OPTICA Memoranda

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  • Monolithic ultra-high-Q lithium niobate microring resonator

    Zhang, Mian; Wang, Cheng; Cheng, Rebecca; Shams-Ansari, Amirhassan; Lončar, Marko
    • 2017
    • Optica 4(12) 1536-1537  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 595

    We demonstrate an ultralow loss monolithic integrated lithium niobate photonic platform consisting of dry-etched subwavelength waveguides with extracted propagation losses as low as 2.7 dB/m...

  • Multi-photon detection using a conventional superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

    Cahall, Clinton; Nicolich, Kathryn L.; Islam, Nurul T.; Lafyatis, Gregory P.; Miller, Aaron J.; Gauthier, Daniel J.; Kim, Jungsang
    • 2017
    • Optica 4(12) 1534-1535  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 82

    We present the first evidence of multi-photon detection using a conventional superconducting nanowire single-photon detector, indicating number resolution up to four photons. The observed multi-photon...

  • Polarization coherence theorem

    Eberly, J. H.; Qian, X.-F.; Vamivakas, A. N.
    • 2017
    • Optica 4(9) 1113-1114  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 48

    Visibility V and distinguishability D quantify wave-ray duality: V2+D2≤1. We join them to polarization P via the Polarization Coherence Theorem, a tight equality: P2=V2+D2....

  • Optical parametric oscillation in a random polycrystalline medium

    Ru, Qitian; Lee, Nathaniel; Chen, Xuan; Zhong, Kai; Tsoy, Georgiy; Mirov, Mike; Vasilyev, Sergey; Mirov, Sergey B.; Vodopyanov, Konstantin L.
    • 2017
    • Optica 4(6) 617-618  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 37

    We demonstrate an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on random phase matching in polycrystalline ZnSe. The OPO was pumped by Cr:ZnS laser pulses (2.35 μm, 62 fs, 79 MHz), had a pump t...

  • Kilowatt average power 100 J-level diode pumped solid state laser

    Mason, Paul; Divoký, Martin; Ertel, Klaus; Pilař, Jan; Butcher, Thomas; Hanuš, Martin; Banerjee, Saumyabrata; Phillips, Jonathan; Smith, Jodie; De Vido, Mariastefania; Lucianetti, Antonio; Hernandez-Gomez, Cristina; Edwards, Chris; Mocek, Tomas; Collier, John
    • 2017
    • Optica 4(4) 438-439  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 156

    We report efficient and stable operation of the first multi-joule diode pumped solid state laser delivering 1 kW average power in 105 J, 10 ns pulses at 10 Hz, confirming the power scalability of mult...

  • Grayscale transparent metasurface holograms

    Wang, Lei; Kruk, Sergey; Tang, Hanzhi; Li, Tao; Kravchenko, Ivan; Neshev, Dragomir N.; Kivshar, Yuri S.
    • 2016
    • Optica 3(12) 1504-1505  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 292

    We demonstrate transparent metaholograms based on silicon metasurfaces that allow high-resolution grayscale images to be encoded. The holograms feature the highest diffraction and transmissi...

  • Nematic LCD with motion picture response time comparable to organic LEDs

    Chen, Haiwei; Peng, Fenglin; Gou, Fangwang; Lee, Yun-Han; Wand, Michael; Wu, Shin-Tson
    • 2016
    • Optica 3(9) 1033-1034  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 25

    We demonstrate a fast-response LCD with an ultra-low-viscosity nematic mixture. Its averaged motion picture response time is comparable to that of an organic LED at the same frame rate....

  • 8 × 8 × 40 Gbps fully integrated silicon photonic network on chip

    Zhang, Chong; Zhang, Shangjian; Peters, Jon D.; Bowers, John E.
    • 2016
    • Optica 3(7) 785-786  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 119

    We demonstrate a fully integrated photonic network-on-chip circuit with wavelength division multiplexing transceivers on silicon. The total transmission capacity is up to ...