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10th Anniversary of LSA: Collection on Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
2022 marks the 10th anniversary of Light: Science & Applications (LSA). In the past decade, LSA has published hundreds of outstanding researches covering the fundamentals and applications in all areas of optics and photonics. From those published papers, we have picked some on Fiber Optics and Optical Communications to share with you, our readers. We hope this collection can stimulate more researches and practices in related fields, and promote further progress in optics and photonics research.
We demonstrate that MXenes can support surface plasmons at telecommunications wavelengths (1550nm) and show that surface plasmon polariton resonances can be excited on MXene coated single mode optical fibers.
This paper review recent advances in Raman distributed optical fiber sensing in terms of temperature measurement accuracy, spatial resolution, dual-parameters and applications.
A 1-Pbps orbital-angular-momentum fibre-optic transmission system that combines space-division multiplexing and wavelength-division multiplexing in a 34 km 7-core ring-core fibre is demonstrated utilizing low-complexity 4 × 4 MIMO equalization.
We demonstrate analogue photonics links using hollow-core fibres, showing they significantly surpass the performance of standard fibre analogue links in every metrics of link gain, noise figure, and dynamic range.
Operando monitoring of highly localized and rapid temperature changes during photo-involved catalysis reactions at liquid-solid interfaces via narrow bandwidth fiber-optic spectral combs.
Our remote comb-to-comb stabilization expedites diverse long-distance ground-to-ground or ground-to-satellite applications for 6 THz bandwidth molecule spectroscopy and microwaves generation with phase noise of −80 dBc Hz–1 at 1 Hz.
A 15-user quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) network is experimentally demonstrated, and any two users can perform QSDC task over 40 kilometers of optical fiber.
Three-dimensional (3D) optical information can be written in transparent glass using a focused 473 nm laser beam, which will be read by photo-modulation.
Fiber-tip polymer clamped-beam probe for high-sensitivity nanoforce measurements are proposed for the first time. The proposed sensor has great application prospects for the mechanical properties examination of biological samples.
Quantum dot are one of the best practical examples of nanotechnologies. Owing to the discrete energy levels, quantum dot lasers output unique features like thermal stability, feedback insensitivity and spectral purity.
Two parameter-matched Fabry-Perot lasers injected by a super-luminescent diode, after independent and random mode selection, emit chaotic lights with synchronization on-off keying. Shared keys are extracted from the synchronous waveforms.