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Publisher Erratum: CUPID, the Cuore upgrade with particle identification Open

K. Alfonso, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash, G. Bari, D. Baudin , et al. · 2025

A gravity-based mounting approach for large-scale cryogenic calorimeter arrays Open

K. Alfonso, A. Armatol, C. Augier, F. T. Avignone, O. Azzolini , et al. · 2025

CUPID, the Cuore upgrade with particle identification Open

K. Alfonso, A. Armatol, C. Augier, F. T. Avignone, O. Azzolini , et al. · 2025

CUPID, the CUORE Upgrade with Particle Identification, is a next-generation experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay ( $$0\mathrm {\nu \beta \beta }$$ ) and other rare events using enriched Li $$_{2}$$ $$^{100}$$ …

RA-QoS: a robust autoencoder-based QoS predictor for highly accurate web service QoS prediction Open

Songnian Fu, Junnan Li, Lufeng Wang · 2025

Web services are fundamental for online service-oriented applications, where accurately predicting quality of service (QoS) is critical for recommending optimal services among multiple candidates. Since QoS data often contains noise—stemmi…

Impact of capillary material intrusion on the photonic lantern performance Open

Yue Wang, Cong Zhang, Songnian Fu, Yuwen Qin · 2025

Photonic lanterns (PL) fabricated by the fiber bundle fusion tapering technique offer a low-loss and highly efficient interconnection module between single-mode fiber (SMF) and few-mode fiber (FMF). However, due to the lower fusion tempera…

Innovating Bolometers' Mounting: A Gravity-Based Approach Open

K. Alfonso, A. Armatol, C. Augier, F. T. Avignone, O Azzolini , et al. · 2025

Cryogenic calorimeters, also known as bolometers, are among the leading technologies for searching for rare events. The CUPID experiment is exploiting this technology to deploy a tonne-scale detector to search for neutrinoless double-beta …

Deep neural network-based joint monitoring of carrier-to-signal power ratio (CSPR) and optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) for directly detected optical single-sideband transmission Open

Zhaoying Chen, Xiang Junjiang, Meng Xiang, Songnian Fu, Yuwen Qin · 2025

Optical single-sideband (SSB) transmission enhances spectral efficiency and mitigates transmission reach limitations caused by chromatic dispersion (CD), making it ideal for cost-effective data-center interconnects. This paper proposes and…

Deep learning enhanced light sheet fluorescence microscopy for in vivo 4D imaging of zebrafish heart beating Open

Meng Zhang, Renjian Li, Songnian Fu, Sunil Kumar, James McGinty , et al. · 2025

Fsmnet: A Frequency-Spatial Domain Joint Modulation Network for Infrared Image Super-Resolution Open

Songnian Fu, Kai Che, Jiayuan Gong, Yun Zhou, Jian Lv · 2025

Effect of Glycosylation Modification on the Structural and Functional Properties of Bovine Lactoferrin Open

Jie Cheng, Chang Sun, Zhou Luo, Meijun Zeng, Enqi Pei , et al. · 2025

Ten-megawatt-level peak power Mamyshev oscillator enabled by anti-resonant hollow-core fiber Open

Shan Wang, Di Lin, Xin Zhang, Ziheng Zhuang, Weijia Luo , et al. · 2025

Mamyshev oscillators (MOs) demonstrate extraordinarily superior performance compared with fiber laser counterparts. However, the realization of a fully fiberized, monolithic laser system without pulse degradation remains a key challenge. H…

Revealing Optical Soliton Radiation and Encoding via Nonlinear Fourier Transform Open

Yi Zhou, Gai Zhou, Yuwen Qin, Songnian Fu, Alan Pak Tao Lau , et al. · 2024

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Nonlinear Nanophotonic Chip-space Interfaces Enabled Multi-dimensional Engineering of Structured Optical Vortices Open

Jin Liu, Dunzhao Wei, Bo Chen, Shuai Wan, Yixuan Wang , et al. · 2024

Miniaturized and reconfigurable interfaces between confined optical modes within integrated photonic chips and structured light propagating in free space would serve as a cornerstone for fundamental optical science and modern photonic tech…

Freely tunable phase-locked dual-frequency microwave signal generation from injection-locked broadband optoelectronic oscillator Open

Di Peng, Weiquan Hong, Hang Xiao, Ya Fang Han, Quandong Huang , et al. · 2024

We propose and experimentally demonstrate an injection-locked broadband optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) to generate freely tunable phase-locked dual-frequency microwave signals. When two single-tone signals inside and outside the passband …

Inverse Design of Incoherent Raman Pump Sources for U-Band WDM Transmission Over 125 km G.652.D Fiber Open

Tangyanjun Lan, Junjiang Xiang, Gai Zhou, Meng Xiang, Songnian Fu , et al. · 2024

The ever-increasing demand for the transmission capacity has stimulated intensive investigations, in terms of both new transmission window of standard single mode fiber (SSMF) and new fiber utilizing the spatial domain. Multi-band waveleng…

Spatial division multiplexing of LED strips for optical camera communication Open

Shiwen Chen, Jilong Li, Meng Xiang, Songnian Fu, Yuwen Qin · 2024

Rolling shutter based optical camera communication (RS-OCC), a promising candidate of optical wireless communication (OWC), has the advantage of unlicensed spectrum and no electromagnetic interference. Since RS-OCC can use the built-in cam…

Splicing Hollow-Core Fiber with Standard Glass-Core Fiber with Ultralow Back-Reflection and Low Coupling Loss Open

Bo Shi, Cong Zhang, Thomas W. Kelly, Xuhao Wei, Meng Ding , et al. · 2024

A main, yet-unsolved challenge in splicing hollow-core fiber (HCF) into standard single-mode fiber (SMF) systems lies in managing the strong Fresnel back-reflection that occurs when the light travels from the empty core of the HCF into the…

Transverse mode switchable mode-locked laser with narrow bandwidth Open

Jiangli Dong, Shan Wang, Yan Zeng, Weijia Luo, Ou Xu , et al. · 2024

Transverse mode switchable ultrashort optical pulses with narrow bandwidths can create potential for exploring what we believe are new physical effects. We demonstrate the generation of transverse mode switchable ultrashort pulses with nar…

Optical TTD compensation network-based phase precoding for THz massive MIMO systems Open

Shilong Jia, Chongfu Zhang, Huan Huang, Zixin Zhao, Songnian Fu , et al. · 2024

In sixth generation (6G) communications, terahertz (THz) communication is one of the most important technologies in the future due to its ultra-bandwidth, where hybrid beamforming has been widely used to solve the severe transmission atten…

C-Band 200 Gbit/s/λ PS-PAM-8 Transmission Over 2-km SSMF for Optical Interconnections Open

Xuancheng Huo, Meng Xiang, Gai Zhou, Jilong Li, Jianping Li , et al. · 2024

Driven by the exponential increase of network traffic, the demand for the capacity enhancement of photonic data-center interconnection (DCI) becomes more and more urgent. The utilization of high-order modulation format is ideally preferred…

Superpixel Technique Enabled Spatial Phase Modulation Equalization for Power-Efficient Vortex Beam Generation Open

Ruhao Zhao, J. Zheng, Cong Zhang, Meng Xiang, Gai Zhou , et al. · 2024

Realizing a spatial phase modulation (SPM) from 0 to 2π is vital for achieving precise light field manipulation, when the phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM) is driven by the voltage. However, insufficient bias voltage degrades the qu…

Tailoring the Generalized 2D Airy Beam Open

J. Zheng, Ruhao Zhao, Cong Zhang, Meng Xiang, Gai Zhou , et al. · 2024

Generalized two-dimensional (2D) Airy beam is a kind of self-accelerating beam with variable initial angle between its two wings, manifested itself as an initial angle determined parabolic trajectory during the free-space propagation. Howe…

Simultaneous realization of high gain and low DMG of four-mode EDFA under bidirectional hybrid-mode pump Open

Yihong Fang, Cong Zhang, Xiheng Huang, Xinyi Zhang, Yan Zeng , et al. · 2024

We theoretically and experimentally verify that, the bidirectional hybrid-mode pumping scheme can address the optimization problem of trade-off between high gain and low differential modal gain (DMG) of four-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifi…

Pairwise Tomlinson-Harashima precoding for multiple-lane IM-DD transmissions Open

Meng Xiang, Yongfeng Qiu, Can Wei, Gai Zhou, Jilong Li , et al. · 2024

As for the photonic interconnection based on the multiple-lane intensity modulation direct detection (IM-DD) transmission, both intra-channel inter-symbol-interference (ISI) originating from bandwidth constraint, and inter-channel performa…

Non-sweep DC component estimation method for a virtual-carrier assisted Kramers-Kronig receiver Open

Jianping Li, Shiwei Luo, Xinkuo Yu, Jianqing He, Yuwen Qin , et al. · 2024

The Kramers-Kronig (KK) receiver has attracted much attention in short-range optical interconnection because of its ability to recover the phase of the signal from the intensity information through KK algorithm. In high-speed KK systems, s…

Research Progress on Carrier-Free Phase-Retrieval Receivers Open

Yunhe Ma, Meng Xiang, Xiaoxue Gan, Can Wei, Wenzhuo Cheng , et al. · 2024

In order to deal with the chromatic dispersion-induced power fading issue for short-reach direct-detection optical fiber communication applications, such as the ever-increasing data-center interconnections (DCIs), optical filed recovery is…

Mode-dependent dynamic gain of all-fiber FM-EDFA under various pump manipulation Open

Yihong Fang, Xinyi Zhang, Xiheng Huang, Yan Zeng, Ou Xu , et al. · 2024

The dynamic gain of a few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier (FM-EDFA) is vital for the long-haul mode division multiplexing (MDM) transmission. Here, we investigate the mode-dependent dynamic gain of an FM-EDFA under various manipulations …

Differential mode-gain equalization via femtosecond laser micromachining-induced refractive index tailoring Open

Cong Zhang, Senyu Zhang, Yan Zeng, Yue Wang, Meng Xiang , et al. · 2024

The mode-division multiplexing technique combined with a few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier (FM-EDFA) demonstrates significant potential for solving the capacity limitation of standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) transmission systems. Howe…

Mode multicasting without parasitic wavelength conversion Open

Xiaoshan Huang, Songnian Fu, Meng Xiang, Gai Zhou, Cong Zhang , et al. · 2023

Optical multicasting, which involves delivering an input signal to multiple different channels simultaneously, is a key function to improve network performance. By exploiting individual spatial modes as independent channels, mode-division-…

Towards high spectral efficiency UDWDM-PON based on the simplified coherent reception of pulsed shaped PAM-4 signals Open

Yi Zou, Jiajun Zhou, Qi Yang, Deming Liu, Songnian Fu · 2023

Enhancing spectral efficiency (SE) of ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (UDWDM-PON) is vital to providing broadband access for massive users. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a high SE UDWDM-PON in the…

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