The relation between the phase shift and the mean optical power (MOP) output from a delay-line interferometer (DLI) port applied for phase-shift keying (PSK) signal demodulation is proven of a cosine law irrelevant to signal modul

In this letter, we propose and demonstrate a simple and novel method for fiber chromatic dispersion (CD) measurement based on microwave photonic technique. The radio frequency (RF) signal is modulated simultaneously on two light-w

A novel temperature-insensitive strain sensor, based on an in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer, is fabricated by concatenating two waist-enlarged fiber tapers separated by a short piece of photonic crystal fiber. The interference

A Sagnac loop filter with two pieces of high birefringence fiber having equal lengths, and spliced together at a fixed angle of 30o displacement between the two principle axes, is proposed in this letter. Gain equalization of erbi

The generation of coherent optical subcarriers based on a concatenated dual-drive Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator (IM) and two phase modulators (PMs) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The modulation index and DC bias o

A novel scalable and integrated design that supports optical multicast and burst amplification is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. The powers of incoming signals can be tuned to optimize the results of burst amplification

A micro Fabry-Perot interferometer (M-FPI) is constructed by splicing a short section of polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF) to an end-cleaved single-mode fiber with controllable offset. Due to the high effect

Pulse position modulation (PPM) is introduced downstream of the reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA)-based single-fiber full-duplex bidirectional wavelength division multiplex passive optical network (WDM PON) to supp

A modal interferometer is experimentally demonstrated based on tapering a single-mode-multimode-single-mode (SMS) fiber structure heated by hydrogen flame. The interference fringe begins to form when tapering length is 19.8 mm, an

We present a near diffraction-limited 1 064-nm Nd:YAG rod laser with output power of 82.3W(M2 \approx 1.38). The power fluctuation over two hours is better than \pm 1.1%. Pulsed 1 064-nm laser with an average power of 66.6 W and p

We report the demonstration of passively continuous-wave mode-locking (CWML) of diode-pumped Tm,Ho:YVO4 laser using an InGaAs/GaAs multiple quantum-well (MQW) structure semiconductor as the saturable absorber. Stable mode-locking

We investigate the spectra and scintillation properties of Ce:YAlO3, Ce:Y3Al5O12, and Ce:LaAlO3. For Ce:YAlO3, the excitation spectrum is very similar with the absorption spectrum; for Ce:Y3Al5O12 and Ce:LaAlO3, the excitation spe

The structural and spectroscopic properties of Na2O-Al2O3-SiO2-xP2O5 glasses (x=0 to 7 mol%) are investigated. Both Raman and IR spectra reveal that discrete phosphate species ([PO4]^{-3}, [PO3O_{1/2}]^{-2}) with low polymerizati

Intense 2.7-\mu m emissions are obtained from Er3+/Nd3+ co-doped tellurite glass samples under the 808-nm laser diode excitation. According to the absorption spectra, Judd-Ofelt parameters and radiative transition probabilities ar

Wave propagation is studied in structures consisting of alternate left- and right-handed layers. Bragg gap and zero-n gap appear in different frequency regions of the structure. The periodicity of the structure is broken by simply

Based on the concept of complementary media and theory of coordinate transformation, a novel kind of optical device, exhibiting the multiple performances of a complementary cloak and a transparent device, is proposed. Only the axi

Sensitized-emission fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) detection method based on three-channel fluorescence microscopy is widely used. Several FRET algorithms, such as NFRET, FRETN, FR, FRETR, and FC/Df, are developed r

Nonlinear absorption of monolayer graphene suspension is studied in the wavelength of 800 nm using Z-scan method with 50-fs pulses. Nonlinear absorption property of graphene suspension at different excitation intensities is compar

A convex aspheric surface using a computer-generated hologram (CGH) test plate fabricated with novel techniques and equipment is tested. However, the measurement result is not verified via comparison with other methods. To verify

A two-wavelength sinusoidal phase-modulating (SPM) laser diode (LD) interferometer for nanometer accuracy measurement is proposed. To eliminate the error caused by the intensity modulation, the SPM depth of the interference signal

A two-step method for pose estimation based on five co-planar reference points is studied. In the first step, the pose of the object is estimated by a simple analytical solving process. The pixel coordinates of reference points on