Showing papers in "Optics Communications in 2016"

TL;DR: In this article, the degradation mechanism of organic electronic devices, permeation rate measurement, traditional encapsulation technologies, and TFE technologies are presented to increase the stability of devices in air.

TL;DR: In this paper, a photoexcited broadband switchable metamaterial absorber (MMA) was proposed for the terahertz (THz) regime, which is a periodic array of dielectric substrate sandwiched with metallic four-splits-ring resonator structure and continuous metallic film.

TL;DR: In this article, a surface-plasmon resonance (SPR) based fiber optic sensor for mercury detection utilizing gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and PVA hybrid as sensing material is reported.

TL;DR: An optical multiple-image encryption scheme based on computational ghost imaging with the position multiplexing with the result that the ciphertext in the proposed scheme is simply an intensity vector instead of a complex amplitude.

TL;DR: An IM/DD-OFDM-based underwater wireless optical communication system is proposed and experimentally demonstrated and the dependence of its BER performance on the training symbol number as well as LED's bias voltage and driving voltage is investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sensitivityenhanced temperature sensor based on a poly-dimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-coated long period fiber grating (LPFG) has been proposed and experimentally investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a fiber optic humidity sensor based on an in-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) coated with graphene oxide (GO)/PVA composite film was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser using zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles thin film as saturable absorber (SA) was demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered a high-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation with competing cubic-quintic-septic nonlinearities, non-Kerr quintic nonlinearity, self-steepening, and self-frequency shift.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPM) is presented, which is optimized under the consideration of sensitivity, full width at half maximum, and minimum reflectance.

TL;DR: For Gaussian-Schell model beams propagating in the isotropic turbulent ocean, theoretical expression of beam wander is derived based on the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A novel approach based on compressive sensing and chaos is proposed for simultaneously compressing, fusing and encrypting multi-modal images that reduces data volume but also simplifies keys, which improves the efficiency of transmitting data and distributing keys.

TL;DR: A general method is proposed to design all-optical photonic crystal logic gates and functions based on threshold logic concept that have regular pattern in inputs that can operate with a bit rate of about 500 Gbits/s.

TL;DR: In this article, an in-line fiber sensor for simultaneous measurement of refractive index (RI) and temperature is proposed and demonstrated, which is composed of an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), which is combining the single mode-multimode single mode (SMS) fiber structure and a peanut-shape structure.

TL;DR: A tunable metamaterial absorber composed of a metal ground plane, a SiO 2 dielectric spacer, a graphene layer and a metal pattern layer, which is polarization sensitive is numerically proposed at terahertz (THz) frequencies as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a photonic crystal fiber glucose sensor filled with silver nanowires was proposed for efficient detection of hypoglycemia episodes, which has extremely high average spectral sensitivity 19009.17 nm/RIU for experimental measurement.

TL;DR: In this article, the average bit error rate (ABER) and outage performances of decode-and-forward (DF) based multi-hop parallel free-space optical (FSO) communication system with the combined effects of path loss, pointing errors (i.e., misalignment fading), and atmospheric turbulence-induced fading modeled by M distribution have been investigated in detail.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel temperature sensor comprising a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is investigated based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR), and the finite element method (FEM) is used to determine the temperature sensitivity of the PCF consisting of different concentrations of the analyte.

TL;DR: In this paper, a power scaled laser operation of diode-pumped Pr 3+ -doped LiYF 4 crystal in single-end pumping geometry was reported, and the corresponding slope efficiencies were found to be about 49, 33, 40, 57, 36% and 42%.

TL;DR: The SVM is also effective in combating the laser phase noise combined with the inphase and quadrature (I/Q) modulator imperfections, but the improvement is insignificant for the linear noise and separate I/Q imbalance.

TL;DR: The sensitivity of the biosensor has been improved by using slot waveguide together with Si-binding protein (designated as Si-tag), which bonds to SiN or SiO 2 surface, as an anchoring molecule to immobilize bioreceptors on the SiN rings in an oriented manner.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors have reported design and analysis of polarization independent all optical logic gates in silicon-on-insulator photonic crystal consisting of two dimensional honeycomb lattices with two different air holes exhibiting photonic band gap for both TE and TM mode in the optical communication window.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated functional integrated optic devices based on the specialties of fluorinated polymer material, which include extremely low crosstalk integrated optics, strain-controlled flexible waveguide tunable lasers, and birefringence-tuned polarization controllers.

TL;DR: In this article, a super narrow band filter based on two-dimensional square lattice photonic crystals of silicon rods in air for 1.5-um communication is proposed and studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the recent progress on three component branches, including linearly and differentially tunable filters, VOAs based on 1×1 multimode interference structure and Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), and 1×2 TOS based on waveguide Y-branch, driven by a pair of sidelong placed heater electrodes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented their recent progress on microwave signal processing (MSP) using on-chip passive silicon photonic devices, including tunable microwave notch filtering/millimeter-wave (MMW) signal generation based on self-coupled micro-resonators (SCMRs), and tunable radio-frequency (RF) phase shifting implemented by a micro-disk resonator (MDR).

TL;DR: In this paper, the optical properties and surface plasmon effects of different thickness of silver film grown on a silicon substrate were experimentally and numerically investigated, and it was shown that the size of metal nanoparticles (MNPs) grew larger with thinner deposition of the silver film, and this has a correlation to the reflectance.

TL;DR: In this paper, a modified Rytov solution and a recent formulation that expresses the oceanic turbulence parameters by the atmospheric turbulence structure constant, are employed to evaluate the scintillation index of spherical wave in strongly turbulent oceanic medium.

TL;DR: In this paper, a square loop-frequency selective surface (SL-FSS) on the surface of the grounded dielectric substrate is used for the design of wide-bandwidth microwave absorbers.

TL;DR: In this article, a thin film of graphene oxide (GO) is deposited over a 45nm gold film to enhance the sensitivity of the SPR sensor, which achieved a 2.5 times improvement in sensitivity compared to the gold coated sensor.