Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological advances for both fundamental science and industrial applications. Along with the surge in activity related to optical micro-combs in the past decade, their applications have also exp...
This study presents the design and simulation of an integrated multi-carrier optical source with a 227 GHz bandwidth for passive optical network (PON) applications. The optical comb generation attained using a photonic structure known as a micro-ring resonator fabricated in silicon nitride (Si3N4) facilitates cost reduction when produced on a large...
Published in Frontiers in Physics
Published in Nanophotonics
Optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have recently attracted increasing interest for providing an additional degree of freedom for capacity scaling in optical communications. The optical vortex generator is an essential component to facilitate OAM-enabled optical communications. Traditional devices face challenges of limited com...
Published in Nanophotonics
On-chip optical communications are in increasingly demand for low-loss, small-footprint and power-efficient waveguiding solutions in the telecom band. However, most integrated optical circuits suffer from high propagation loss and low integration degree. Through manipulating the valley-dependent topological phase of light, we have experimentally de...
Published in Journal of Optics
Angular momentum of light can be divided into spin angular momentum and orbital angular momentum (OAM). Due to the theoretically unlimited orthogonal states, the physical dimension of OAM provides a potential solution to boost the information capacity. The OAM multiplexing and modulation techniques have been implemented to meet the continuous growt...
Published in Journal of Optics
Optical frequency comb (OFC) has important applications in measurement, communication, military and other fields. Usually, OFC needs to be designed according to different applications. However, the existing methods to design the operating parameters of the OFC generators are time-consuming, inefficient, and difficult to achieve optimal results. In ...
Published in Journal of Optics
Multimode devices and components have attracted considerable attention in the last years, and different research topics and themes have emerged very recently. The multimodality can be seen as an additional degree of freedom in designing devices, thus allowing for the development of more complex and sophisticated components. The propagation of diffe...
The frequency chirping properties of silicon ring resonator modulators (RRMs) are experimentally investigated under sinusoidal modulation. The modulated electric field at the output of an RRM is measured in the time domain thanks to a coherent detection system. The power and phase waveforms are then analyzed in terms of their temporal phase and amp...
Published in Frontiers in Physics
Being able to dynamically control the transmitted-beam divergence can bring important advantages in free-space optical communications. Specifically, this technique can help to optimize the overall communications performance when the optimum laser-beam divergence is not fixed or known. This is the case in most realistic space laser communication sys...
