Integrated optomechanical crystal (OMC) cavities provide a vital device prototype for highly efficient microwave to optical conversion in quantum information processing. In this work, we propose a novel heterogeneous OMC cavity consisting of a thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) slab and chalcogenide (ChG) photonic crystal nanobeam coupled by a wavelength-scale mechanical waveguide. The optomechanical coupling rate of the heterogeneous OMC cavity is optimized up to 340 kHz at 1.1197 GHz. Combined with phononic band and power decomposition, 17.38% energy from the loaded RF power is converted into dominant fundamental horizontal shear mode (SH0) in the narrow LN mechanical waveguide. Based on this fraction, as a result, 3.51% power relative to the loaded RF energy is scattered into the fundamental longitudinal mode (L0) facing the TFLN-ChG heterogeneous waveguide. The acoustic breathing mode of the heterogeneous OMC is successfully excited under the driving of the propagating L0 mode in the heterogeneous waveguide, demonstrating the great potentials of the heterogeneous piezo-optomechanical transducer in high-performance photon–phonon interaction fields.

Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) can greatly improve the capacity of information transmission. The multimode waveguide bend (MWB) with small size and high performance is of great significance for the on-chip MDM integrated system. In this paper, an MWB with high performance based on double free-form curves (DFFCs) is proposed and realized. The DFFC is a combination of a series of arcs optimized by the inverse design method. The fabrication of this MWB only needs one-step lithography and plasma etching and has a large fabrication tolerance. MWBs with effective radii of 6 μm and 10 μm are designed to support three modes and four modes, respectively. The proposed method gives the best overall performance considering both the effective bending radius and the transmission efficiency. The fabricated MWB with four mode channels has low excess losses and crosstalks below -21dB in the wavelength range from 1520 to 1580 nm. It is expected that this design can play an important role in promoting the dense integration of multimode transmission systems.

Laplace operation, the isotropic second-order differentiation, on spatial functions is an essential mathematical calculation in most physical equations and signal processing. Realizing the Laplace operation in a manner of optical analog computing has recently attracted attention, but a compact device with a high spatial resolution is still elusive. Here, we introduce a Laplace metasurface that can perform the Laplace operation for incident light-field patterns. By exciting the quasi-bound state in the continuum, an optical transfer function for nearly perfect isotropic second-order differentiation has been obtained with a spatial resolution of wavelength scale. Such a Laplace metasurface has been numerically validated with both 1D and 2D spatial functions, and the results agree well with that of the ideal Laplace operation. In addition, the edge detection of a concerned object in an image has been demonstrated with the Laplace metasurface. Our results pave the way to the applications of metasurfaces in optical analog computing and image processing.

Fast and sensitive air-coupled ultrasound detection is essential for many applications such as radar, ultrasound imaging, and defect detection. Here we present a novel approach based on a digital optical frequency comb (DOFC) technique combined with high-Q optical microbubble resonators (MBRs). DOFC enables precise spectroscopy on resonators that can trace the ultrasound pressure with its resonant frequency shift with femtometer resolution and sub-microsecond response time. The noise equivalent pressure of air-coupled ultrasound as low as 4.4mPa/√Hz is achieved by combining a high-Q (～3×107) MBR with the DOFC method. Moreover, it can observe multi-resonance peaks from multiple MBRs to directly monitor the precise spatial location of the ultrasonic source. This approach has a potential to be applied in 3D air-coupled photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging.

合成孔径激光雷达(SAL)具有成像距离远、分辨率高、速度快等特点,在天基空间目标成像领域有重要的应用前景。针对天基SAL成像中回波信号弱、噪声大、成像质量差等问题,提出在交会点附近连续长时间观测的思路。基于简单假设,建立采用光学外差探测的天基SAL成像理论数学模型,获得回波数据方程,给出成像处理流程、成像分辨率和图像信噪比,数学仿真了不同信噪比下的天基SAL空间目标成像。理论分析和仿真成像结果表明:当回波数据信噪比高时,任何子段数据均可形成空间目标的高分辨率图像;当回波信号微弱、数据信噪比低时,采用连续长时间观测数据形成目标子图像,将所有子图像进行叠加,提升了目标图像信噪比,改善了成像质量。

利用描述CO₂激光器动力学过程的六温度模型理论,建立了计算调Q CO₂激光功率放大器输出特性的数学模型,进行了理论分析和数值计算,并讨论了分光比等参数对输出脉冲特性、输出光谱的影响。结果表明:该调Q CO₂激光功率放大器存在临界增益长度和临界光强分束比,低于临界值时无法获得激光输出;该调Q CO₂激光功率放大器的输出激光脉冲波形、峰值功率、脉冲宽度、输出光谱与光强分束比、抽运电子数密度等参数有关,光强分束比越小,输出的调Q激光脉冲宽度越大,峰值功率越低;该调Q CO₂激光功率放大器利用Q调制的高增益特性,通过控制调Q元件所在的低功率支路可以实现高平均功率的调Q脉冲CO₂激光输出,很好地解决了调Q CO₂激光功率放大器难以高功率运转的问题。