Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Ali Samadian Barough, Mina Noori, Amin Abbasiyan
Summary: A slow light-based refractive index sensor was presented in a 2D hexagonal lattice photonic crystal waveguide by inserting four defect holes. By optimizing the channel width and introducing defects of various sizes, the sensor achieved high sensitivity and detection range. High Q-factor and sensitivity were obtained by tailoring defect radii, showcasing the enhancement of light-matter interaction and sensitivity.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Changsheng He, Hong Wu, Yanhui Feng, Wei Su, Feng Li
Summary: The article proposes a numerical investigation of slow light rainbow trapping and releasing in a tapered photonic crystal waveguide. By adjusting the structural parameters and external voltage, electromagnetic waves of different frequencies can be trapped and released at different positions, showing broad prospects in applications like optical switches and wavelength-division multiplexing in optical communication devices.
RESULTS IN PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Wang Zheng, Yueke Wang
Summary: In this study, a photonic valley-locked heterostructure composed of a Dirac photonic crystal (DPC) and two valley photonic crystals (VPC) with opposite valley Chern numbers is proposed. By modifying the size of rods nearest to the domain walls, a topological valley waveguide state (TVWS) with large group index (n(g) = 100), known as topological slow-light waveguide mode (TSWM), can be achieved. Simulation results based on finite element method demonstrate that the TSWM in the proposed heterostructure waveguide supports high energy capacity and is suitable for integration with existing waveguides. Additionally, the TSWM is valley-locked and immune to backscattering. This finding opens up new possibilities for topological slow light, enriches the research of VPCs, and has potential applications in optical communication devices.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Guodong Gong, Shuang Gao, Zhuolin Xie, Xiaoyu Ye, Ying Lu, Huali Yang, Xiaojian Zhu, Run-Wei Li
Summary: This research demonstrates a visible light-triggered artificial nociceptor with a simple ITO/CeO2-x/Pt sandwich structure, successfully mimicking the pain-perceptual characteristics of the human visual system, and has significant potential for applications in next-generation intelligent and low-power perceptual systems.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Takemasa Tamanuki, Hiroyuki Ito, Toshihiko Baba
Summary: This study focuses on an optical beam scanning device utilizing photonic crystal slow-light waveguides and switch trees, operated through thermo-optic tuning at a fixed wavelength. With a custom prism lens for beam collimation, the device achieved two-dimensional scanning with a small divergence angle and low power consumption.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Optics
H. A. Gomez-Urrea, J. G. Cardona, F. J. Caro-Lopera, M. E. Mora-Ramos
Summary: The widths of photonic band gaps and the guided modes of slow-light optical in Bravais-Moire photonic crystals made of cylindrical dielectric cores were investigated theoretically. The gap maps were analyzed by varying the radii of the dielectric cores in the Bravais-Moire unit cell. Guided modes were studied using coupled-resonator optical waveguides and wide band gaps were observed in the analyzed structures. Changing the core radii had a significant effect on the dielectric contrast in the unit cell, resulting in wider band gaps. In addition, the crystal cell structure led to guided modes with smaller group velocities compared to simple square lattices in photonic crystals.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Joel Q. Grim, Ian Welland, Samuel G. Carter, Allan S. Bracker, Andrew Yeats, Chul Soo Kim, Mijin Kim, Kha Tran, Igor Vurgaftman, Thomas L. Reinecke
Summary: We demonstrate the scattering of laser light from two InAs quantum dots coupled to a photonic crystal waveguide by strain-tuning the optical transitions of the dots into mutual resonance. The nonlinearity is enhanced by scattering laser light from two dots, providing a means of manipulating few-photon optical nonlinearities. This approach also establishes opportunities for multiemitter quantum optics in a solid-state platform.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Jianwei Chen, Ran Hao, Ibrahim Nasidi, Huangjie Zhang, Xilan Wang, Shangzhong Jin
Summary: In this study, an ultrafast solution based on a tandem classification regression neural network is proposed to solve the design difficulties of photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs) and realize instant prediction of PCW's performances. The network achieves high accuracy with a coefficient of determination of 0.99. Furthermore, the reverse-designed neural network enables the determination of PCW parameters according to desired optical properties. The results could pave the way for future deep learning-based photonic device design towards high-performances.
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Jianfeng Chen, Qiumeng Qin, Chaoqun Peng, Wenyao Liang, Zhi-Yuan Li
Summary: By utilizing a hybrid gyromagnetic photonic crystal waveguide, it is possible to achieve slow light rainbow trapping of electromagnetic waves, allowing different frequencies of EM waves to be slowed down and trapped at different positions while addressing the contradiction between slow light and broad bandwidth.
FRONTIERS IN MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Zhi-Wei Wang, Ya-Ting Xiang, Hai-Feng Zhang
Summary: This paper investigates the application of cylindrical ring scatterers in a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab and their impact on photonic band gaps. The study reveals that the new structure helps achieve a wider range of PBGs, with effects varying based on different parameters. Furthermore, it is found that a triangular lattice layout in the W1 waveguide can effectively slow down the speed of light compared to a square lattice.
OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yu Mao, Zhongfu Li, Weipeng Hu, Xiaoyu Dai, Yuanjiang Xiang
Summary: The slow light topological photonic crystal waveguide is an attractive platform for enhancing light-matter interaction. By designing a slow light rainbow trapping structure based on valley photonic crystal waveguides, we can achieve topologically protected edge states at different frequencies and switch between slow light trapped states and transport states by tuning the structural parameter.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Optics
Luis Torrijos-Moran, Amadeu Griol, Jaime Garcia-Ruperez
Summary: Researchers have demonstrated slow light bimodal interferometric behavior in an integrated single-channel one-dimensional photonic crystal for the first time. This structure supports two electromagnetic modes with a large group velocity difference, resulting in over a 20-fold reduction in higher-order mode group velocity compared to other conventional interferometers. The proposed bimodal photonic crystal interferometer shows significant performance improvement in creating an ultra-compact optical modulator and a highly sensitive photonic sensor.
LIGHT-SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Sibnath Dey, Arpan Roy, Somnath Ghosh
Summary: This article investigates the appearance of exceptional points (EP) in a planar 1D Bragg reflection waveguide (BRW) structure and proposes a dynamic EP encirclement scheme and asymmetric mode conversion phenomenon. These findings have significant implications in the fields of mode selectivity, switching, and conversion.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Siew Yee Lim, Carina Hedrich, Lin Jiang, Cheryl Suwen Law, Manohar Chirumamilla, Andrew D. Abell, Robert H. Blick, Robert Zierold, Abel Santos
Summary: Spectrally tunable nanoporous anodic alumina distributed Bragg reflectors (NAA-DBRs) modified with titanium dioxide (TiO2) coatings were used as optoelectronic platforms to utilize slow light for photocatalysis. The performance of the photocatalysts is influenced by the spectral position of the photonic stop band (PSB) and thickness of the semiconductor, with optimal performance achieved when the red edge of the PSB is close to the red or blue boundary of the absorbance band of methylene blue (MB).
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Mudi Wang, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Lei Zhang, Dongyang Wang, Qinghua Guo, Zhao-Qing Zhang, C. T. Chan
Summary: By utilizing hetero-structures of photonic crystals, we have achieved large-area one-way transport with uniformly distributed one-way waveguide states, which can concentrate energy and are robust against defects and localization effects.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Dihui Li, Shengli Pu, Yongxi Li, Min Yuan, Mahieddine Lahoubi
Summary: By utilizing magnetic fluid in a dual-core photonic crystal fiber, a polarization beam splitter capable of separating x and y polarization modes completely has been designed. The device allows for tuning of the working wavelength bandwidth and center wavelength by applying an external magnetic field, making it suitable for operation in the S, C, and L bands.
INSTRUMENTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Yuxiu Zhang, Shengli Pu, Yongxi Li, Zijian Hao, Dihui Li, Shaokang Yan, Min Yuan, Chencheng Zhang
Summary: A dual-parameter sensor based on magnetic-fluid-coated nonadiabatic tapered microfiber cascaded with fiber Bragg grating is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. Simultaneous measurement of magnetic field and temperature is achieved by monitoring the interference spectrum and characteristic dip. The sensor shows high sensitivity, easy fabrication, compactness, robustness, and low cost, indicating its extensive application prospect.
Article
Physics, Applied
Shaohua Dong, Shiqing Li, Xiaohui Ling, Guangwei Hu, Yi Li, Hongyi Zhu, Lei Zhou, Shulin Sun
Summary: This study introduces a high-efficiency and broadband spin-unlocked metasurface by combining the resonance phase and the geometric phase mechanisms. The design is achieved by changing one geometric parameter instead of multi-parameter optimization. Experimental results demonstrate the anomalous photonic spin Hall effect and completely independent wavefront manipulations achieved by the spin-unlocked metasurface.
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Optics
Chen Zhao, Shaohua Dong, Qing Zhang, Yixuan Zeng, Guangwei Hu, Yongzhe Zhang
Summary: This study proposes a method to magnetically control the polarization singularities in momentum space in photonic crystal slabs with inversion spatial symmetry. The coupling between transverse electric and transverse magnetic modes induced by the magnetic field can close certain leaky channels and achieve specific polarization singularities.
Article
Optics
Yixuan Zeng, Guangwei Hu, Guangtao Cao, Shaohua Dong, Kaipeng Liu, Zhixiang Tang, Cheng-Wei Qiu
Summary: This study reports the existence of a bound state in the continuum (BIC) on a flatband of symmetry-broken photonic crystal (PhC) slab, which significantly enhances the optical density of states (DOS) at its frequency. This BIC can be achieved by finely controlling the broken vertical symmetry of the PhC slab. The simultaneous engineering of dispersion and leaky characteristics of modes offers new opportunities to boost light-matter interactions and enhance the performance of photonic devices.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qing Zhang, Qingdong Ou, Guangyuan Si, Guangwei Hu, Shaohua Dong, Yang Chen, Jincheng Ni, Chen Zhao, Michael S. Fuhrer, Yuanjie Yang, Andrea Alu, Rainer Hillenbrand, Cheng-Wei Qiu
Summary: Recent research has shown that highly asymmetric and unidirectional phonon polaritons can be excited by directly patterning high-symmetry crystal structures. Structural engineering in high-symmetry vdW materials allows versatile and robust control over the propagation of phonon polaritons, opening up new possibilities for controlling infrared polaritons.
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Jia Wang, Shengli Pu, Zijian Hao, Chencheng Zhang, Weinan Liu, Yuanyuan Fan
Summary: A reflective vector magnetic field sensor with a wedge-shaped fiber tip based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and magnetic fluid (MF) has been fabricated and studied. The wedge-shaped fiber tip, obtained by grinding and polishing multimode fiber (MMF) and few-mode fiber (FMF), was plated with a nanoscale gold film to excite SPR. The fabricated tip was immersed in MF as the magnetic field sensitive material. Experimental results demonstrate that the magnetic field intensity and direction sensitivities of the sensors based on MMF and FMF are 2317 pm/mT, 497 pm/degrees and 6776 pm/mT, 2313 pm/degrees, respectively, indicating great potential of the proposed sensor for lab-on-fiber devices and applications.
Article
Optics
Guangtao Cao, Chen Zhao, Shaohua Dong, Kaipeng Liu, Yixuan Zeng, Qing Zhang, Yongzhe Zhang, Yi Li, Hongyi Zhu
Summary: In this study, we successfully demonstrated the extraordinary angular asymmetry in the near infrared regime by constructing non-Hermitian surface scattering systems. We also presented the first polarization-insensitive unidirectional retroreflector, which was related to the exceptional point of a generalized non-Hermitian scattering matrix. Our findings provide new perspectives for designing polarization-insensitive photonic devices and applying generalized non-Hermitian physics in surface scattering systems.
OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Optics
Yi Kang, Saima Kanwal, Shengli Pu, Baolin Liu, Dawei Zhang
Summary: Using ghost imaging and visual secret sharing, this study demonstrates a multi-level authentication approach that achieves high-quality image fusion and information authentication, with strong robustness and high security.
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Optics
Zijian Hao, Shengli Pu, Mahieddine Lahoubi, Chencheng Zhang, Weinan Liu
Summary: A dual-channel temperature-compensated all-fiber-optic vector magnetic field sensor is proposed and analyzed theoretically, which integrates three optical surfaces on a single-mode fiber tip and utilizes the Kretschmann configurations and surface plasmon resonance for temperature compensation. This sensor achieves ultra-integration and miniaturization and provides a novel scheme for designing all-fiber-optic vector magnetic field sensing based on magnetic fluid.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yizhen Chen, Xiaoying Zheng, Xiyue Zhang, Weikang Pan, Zhuo Wang, Shiqing Li, Shaohua Dong, Qiong He, Feifei Liu, Lei Zhou, Shulin Sun
Summary: This study establishes a new scheme for realizing highly miniaturized couplers to efficiently excite on-chip photonic devices. By utilizing both resonant and Pancharatnam-Berry mechanisms, the meta-device can couple circularly polarized light to a surface plasmon and focus it onto a target on-chip device. Experimental results demonstrate the high efficiency of this scheme in exciting on-chip waveguides and dual-waveguide systems.
Article
Optics
Shufei Han, Shengli Pu, Zijian Hao, Chencheng Zhang, Weinan Liu, Simiao Duan, Jiaqi Fu, Mingjue Wu, Peiwen Mi, Xianglong Zeng, Mahieddine Lahoubi
Summary: A novel vector magnetic field sensor with temperature compensation is proposed and investigated in this study. The sensor is realized by side-polishing a multi-mode optical fiber and adopting the surface plasmon resonance effect. It can be used for magnetic field strength and direction sensing, as well as temperature detection. The sensor exhibits easy fabrication, high sensitivity, and temperature compensation ability.
Article
Quantum Science & Technology
Yi Kang, Leihong Zhang, Hualong Ye, Baolin Liu, Shengli Pu, Dawei Zhang, Songlin Zhuang
Summary: This research proposes a novel visual cryptography technique based on ghost imaging. The spatial information of one visual key image is encoded into time-varying factors in ghost imaging and loaded onto Hadamard illumination patterns. The secret image can be recovered when the illumination patterns are projected onto another visual key image. This method combines the advantages of ghost imaging and visual cryptography, and has high scalability and broad application scenarios.
QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yuanyuan Fan, Shengli Pu, Dihui Li, Yongliang Zhao, Min Yuan, Jia Wang, Weinan Liu
Summary: A magnetic field sensor based on symmetrically side-polished photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with regular hexagonal air holes is proposed in this study. Magnetic fluid (MF) is used as the magnetic field-sensitive material. The polished surfaces are coated with an indium tin oxide (ITO) film to generate lossy mode resonance (LMR) for magnetic field sensing. The obtained magnetic field sensitivity is 466.81 pm/Oe, which can be further adjusted by changing the thickness of the ITO film. The proposed structure is simple and has the capability of mass production, showing great potential for future development.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Zijian Hao, Yongxi Li, Shengli Pu, Jia Wang, Fan Chen, Mahieddine Lahoubi
Summary: A novel fiber-optic vector magnetic field sensor has been developed, which utilizes the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) generated by gold film plating and the magnetic fluid (MF) as the sensing elements to detect the magnetic field intensity and direction by monitoring the dip wavelength of SPR.