1 区域光纤通信网与新型光通信系统国家重点实验室，上海交通大学物理与天文学院，上海 200240
2 上海量子科学研究中心，上海 201315
波前整形方法通过改变入射光的相位模式分布来补偿由散射引起的相位畸变，使散射光子可以被有效地利用，从而实现散射光场调控。通过散射光场调控可以将有害的散射介质变成可控的光学元件，实现光的定向传输、动态检测等功能，为其在各领域中的应用提供了一种强大的工具。本文在介绍光场散射特性及其调控方法原理的基础上，介绍了散射光场空间、偏振、频率、能量和轨道角动量等自由度的调控方法，随后重点介绍了散射光场调控在成像、通信、非线性光学、量子光学、光学检测、集成光学和光计算等领域的最新研究进展。
物理光学 散射 光场调控 波前整形 传输矩阵 光学学报
2024, 44(10): 1026006
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
2 School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China
3 Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China
4 Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microresonators can greatly enhance light–matter interaction, making them indispensable units for frequency conversion in nonlinear optics. Efficient nonlinear wave mixing in microresonators requires stringent simultaneous optical resonance and phase-matching conditions. Thus, it is challenging to achieve efficient frequency conversion over a broad bandwidth. Here, we demonstrate broadband second-harmonic generation (SHG) in the x-cut thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) microdisk with a quality factor above 107 by applying the cyclic quasi-phase-matching (CQPM) mechanism, which is intrinsically applicable for broadband operation. Broadband SHG of continuous-wave laser with a maximum normalized conversion efficiency of ∼15%/mW is achieved with a bandwidth spanning over 100 nm in the telecommunication band. Furthermore, broadband SHG of femtosecond lasers, supercontinuum lasers, and amplified spontaneous emission in the telecommunication band is also experimentally observed. The work is beneficial for integrated nonlinear photonics devices like frequency converters and optical frequency comb generator based on second-order nonlinearity on the TFLN platform.
lithium niobate whispering-gallery mode broadband second-harmonic generation cyclic quasi-phase matching Chinese Optics Letters
2024, 22(3): 031903
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Physics and Astronomy, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai, China
2 Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai, China
3 Shandong Normal University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Jinan, China
Scattering of waves, e.g., light, due to medium inhomogeneity is ubiquitous in physics and is considered detrimental for many applications. Wavefront shaping technology is a powerful tool to defeat scattering and focus light through inhomogeneous media, which is vital for optical imaging, communication, therapy, etc. Wavefront shaping based on the scattering matrix (SM) is extremely useful in handling dynamic processes in the linear regime. However, the implementation of such a method for controlling light in nonlinear media is still a challenge and has been unexplored until now. We report a method to determine the SM of nonlinear scattering media with second-order nonlinearity. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility in wavefront control and realize focusing of nonlinear signals through strongly scattering quadratic media. Moreover, we show that statistical properties of this SM still follow the random matrix theory. The scattering-matrix approach of nonlinear scattering medium opens a path toward nonlinear signal recovery, nonlinear imaging, microscopic object tracking, and complex environment quantum information processing.
scattering matrix wavefront shaping nonlinear scattering medium nonlinear signal manipulation Advanced Photonics
2023, 5(4): 046010
