We propose a dispersion flattened fiber (DFF) front-haul transmission system with high bitrate, polarization multiplexing (PM) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal at low input optical power. The modulation format of the system is PM-16QAM, and the bitrate is 256 Gbit/s. The transmission characteristics over DFF link system are experimentally studied, which are compared with those over non-zero dispersion shifted fiber (NZDSF) link and standard single mode fiber (SSMF) link. The experimental results show that the error vector magnitude (EVM) of 256 Gbit/s and PM-16QAM signal over 25 km DFF link is 0.75% better than that over 25 km NZDSF link at least, and the bit error rate (BER) and Q-factor are much better than those of NZDSF. Their EVM and BER are both decreased with the increase of input optical power, and the Q-factor is increased. Those characteristics over 25 km SSMF are the worst at the same case. The larger the dispersion is, the more the constellation points are deviated from their respective centers and the worse the constellation characteristics are. The greater the attenuation of the DFF is, the smaller the input power of the DFF is, the more the constellation points are deviated from their centers and the worse the constellation characteristics are. This study provides a new idea and experimental support for long span front-haul propagation in mobile communication.

In this paper, a new method for the rapid, economical and convenient detection of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in jujube is proposed and verified. Based on near-infrared (NIR) fiber spectroscopy combined with stoichiometric analysis, the cAMP content in red jujube can be quickly detected. 68 red jujube samples were used for the NIR spectroscopy data acquisition and the corresponding chemical values were determined. The sample set was adjusted based on the joint XY distance (SPXY) to select the correction sample set. After different preprocessing on the spectra, the partial least squares (PLS) method was used to establish the model, and the smoothed and normalized PLS model result was obtained better. The model’s correction correlation coefficient (R _c), correction set mean square error (R _MSEC), prediction correlation coefficient (R _p), and prediction and mean square error (R _MSEP) are 0.951 5, 25.793 7, 0.910 8 and 28.228 0, respectively. The results show that NIR combined with specific chemometric methods can achieve rapid detection of cAMP in red jujube.

Based on the optical fiber mode theory and employing the expertized software COMSOL, we study the effect of ellipticity and misalignment on the effective refractive indices, walk-off and intensity distribution of the even and odd eigenmodes that form the basis of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes in a ring fiber. Our results show that the effective refractive index difference and the walk-off increase with the ellipticity and misalignment, thus reducing the stability of the OAM modes. We find that the misalignment has a greater impact on the OAM modes than the ellipticity, and both the misalignment and ellipticity affect the lower-order OAM modes more significantly, suggesting that the higher-order OAM modes are more stable during propagation.

A Raman spectroscopy method combined with neural network is used for the invasive and rapid detection of echinococcosis. The Raman spectroscopy measurements are performed on two groups of blood serum samples, which are from 28 echinococcosis patients and 38 healthy persons, respectively. The normalized Raman reflection spectra show that the reflectivity of the echinococcosis blood serum is higher than that of the normal human blood serum in the wavelength ranges of 101—175 nm and 1 801—2 701 nm. Then the principal component analysis (PCA) and back propagation neural network (BPNN) model are used to obtain the diagnosis results. The diagnosis rates for healthy persons and echinococcosis persons are 93.333 3% and 90.909 1%, respectively, so the average final diagnosis rate is 92.121 2%. The results demonstrate that the Raman spectroscopy analysis of blood serum combined with PCA-BPNN has considerable potential for the non-invasive and rapid detection of echinococcosis.

Fluorescent porous silicon was prepared as a stable biosensor chip substrate. The aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) molecules are attached in the pores of the porous silicon with a crosslink method, and when the molecules are added into the chip, the fluorescence intensity is reduced according to the concentration of the APTES. Controlled experiments are also presented with the small molecule that cannot be covalently coupled, and the results show that this kind of sensor chip has better specificity. Compared with other conventional methods, this method is simple, quick and label-free.

This paper proposes a novel de-noising algorithm based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and the variable step size least mean square (VS-LMS) adaptive filter. The noise of the high frequency part of spectrum will be removed through EEMD, and then the VS-LMS algorithm is utilized for overall de-noising. The EEMD combined with VS-LMS algorithm can not only preserve the detail and envelope of the effective signal, but also improve the system stability. When the method is used on pure R6G, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of Raman spectrum is lower than 10 dB. The de-noising superiority of the proposed method in Raman spectrum can be verified by three evaluation standards of SNR, root mean square error (RMSE) and the correlation coefficient ρ.

A novel intermediate connector (IC) was formed which was composed of aluminum (Al, 3 nm)/1,4,5,8,9,11-hexaazatriphenylene-hexacarbonitrile (HAT-CN). The 3-nm-thick Al in the IC is certified to efficiently generate intrinsic charge carriers, and the HAT-CN is proved to work as the holes injection layer (HIL) for the corresponding electroluminescent (EL) unit simultaneously. This simply IC comprehensively takes advantage of the features of the HAT-CN so as to stack two single EL units without introducing extra material. In addition to a significant enhancement in luminance and current efficiency, a current efficiency (CE) of 10.2 cd/A and a luminance of 2 042 cd/m² under the current density 20 mA/cm² of this tandem organic light emitting device (TOLED) are yielded, which are notably almost the sum of that of the two single-unit devices.

In this paper, a novel method is proposed to characterize the operation-waveband angular resolution of the soft X-ray grazing incidence telescope. According to the method, the first is to restore the “geometric image” by removing the aperture diffraction effect from the resolution testing target image measured at visible waveband. The second is to calculate the operation-waveband resolution testing target image by the convolution of “geometric image”, diffraction point spread function and surface scattering point spread function. Finally, the operation-waveband (4.47 nm) angular resolution of 9.72″ is calculated according to the operation-waveband resolution testing target image on axis. The method does not need to be performed in vacuum and to place the source away from the solar X-ray grazing incidence telescope, which greatly reduces the testing cost and improves the efficiency for the development of the soft X-ray grazing incidence telescope.

Accurate time transfer and synchronization between different network nodes is a key functional requirement in digital communication. Developments in optical fiber-based frequency dissemination techniques have improved optical frequency stability over time to much lower levels. In this work, we experimentally present the reference frequency transfer employing 850 nm vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) over 100.3 m OM3 multimode fiber for synchronization of clocks on networked devices such as servers and racks/pod at different data center network nodes. A low-cost power-efficient multimode VCSEL with central wavelength at 844.26 nm is directly modulated with a 2 GHz reference frequency (RF) clock signal, and transferred over 100.3 m of OM3 multimode fiber. The single side band (SSB) phase noise of -104.62 dBc/Hz and −100.70 dBc/Hz is experimentally measured at back-to-back (B2B) and 100.3 m OM3 multimode fiber transmission respectively at a 1 kHz frequency offset. The jitter stability of 0.14 ps and 0.15 ps is experimentally achieved at B2B and 100.3 m fiber transmission, respectively. This work provides an alternative viable approach for the development of time keeping devices in high-speed short-reach optical communication systems.

In this work, the perovskite solar cells (PSCs) were fabricated with the bandgap-tunable (FA)_x(MA)_1-xPbI₃ absorber layers through a facile two-stage deposition route. The doping was realized by adding the formamidinium iodide (FAI) into a precursor MAI solution. Both the surface morphology and electrochemical impedance spectra (EIS) were conducted to evaluate the absorber layers or solar cells. After the optimization, the best PSC performance of 14.73% was achieved at a nominal FAI content of 12.5 at.%. The performance enhancement was attributed to both the enhancement of visible light harvesting and carrier transport capability. Besides, the stability of a PSC device based on the single MAPbI3 absorber layer was also investigated, and a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 11.27% remained even after laying in vacuum for 10 days.

We experimentally compare the solar irradiance absolute radiometer (SIAR) measurement with the world radiometric reference (WRR) standard to improve the accuracy of instrument. The SIAR joined in the international pyrheliometer comparison (IPC) in 2000. The comparison results show that the calibration factors for SIAR to WRR are 0.999 220, 1.001 694, 0.998 334 and 0.997 439 in the 9th IPC, the 10th IPC, the 11th IPC and the 12th IPC, respectively. These results are added to the measurement uncertainty budget of SIAR. The repeatability of the SIAR-type absolute radiometers is also investigated. The relative error introduced by two SIAR-type absolute radiometers is within 0.25%.

We propose a label-free refractive index sensor based on hybrid plasmonic resonator which consists of silver split-ring resonator and photonic waveguide. The finite difference time domain evaluation of the design exhibit strong field confinement at the center of the ring and introduces tunable and sensitive notches in the transmission spectrum. The planar tunable architecture which performs well over the range of micro fluid detection, holds the promise of developing multi-analyte label-free biosensors and compactness towards a complete on-chip integrated sensing system. The performance of the proposed refractive index sensor is evaluated by placing different analytes such as saline water and ethanol at the center of the hybrid plasmonic ring which exhibits sensitivity of 847.50 nm·RIU⁻¹ with a figure of merit of 563.25 RIU⁻¹.

A bandwidth-reconfigurable filter is necessary to meet the need of growing communication capacity and signal coverage frequency range. The stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) gain spectrum as a filter passband is used to extract desired microwave signals. Due to the fact that the passband is formed by mapping the Brillouin gain spectrum, bandwidth reconfigurability can be implemented by changing Brillouin gain linewidth. In this paper, a scheme using a 5-lines optical comb acting as a Brillouin pump is experimentally demonstrated. The spectrum of the 5-lines optical comb is extended by a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) pulse modulated signal. Experiments have shown that the 3-dB and 20-dB bandwidths of the filter are 196 MHz and 257 MHz, respectively, and its 20-dB shape factor is 1.31. The passband ripple is ~3.5 dBm with stop-band rejection of 20 dBm under 15 dBm optical pump power.

Epitaxial growths of the GaAs/AlGaAs-based 940 nm infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs) with dual junctions were carried out by using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) with different doping concentrations and Al contents in Al_xGa_1-x As compound. And their optoelectric properties show that the optimal design for tunneling region corresponds to P⁺⁺ layer with hole concentration up to 1×10²⁰ cm⁻³, N⁺⁺ layer electron concentration up to 5×10¹⁹ cm⁻³ and constituent Al_0.2Ga_0.8As in the tunneling junction region. The optimized dual-junction LED has a forward bias of 2.93 V at an injection current of 50 mA, and its output power is 24.5 mW, which is 104% larger than that of the single junction (12 mW). Furthermore, the optimized device keeps the same spectral characteristics without introducing excessive voltage droop.

Based on the principle of Fabry-Perot (F-P) interference, a new type of optical fiber curvature sensor is presented, which is fabricated by single-mode fiber (SMF), ceramic tube and double-cladding fiber (DCF). And the curvature sensing properties are analyzed, and the double-peak method is used to demodulate the cavity length. The experimental results show that the F-P interference spectrum shifts toward long wavelengths with increasing the curvature. And the sensors are placed in different positions on the cantilever to get their different curvature sensitivities. Smaller initial cavity length gives greater sensor sensitivity. The best curvature sensitivity is achieved as 2 554.53 pm/m^-1 in 0.71—1.18 m^-1. By demodulating the length of the F-P cavity, the cavity length of sensor 4 is changed by 0.08 mm. Therefore, the sensor has some potential for measure the small displacement.