分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: Exceptional points (EPs) represent a distinct type of spectral singularity in non-Hermitian systems, and intriguing physics concepts have been studied with optical EPs recently. As a system beyond photonics, the mechanical oscillators coupling with many physical systems are expected to be further exploited EPs for mechanical sensing, topology energy transfer, nonreciprocal dynamics etc. In this study, we demonstrated on-chip mechanical EPs with a silicon optomechanical zipper cavity, wherein two near-degenerate mechanical breathing modes are coupled via a single co-localized optical mode. By tailoring the dissipative and coherent couplings between two mechanical oscillators, the spectral splitting with 1/2 order response, a distinctive feature of EP, was observed successfully. Our work provides an integrated platform for investigating the physics related to mechanical EPs on silicon chips and suggests their possible applications for ultrasensitive measurements.
分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: In quantum optics, orbital angular momentum (OAM) is very promising to achieve high-dimensional quantum states due to the nature of infinite and discrete eigenvalue, which is quantized by the topological charge of l. Here, a heralded single-photon source with switchable OAM modes is proposed and demonstrated on silicon chip. At room-temperature, the heralded single photons with 11 OAM modes (l=2~6, -6~-1) have been successfully generated and switched through thermo-optical effect. We believe that such an integrated quantum source with multiple OAM modes and operating at room-temperature would provide a practical platform for high-dimensional quantum information processing. Moreover, our proposed architecture can also be extended to other material systems to further improve the performance of OAM quantum source.
分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: Faint light spectroscopy has many important applications such as fluorescence spectroscopy, lidar and astronomical observations. However, long measurement time limit its application on real-time measurement. In this work, a photon counting reconstructive spectrometer combining metasurfaces and superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) was proposed. A prototype device was fabricated on a silicon on isolator (SOI) substrate, and its performance was characterized. Experiment results show that this device support spectral reconstruction of mono-color lights with a resolution of 2 nm in the wavelength region of 1500 nm ~ 1600 nm. The detection efficiency of this device is 1.4% ~ 3.2% in this wavelength region. The measurement time required by this photon counting reconstructive spectrometer was also investigated experimentally, showing its potential to be applied in the scenarios requiring real-time measurement.
分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: Photonic Ising machine is a new paradigm of optical computing, which is based on the characteristics of light wave propagation, parallel processing and low loss transmission. Thus, the process of solving the combinatorial optimization problems can be accelerated through photonic/optoelectronic devices. In this work, we have proposed and demonstrated the so-called Phase-Encoding and Intensity Detection Ising Annealer (PEIDIA) to solve arbitrary Ising problems on demand. The PEIDIA is based on the simulated annealing algorithm and requires only one step of optical linear transformation with simplified Hamiltonian calculation. With PEIDIA, the Ising spins are encoded on the phase term of the optical field and only intensity detection is required during the solving process. As a proof of principle, several 20-dimensional Ising problems have been solved with high ground state probability (0.98 within 1000 iterations for the antiferromagnetic cubic model, >0.99 within 4000 iterations for two random spin-glass models, respectively). It should be mentioned that our proposal is also potential to be implemented with integrated photonic devices such as tunable metasurfaces to achieve large-scale and on-demand photonic Ising machines.
分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: An optical neural network is proposed and demonstrated with programmable matrix transformation and nonlinear activation function of photodetection (square-law detection). Based on discrete phase-coherent spatial modes, the dimensionality of programmable optical matrix operations is 30~37, which is implemented by spatial light modulators. With this architecture, all-optical classification tasks of handwritten digits, objects and depth images are performed on the same platform with high accuracy. Due to the parallel nature of matrix multiplication, the processing speed of our proposed architecture is potentially as high as7.4T~74T FLOPs per second (with 10~100GHz detector)
分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: Spectral imaging extends the concept of traditional color cameras to capture images across multiple spectral channels and has broad application prospects. Conventional spectral cameras based on scanning methods suffer from low acquisition speed and large volume. On-chip computational spectral imaging based on metasurface filters provides a promising scheme for portable applications, but endures long computation time for point-by-point iterative spectral reconstruction and mosaic effect in the reconstructed spectral images. In this study, we demonstrated on-chip rapid spectral imaging eliminating the mosaic effect in the spectral image by deep-learning-based spectral data cube reconstruction. We experimentally achieved four orders of magnitude speed improvement than iterative spectral reconstruction and high fidelity of spectral reconstruction over 99% for a standard color board. In particular, we demonstrated video-rate spectral imaging for moving objects and outdoor driving scenes with good performance for recognizing metamerism, where the concolorous sky and white cars can be distinguished via their spectra, showing great potential for autonomous driving and other practical applications in the field of intelligent perception.
分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: We have proposed and demonstrated a scalable and efficient scheme for programmable unitary operations in orbital angular momentum (OAM) domain. Based on matrix decomposition into diagonal and Fourier factors, arbitrary matrix operators can be implemented only by diagonal matrices alternately acting on orbital angular momentum domain and azimuthal angle domain, which are linked by Fourier transform. With numerical simulations, unitary matrices with dimensionality of 3*3 are designed and discussed for OAM domain. Meanwhile, the parallelism of our proposed scheme is also presented with two 3*3 matrices. Furthermore, as an alternative to verify our proposal, proof of principle experiments have been performed on path domain with the same matrix decomposition method, in which an average fidelity of 0.97 is evaluated through 80 experimental results with dimensionality of 3*3.
分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: A beam splitter (BS) is one of the most critical building blocks in optical systems. Despite various attempts to miniaturize the conventional cube BS reported, it remains a challenge to realize an ultrathin BS with multi-port output, nonuniform splitting ratio and steerable outgoing directions. Herein, we have demonstrated a free-space optical multi-port beam splitter (MPBS) based on a polarization-independent all-dielectric metasurface. By utilizing an optimized phase-pattern paradigm via a gradient-descent-based iterative algorithm on amorphous silicon (a-Si) metasurfaces, we have prepared various MPBS samples with arbitrarily predetermined output port number (2~7), power ratio and spatial distribution of output beams. The experimental results reveal that the MPBSs could achieve high total splitting efficiency (TSE, above 74%) and beam-splitting ratio fidelity (SRF, above 0.992) within the bandwidth of 100nm (1500nm~1600nm). We envision that such MPBS could provide a fabulous flexibility for optical integrated systems design and diverse applications.
分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: On-chip spectral imaging based on engineered spectral modulation and computational spectral reconstruction provides a promising scheme for portable spectral cameras. However, the angle dependence of modulation units results in the angle sensitivity of spectral imaging, which limits its practical applications. Here, we proposed a design for angle-robust spectral recovery based on a group of topology-optimized plasmonic metasurface units under a 30{\deg} field-of-view, and demonstrate angle-insensitive on-chip spectral imaging in the wavelength range of 450 to 750 nm for average polarization. Furthermore, we experimentally verified the angle-insensitive spectral filtering effects of the fabricated metasurface units, and demonstrated angle-robust spectral reconstruction with a fidelity of 98%. Our approach expands the application scale of spectral imaging, and provides a guidance for designing other angle-robust devices.
分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19
摘要: One-shot spectral imaging that can obtain spectral information from different points in space at one time has always been difficult to achieve, and is extremely important for both fundamental scientific research and various practical applications. In this study, one-shot ultraspectral imaging by fitting thousands of micro-spectrometers on a chip, is proposed and demonstrated. Exotic light modulation is achieved by using a reconfigurable metasurface supercell, which enables 155,216 image-adaptive micro-spectrometers, simultaneously guaranteeing the spectral-pixel density and reconstructed spectral quality. By constructing a compressive-sensing algorithm, the device can reconstruct ultraspectral imaging ($\Delta\lambda$/$\lambda$~0.001) covering a 300-nm-wide visible spectrum with an ultra-high center-wavelength accuracy of 0.04-nm standard deviation and spectral resolution of 0.8 nm. This scheme can be extended to almost any commercial camera with different spectral bands to seamlessly switch between image and spectral image, and opens up a new space for the application of spectral analysis combining with image recognition and intellisense.