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Division of focal plane (DoFP), or integrated microgrid polarimeters, typically consist of a 2 × 2 mosaic of linear polarization filters overlaid upon a focal plane array sensor and obtain temporally synchronized polarized intensity measurements across a scene, similar in concept to a Bayer color filter array camera. However, the resulting estimated polarimetric images suffer a loss in resolution and can be plagued by aliasing due to the spatially-modulated microgrid measurement strategy. Demosaicing strategies have been proposed that attempt to minimize these effects, but result in some level of residual artifacts. In this work we propose a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) approach to the microgrid demosaicing problem. We evaluate the performance of our approach against full-resolution division-of-time polarimeter data as well as compare against both traditional and recent microgrid demosaicing methods. We apply these demosaicing strategies to data from both real and simulated visible microgrid imagery and provide an objective criteria for evaluating their performance. We demonstrate that the proposed cGAN approach results in estimated Stokes imagery that is comparable to full-resolution ground truth imagery from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective.Anomalous redshift of the absorption peak of graphene in the cavity system is numerically and experimentally demonstrated. It is observed that the absorption peak exhibits a redshift as the Fermi level of graphene increases, which is contrary to the ordinary trend of graphene plasmons. The influencing factors, including the electron mobility of graphene, the cavity length, and the ribbon width, are comprehensively analyzed. Such anomalous redshift can be explained by the competition between the graphene plasmon mode and the optical cavity mode. The study herein could be beneficial for the design of graphene-based plasmonic devices.Adaptive optics (AO) based ophthalmic imagers, such as scanning laser ophthalmoscopes (SLO) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), are used to evaluate the structure and function of the retina with high contrast and resolution. Fixational eye movements during a raster-scanned image acquisition lead to intra-frame and intra-volume distortion, resulting in an inaccurate reproduction of the underlying retinal structure. selleck chemicals llc For three-dimensional (3D) AO-OCT, segmentation-based and 3D correlation based registration methods have been applied to correct eye motion and achieve a high signal-to-noise ratio registered volume. This involves first selecting a reference volume, either manually or automatically, and registering the image/volume stream against the reference using correlation methods. However, even within the chosen reference volume, involuntary eye motion persists and affects the accuracy with which the 3D retinal structure is finally rendered. In this article, we introduced reference volume distortion correction for AO-OCT using 3D correlation based registration and demonstrate a significant improvement in registration performance via a few metrics. Conceptually, the general paradigm follows that developed previously for intra-frame distortion correction for 2D raster-scanned images, as in an AOSLO, but extended here across all three spatial dimensions via 3D correlation analyses. We performed a frequency analysis of eye motion traces before and after intra-volume correction and revealed how periodic artifacts in eye motion estimates are effectively reduced upon correction. Further, we quantified how the intra-volume distortions and periodic artifacts in the eye motion traces, in general, decrease with increasing AO-OCT acquisition speed. Overall, 3D correlation based registration with intra-volume correction significantly improved the visualization of retinal structure and estimation of fixational eye movements.Controlling the temporal mode shape of quantum light pulses has wide ranging application to quantum information science and technology. Techniques have been developed to control the bandwidth, allow shifting in the time and frequency domains, and perform mode-selective beam-splitter-like transformations. However, there is no present scheme to perform targeted multimode unitary transformations on temporal modes. Here we present a practical approach to realize general transformations for temporal modes. We show theoretically that any unitary transformation on temporal modes can be performed using a series of phase operations in the time and frequency domains. Numerical simulations show that several key transformations on temporal modes can be performed with greater than 95% fidelity using experimentally feasible specifications.In this paper, we describe the study of the faithful propagation of entangled orbital angular momentum states of light under atmospheric turbulence. The spatial mode is encoded in the Ince-Gauss modes that constitute a complete family of exact and orthogonal solutions of the paraxial wave equation in an elliptic coordinate system. Adaptive optics is employed to protect the entanglement from degradation, in which the threshold of turbulence strength could be enhanced for a reliable entanglement distribution. We find that the evolution of entanglements relies on ellipticity and shows the opposite trend when adopting adaptive optics. The turbulence strengths, at which the concurrences of various entangled states become zero, are different without adaptive optics but almost the same with adaptive optics. The trace of the density matrix is independent of the different ellipticity with or without adaptive optics. We believe that this investigation is useful for long-distance quantum communications and quantum networks using orbital angular momentum as information carriers.All-dielectric meta-surfaces composed of dielectric meta-atoms with electric and magnetic multipole resonances provide a low loss alternative to plasmonic meta-surfaces in some optical research fields such as meta-lens and meta-surface holography. We utilize the digital holography lithography technique to obtain the large area meta-surface perfect reflector made of high refractive index and low loss silicon discs arrays, with the capability to delicately control the optical response in the near infrared spectrum. Three types of meta-surface reflectors (discs, truncated cones and diamond-shaped discs) were fabricated, which correspondingly exhibited nearly 1 peak reflectance and greater than 97% average reflectance in their respective perfect reflectance spectral regions. Digital holography lithography only takes 4 min to fabricate millions of photoresist disks over an area of 100 mm2, which is high processing efficiency and low cost. The fabrication strategy opens a new avenue for the production of large-area meta-surfaces in the optical field, especially in the mass production of optical communication devices, semiconductor lasers, etc.We experimentally demonstrate a high-speed lateral PIN junction configuration germanium photodetector (Ge-PD) with 4-directional light input. The typical internal responsivity is about 1.23 A/W at 1550 nm with 98% quantum efficiency and dark current 4 nA at 1V reverse-bias voltage. The equivalent circuit model and theoretical 3-dB opto-electrical (OE) bandwidth of Ge-PD are extracted and calculated, respectively. Compared to the conventional lateral PIN Ge-PD with 1-directional light input, our proposed device features uniform optical field distribution in the absorption region, which will be benefit to realize high-power and high-speed operation. In particular, in the condition of 0.8 mA photocurrent, the measured 3-dB OE bandwidth is about 17 GHz at bias voltage of -8 V which is well matched to the theoretical estimated bandwidth. With additional digital pre-compensations provided by the Keysight arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), the root raised cosine (RRC) filter and roll-off factor of 0.65 are employed at transmitter (TX) side without utilizing any offline digital signal processing (DSP) at receiver (RX) side. The 50 Gbit/s, 60 Gbit/s, 70 Gbit/s, and 80 Gbit/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ), and 60 Gbit/s, 70 Gbit/s, 80 Gbit/s, and 90 Gbit/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) clear opening of eye diagrams are realized. In order to verify the high-power handling performance in high-speed data transmission, we also investigate the 20 Gbit/s NRZ eye diagram variations with the increasing of photocurrent.We report the measurement of the Kerr nonlinear refractive index of the rubidium vapor via the high sensitivity z-scan method by using an optical frequency comb. The novel self-focusing and self-defocusing effects of the vapor are presented with red and blue detunings of the laser frequency. The optical nonlinear characteristics of the rubidium vapor are clearly interpreted under different experimental parameters. Furthermore, the Kerr nonlinear refractive index n2 is obtained from the measured dispersion curve, and it basically occurs on the order of 10-6 cm2/W. The evolutions of the Kerr nonlinear coefficient n2 with the laser power and frequency detuning, respectively, are studied. To the best of our knowledge, the use of pulsed lasers to measure the Kerr nonlinear refractive index n2 of atomic vapor has not been reported yet. The direct measurement of the Kerr nonlinear coefficient will greatly help us understand and optimize nonlinear optical processes and find its more potential applications in quantum optics.This paper investigates solutions for mitigating multipath interference (MPI) impact for intensity modulation direct detection systems, particularly for PAM4 systems. We propose a scheme that uses a high pass filter (HPF) at the receiver to remove the MPI induced carrier-carrier beat noise and therefore improve the MPI tolerance. The scheme has been verified via theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and experiment. For a typical optical transmitter based on Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) without frequency chirp, over 5dB MPI tolerance can be improved for 106.4Gb/s PAM4 by using the proposed scheme. Investigation was also extended to electro-absorption modulated laser (EML) and directly modulated laser (DML) based optical transmitters. Results show that transient chirping in EML reduces the effectiveness of proposed MPI mitigation scheme. For EML with chirp factor smaller than 1.5, MPI tolerance gain of 2dB is still achievable. However, the scheme is ineffective for typical DML where the adiabatic chirp significantly broadened the laser linewidth.Mid-infrared (mid-IR) lasers have great applications in bio-molecular sensing due to strong vibrational fingerprints in this wavelength range. However, it is a huge challenge to realize mid-IR lasers in conventional silica materials. Here, we demonstrate the generation of mid-IR Raman lasers and Kerr-frequency combs from an all-silica microresonator/fiber laser system. A single wavelength narrow-linewidth laser at ∼2 µm is first realized by using an ultrahigh Q-factor silica whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microresonator as mode-selection mirror, and thulium-doped silica fiber as gain medium. Due to the strong intensity enhancement in the microresonator itself, multiple third-order nonlinear optical effects are observed, which include stimulated Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman scattering, and (cascaded) four-wave-mixing (FWM). The stimulated Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman scattering shift the initial 2 µm narrow-linewidth laser to as far as ∼2.75 µm and ∼1.56 µm, respectively. While the cascaded FWM helps to form a Kerr-frequency comb with a broad bandwidth of ∼900 nm and a mode spacing of twice of the microresonator free-spectral-range.