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We limited the number of frames to seven in this prototype setup, although it can be scaled to ∼24 with a spatial resolution of ∼1µm by designing IFS with a fine pitch MLA.We present a photonic approach to realize radio frequency (RF) down-conversion and intermediate frequency (IF) channel switching for satellite communication. Conventionally, photonic RF mixers always suffer from limitations of one operational state and one IF channel. We proposed a photonic repeater that can realize multiple frequency down-conversion states and different IF channel switching. Two separated RF ports and two independent local oscillator ports ensure the repeater can down-convert RF signals in different bands simultaneously. Based on the characteristic that orthogonally polarized optical signals cannot beat with each other, the crosstalk between different channels is alleviated. Since no optical filters are involved, the repeater can process broadband RF signals down-conversion and broadband IF signals channel switching. The proposed photonic repeater features compact structure, broad and different bands of operation, and no physical optical splitting, which is promising for a satellite payload.In this Letter, we proposed a super sensitive optic-fiber curvature sensor with ultra-low temperature crosstalk based on Vernier effect and achieved it experimentally. This sensor composes a pair of parallelized 2CFMIs (2-core-fiber Michelson interferometers) in similar lengths, both of which are involved sensing, but there is a rotation angle between their cross-sections. When the rotation angle approaches 180°, the magnification factor for curvature sensitivity is doubled compared with conventional Vernier effect, while for temperature it is always 1. Therefore, advanced curvature sensitivity and abated temperature crosstalk can be realized simultaneously when demodulating Vernier envelops. The experiment results indicate that the curvature sensitivity of this sensor reached 214.533nm/m-1, and temperature crosstalk was as low as 0.000276m-1/∘C. The fabrication process is extremely flexible and repeatable, and the magnification factor of Vernier effect could be controlled conveniently.Photo-plethysmography (PPG) making use of a monochromic light source and a photoelectric sensor is a non-invasive detection method to record blood volume changes in vessels and can be used to extract cardiac-related heart pulse information. Here, we demonstrated the fabrication of a monolithic photonic chip by integrating light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with photodetectors (PDs) on the same GaN-on-sapphire wafer containing InGaN/GaN multi-quantum wells (MQWs). The MQWs simultaneously act as light emitters in the LEDs and detectors in the PDs, and their mechanism has been studied. The fabricated chip operating in reflection mode is flip-chip bonded on a flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) strip, enabling the sapphire surface in close contact with the skin. selleck kinase inhibitor The optical and electrical properties of the LED and PD have been thoroughly characterized, confirming that the PDs using identical MQWs can detect the reflected light from the LEDs. By attaching the chip to the wrist, PPG heart pulse signals from the arterial blood flow can be obtained, thereby verifying the feasibility of the proposed monolithic chip.Recently, the terahertz (THz) chiral field control opens a new window to THz devices and their applications. In this Letter, the active manipulation for THz chiral states based on the cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) has been demonstrated by THz time domain cross-polarization spectroscopy. The results show that the CLC has strong THz optical activity and circular dichroism (CD) effect, and the strongest THz CD of 22 dB and a polarization rotation angle of 88.4° occur around the phase transition temperature TS-N=250K. Rising to a room temperature of 300 K, the CLC turns from a chiral state to an isotropic state for THz waves with the phase transition processes of CLC molecules. Therefore, this CLC device can be performed as a thermally active THz circular polarizer, which brings potential applications in THz polarization imaging, broadband communication, and spectroscopy.The photonic properties of glass ceramics (GCs) are often enabled by encapsulating nanocrystals (NCs) and doped transition metal ions (TMIs). However, it is difficult to probe the optics-related effect between the host NCs' band structure and doped TMIs' d-d orbitals. Herein, perovskite-type KZnF3NiNCs in KF-ZnF2-SiO2 GCs were prepared and taken as a model system. The excited-state dynamics of host NCs and Ni ions' d-d orbitals were studied by transient absorption spectroscopy. It presents a strong interaction between Ni's d orbitals and the band edge, which could extract excitonic energy in photonic applications. These findings facilitate understanding and design of TMIs-doped GCs in real-life photonic applications.The spatial modulation principle has been widely studied in indoor optical wireless communication (OWC) systems to provide high-speed connections to users by encoding part of data in the spatial domain. To further increase the speed and to eliminate the requirements of accurate channel state information (CSI) and low channel correlation, in this Letter we propose and demonstrate an indoor OWC system with a filters-enhanced generalized spatial modulation (FE-GSM) scheme and 16-carrierless amplitude and phase (16-CAP) modulation. The 16-CAP increases the data rate in symbol domain, and the FE-GSM scheme allows activating multiple transmitters simultaneously to increase data rate in the spatial domain. Experimental results show that using a 2.5 GBaud/s indoor OWC system with three transmitters, 15 Gb/s data rate is achieved even under identical channels without pre-known CSI. The demonstrated scheme provides a promising solution to increase data rate in indoor OWC systems.The propagation properties of light in optomechanical waveguide arrays (OMWAs) are studied. Due to the strong mechanical Kerr effect, the optical self-focusing and self-defocusing phenomena can be realized in the arrays of subwavelength dielectric optomechanical waveguides with the milliwatt-level incident powers and micrometer-level lengths. Compared with the conventional nonlinear waveguide arrays, the required incident powers and lengths of the waveguides are decreased by five orders of magnitude and one order of magnitude, respectively. Furthermore, by adjusting the deformation of the nanowaveguides through a control light, the propagation path of the signal light in the OMWA can be engineered, which could be used as a splitting-ratio-tunable beam splitter. This Letter provides a new platform for discrete optics and broadens the application of integrated optomechanics.selleck kinase inhibitor