sensors are driven by their excellent sensing performance with outstanding flexibility, functionality, and versatility. Notably, the research on specialty optical fibers is playing a critical role in enabling and proliferating the optical fiber sensing applications. This paper overviews recent developments in specialty optical fibers and their sensing applications. The specialty optical fibers are reviewed based on their innovations in special structures, special materials, and technologies to realize lab in/on a fiber. An overview of sensing applications in various fields is presented. The prospects and emerging research areas of specialty optical fibers are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":208845,"journal":{"name":"Opto-Electronic Science","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132238523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Elbanna, Ksenia Chaykun, Y. Lekina, Yuanda Liu, B. Febriansyah, Shuzhou Li, Jisheng Pan, Z. Shen, J. Teng
{"title":"Perovskite-transition metal dichalcogenides heterostructures: recent advances and future perspectives","authors":"A. Elbanna, Ksenia Chaykun, Y. Lekina, Yuanda Liu, B. Febriansyah, Shuzhou Li, Jisheng Pan, Z. Shen, J. Teng","doi":"10.29026/oes.2022.220006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29026/oes.2022.220006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208845,"journal":{"name":"Opto-Electronic Science","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116375009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurement of optical coherence structures of random optical fields using generalized Arago spot experiment","authors":"Xin Liu, Qian Chen, Jun Zeng, Y. Cai, C. Liang","doi":"10.29026/oes.2023.220024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29026/oes.2023.220024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208845,"journal":{"name":"Opto-Electronic Science","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115645117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terahertz generation from laser-induced plasma","authors":"Wen-feng Sun, Xin-Ke Wang, Yan Zhang","doi":"10.29026/oes.2022.220003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29026/oes.2022.220003","url":null,"abstract":"Interest of the research in terahertz (THz) wave has been strongly motivated by its wide applications in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. Developing efficient and reliable THz source is of uttermost priority in these re-searches. Numerous attempts have been made in fulfilling the THz generation. Greatly benefited from the progress of the ultrafast pulses, the laser-induced-plasma is one of the auspicious tools to provide desirable THz waves, owing to its su-periorities in high power threshold, intense THz signal, and ultrawide THz spectrum. This paper reviews the physics and progress of the THz generation from the laser-induced plasmas, which are produced by gas, liquid, and solid. The characteristics of the emitted THz waves are also included. There are many complicated physical processes involved in the interactions of laser-plasma, making various laser-plasma scenarios in the THz generations. In view of this, we will only focus on the THz generation classified by physical mechanisms. Finally, we discuss a perspective on the future of THz generation from the laser-induced plasma, as well as its involved challenges.","PeriodicalId":208845,"journal":{"name":"Opto-Electronic Science","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121134338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuchan Zhang, Q. Jiang, Mingquan Long, Ruozhong Han, Kaiqiang Cao, Shian Zhang, D. Feng, T. Jia, Zhenrong Sun, J. Qiu, Hongxing Xu
{"title":"Femtosecond laser-induced periodic structures: mechanisms, techniques, and applications","authors":"Yuchan Zhang, Q. Jiang, Mingquan Long, Ruozhong Han, Kaiqiang Cao, Shian Zhang, D. Feng, T. Jia, Zhenrong Sun, J. Qiu, Hongxing Xu","doi":"10.29026/oes.2022.220005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29026/oes.2022.220005","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past two decades, femtosecond laser-induced periodic structures (femtosecond-LIPSs) have become ubiquitous in a variety of materials, including metals, semiconductors, dielectrics, and polymers. Femtosecond-LIPSs have become a useful laser processing method, with broad prospects in adjusting material properties such as structural color, data storage, light absorption, and luminescence. This review discusses the formation mechanism of LIPSs, specifically the LIPS formation processes based on the pump-probe imaging method. The pulse shaping of a femtosecond laser in terms of the time/frequency, polarization, and spatial distribution is an efficient method for fabricating high-quality LIPSs. Various LIPS applications are also briefly introduced. The last part of this paper discusses the LIPS formation mechanism, as well as the high-efficiency and high-quality processing of LIPSs using shaped ultrafast lasers and their applications. Sci 1 , 220005","PeriodicalId":208845,"journal":{"name":"Opto-Electronic Science","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126480761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tianxiao Xiao, Suo Tu, Suzhe Liang, Renjun Guo, Ting Tian, Peter Müller‐Buschbaum
{"title":"Solar cell-based hybrid energy harvesters towards sustainability","authors":"Tianxiao Xiao, Suo Tu, Suzhe Liang, Renjun Guo, Ting Tian, Peter Müller‐Buschbaum","doi":"10.29026/oes.2023.230011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29026/oes.2023.230011","url":null,"abstract":"Energy harvesting plays a crucial role in modern society. In the past years, solar energy, owing to its renewable, green, and infinite attributes, has attracted increasing attention across a broad range of applications from small-scale wearable electronics to large-scale energy powering. However, the utility of solar cells in providing a stable power supply for various electrical appliances in practical applications is restricted by weather conditions. To address this issue, researchers have made many efforts to integrate solar cells with other types of energy harvesters, thus developing hybrid energy har-vesters (HEHs), which can harvest energy from the ambient environment via different working mechanisms. In this review, four categories of energy harvesters including solar cells, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs), and thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are introduced. In addition, we systematically summarize the recent progress in solar cell-based hybrid energy harvesters (SCHEHs) with a focus on their structure designs and the corresponding applications. Three hybridization designs through unique combinations of TENG, PENG, and TEG with solar cells are elaborated in detail. Finally, the main challenges and perspectives for the future development of SCHEHs are discussed.","PeriodicalId":208845,"journal":{"name":"Opto-Electronic Science","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125305857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benchmarking deep learning-based models on nanophotonic inverse design problems","authors":"Taigao Ma, Mustafa Tobah, Haozhu Wang, L. J. Guo","doi":"10.29026/oes.2022.210012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29026/oes.2022.210012","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic inverse design concerns the problem of finding photonic structures with target optical properties. However, tra-ditional methods based on optimization algorithms are time-consuming and computationally expensive. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have been developed to tackle the problem of inverse design efficiently. Although most of these neural network models have demonstrated high accuracy in different inverse design problems, no previous study has examined the potential effects under given constraints in nanomanufacturing. Additionally, the relative strength of different deep learning-based inverse design approaches has not been fully investigated. Here, we benchmark three commonly used deep learning models in inverse design: Tandem networks, Variational Auto-Encoders, and Generative Adversarial Networks. We provide detailed comparisons in terms of their accuracy, diversity, and robustness. We find that tandem networks and Variational Auto-Encoders give the best accuracy, while Generative Adversarial Networks lead to the most diverse predictions. Our findings could serve as a guideline for researchers to select the model that can best suit their design criteria and fabrication considerations. In addition, our code and data are publicly available, which could be used for future inverse design model development and benchmarking. nanophotonic inverse design problems. Opto-Electron Sci 210012","PeriodicalId":208845,"journal":{"name":"Opto-Electronic Science","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126171301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}