Enhanced spectral splitting in a novel solar spectrum optical splitter based on one dimensional photonic crystal heterostructure

Controlling the distribution of solar spectrum in different bands would boost the energy harvesting efficiency and optimize the energy dispatchability.1D photonic crystal with intrinsic optical band gap can be used to split the solar spectrum for hybrid photovoltaic/thermal solar applications.Here,we designed an efficient solar spectrum optical filter based on a cermet layer,Si/SiO_(2)1D photonic crystal,and top heterostructure layer.Compared with 1D photonic crystal structure,the 1D photonic crystal heterostructure with top YSZ layer can realize the reflectance of greater than 92%in PV band and the low average reflectance in two thermal bands by tuning the effective impedance of multilayer films.The enhanced reflectance in PV band results from the huge mismatching of impedance between free space and the heterostructure structure.The top dielectric layer can also be extended to other oxides.

Polymer Integrated Waveguide Optical Biosensor by Using Spectral Splitting Effect

The polymer waveguide optical biosensor based on the Mach-Zehnder interferometer （MZI） by using spectral splitting effect is investigated. The MZI based biosensor has two unequal width sensing arms. With the different mode dispersion responses of the two-arm waveguides to the cladding refractive index change, the spectral splitting effect of the output interference spectrum is obtained, inducing a very high sensitivity. The influence of the different mode dispersions between the two-arm waveguides on the spectral splitting characteristic is analyzed. By choosing different lengths of the two unequal width sensing arms, the initial dip wavelength of the interference spectrum and the spectral splitting range can be controlled flexibly. The polymer waveguide optical biosensor is designed, and its sensing property is analyzed. The results show that the sensitivity of the polymer waveguide optical biosensor by using spectral splitting effect is as high as 10^4nm/RIU, with an improvement of 2-3 orders of magnitude compared with the slot waveguide based microring biosensor.

Multiple Nanoparticles Coupling Strategy for Enhancing Optical Filter Performance of Spectral Splitter Used in Photovoltaic/Thermal System

Selective absorptive nanofluid can pre-absorb certain sunlight wavelength that cannot be used by PV and transmits remaining sunlight to the surface of PV,which can decouple PV from the thermal receiver spatially.In order to improve the harvesting of electricity and high-temperature thermal nanofluid,it is important to design an optimal optical filter window(transmit sunlight with wavelengths of 732-1067 nm to the surface of the photovoltaic cell and absorb the remaining sunlight).However,designing optimal optical filter is facing following challenges:(1) inherently narrow selective absorptivity property of single nanoparticle;(2) simplified numerical calculation method calculating transmittance;(3) ignoring the shape of the nanoparticle.In this study,the idea of using multiple nanoparticles coupling effect to design an optical filter is proposed,which can superimpose the narrow absorption bandwidth of different nanoparticles to obtain a wide absorption bandwidth of the whole system.In addition,an improved transmission method considering light-matter interaction at air/vessel and liquid/vessel interfaces is adopted to compute the transmittance.The results calculated by improved transmission method are more accurate than widely used traditional Lambert-Beer law,which is verified by experimental test.Furthermore,the effect of nanoparticle shape on spectral transmittance is also investigated,which shows that spiny Ag can approximately extend absorbance from 400 nm to 600 nm compared to nanosphere silver.Finally,the results show that optical filter efficiency of nanofluids with multiple nanoparticles coupling(Ag,spiny Ag,ZnO,ITO) can reached up to 35%.

Light propagation characteristics in quantum well structures of photonic crystals

Two-dimensional （2D） closed-cavity single quantum well （SQW） and multiple quantum well （MQW） structures are proposed based on the traditional 2D open-cavity SQW structures of photonic crystals. The numerical calculation results show that the proposed structures can greatly improve the optical characteristics compared with the traditional structures. It is found that the barrier thickness has a great impact on the optical characteristics of the closed-cavity MQW structures： when the barrier thickness is narrower, each resonant peak which appears in the SQW would split, the number of split times is just equal to the number of wells, and each well in the MQW structures is a travelling-wave-well, similar to the well in the open-cavity SQW structures; when the barrier thickness is wider, there is no effect of spectral splitting, and each well in the MQW structures is a standing-wave-well, just like the well in the closed-cavity SQW. The physical origin of different field distributions and the effect of the spectral splitting are provided.

Anomalous non-Hermitian dynamical phenomenon on the quantum circuit

The anomalous non-Hermitian dynamical phenomenon with the non-Hermitian skin effect(NHSE)attracts wide attention due to its novel physics and promising applications.Here,we propose a new type of non-unitary discrete-time quantum walk system demonstrating the NHSE and anomalous non-Hermitian dynamical phenomena,including the dynamical chiral phenomenon,the funneling phenomenon on the domain wall,and the anomalous reflection on the phase impurity.Furthermore,we design the quantum circuit experiments of these quantum walk systems and numerically simulate them with quantum noises to verify the robustness of the non-Hermitian dynamical phenomenon on the noisy intermediate-scale quantum(NISQ)devices.Our work paves the way for implementing the non-Hermitian dynamical phenomenon on the quantum circuit.

A compact frequency selective stop-band splitter by using Fabry Perot nanocavity in a T-shaped waveguide

By utilizing a Fabry–Perot （FP） nanocavity adjacent to T-shaped gap waveguide ports, spectrally selective filtering is realized. When the wavelength of incident light corresponds to the resonance wavelength of the FP nanocavity, the surface plasmons are captured inside the nanocavity, and light is highly reflected from this port. The resonance wavelength is determined by using Fabry–Perot resonance condition for the nanocavity. For any desired filtering frequency the dimension of the nanocavity can be tailored. The numerical results are based on the two-dimensional finite difference time domain simulation under a perfectly matched layer absorbing boundary condition. The analytical and simulation results indicate that the proposed structure can be utilized for filtering and splitting applications.

New Numerical Methods for the Coupled Nonlinear Schrdinger Equations

In this paper, three numerical schemes with high accuracy for the coupled Schrodinger equations are studied. The conserwtive properties of the schemes are obtained and the plane wave solution is analysised. The split step Runge-Kutta scheme is conditionally stable by linearized analyzed. The split step compact scheme and the split step spectral method are unconditionally stable. The trunction error of the schemes are discussed. The fusion of two solitions colliding with different β is shown in the figures. The numerical experments demonstrate that our algorithms are effective and reliable.