# IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

## Issue 99

Early Access articles are new content made available in advance of the final electronic or print versions and result from IEEE's Preprint or Rapid Post processes. Preprint articles are peer-reviewed but not fully edited. Rapid Post articles are peer-reviewed and edited but not paginated. Both these types of Early Access articles are fully citable from the moment they appear in IEEE Xplore.

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• ### Complete Field Characterization of Ultrashort Pulses in Fiber Photonics

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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We report a simple fiber-implemented technique for complete reconstruction of intensity profile and phase of ultrashort laser pulses based on processing only pulse spectrum and two self-phase modulated spectra measured after a short piece of optical fiber. Its applicability is shown on an example of a fiber optical system in the telecommunication range. A retrieval algorithm in a dispersionless ap... View full abstract»

• ### Expanding continuous tuning range of a CW single-frequency laser by combining an intra-cavity etalon with a nonlinear loss

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Combining intracavity etalon (IE) locked on a laser oscillating mode with a deliberately introduced nonlinear loss, the tuning range of a continuous-wave (CW) single-frequency laser is significantly expanded to transcend the traditional limitation of a free spectral range (FSR) of IE. Due to the action of the nonlinear loss, the frequency of laser oscillating mode can be continuously and smoothly ... View full abstract»

• ### Multimode Nonlinear Fiber Optics: Massively Parallel Numerical Solver, Tutorial and Outlook

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Building on the scientific understanding and technological infrastructure of single-mode fibers, multimode fibers are being explored as a means of adding new degrees of freedom to optical technologies such as telecommunications, fiber lasers, imaging, and measurement. Here, starting from a baseline of single-mode nonlinear fiber optics, we introduce the growing topic of multimode nonlinear fiber o... View full abstract»

• ### Compact Lithium Niobate Electrooptic Modulators

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Lithium niobate (LN), spurred by its success for fiber-optic communications, has remained the material of choice for high-performance electrooptic (EO) modulators. The past decade has seen a surge in efforts aimed at miniaturizing LN EO modulators with higher order modulation formats, data centers, and optical interconnect applications in mind. The state of the art of these compact modulators, wit... View full abstract»

• ### Heterogeneously Integrated Membrane Lasers on Si Substrate for Low-operating Energy Optical Links

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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High demand exists for low-operating energy optical links that use wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technologies in datacenter networks. Thus, we fabricate a directly-modulated membrane distributed-reflector (DR) laser with low operating energy on a thermally-oxidized silicon (Si) substrate. Because we use epitaxial growth to bury an active region on a directly-bonded InP-based membrane, it ... View full abstract»

• ### Dynamics of dispersive wave and regimes of different kinds of sidebands generation in mode-locked soliton fiber lasers

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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We give a thoroughly theoretical and numerical investigation of sidebands generation in mode-locked soliton fiber lasers for the first time. A simple and reliable numerical method is proposed to separate the dispersive wave and soliton in the ultrashort pulse of a mode-locked fiber laser. We find that the dip-type sidebands generation can be regarded as a locally destructive interference between t... View full abstract»

• ### Avalanche Breakdown Timing Statistics for Silicon Single Photon Avalanche Diodes

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Silicon-based Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) are widely used as single photon detectors of visible and near infrared photons. There has however been a lack of models accurately interpreting the physics of impact ionization (the mechanism behind avalanche breakdown) for these devices. In this work, we present a statistical simulation model for silicon SPADs that is capable of predicting bre... View full abstract»

• ### Mode locked Erbium doped fiber lasers using 45° tilted fiber grating

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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We have systematically studied the 45° tilted fiber grating (45TFG) as a functional device for Erbium doped fiber laser (EDFL) mode locking. A number of 45TFGs with different polarization dependent loss (PDL) have been fabricated. Mode locked Erbium doped fiber laser using these devices have been characterized in terms of threshold, pulse duration, signal to noise ratio (SNR), and spectral ... View full abstract»

• ### Injection-Locked Coherent Reception Through Externally Modulated Laser

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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A lean coherent receiver based on an externally modulated laser is presented. Reception is conducted in virtue of the optical detection capability of a monolithically integrated high-bandwidth electro-absorption modulator and its distributed feedback laser section that serves as local oscillator. The in-line configuration of the receiver with its partial feed-through of the incident data signal to... View full abstract»

• ### Filter-free Narrowband Photodetectors Employing Colloidal Quantum Dots

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Tuning the electronic bandgap of quantum dots via the quantum size-effect enables the tailored spectral response of quantum dot photodetectors, light-emitting diodes and solar cells. Chemically synthesized colloidal quantum dot (CQD) provides an option to produce such quantum material in an inexpensive way. Here we propose an approach to fabricate filter-free narrowband photodetectors in near-infr... View full abstract»

• ### High Average Power Thulium-doped Silica Fiber Lasers: Review of Systems and Concepts

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Thulium-doped fiber lasers (TDFLs) have had the second highest growth in average output power next to ytterbium-doped fiber lasers. This has been enabled by access to high power, high brightness $sim$790 nm pump diodes in conjunction with the cross-relaxation process that improves efficiencies. While numerous high power TDFLs have been recently demonstrated, a 1 kW re... View full abstract»

• ### Monolithic 4-Channel (QUAD) Integrated Widely Tunable Transmitter in Indium Phosphide

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Tunable and array-based multi-channel chip-scale optical transmitter devices have revolutionized the pluggable module telecom market, by enabling excellent performance with great cost and size reduction. In this paper, we report on a novel, 4-channel, monolithic widely tunable transmitter device (QUAD) in Indium Phosphide. This device is based on monolithic integration of 4 widely tunable external... View full abstract»

• ### Modeling errors compensation with total least squares for limited data photoacoustic tomography

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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The limited data photoacoustic image reconstruction problem is typically solved using either weighted or ordinary least squares (LS), with regularization term being added for stability, which account only for data imperfections (noise). Numerical modeling of acoustic wave propagation requires discretization of imaging region and is typically developed based on many assumptions, such as speed of so... View full abstract»

• ### Mapping Mode-locking Regimes in a Polarization-maintaining Er-doped fiber laser

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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We present the performance of an all polarizationmaintaining Erbium-doped fiber laser mode-locked by a multilayer graphene based saturable absorber. The cavity incorporates a Martinez-type compressor, based on a transmission grating, which allows for continuous tuning of the net cavity dispersion as well as spectral filtering. By adjusting the dispersion and the spectral bandwidth, we could operat... View full abstract»

• ### Low Noise Frequency Combs for Higher-Order QAM Formats through Cross Phase Modulation of Modelocked Laser Pulses

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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An active, harmonically modelocked fiber laser with phase unstable output pulses from its long cavity is shown transformable into a low noise frequency comb suited for phase noise sensitive communications. Cross phase modulation (XPM) of its output pulses with a CW probe laser in a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) produces a frequency comb with noise at its minimum for low timing jitter pulses. Exper... View full abstract»

• ### Graphene-assisted all-fiber optical-controllable laser

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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All-optical controlling provides burgeoning, precise and compact access in photonics and optoelectronics with tunable performance. Through tuning the physical parameters of optical-controlled devices, such as effective index, bandwidth and dispersion, the output characteristics of free-running laser can be manipulated for widespread applications in spectroscopy and laser biology. Among which the f... View full abstract»

• ### Stable Multiwavelength Erbium-Doped Random Fiber Laser

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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A stable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) based on random distributed feedback (RDFB) is presented. The random EDFL consists of a half-opened linear cavity in which a mirror forms one end, while the other end is connected to RDFB of a 25 km long single mode fiber. In the laser cavity, the instability caused by the RDFB and cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering is successfully mit... View full abstract»

• ### Single-Frequency Fiber Amplifiers for Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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At the beginning of 2016 the first direct detection of a gravitational wave by a laser-based Michelson interferometer has been reported. So far, the number of confirmed detections has raised to three and will certainly increase further. Thereby, mankind has an amazing new tool to observe and study the universe, namely by gravitational wave astronomy. However, in order to develop their full potenti... View full abstract»

• ### A Review of Magneto-Optical Microstructure Devices at Terahertz Frequencies

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Recent researches on magneto-optical microstructure devices in terahertz (THz) regime have been reviewed. Some magneto-optical materials responded at THz frequency range were introduced. Based on these magneto-optical materials, MO microstructures devices were reviewed, including magnetic photonic crystal, magneto-plasmonics and magneto-metasurface all in the submillimetre scale. These devices can... View full abstract»

• ### Generation of Mode-locked Ytterbium doped fiber ring laser using few-layer black phosphorus as a saturable absorber

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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We demonstrate the generation of mode-locked pulses from a double-clad ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL) employing a saturable absorber (SA) made of a few layers of black phosphorus (BP). The BP SA was prepared by mechanically exfoliating BP crystal and spreading the acquired BP flakes on a piece of scotch tape. The tape was then sandwiched between two ferrules and incorporated in a YDFL cavity t... View full abstract»

• ### Surface plasmon resonance assisted simultaneous bio and gas sensing in visible range

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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• ### Thermal resistance of InAs/InP quantum dot laser

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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NOTICE TO THE READER It is recommended and agreed upon by the authors and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics that the following article: “Thermal Resistance of InAs/InP Quantum Dot Laser,” by S. G. Li, Q. Gong, C. F. Cao, X. Z. Wang, J. Y. Yan, Y. Wang and H. L. Wang, DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2014.2302355 is withdrawn and should not be conside... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

Papers published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics fall within the broad field of science and technology of quantum electronics of a device, subsystem, or system-oriented nature.

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## Meet Our Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Luke F. Lester
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University