scholarly journals Design of Spatial-Mode (De)Multiplexer for Few-Mode Fibers Based on a Cyclically Used Michelson-Like Interferometer

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 8584
Author(s):  
Xesús Prieto-Blanco ◽  
Carlos Montero-Orille ◽  
Vicente Moreno de Las Cuevas ◽  
María C. Nistal ◽  
Dolores Mouriz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Efficient Method ◽  
Optical Communications ◽  
Data Rate ◽  
Phase Plate ◽  
Spatial Mode ◽  
Optical Elements ◽  
Polarization Insensitive ◽  
Elliptical Core

Few mode optical fibers are a promising way to continue increasing the data rate in optical communications. However, an efficient method to launch and extract separately each mode is essential. The design of a interferometric spatial mode (de)multiplexer for few mode optical fibers is presented. It is based on a single Michelson-like interferometer which consists of standard optical elements and has a reflective image inverter in one arm. Particular care has been taken in its design so that both polarizations behave the same. Moreover, this interferometer can process several pairs of modes simultaneously. The multiplexer also consists of: a phase plate, focusing optics at both ports of the interferometer and elliptical core fibers to recirculate some outputs. It can multiplex ten spatial and polarization modes and it presents low losses and no intrinsic crosstalk between modes. Additionally, it is polarization insensitive, achromatic, compact and inexpensive. The same system can work as a demultiplexer when used in reverse. In this case, both the losses and the crosstalk remain very low. Similar designs that perform other functions, like an add-drop mode multiplexing, are also suggested.

scholarly journals APPLICATIONS OF THE LIGHT LASER WITH SPATIAL INCOHERENCE AND BIONIC OPTIMIZATION TO THE OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Samuel Ángel Jaramillo Flórez ◽  
Yuli Fernanda Achipiz
Keyword(s):  
Optical Networks ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Optical Communications ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Computational Simulation ◽  
Original Method ◽  
Infrared Light ◽  
Optical Receivers ◽  
Spherical Lens ◽  
Optical Wireless Communications

The bioelectronics takes of the biology the optimized elements for to do a copy and to build technological mechanisms with functions based in that of body lives components. Telecommunications and biology present an analogy between the optical receivers and insects eyes, which forms are adequate to receipt signal since a transmitter, and these are been leaded to perfection by the nature during millions of years in the environment adaptation. The sizes and the forms depend of the direction of the waves and of the radiation pattern of these biotransmitters and bioreceivers (omatidies of insects eyes), which is similar as the optical communications emitters and photodetectors. The growth of the telecommunication services makes necessary the optimization of the bandwidth of the transmission channels. Although the optic transmission is considered like the ideal as for the attenuation and distortion characteristics that make that it possesses the better relation bandwidth - longitude, the demand of more transmission capacity forces to take advantage of them efficiently. High costs generated when deploying Optic Fiber Networks at the transport level, together with other factors that avoid PONs arriving to the home and/or office, have impulsed the design and implementation of partially optical networks (FITL), including an alternative that uses infrared light. This work explores the basis of these news access networks, and it is presented an optical communication transmission/reception system with optic channel of free space where has been modulated the transmitter laser through a set of spherical lens and optical fibers that expand the beam of light to different points of an indoor enclosure producing multiple punctual images located in positions that permit to determine and to optimize the bandwidth of the system. The computational simulation results are showed and are compared with those experimentally measured, indicating that this is an original method for to design emitters and receivers of high performance for optical communications.

scholarly journals Metalenses Based on Symmetric Slab Waveguide and c-TiO2: Efficient Polarization-Insensitive Focusing at Visible Wavelengths

Nanomaterials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaoyao Liang ◽  
Zhongchao Wei ◽  
Jianping Guo ◽  
Faqiang Wang ◽  
Hongyun Meng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Berry Phase ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Visible Spectrum ◽  
Slab Waveguide ◽  
Optical Elements ◽  
Polarization Insensitive ◽  
Wavefront Shaping ◽  
Visible Wavelengths ◽  
532 Nm ◽  
Good Agreement

A key goal of metalens research is to achieve wavefront shaping of light using optical elements with thicknesses on the order of the wavelength. Here we demonstrate ultrathin highly efficient crystalline titanium dioxide metalenses at blue, green, and red wavelengths (λ0 = 453 nm, 532 nm, and 633 nm, respectively) based on symmetric slab waveguide theory. These metalenses are less than 488 nm-thick and capable of focusing incident light into very symmetric diffraction-limited spots with strehl ratio and efficiency as high as 0.96 and 83%, respectively. Further quantitative characterizations about metalenses’ peak focusing intensities and focal spot sizes show good agreement with theoretical calculation. Besides, the metalenses suffer only about 10% chromatic deviation from the ideal spots in visible spectrum. In contrast with Pancharatnam–Berry phase mechanism, which limit their incident light at circular polarization, the proposed method enables metalenses polarization-insensitive to incident light.

Recent advances in optical metasurfaces for polarization detection and engineered polarization profiles

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1003-1014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuttana Intaravanne ◽  
Xianzhong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Optical Communications ◽  
Light Propagation ◽  
Optical Elements ◽  
Fundamental Physics ◽  
Fundamental Properties ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Quantum Science ◽  
Polarization Profiles ◽  
Polarization Detection ◽  
A Current

AbstractLike amplitude, phase and frequency, polarization is one of the fundamental properties of light, which can be used to record, process and store information. Optical metasurfaces are ultrathin inhomogeneous media with planar nanostructures that can manipulate the optical properties of light at the subwavelength scale, which have become a current subject of intense research due to the desirable control of light propagation. The unprecedented capability of optical metasurfaces in the manipulation of the light’s polarization at subwavelength resolution has provided an unusual approach for polarization detection and arbitrary manipulation of polarization profiles. A compact metasurface platform has been demonstrated to detect polarization information of a light beam and to arbitrarily engineer a polarization profile that is very difficult or impossible to realize with conventional optical elements. This review will focus on the recent progress on ultrathin metasurface devices for polarization detection and realization of customized polarization profiles. Optical metasurfaces have provided new opportunities for polarization detection and manipulation, which can facilitate real-world deployment of polarization-related devices and systems in various research fields, including sensing, imaging, encryption, optical communications, quantum science, and fundamental physics.

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