This paper investigates the effects of walk-off among optical pulses on cross-phase modulation induced modulation instability in the normal dispersion region of an optical fibre with high-order dispersion. The results...This paper investigates the effects of walk-off among optical pulses on cross-phase modulation induced modulation instability in the normal dispersion region of an optical fibre with high-order dispersion. The results indicate that, in the case of high-order dispersion, the walk-off effect takes on new characteristics and will influence considerably the shape, position and especially the number of the spectral regions of the gain spectra of modulation instability. Not only the group-velocity mismatch, but also the difference of the third-order dispersion of two optical waves will alter the gain spectra of modulation instability but in different ways. Depending on the values of the walk-off parameters, the number of the spectral regions may increase from two to at most four, and the spectral shape and position may change too.展开更多
We report optimal phase modulation based on enhanced electro–optic effects in a Mach–Zehnder（MZ） modulator constructed by AlGaAs/GaAs coupled double quantum well（CDQW） waveguides with optical gain. The net chang...We report optimal phase modulation based on enhanced electro–optic effects in a Mach–Zehnder（MZ） modulator constructed by AlGaAs/GaAs coupled double quantum well（CDQW） waveguides with optical gain. The net change of refractive indexes between two arms of the CDQW MZ modulator is derived by both the electronic polarization method and the normal-surface method. The numerical results show that very large refractive index change over 10^（-1） can be obtained, making the phase modulation in the CDQW MZ modulator very highly efficient. It is desirable and important that a very small voltage-length product for π phase shift, V_π× L_0= 0.0226 V · mm, is obtained by optimizing bias electric field and CDQW structural parameters, which is about seven times smaller than that in single quantum-well MZ modulators.These properties open an avenue for CDQW nanostructures in device applications such as electro–optical switches and phase modulators.展开更多
We theoretically investigate the phenomena of electromagnetically induced grating in an M-type five-level atomic system. It is found that a weak field can be effectively diffracted into high-order directions using a s...We theoretically investigate the phenomena of electromagnetically induced grating in an M-type five-level atomic system. It is found that a weak field can be effectively diffracted into high-order directions using a standing wave coupling field, and different depths of the phase modulation can disperse the diffraction light into different orders. When the phase modulation depth is approximated to the orders of π, 2π and 3π, the first-, second- and third-order diffraction intensity reach the maximum, respectively. Thus we can take advantage of the phase modulation to control the probe light dispersing into the required high orders.展开更多
We investigate the topological phase transition and the enhanced topological effect in a cavity optomechanical system with periodical modulation.By calculating the steady-state equations of the system,the steady-state...We investigate the topological phase transition and the enhanced topological effect in a cavity optomechanical system with periodical modulation.By calculating the steady-state equations of the system,the steady-state conditions of cavity fields and the restricted conditions of effective optomechanical couplings are demonstrated.It is found that the cavity optomechanical system can be modulated to different topological Su–Schrieffer–Heeger(SSH)phases via designing the optomechanical couplings legitimately.Meanwhile,combining the effective optomechanical couplings and the probability distributions of gap states,we reveal the topological phase transition between trivial SSH phase and nontrivial SSH phase via adjusting the decay rates of cavity fields.Moreover,we find that the enhanced topological effect of gap states can be achieved by enlarging the size of system and adjusting the decay rates of cavity fields.展开更多
We propose and analyze a novel Si-based electro-optic modulator with an improved metal-oxide-semiconductor （MOS） capacitor configuration integrated into silicon-on-insulator （SOl）. Three gate-oxide layers embedded...We propose and analyze a novel Si-based electro-optic modulator with an improved metal-oxide-semiconductor （MOS） capacitor configuration integrated into silicon-on-insulator （SOl）. Three gate-oxide layers embedded in the silicon waveguide constitute a triple MOS capacitor structure, which boosts the modulation efficiency compared with a single MOS capacitor. The simulation results demonstrate that the Vπ Lπ product is 2. 4V · cm. The rise time and fall time of the proposed device are calculated to be 80 and 40ps from the transient response curve, respectively,indicating a bandwidth of 8GHz. The phase shift efficiency and bandwidth can be enhanced by rib width scaling.展开更多
Owing to their charge-free property,magnons are highly promising for achieving dissipationless transport without Joule heating,and are thus potentially applicable to energy-efficient devices.Here,we investigate valley...Owing to their charge-free property,magnons are highly promising for achieving dissipationless transport without Joule heating,and are thus potentially applicable to energy-efficient devices.Here,we investigate valley magnons and associated valley modulations in a kagome ferromagnetic lattice with staggered exchange interaction and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.The staggered exchange interaction breaks the spatial inversion symmetry,leading to a valley magnon Hall effect.With nonzero Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in a staggered kagome lattice,the magnon Hall effect can be observed from only one valley.Moreover,reversing the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction(D→-D)and exchanging J_(1)and J_(2)(J_(1)■J_(2))can also regulate the position of the unequal valleys.With increasing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction,a series of topological phase transitions appear when two bands come to touch and split at the valleys.The valley Hall effect and topological phase transitions observed in kagome magnon lattices can be realized in thin films of insulating ferromagnets such as Lu_(2)V_(2)O_(7),and will extend the basis for magnonics applications in the future.展开更多
A new method is proposed to enhance the soliton-effect compression of optical pulses. It consists of copropagating two optical pulses with close wavelengths in the anomalous group-velocity dispersion regime of single-...A new method is proposed to enhance the soliton-effect compression of optical pulses. It consists of copropagating two optical pulses with close wavelengths in the anomalous group-velocity dispersion regime of single-mode fibers. Numerical simulations show that, as compared with the traditional single pulse compression method, cross-phase modulation can not only dramatically increase the compression ratio but also decrease the optimum fiber length. The effects of initial pulse-width mismatch, Raman self-scattering, and pulse walk-off on the pulse compression are also discussed.展开更多
The memory effect is a type of auto correlation observed in linear systems, which is widely used to control scattered light through thin scattering layers.We show that there exists a strong correlation among the optim...The memory effect is a type of auto correlation observed in linear systems, which is widely used to control scattered light through thin scattering layers.We show that there exists a strong correlation among the optimized phase distributions of adjacent focal points in focusing through scattering media.The numeric simulation and experiment indicate that within the memory effect, the phase difference between the two adjacent focal points shows an optical phase fringe pattern, and the closer the adjacent focal points are, the wider the fringe pattern will be, corresponding to the tilting of a plane wave phase added onto the acquired optical phase distribution at the focal point.This effect can be utilized for achieving optimal phase distributions of focal point scanning without optical phase evaluation via the experiment, which has great potential application in imaging through the scattering medium.展开更多
Nonreciprocal microwave devices,in which the transmission of waves is non-symmetric between two ports,are indispensable for the manipulation of information processing and communication.In this work,we show the nonreci...Nonreciprocal microwave devices,in which the transmission of waves is non-symmetric between two ports,are indispensable for the manipulation of information processing and communication.In this work,we show the nonreciprocal microwave transmission in a cavity magnonic system under the joint mechanism of phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect.In contrast to the schemes based on the standard phase modulation or magnon Kerr nonlinearity,we find that the joint mechanism enables the nonreciprocal transmission even at low power and makes us obtain a high nonreciprocal isolation ratio.Moreover,when two microwave modes are coupled to the magnon mode via a different coupling strength,the presented strong nonreciprocal response occurs,and it makes the nonreciprocal transmission manipulating by the magnetic field within a large adjustable range possible,which overcomes narrow operating bandwidths.This study may provide promising opportunities to realize nonreciprocal structures for wave transmission.展开更多
In this article,we review recently achieved Kerr effect progress in novel liquid crystal（LC） material：vertically aligned deformed helix ferroelectric liquid crystal（VADHFLC）.With an increasing applied electric fi...In this article,we review recently achieved Kerr effect progress in novel liquid crystal（LC） material：vertically aligned deformed helix ferroelectric liquid crystal（VADHFLC）.With an increasing applied electric field,the induced inplane birefringence of LCs shows quadratic nonlinearity.The theoretical calculations and experimental details are illustrated.With an enhanced Kerr constant to 130 nm/V2,this VADHFLC cell can achieve a 2π modulation by a small efficient electric field with a fast response around 100 μs and thus can be employed in both display and photonics devices.展开更多
In dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transmission systems, cross-phase modulation (XPM) due to Kerr effect causes phase shift on each channel, which will ultimately be transformed to amplitude nois...In dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transmission systems, cross-phase modulation (XPM) due to Kerr effect causes phase shift on each channel, which will ultimately be transformed to amplitude noise that leads to power penalties. In this letter, the XPM-induced penalty in multi-channel DWDM systems is investigated theoretically and an applied algorithm that can be practically used in engineering design is proposed.展开更多
Noble metals have been extensively studied owing to their high chemical stability and outstanding catalytic properties in various important reactions.However,their large-scale application of noble metals is still chal...Noble metals have been extensively studied owing to their high chemical stability and outstanding catalytic properties in various important reactions.However,their large-scale application of noble metals is still challenged by their high expense and scarcity on the earth,as well as the yet insufficient activity to give a satisfying performance.For decades,enormous research efforts have been devoted to the nanoengineering of noble metal nanocrystals,such as the size-,composition-,shape-,and/or morphology-controlled syntheses,and impressive advances have been achieved.Meanwhile,the discovery that the crystal structure of noble metal nanocrystals also has a significant impact on their properties opened a new pathway that modulates the crystal phases of noble metals to achieve better properties.Among the feasible methods for crystal phase transformation,the presence of strain is not negligible.Strain generally has two roles:the driving force of the phase transformation and/or the origin of the distinct properties of the new crystal structure.Strain effect on noble metals has also been extensively studied due to its capability of fine-tuning the surface catalytic activity.Therefore,combining the two hot research trends together,a possible research pathway is emerging.That is,utilizing the potential synergistic effect between novel crystal phases and the subsequent lattice strain to boost the performance of noble metal nanocrystal even further.Herein,a brief summary of the currently discovered noble metal phases and strain effect and the introduction of strain related phase modulation techniques along with the catalytic applications will be presented.Finally,a brief conclusion and future perspective is given.展开更多
基金Project supported by the Fundamental Application Research Project of the Department of Science ＆ Technology of Sichuan Province （Grant Nos 05JY029-084 and 04JY029-103）, the Key Program of Natural Science Foundation of Educational Commission of Sichuan Province （Grant No 2006A124）, and the Foundation of Science ＆ Technology Development of Chengdu University of Information Technology （Grant No KYTZ20060604）.
文摘This paper investigates the effects of walk-off among optical pulses on cross-phase modulation induced modulation instability in the normal dispersion region of an optical fibre with high-order dispersion. The results indicate that, in the case of high-order dispersion, the walk-off effect takes on new characteristics and will influence considerably the shape, position and especially the number of the spectral regions of the gain spectra of modulation instability. Not only the group-velocity mismatch, but also the difference of the third-order dispersion of two optical waves will alter the gain spectra of modulation instability but in different ways. Depending on the values of the walk-off parameters, the number of the spectral regions may increase from two to at most four, and the spectral shape and position may change too.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11474106)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,China(Grant No.2016A030313439)the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou City,China(Grant No.201707010403)
文摘We report optimal phase modulation based on enhanced electro–optic effects in a Mach–Zehnder（MZ） modulator constructed by AlGaAs/GaAs coupled double quantum well（CDQW） waveguides with optical gain. The net change of refractive indexes between two arms of the CDQW MZ modulator is derived by both the electronic polarization method and the normal-surface method. The numerical results show that very large refractive index change over 10^（-1） can be obtained, making the phase modulation in the CDQW MZ modulator very highly efficient. It is desirable and important that a very small voltage-length product for π phase shift, V_π× L_0= 0.0226 V · mm, is obtained by optimizing bias electric field and CDQW structural parameters, which is about seven times smaller than that in single quantum-well MZ modulators.These properties open an avenue for CDQW nanostructures in device applications such as electro–optical switches and phase modulators.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11274112 and 11474092the Key Project of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission under Grant No 14ZZ056+1 种基金the Shanghai Natural Science Fund Project under Grant No14ZR1410300the Key Research Project of Henan Province Education Department under Grant No 13A140818
文摘We theoretically investigate the phenomena of electromagnetically induced grating in an M-type five-level atomic system. It is found that a weak field can be effectively diffracted into high-order directions using a standing wave coupling field, and different depths of the phase modulation can disperse the diffraction light into different orders. When the phase modulation depth is approximated to the orders of π, 2π and 3π, the first-, second- and third-order diffraction intensity reach the maximum, respectively. Thus we can take advantage of the phase modulation to control the probe light dispersing into the required high orders.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61822114,12074330,and 62071412)。
文摘We investigate the topological phase transition and the enhanced topological effect in a cavity optomechanical system with periodical modulation.By calculating the steady-state equations of the system,the steady-state conditions of cavity fields and the restricted conditions of effective optomechanical couplings are demonstrated.It is found that the cavity optomechanical system can be modulated to different topological Su–Schrieffer–Heeger(SSH)phases via designing the optomechanical couplings legitimately.Meanwhile,combining the effective optomechanical couplings and the probability distributions of gap states,we reveal the topological phase transition between trivial SSH phase and nontrivial SSH phase via adjusting the decay rates of cavity fields.Moreover,we find that the enhanced topological effect of gap states can be achieved by enlarging the size of system and adjusting the decay rates of cavity fields.
文摘We propose and analyze a novel Si-based electro-optic modulator with an improved metal-oxide-semiconductor （MOS） capacitor configuration integrated into silicon-on-insulator （SOl）. Three gate-oxide layers embedded in the silicon waveguide constitute a triple MOS capacitor structure, which boosts the modulation efficiency compared with a single MOS capacitor. The simulation results demonstrate that the Vπ Lπ product is 2. 4V · cm. The rise time and fall time of the proposed device are calculated to be 80 and 40ps from the transient response curve, respectively,indicating a bandwidth of 8GHz. The phase shift efficiency and bandwidth can be enhanced by rib width scaling.
基金support from the Funding for School-level Research Projects of Yancheng Institute of Technology(Grant Nos.xjr2020038,xjr2022039,and xjr2022040)。
文摘Owing to their charge-free property,magnons are highly promising for achieving dissipationless transport without Joule heating,and are thus potentially applicable to energy-efficient devices.Here,we investigate valley magnons and associated valley modulations in a kagome ferromagnetic lattice with staggered exchange interaction and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.The staggered exchange interaction breaks the spatial inversion symmetry,leading to a valley magnon Hall effect.With nonzero Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in a staggered kagome lattice,the magnon Hall effect can be observed from only one valley.Moreover,reversing the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction(D→-D)and exchanging J_(1)and J_(2)(J_(1)■J_(2))can also regulate the position of the unequal valleys.With increasing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction,a series of topological phase transitions appear when two bands come to touch and split at the valleys.The valley Hall effect and topological phase transitions observed in kagome magnon lattices can be realized in thin films of insulating ferromagnets such as Lu_(2)V_(2)O_(7),and will extend the basis for magnonics applications in the future.
文摘A new method is proposed to enhance the soliton-effect compression of optical pulses. It consists of copropagating two optical pulses with close wavelengths in the anomalous group-velocity dispersion regime of single-mode fibers. Numerical simulations show that, as compared with the traditional single pulse compression method, cross-phase modulation can not only dramatically increase the compression ratio but also decrease the optimum fiber length. The effects of initial pulse-width mismatch, Raman self-scattering, and pulse walk-off on the pulse compression are also discussed.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61675140 and 61377054)Graduate Student’s Research and Innovation Fund of Sichuan University,China(Grant No.2018YJSY005)
文摘The memory effect is a type of auto correlation observed in linear systems, which is widely used to control scattered light through thin scattering layers.We show that there exists a strong correlation among the optimized phase distributions of adjacent focal points in focusing through scattering media.The numeric simulation and experiment indicate that within the memory effect, the phase difference between the two adjacent focal points shows an optical phase fringe pattern, and the closer the adjacent focal points are, the wider the fringe pattern will be, corresponding to the tilting of a plane wave phase added onto the acquired optical phase distribution at the focal point.This effect can be utilized for achieving optimal phase distributions of focal point scanning without optical phase evaluation via the experiment, which has great potential application in imaging through the scattering medium.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12105092 and 12022507)Program for Innovative Teams of Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Researchers in the Higher Education Institution of Hubei Province(No.T2020014).
文摘Nonreciprocal microwave devices,in which the transmission of waves is non-symmetric between two ports,are indispensable for the manipulation of information processing and communication.In this work,we show the nonreciprocal microwave transmission in a cavity magnonic system under the joint mechanism of phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect.In contrast to the schemes based on the standard phase modulation or magnon Kerr nonlinearity,we find that the joint mechanism enables the nonreciprocal transmission even at low power and makes us obtain a high nonreciprocal isolation ratio.Moreover,when two microwave modes are coupled to the magnon mode via a different coupling strength,the presented strong nonreciprocal response occurs,and it makes the nonreciprocal transmission manipulating by the magnetic field within a large adjustable range possible,which overcomes narrow operating bandwidths.This study may provide promising opportunities to realize nonreciprocal structures for wave transmission.
基金The funding for the State Key Laboratory on Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies
文摘In this article,we review recently achieved Kerr effect progress in novel liquid crystal（LC） material：vertically aligned deformed helix ferroelectric liquid crystal（VADHFLC）.With an increasing applied electric field,the induced inplane birefringence of LCs shows quadratic nonlinearity.The theoretical calculations and experimental details are illustrated.With an enhanced Kerr constant to 130 nm/V2,this VADHFLC cell can achieve a 2π modulation by a small efficient electric field with a fast response around 100 μs and thus can be employed in both display and photonics devices.
基金This work was supported by the National Hi-Tech Project (863) under the Project No. 2001AA121073.
文摘In dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transmission systems, cross-phase modulation (XPM) due to Kerr effect causes phase shift on each channel, which will ultimately be transformed to amplitude noise that leads to power penalties. In this letter, the XPM-induced penalty in multi-channel DWDM systems is investigated theoretically and an applied algorithm that can be practically used in engineering design is proposed.
文摘Noble metals have been extensively studied owing to their high chemical stability and outstanding catalytic properties in various important reactions.However,their large-scale application of noble metals is still challenged by their high expense and scarcity on the earth,as well as the yet insufficient activity to give a satisfying performance.For decades,enormous research efforts have been devoted to the nanoengineering of noble metal nanocrystals,such as the size-,composition-,shape-,and/or morphology-controlled syntheses,and impressive advances have been achieved.Meanwhile,the discovery that the crystal structure of noble metal nanocrystals also has a significant impact on their properties opened a new pathway that modulates the crystal phases of noble metals to achieve better properties.Among the feasible methods for crystal phase transformation,the presence of strain is not negligible.Strain generally has two roles:the driving force of the phase transformation and/or the origin of the distinct properties of the new crystal structure.Strain effect on noble metals has also been extensively studied due to its capability of fine-tuning the surface catalytic activity.Therefore,combining the two hot research trends together,a possible research pathway is emerging.That is,utilizing the potential synergistic effect between novel crystal phases and the subsequent lattice strain to boost the performance of noble metal nanocrystal even further.Herein,a brief summary of the currently discovered noble metal phases and strain effect and the introduction of strain related phase modulation techniques along with the catalytic applications will be presented.Finally,a brief conclusion and future perspective is given.
