The role of parallelism in the evolution of optical fiber communication systems

W Klaus, PJ Winzer, K Nakajima - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to overcome the capacity limitations of current lightwave systems based on the
single-mode optical fiber, massively parallel transmission in the spatial domain [space …

[HTML][HTML] Aiming for high-capacity multi-modal free-space optical transmission leveraging complete modal basis sets

Z Hu, Y Li, Z Chen, DM Benton, AAI Ali, M Patel… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Free-space optical (FSO) communication has gained much interest due to its capability of
providing not only a cost-efficient solution where the optical fiber is too expensive or too …

ColNeRF: Collaboration for Generalizable Sparse Input Neural Radiance Field

Z Ni, P Yang, W Yang, H Wang, L Ma… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing
novel views from dense input, however, their effectiveness is challenged when dealing with …

Multi-plane light conversion: a practical tutorial

Y Zhang, NK Fontaine - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11323, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multi-plane light conversion (MPLC) has recently been developed as a versatile tool for
manipulating spatial distributions of the optical field through repeated phase modulations …

Free-standing microscale photonic lantern spatial mode (De-) multiplexer fabricated using 3D nanoprinting

Y Dana, Y Garcia, A Kukin, L Dallachiesa… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Photonic lantern (PL) spatial multiplexers show great promise for a range of applications,
such as future high-capacity mode division multiplexing (MDM) optical communication …

Empowering high-dimensional optical fiber communications with integrated photonic processors

K Lu, Z Chen, H Chen, W Zhou, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) in optical fibers enables multichannel capabilities for
various applications, including data transmission, quantum networks, imaging, and sensing …

Metasurfaces for free-space coupling to multicore fibers

J Oh, J Yang, L Marra, AH Dorrah… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space-division multiplexing (SDM) with multicore fibers (MCFs) is envisioned to overcome
the capacity crunch in optical fiber communications. Within these systems, the coupling …

Low loss fiber-coupled volumetric interconnects fabricated via direct laser writing

AJ Littlefield, J Huang, ML Holley, NB Duggar, J Gao… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are vital for high-speed data transmission. However,
optical routing is limited in PICs composed of only one or a few stacked planes. Further …

Mode multicasting without parasitic wavelength conversion

X Huang, S Fu, M Xiang, G Zhou, C Zhang, D Lin… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical multicasting, which involves delivering an input signal to multiple different channels
simultaneously, is a key function to improve network performance. By exploiting individual …

Tunable three-wavelength fiber laser and transient switching between three-wavelength soliton and q-switched mode-locked states

ZZ Si, CQ Dai, W Liu - Chinese Physics Letters, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a passive mode-locked fiber laser that can realize single-wavelength tuning and
multi-wavelength spacing tuning simultaneously. The tuning range is from 1528 nm–1560 …