Ultra-high concentrator photovoltaics (UHCPV), with concentrations higher than 1000 suns, have been pointed out by different authors as having great potential for being a cost-effective PV technology. This Letter presents a UHCPV Cassegrain-based optical design in which the sunrays are concentrated and sent from four different and independent paraboloid-hyperboloid pairs optical units onto a si...

The impact of ultra-fast carrier dynamics in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) on switches based on cross-gain and cross-phase modulation is analyzed theoretically and experimentally. We find that ultra-fast effects lead to additional spectral broadening, which improves the optical signal-to-noise ratio for switches based on an SOA and an optical filter. For such switches, the influence o...

− We demonstrate an ultra-stable visible laser source that can be generated from injection locked infrared DFB based on optical comb. The optical comb was used as injection source and locked to an acetylene stabilization laser as a reference source of optical communication region. The DFB laser was selectively injection locked from only one among the comb mode with 25 GHz spacing. The ultra-sta...

We report on near infrared semiconductor nanopatch lasers with subwavelength-scale physical dimensions (0.019 cubic wavelengths) and effective mode volumes (0.0017 cubic wavelengths). We observe lasing in the two most fundamental optical modes which resemble oscillating electrical and magnetic dipoles. The ultra-small laser volume is achieved with the presence of nanoscale metal patches which s...

In Wavelength Division Multiplexing based Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON), multiple wavelength used to separate Optical Network Unit (ONU). Which actually increase the capacity of PON . WDM process can be dense and ultra-dense depending on channel spacing. In this paper we compare performance of Array Waveguide Grating Demultiplexer (AWG DEMUX) and Fiber Bragg Grating based Demultiplexer (FBG...

while the application of optical and photonic technologies in the communications, computing, medicine and industrial manufacturing has been growing rapidly, the miniaturization of these technologies has been slow due to the limitation on the diffraction. however, the developments of nanoscale components and guiding methods are continuing with a rapid pace. since waveguiding is a fundamental iss...

We analytically calculate and discuss the radio-frequency spectrum of the socalled Akhmediev breathers, a class of nonlinear solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation that governs the propagation in a single mode optical fiber. We propose a practical application of ABs to the field of ultra-wideband pulse generation.

In this paper, we present a high accuracy laser range finder and velocimeter using ultra-fast time-to-digital converter (TDC). The system operation is based on the measuring the round-trip time of a narrow laser pulse. A low-dark current high-speed PIN photodiode is used to detect the triggered laser beam and to produce start signal. The pulsed laser diode generates 45W optical power at 30ns du...

In this paper, the lensing functions and imaging abilities of a quasi-periodic nanohole array in a metal screen have been theoretically investigated and demonstrated. Such an optical binary mask with nanoholes designed in an aperiodic arrangement can function as an ultra-thin planar optical lens, imaging complex structures composed of multiple light sources at tens of wavelengths away from the ...