Optical Nonlinearity in a Novel Optical Signal Regeneration System Based on Cross-Gain Modulation Using Cascaded Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

We propose a novel optical signal regeneration system based on wavelength converters by use of cross gain modulation in cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers. The nonlinearity in optical input/output characteristics and eye opening using NRZ signal were archived.

Influence of the nonlinear propagation effect on the optical signal-to-noise ratio of 400G optical fiber communication systems

The influence of the nonlinear propagation effect on three 400 Gb/s/ch （400G） optical fiber communication systems with typical modulation formats, dual-carrier 16-quadrature amplitude modulation （16QAM）, single-carrier 16QAM （single-16QAM）, and four-carrier quadrature phase-shift keying, are investigated. The received optical signal-to-noise ratio （OSNR）, affected by the nonlinear interference noise together with the amplified spontaneous emission noise, are compared with three 400G systems and a standard 100 Gb/s/ch system by numerical simulations. Both single channel and multichannel cases are considered. Single-16QAM is found to have the best OSNR among those modulation formats.

High resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio imaging with nearfield high-order optical signals

The properties of near-field optics have always been the focus of nano-measurement technology.The 11th order effective nearfield optical signal with an incident laser wavelength of 1,550 nm is obtained using a platinum-coated optical probe(Pt–Si probe).The experimental results show that the local electric field intensity of the Pt–Si probe is nearly 30 times higher than that of silicon probe(Si probe).Therefore,the highest 7th order near-field optical imaging results are obtained with the Pt–Si probe.Further,near-field optical imaging is performed on samples such as gold grids and carbon nanotubes using the Pt–Si probe.The measurement results show that the high-order signal has the characteristics of less background,higher signal-to-noise ratio,and resolution up to 5.7 nm.

Detection performance of trigger-controlled Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes in weak optical signal detection

This Letter introduces a trigger-controlled Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode （GM-APD）. A hierarchical look- back-upon tree recurrence method is given to predict the performance of trigger-controlled GM-APDs under different trigger-count upper limits. In addition, the normalized detection probability is defined to evaluate the detection performance of trigger-controlled GM-APDs in typical weak optical signal detection （impulse noise and continuous noise situations）. Theoretical analyses show that the trigger-controlled GM-APD improves the detection performance of GM-APDs in weak optical signal detection via the optimization of the trigger-count upper limit, compared with single-trigger and multi-trigger GM-APDs.

Linear optical signal processing with optical filters： a tutorial

An effective theoretical analysis method is presented to analyze different linear optical signal processing functions with optical fikers reported in literatures. For different applications, the optical filters are supposed to operate on the analog or digital part of the signal separately, namely analog spectrum conversion and digital spectrum conversion. For instance, the return-to-zero （RZ） to non-return-to-zero （NRZ） format conversion for intensity or phase modulated signals are based on the analog spectrum conversion process, while the （N）RZ to （N）RZ phase-shift-keying （PSK） format conversion, logic NOT gate and clock recovery for RZ signals are based on the digital spectrum conversion process. Theoretical analyses with the help of numerical simulation are used to verify the reported experimental results, and all the experimental results can be effectively analyzed with this analytical model. The effect of the transmission spectrum of the filter on the performance of the converted signal is investigated. The most important factor is that the theoretical analysis provides an effective way to optimize the optical filter for different optical signal processing functions.

Digital Optical Signal Amplifier Using an Er-doped Fiber Optical Bistable Device

The principle and charecteristics of verious digital optical signal amplifiers using Er doped fiber optical bistability devices have been discussed. Optical signal gain and its variation with the parameters of the devices with constant or pulse optical bias have been calculated, and the design principle of those devices has been given.

Hybrid Fiber Optical Bistability and Optical Signal Procesing

A hybrid fiber optical bistable device with electrical feedback has been proposed and analyzed.Bistability operation and some applications for optical signal processing have been realized experimentally .

Optical Switching and Digital Signal Amplification Using an Optical Fiber Grating OBD

It is proposed that an optical fiber grating bistability device may be used for an all optical switching or an all optical digital signal amplifier with low power and high speed. The principle, characteristic and paremeter are analysed, and some design ideas are given.

All-Optical Signal Processing with Super-Continuum Generated from Optical Fibers

Super-continuum (SC) generated from optical fibers has many attractive applications in optical communication systems. Discussing the mechanism of wideband and flat SC generation, we describe all-optical signal processing that employs the SC.

ACCURATELY DETERMINING PROPAGATION VELOCITY OF CORTICAL SPREADING DEPRESSION IN RATS BY OPTICAL INTRINSIC SIGNAL IMAGING

Cortical spreading depression(CSD)is a wave of neuronal and glial depolarization that propagates across the cortex at a rate of 2–5mm/min accompanied by reversible electroencephalogram(EEG)suppression,a negative shift of direct current(DC)potential,and change of optical intrinsic signals(OIS).Propagation velocity of CSD is an important parameter used to study this phenomenon.It is commonly determined in an electrophysiological way that measures the time required for a CSD wave to pass along two electrodes.Since the electrophysiology technique fails to reveal the spreading pattern of CSD,velocity calculated in this manner might be inaccurate.In this study,we combined the electrophysiological recording and OIS imaging(OISI)for detecting changes in DC potential and OIS during CSD simultaneously.An optical method based on OISI to determine the CSD velocity,which is measured by generating a series of regions of interest(ROI)perpendicular to the advancing wavefront along propagation direction of CSD at different time points and then dividing by the distance between ROIs over time,is presented.Comparison of the accuracy of the two approaches in determining the CSD velocity is made as well.The average rate of 33 CSDs is 3.52±0.87mm/min by use of the optical method and 4.36±1.65mm/min by use of the electrophysiological method.Because of the information about spreading pattern of CSD provided optically,the velocity determined by OISI is of smaller deviation and higher accuracy.

Research on laser weld penetration monitoring with laser induced plasma signals

In this paper, laser induced plasma signals were analyzed during keyhole welding through three methods. According to the results, the relativity between optical and acoustic signals of plasma is shown when welds are in full-penetration, or partial-penetration and non-penetration.

Capacity Scaling Limits and New Advancements in Optical Transmission Systems

Optical transmission technologies have gone through several generations of development.Spectral efficiency has significant ly improved,and industry has begun to search for an answer to a basic question：What are the fundamental linear and nonlin ear signal channel limitations of the Shannon theory when there is no compensation in an optical fiber transmission system？Next-generation technologies should exceed the 100G transmis sion capability of coherent systems in order to approach the Shannon limit.Spectral efficiency first needs to be improved be fore overall transmission capability can be improved.The means to improve spectral efficiency include more complex modulation formats and channel encoding/decoding algorithms,prefiltering with multisymbol detection,optical OFDM and Ny quist WDM multicarrier technologies,and nonlinearity compen sation.With further optimization,these technologies will most likely be incorporated into beyond-100G optical transport sys tems to meet bandwidth demand.

Optical time-domain differentiation based on intensive differential group delay

An optical time-domain differentiation scheme is proposed and demonstrated based on the intensive differential group delay in a high birefringence fibre waveguide. Results show that the differentiation waveforms agree well with the mathematically calculated derivatives. Both error and efficiency will increase when the birefringence fibre becomes longer, and the error rises up more quickly while the efficiency approaches to a maximum of ~0.25. By using a 1-m birefringence fibre a lower error of ~0.26% is obtained with an efficiency of 1% for the first-order differentiation of 10-ps Gaussian optical pulses, and the high-order optical differentiation up to 4th order is achieved with an error less than 3%. Due to its compact structure being easy to integrate and cascade into photonic circuits, our scheme has great potential for ultrafast signal processing.

Doppler radar by using single multicarrier pulse based on optical fibre delay lines

The proposed Doppler measurement technique shows that the Doppler measurements can be accomplished by a single pulse with multiple frequency components through optical fibre delay lines.Range and velocity ambiguity can be removed,and the velocity resolution can be improved dramatically by using long optical fibre delay lines.Furthermore,the velocity resolution can be modified by adjusting the length of optical fibre delay lines.In addition,the proposed radar can achieve high range resolution by using a single wideband pulse.As a result,the new approach can improve radar performance significantly.

Separation of cortical arteries and veins in optical neurovascular imaging

Separation of arteries and veins in the cerebral cortex is of significant importance in the studies of cortical hemodynamics,such as the changes of cerebral blood flow,perfusion or oxygen con-centration in arteries and veins under different pathological and physiological conditions.Yet the cerebral vessel segmentation and vessel-type separation are challenging due to the complexity of cortical vessel characteristics and low spatial signal-to-noise ratio.In this work,we presented an effective full-field method to differentiate arteries and veins in cerebral cortex using dual-modal optical imaging technology including laser speckle imaging(LSI)and optical intrinsic signals(OIS)imaging.The raw contrast images were acquired by LSI and processed with enhanced laser speckle contrast analysis(eLASCA),algorithm.The vascular pattern was extracted and seg-mented using region growing algorithm from the eLASCA-based LSI.Meanwhile,OIS imageswere acquired altermatively with 630 and 870 nm to obtain an oxy hemoglobin concentration mapover cerebral cortex.Then the separation of arteries and veins was accomplished by Otsuthreshold segmentation algorithm based on the OIS information and segmentation of LSI.Finally,the segmentation and separation performances were assessed using area overlap measure(AOM).The segmentation and separation of cerebral vessels in cortical optical imaging have great potential applications in full-field cerebral hemodynamics monitoring and pathological study of cerebral vascular diseases,as well as in clinical intraoperative monitoring.

A conditioned level-set method with block-division strategy to flame front extraction based on OH-PLIF measurements

A novel approach to extract flame fronts, which is called the conditioned level-set method with block division （CLSB）, has been developed. Based on a two-phase level-set formulation, the conditioned initialization and region-lock optimiza-tion appear to be beneficial to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the flame contour identification. The original block- division strategy enables the approach to be unsupervised by calculating local self-adaptive threshold values autonomously before binarization. The CLSB approach has been applied to deal with a large set of experimental data involving swirl- stabilized premixed combustion in diluted regimes operating at atmospheric pressures. The OH-PLIF measurements have been carried out in this framework. The resulting images are, thus, featured by lower signal-to-noise ratios （SNRs） than the ideal image; relatively complex flame structures lead to significant non-uniformity in the OH signal intensity; and, the mag- nitude of the maximum OH gradient observed along the flame front can also vary depending on flow or local stoichiometry. Compared with other conventional edge detection operators, the CLSB method demonstrates a good ability to deal with the OH-PLIF images at low SNR and with the presence of a multiple scales of both OH intensity and OH gradient. The robustness to noise sensitivity and intensity inhomogeneity has been evaluated throughout a range of experimental images of diluted flames, as well as against a circle test as Ground Truth （GT）.

Universal switching of plasmonic signals using optical resonator modes

We propose and investigate,both experimentally and theoretically,a novel mechanism for switching and modulating plasmonic signals based on a Fano interference process,which arises from the coupling between a narrow-band optical Fabry–Pérot cavity and a surface plasmon polariton(SPP)source.The SPP wave emitted from the cavity is actively modulated in the vicinity of the cavity resonances by altering the cavity Q-factor and/or resonant frequencies.We experimentally demonstrate dynamic SPP modulation both by mechanical control of the cavity length and all-optically by harnessing the ultrafast nonlinearity of the Au mirrors that form the cavity.An electro-optical modulation scheme is also proposed and numerically illustrated.Dynamic operation of the switch via mechanical means yields a modulation in the SPP coupling efficiency of~80%,while the all-optical control provides an ultrafast modulation with an efficiency of 30%at a rate of~0.6 THz.The experimental observations are supported by both analytical and numerical calculations of the mechanical,all-optical and electro-optical modulation methods.

Channel Pre-emphasis Equalization for a 270km 40×40 Gbit/s WDM System with Cascaded EDFAs/Raman Amplifiers

Optical channel pre-emphasis equalization is experimentally researched for a 270 km 40 × 40 Gbit/s wavelength division multiplexing （WDM） transmission system with three Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers （ED- FAs） and Raman amplifiers concatenated as booster amplifier. The channel imbalance of the overall system changes with different sets of power launched into EDFAs. By appropriately choosing the power input to concatenated EDFAs, the output spectrum of 40 channel signal can be equalized to the most extent. The merit of benefit can be around 5.5 dB by this pre-emphasis equalization. The requirement for the gain equalizer is therefore greatly released. Then the gain imbalance of the overall system and the power imbalance of 40 channels are compared and the two almost matches, but the significant difference lies on some channels. Finally, the pump power into Raman amplifier is also optimized, and another 1.3 dB improvement of channel equaliza- tion can be further achieved.

RVFL-Based Optical Fiber Intrusion Signal Recognition With Multi-Level Wavelet Decomposition as Feature

The optical fiber pre-waming system （OFPS） has been gradually considered as one of the important means for pipeline safety monitoring. Intrusion signal types are correctly identified which could reduce the cost of troubleshooting and maintenance of the pipeline. Most of the previous feature extraction methods in OFPS are usually quested from the view of time domain. However, in some cases, there is no distinguishing feature in the time domain. In the paper, firstly, the intrusion signal features of the running, digging, and pick mattock are extracted in the frequency domain by multi-level wavelet decomposition, that is, the intrusion signals are decomposed into five bands. Secondly, the average energy ratio of different frequency bands is obtained, which is considered as the feature of each intrusion type. Finally, the feature samples are sent into the random vector functional-link （RVFL） network for training to complete the classification and identification of the signals. Experimental results show that the algorithm can correctly distinguish the different intrusion signals and achieve higher recognition rate.

Optical Generation of mm-Wave Signal Through Optoelectronic Phase-Locked Loop

In this paper, we propose a scheme for the generation of low phase noise tunable mm-wave signal by bearing two lightwaves in a photodiode. These two lightwaves are made phase coherent by an optoelectronic phase locked loop. Calculated mm-wave power at a frequency of 60 GHz is found to be -4 dBm.