{"title":"Stable operation of regeneratively and harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser employing clock extraction from the second harmonic","authors":"J. Maeda, K. Sakuma","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.JTU5A.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.JTU5A.93","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally demonstrate a regeneratively and harmonically mode-locked fiber laser employing clock extraction from the second-harmonic of the repetition frequency. The proposed laser showed much better stability than did a laser employing conventional clock extraction.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"56 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76415733","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":"Ultrafast phonon dynamics in graphene-hBN structures","authors":"D. Golla, A. Brasington, B. LeRoy, A. Sandhu","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.JTH2A.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.JTH2A.20","url":null,"abstract":"We present ultrafast pump-probe measurements that show fast relaxation of carriers in graphene-hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) heterostructures due to the high interfacial thermal conductance of the graphene-hBN interface. This warrants the use of hBN as a substrate for high powered graphene devices.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"5 6 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83580852","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":"Chirped-laser dispersion spectroscopy for large-area methane detection","authors":"G. Wysocki","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.ATH1B.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.ATH1B.6","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an overview of Chirped Laser Dispersion Spectroscopy (CLaDS) implementations to large area methane monitoring and recent developments in sensitivity enhancement techniques.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"191 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78196990","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}
James G. Titchener, M. Gräfe, R. Heilmann, A. Solntsev, A. Szameit, A. Sukhorukov
{"title":"Scalable quantum tomography in a photonic chip","authors":"James G. Titchener, M. Gräfe, R. Heilmann, A. Solntsev, A. Szameit, A. Sukhorukov","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.JTH3E.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.JTH3E.5","url":null,"abstract":"We formulate a method of quantum tomography that scales linearly with the number of photons and involves only one optical transformation. We demonstrate it experimentally for two-photon entangled states using a special photonic chip.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"10 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86242565","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":"Printed large-area flat optical component: Metasurfaces for cylindrical vector beam generation","authors":"Cheng Zhang, Qiaochu Li, Lei Jin, Xi Chen, L. Guo","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2017.FM1H.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2017.FM1H.1","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a cost-effective and highly reproducible method for manufacturing large-area dielectric metasurfaces. A high-performance silicon metasurface for generating cylindrical polarized vector beam is demonstrated as an example.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"146 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75515272","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}
Jingwei Wu, Xiushan Zhu, V. Temyanko, L. LaComb, L. Kotov, Kort Kiersma, J. Zong, A. Chavez-Pirson, R. Norwood, N. Peyghambarian
{"title":"Investigation of double-clad Yb3+-doped phosphate fiber for 976 nm single-frequency laser amplification","authors":"Jingwei Wu, Xiushan Zhu, V. Temyanko, L. LaComb, L. Kotov, Kort Kiersma, J. Zong, A. Chavez-Pirson, R. Norwood, N. Peyghambarian","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.JTU5A.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.JTU5A.92","url":null,"abstract":"976 nm single-frequency ytterbium-doped double-clad phosphate fiber amplifiers were investigated and 3.41 W laser output with ∼41 dB optical signal-to-noise ratio was obtained. Further power scaling was studied with fiber amplifier modeling.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75066604","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":"Heterodyne efficiency in chirped laser dispersion spectroscopy","authors":"Yifeng Chen, G. Plant, G. Wysocki","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_SI.2017.SW4L.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2017.SW4L.5","url":null,"abstract":"We present an analysis of diffusive reflection and its effect on heterodyne efficiency in conventional and heterodyne-enhanced chirped laser dispersion spectroscopy motivated by applications in stand-off chemical detection.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"142 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73952105","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":"Impact of Landau damping on field enhancement in plasmonic dimers","authors":"J. Khurgin, W. Tsai, D. Tsai, Y. Ding, G. Sun","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2017.FM1F.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2017.FM1F.6","url":null,"abstract":"We show that Landau damping presents the most practically-relevant limit to the achievable plasmonic enhancement inside the narrow gaps of plasmonic dimers and other similarly-shaped plasmonic nanoantennas.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78466845","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":"Temperature stable electro-optic polymer modulator using ultra-thin silicon waveguide","authors":"S. Yokoyama, H. Miura, Q. Feng, A. Spring","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_SI.2017.SW1K.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2017.SW1K.2","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate the broadband electro-optical (EO) polymer modulator in the hybrid silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The waveguide consists of the 50 nm-thick silicon core with the EO polymer cladding. The fabrication of the hybrid waveguide can be totally carried out by using the conventional photolithography technique. The recorded half-wave voltage (Vπ) of the modulator was 0.9 V at 1550 nm. The traveling-wave electrode was applied to the modulator to test the frequency response up to 40 GHz. The modulator showed the excellent temperature stability at 85° for longer than 2000 hours.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77848870","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}
S. Fryslie, Zihe Gao, Harshil Dave, B. Thompson, K. Lakomy, K. Choquette
{"title":"Uniform, high modulation bandwidth VCSEL arrays","authors":"S. Fryslie, Zihe Gao, Harshil Dave, B. Thompson, K. Lakomy, K. Choquette","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_SI.2017.SF2J.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2017.SF2J.5","url":null,"abstract":"We show improved performance from high-speed 1×2 phased, photonic crystal VCSEL arrays. A modulation bandwidth of 37 GHz is obtained under highly single mode coherently coupled operation in the in-phase coupled mode. Modulation bandwidth > 30 GHz are found for all photonic crystal designs on the sample.","PeriodicalId":6652,"journal":{"name":"2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"26 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83052580","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}