Polarization Insensitive Detection Research Articles

Simple polarization-insensitive coherent RoF link with increased capacity.

A simple polarization-insensitive coherent radio-over-fiber (RoF) link with increased spectrum efficiency and transmission capacity is proposed and demonstrated. Instead of using two polarization splitters (PBSs), two 90° hybrids, and four pairs of balanced photodetectors (PDs) in a conventional polarization-diversity coherent receiver (PDCR), a simplified PDCR with only one PBS, one optical coupler (OC), and two PDs is employed in the coherent RoF link. At the simplified receiver, a novel, to the best of our knowledge, digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm is proposed to achieve polarization-insensitive detection and demultiplexing of two spectrally overlapping microwave vector signals as well as the elimination of the joint phase noise originating from the transmitter and the local oscillator (LO) laser sources. An experiment is performed. The transmission and detection of two independent 16QAM microwave vector signals at identical microwave carrier frequencies of 3 GHz with a symbol rate of 0.5 GSym/s over a 25-km single-mode fiber (SMF) is demonstrated. Thanks to the spectrum superposition of the two microwave vector signals, the spectral efficiency as well as the data transmission capacity is increased.

Detection band expansion by independently tunable double resonances in a long-wavelength dual-color QWIP.

Multi-resonance light coupling management is a promising way to expand the operating spectral ranges of optoelectronic devices. The classical strategies are either lack of independent tunability for each resonance or involved with complex fabrication. Here, we propose a new scheme for expanding the operating spectral range of an optoelectronic device through a dual-color active material integrated with a simple resonant waveguide structure. The TM waveguide mode and the SPP mode of the resonant waveguide structure are regulated to match the two active regions of the dual-color material both spectrally and spatially. Applying this scheme to a long-wavelength infrared quantum well photodetector, the absorption efficiencies at the two peak detection wavelengths of the dual-color quantum wells are both enhanced by more than 10 times compared with the case of a standard 45° edge facet coupled device with the same detection material. The simple light coupling structure is easy to accomplish and compatible with focal plane arrays. For thermal radiation detection, the absorption efficiency of the 300 K blackbody radiation by our dual-color detector is 83.8% higher than that by a single-color detector with the optimized structural parameters. Moreover, either polarization sensitive or polarization insensitive detection could be achieved in this dual-color infrared quantum well photodetector by using anisotropic or isotropic gratings.

All fiber polarization insensitive detection for spectrometer based optical coherence tomography using optical switch

Polarization dependent image artifacts are common in optical coherence tomography imaging. Polarization insensitive detection scheme for swept source based optical coherence tomography systems is well established but is yet to be demonstrated for all fiber spectrometer-based Fourier domain optical coherence tomography systems. In this work, we present an all fiber polarization insensitive detection scheme for spectrometer based optical coherence tomography systems. Images from chicken breast muscle tissue were acquired to demonstrate the effectiveness of this scheme for the conventional Fourier domain optical coherence tomography system.

Spectrally- and polarization-resolved hyper-Rayleigh scattering measurements with polarization-insensitive detection

Determination of the molecular first hyperpolarizability by hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) is usually significantly complicated by a presence of the multiphoton excited fluorescence which has to be separated from HRS to obtain a meaningful values of the hyperpolarizability. We show, by performing a spectrally-resolved measurement, that the intensity and spectral shape of the fluorescence can depend strongly on the fundamental laser wavelength. Consequently, a properly selected excitation wavelength can significantly simplify the process of separation of HRS from the detected signal. We tested the developed experimental setup with a polarization-insensitive detection by measuring HRS generated in water and in aqueous solutions of 2-aminopyrimidine (AMP) and its monocation (HAMP). The effective hyperpolarizability of AMP and HAMP was measured experimentally and compared with that obtained by quantum chemical calculations. The polarization-resolved HRS measurement was performed for AMP and the experimentally obtained depolarization ratio agrees well with that predicted theoretically, which confirms that routine density functional theory computations of static hyperpolarizability tensor components can be considered as a sufficient approach suitable for non-interacting molecules dissolved in water.

Silicon-based broadband antenna for high responsivity and polarization-insensitive photodetection at telecommunication wavelengths

Although the concept of using local surface plasmon resonance based nanoantenna for photodetection well below the semiconductor band edge has been demonstrated previously, the nature of local surface plasmon resonance based devices cannot meet many requirements of photodetection applications. Here we propose the concept of deep-trench/thin-metal (DTTM) active antenna that take advantage of surface plasmon resonance phenomena, three-dimensional cavity effects, and large-area metal/semiconductor junctions to effectively generate and collect hot electrons arising from plasmon decay and, thereby, increase photocurrent. The DTTM-based devices exhibited superior photoelectron conversion ability and high degrees of detection linearity under infrared light of both low and high intensity. Therefore, these DTTM-based devices have the attractive properties of high responsivity, extremely low power consumption, and polarization-insensitive detection over a broad bandwidth, suggesting great potential for use in photodetection and on-chip Si photonics in many applications of telecommunication fields.

Polarization insensitive homodyne detection of optical phase modulation by two-wave mixing in saturable Er-doped fiber

We report linear polarization-insensitive detection of optical phase modulation in an adaptive interferometer based on transient two-wave mixing via dynamic population gratings in saturable Er-doped fiber (EDF). The proposed simple and robust configuration has an all-fiber design based on commercially available elements which makes it promising for applications in optical fiber interferometric sensors and coherent optical communication systems. The experimentally investigated single-mode polarization-maintaining EDF arrangement operated at 1492 nm and demonstrated efficient compensation of the polarization drifts below 100 Hz.

Adaptive polarization-insensitive detection of optical phase modulation with a single detector

A single-detector adaptive configuration for polarization-insensitive homodyne detection of optical phase modulation is proposed. Experiments were performed at a HeNe laser wavelength ( λ=633 nm) and employed GaAs photo-EMF adaptive detectors. It has been shown that residual fluctuations in the output signal are basically due to nonlinearity of the adaptive photodetector response to the intensity of the polarization-modulated signal wave.