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Correction to: The challenges of modern computing and new opportunities for optics

Authors: Chong Li, Xiang Zhang, Jingwei Li, Tao Fang and Xiaowen Dong

Intelligent designs in nanophotonics: from optimization towards inverse creation

Applying intelligence algorithms to conceive nanoscale meta-devices becomes a flourishing and extremely active scientific topic over the past few years. Inverse design of functional nanostructures is at the he...

Authors: Ning Wang, Wei Yan, Yurui Qu, Siqi Ma, Stan Z. Li and Min Qiu

Spontaneous emission in micro- or nanophotonic structures

Single-photon source in micro- or nanoscale is the basic building block of on-chip quantum information and scalable quantum network. Enhanced spontaneous emission based on cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED)...

Authors: Zhiyuan Qian, Lingxiao Shan, Xinchen Zhang, Qi Liu, Yun Ma, Qihuang Gong and Ying Gu

The challenges of modern computing and new opportunities for optics

In recent years, the explosive development of artificial intelligence implementing by artificial neural networks (ANNs) creates inconceivable demands for computing hardware. However, conventional computing har...

Authors: Chong Li, Xiang Zhang, Jingwei Li, Tao Fang and Xiaowen Dong

Smart computational light microscopes (SCLMs) of smart computational imaging laboratory (SCILab)

Computational microscopy, as a subfield of computational imaging, combines optical manipulation and image algorithmic reconstruction to recover multi-dimensional microscopic images or information of micro-obje...

Authors: Yao Fan, Jiaji Li, Linpeng Lu, Jiasong Sun, Yan Hu, Jialin Zhang, Zhuoshi Li, Qian Shen, Bowen Wang, Runnan Zhang, Qian Chen and Chao Zuo

Liquid crystal-amplified optofluidic biosensor for ultra-highly sensitive and stable protein assay

Protein assays show great importance in medical research and disease diagnoses. Liquid crystals (LCs), as a branch of sensitive materials, offer promising applicability in the field of biosensing. Herein, we d...

Authors: Ziyihui Wang, Yize Liu, Chaoyang Gong, Zhiyi Yuan, Liang Shen, Pengxiang Chang, Kun Liu, Tianhua Xu, Junfeng Jiang, Yu-Cheng Chen and Tiegen Liu

Laser fabrication of modular superhydrophobic chips for reconfigurable assembly and self-propelled droplet manipulation

Natural creatures that enables controllable liquid transport provides the inspiration for developing novel microfluidic devices by engineering functional surfaces with superwettability. However, towards microf...

Authors: Huan Wang, Yong-Lai Zhang, Dong-Dong Han, Wei Wang and Hong-Bo Sun

High-speed visible light communication systems based on Si-substrate LEDs with multiple superlattice interlayers

High-speed visible light communication (VLC), as a cutting-edge supplementary solution in 6G to traditional radio-frequency communication, is expected to address the tension between continuously increased dema...

Authors: Fangchen Hu, Shouqing Chen, Yuyi Zhang, Guoqiang Li, Peng Zou, Junwen Zhang, Chao Shen, Xiaolei Zhang, Jian Hu, Jianli Zhang, Zhixue He, Shaohua Yu, Fengyi Jiang and Nan Chi

From spectral broadening to recompression: dynamics of incoherent optical waves propagating in the fiber

Interplay between dispersion and nonlinearity in optical fibers is a fundamental research topic of nonlinear fiber optics. Here we numerically and experimentally investigate an incoherent continuous-wave (CW) ...

Authors: Jun Ye, Xiaoya Ma, Yang Zhang, Jiangming Xu, Hanwei Zhang, Tianfu Yao, Jinyong Leng and Pu Zhou

Review: distributed time-domain sensors based on Brillouin scattering and FWM enhanced SBS for temperature, strain and acoustic wave detection

Distributed time-domain Brillouin scattering fiber sensors have been widely used to measure the changes of the temperature and strain. The linear dependence of the temperature and strain on the Brillouin frequ...

Authors: Xiaoyi Bao, Zichao Zhou and Yuan Wang

Recent progress in electro-optic polymer for ultra-fast communication

The rocketed development concerning electro-optic polymers fundamentally motivated by its pragmatic application in envisioning second-order nonlinear optics and waveguiding are cardinal. Modern synthetic strat...

Authors: Fateh Ullah, Niping Deng and Feng Qiu

Three-step one-way model in terahertz biomedical detection

Terahertz technology has broad application prospects in biomedical detection. However, the mixed characteristics of actual samples make the terahertz spectrum complex and difficult to distinguish, and there is...

Authors: Yan Peng, Jieli Huang, Jie Luo, Zhangfan Yang, Liping Wang, Xu Wu, Xiaofei Zang, Chen Yu, Min Gu, Qing Hu, Xicheng Zhang, Yiming Zhu and Songlin Zhuang

Subwavelength silicon photonics for on-chip mode-manipulation

On-chip mode-manipulation is one of the most important physical fundamentals for many photonic integrated devices and circuits. In the past years, great progresses have been achieved on subwavelength silicon p...

Authors: Chenlei Li, Ming Zhang, Hongnan Xu, Ying Tan, Yaocheng Shi and Daoxin Dai

Dielectric metasurface zone plate for the generation of focusing vortex beams

Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum have important applications in high dimensional optical information processing, manipulations of tiny particles, super-resolution imaging and so on. Among various...

Authors: Yufeng Hu, Xuan Liu, Mingke Jin, Yutao Tang, Xuecai Zhang, King Fai Li, Yan Zhao, Guixin Li and Jing Zhou

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide glass fibers: a brief review

Chalcogenide (ChG) glasses have the characteristics of a wide transparency window (over 20 μm) and high optical nonlinearity (up to 10³ times greater than that of silica glasses), exhibiting great advantages over...

Authors: Yingying Wang and Shixun Dai

Deep learning wavefront sensing and aberration correction in atmospheric turbulence

Deep learning neural networks are used for wavefront sensing and aberration correction in atmospheric turbulence without any wavefront sensor (i.e. reconstruction of the wavefront aberration phase from the dis...

Authors: Kaiqiang Wang, MengMeng Zhang, Ju Tang, Lingke Wang, Liusen Hu, Xiaoyan Wu, Wei Li, Jianglei Di, Guodong Liu and Jianlin Zhao

Displacement-mediated bound states in the continuum in all-dielectric superlattice metasurfaces

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are localized states coexisting with extended waves inside the continuous spectrum range, which have infinite lifetimes without any radiation. To extract high-Q quasi-BIC r...

Authors: Tan Shi, Zi-Lan Deng, Qing-An Tu, Yaoyu Cao and Xiangping Li

Optical coherence encryption with structured random light

Information encryption with optical technologies has become increasingly important due to remarkable multidimensional capabilities of light fields. However, the optical encryption protocols proposed to date ha...

Authors: Deming Peng, Zhaofeng Huang, Yonglei Liu, Yahong Chen, Fei Wang, Sergey A. Ponomarenko and Yangjian Cai

Research progress in optical neural networks: theory, applications and developments

With the advent of the era of big data, artificial intelligence has attracted continuous attention from all walks of life, and has been widely used in medical image analysis, molecular and material science, la...

Authors: Jia Liu, Qiuhao Wu, Xiubao Sui, Qian Chen, Guohua Gu, Liping Wang and Shengcai Li

Ultra-short-pulse high-average-power megahertz-repetition-rate coherent extreme-ultraviolet light source

High harmonic generation (HHG) enables coherent extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation with ultra-short pulse duration in a table-top setup. This has already enabled a plethora of applications. Nearly all of thes...

Authors: Robert Klas, Alexander Kirsche, Martin Gebhardt, Joachim Buldt, Henning Stark, Steffen Hädrich, Jan Rothhardt and Jens Limpert

Nonlinear meta-optics towards applications

Nonlinear optical effects have enabled numerous applications such as laser frequency conversion, ultrafast electro-optical, and all-optical modulation. Both gaseous and bulk media have conventionally been used...

Authors: Yun Zhao, Yuanmu Yang and Hong-Bo Sun

Optical waveguides based on one-dimensional organic crystals

Optical waveguide of organic micro/nanocrystals is one of crucial elements in miniaturized integrated photonics. One-dimensional (1D) organic crystals with various optical features have attracted increasing in...

Authors: Song Chen, Ming-Peng Zhuo, Xue-Dong Wang, Guo-Qing Wei and Liang-Sheng Liao

Domain multiplexed computer-generated holography by embedded wavevector filtering algorithm

Computer-generated holography can obtain the wavefront required for constructing arbitrary intensity distributions in space. Currently, speckle noises in holography remain an issue for most computational metho...

Authors: Lin Wu and Ziyang Zhang

Vacuum-ultraviolet photodetectors

High-performance vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) photodetectors are of great significance to space science, radiation monitoring, electronic industry and basic science. Due to the absolute advantages in VUV selective...

Authors: Lemin Jia, Wei Zheng and Feng Huang

Accurate calibration of thermophotovoltaic efficiency

The new record efficiency in Thermophotovoltaics relies upon a highly reflective rear mirror. The excellent rear mirror boosts voltage by enhancing the luminescence extraction, and separately also reflects low...

Authors: Zunaid Omair, Luis M. Pazos-Outon, Myles A. Steiner and Eli Yablonovitch

Recent advances in multi-dimensional metasurfaces holographic technologies

Holography has attracted tremendous interest due to its capability of storing both the amplitude and phase of light field and reproducing vivid three-dimensional scenes. However, the large pixel size, low reso...

Authors: Ruizhe Zhao, Lingling Huang and Yongtian Wang

Universal orbital angular momentum spectrum analyzer for beams

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of beams provides a new dimension, and have already found lots of applications in various domains. Among such applications, the precisely and quantitatively diagnostic of int...

Authors: Shiyao Fu, Yanwang Zhai, Jianqiang Zhang, Xueting Liu, Rui Song, Heng Zhou and Chunqing Gao

Tolerance analysis of non-depolarizing double-pass polarimetry

Double-pass polarimetry measures the polarization properties of a sample over a range of polar angles and all azimuths. Here, we present a tolerance analysis of all the optical elements in both the calibration...

Authors: Yimin Yu, Nabila Baba-Ali and Gregg M. Gallatin

Raman tensor of layered black phosphorus

Black phosphorus has a strong Raman anisotropy on the basal and cross planes due to its orthorhombic crystal structure. However, almost all the studies on black phosphorus’ anisotropy focus on basal plane with...

Authors: Yanming Zhu, Wei Zheng, Weiliang Wang, Siqi Zhu, Linxuan Li, Lu Cheng, Mingge Jin, Ying Ding and Feng Huang

Metasurface holographic image projection based on mathematical properties of Fourier transform

Fourier transform, mapping the information in one domain to its reciprocal space, is of fundamental significance in real-time and parallel processing of massive data for sound and image manipulation. As a powe...

Authors: Xumin Ding, Zhuochao Wang, Guangwei Hu, Jian Liu, Kuang Zhang, Haoyu Li, Badreddine Ratni, Shah Nawaz Burokur, Qun Wu, Jiubin Tan and Cheng-Wei Qiu

All-silicon photovoltaic detectors with deep ultraviolet selectivity

For a practical photodetector, fast switching speed and high on-off ratio are essential, and more importantly, the integration capability of the device finally determines its application level. In this work, t...

Authors: Yuqiang Li, Wei Zheng and Feng Huang

A brief review of the technological advancements of phase measuring deflectometry

This paper presents a short review for phase measuring deflectometry (PMD). PMD is a phase calculation based technique for three-dimensional (3D) measurement of specular surfaces. PMD can achieve nano-scale fo...

Authors: Yongjia Xu, Feng Gao and Xiangqian Jiang

Multi-vortex laser enabling spatial and temporal encoding

Optical vortex is a promising candidate for capacity scaling in next-generation optical communications. The generation of multi-vortex beams is of great importance for vortex-based optical communications. Trad...

Authors: Zhen Qiao, Zhenyu Wan, Guoqiang Xie, Jian Wang, Liejia Qian and Dianyuan Fan

Terahertz spectroscopy in biomedical field: a review on signal-to-noise ratio improvement

With the non-ionizing, non-invasive, high penetration, high resolution and spectral fingerprinting features of terahertz (THz) wave, THz spectroscopy has great potential for the qualitative and quantitative id...

Authors: Yan Peng, Chenjun Shi, Yiming Zhu, Min Gu and Songlin Zhuang

Promising applications of aggregation-induced emission luminogens in organic optoelectronic devices

Since the first report of aggregation-induced emission (AIE) concept in 2001, it has received intense attentions from academy and industry because of its important applications in diverse research fronts. Up t...

Authors: Maoxing Yu, Ruishan Huang, Jingjing Guo, Zujin Zhao and Ben Zhong Tang

Multifocal displays: review and prospect

Conventional stereoscopic three-dimensional displays suffer from vergence- accommodation conflict because the stimulus to accommodation is fixed by the display panel and viewing optics, but that to vergence ch...

Authors: Tao Zhan, Jianghao Xiong, Junyu Zou and Shin-Tson Wu

Cellular-resolution in vivo tomography in turbid tissue through digital aberration correction

Noninvasive tomographic imaging of cellular processes in vivo may provide valuable cytological and histological information for disease diagnosis. However, such strategies are usually hampered by optical aberr...

Authors: En Bo, Xin Ge, Yuemei Luo, Xuan Wu, Si Chen, Haitao Liang, Shufen Chen, Xiaojun Yu, Ping Shum, Jianhua Mo, Nanguang Chen and Linbo Liu

Intensity noise as a driver for transverse mode instability in fiber amplifiers

The effect of transverse mode instability (TMI) is currently the main limitation for the further average-power scaling of fiber laser systems with diffraction-limited beam quality. In this work a main driving ...

Authors: Christoph Stihler, Cesar Jauregui, Sobhy E. Kholaif and Jens Limpert

Passive coherent dual-comb spectroscopy based on optical-optical modulation with free running lasers

Dual-comb spectroscopy is a powerful spectroscopic tool with ultrahigh-resolution, high-sensitivity properties, which opens up opportunities for the parallel detection of multi-species molecules. However, in i...

Authors: Chenglin Gu, Zhong Zuo, Daping Luo, Zejiang Deng, Yang Liu, Minglie Hu and Wenxue Li

Holographic capture and projection system of real object based on tunable zoom lens

In this paper, we propose a holographic capture and projection system of real objects based on tunable zoom lenses. Different from the traditional holographic system, a liquid lens-based zoom camera and a digi...

Authors: Di Wang, Chao Liu, Chuan Shen, Yan Xing and Qiong-Hua Wang

Underwater transmission of high-dimensional twisted photons over 55 meters

As an emerging channel resource for modern optics, big data, internet traffic and quantum technologies, twisted photons carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been extended their applicable boundary in d...

Authors: Yuan Chen, Wei-Guan Shen, Zhan-Ming Li, Cheng-Qiu Hu, Zeng-Quan Yan, Zhi-Qiang Jiao, Jun Gao, Ming-Ming Cao, Ke Sun and Xian-Min Jin

Integrated transmitter devices on InP exploiting electro-absorption modulation

InP technology is the principal enabler for implementing fully monolithic photonic integrated circuits (PIC), uniquely including transmitter elements. In this article we present an overview of recent achieveme...

Authors: M. Baier, N. Grote, M. Moehrle, A. Sigmund, F. M. Soares, M. Theurer and U. Troppenz

Imaging based on metalenses

Metalens, a prominent application of two-dimensional metasurfaces, has demonstrated powerful abilities even beyond traditional optical lenses. By manipulating the phase distribution of metalens composed of app...

Authors: Xiujuan Zou, Gaige Zheng, Quan Yuan, Wenbo Zang, Run Chen, Tianyue Li, Lin Li, Shuming Wang, Zhenlin Wang and Shining Zhu

Perspective on photonic memristive neuromorphic computing

Neuromorphic computing applies concepts extracted from neuroscience to develop devices shaped like neural systems and achieve brain-like capacity and efficiency. In this way, neuromorphic machines, able to lea...

Authors: Elena Goi, Qiming Zhang, Xi Chen, Haitao Luan and Min Gu

Information Metamaterials: bridging the physical world and digital world

Over the past 5 years, digital coding and programmable metamaterials have been developed rapidly since their first exhibition in 2014. The iconic feature of the digital coding metamaterial is using digital cod...

Authors: Qian Ma and Tie Jun Cui