High-capacity free-space optical communications using wavelength-and mode-division-multiplexing in the mid-infrared region

K Zou, K Pang, H Song, J Fan, Z Zhao, H Song… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Due to its absorption properties in atmosphere, the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region has gained
interest for its potential to provide high data capacity in free-space optical (FSO) …

Private communication with quantum cascade laser photonic chaos

O Spitz, A Herdt, J Wu, G Maisons, M Carras… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mid-infrared free-space optical communication has a large potential for high speed
communication due to its immunity to electromagnetic interference. However, data security …

Free-space communication with directly modulated mid-infrared quantum cascade devices

O Spitz, P Didier, L Durupt… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study deals with the communication capabilities of two kinds of semiconductor lasers
emitting in one of the atmosphere transparency windows, around 4 m. One of these two …

Bridging the terahertz gap: Photonics-assisted free-space communications from the submillimeter-wave to the mid-infrared

X Pang, O Ozolins, S Jia, L Zhang, R Schatz… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Since about one and half centuries ago, at the dawn of modern communications, the radio
and the optics have been two separate electromagnetic spectrum regions to carry data …

Free‐space communications enabled by quantum cascade lasers

X Pang, O Ozolins, L Zhang, R Schatz… - … status solidi (a), 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Future generations of wireless communication systems are expected to support orders of
magnitude faster data transfer with much lower latency than the currently deployed …

Unipolar quantum optoelectronics for high speed direct modulation and transmission in 8–14 µm atmospheric window

H Dely, M Joharifar, L Durupt, A Ostrovskis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The large mid-infrared (MIR) spectral region, ranging from 2.5 µm to 25 µm, has remained
under-exploited in the electromagnetic spectrum, primarily due to the absence of viable …

[HTML][HTML] All-epitaxial guided-mode resonance mid-wave infrared detectors

A Kamboj, L Nordin, P Petluru, AJ Muhowski… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate all-epitaxial guided-mode resonance mid-wave infrared (MWIR) type-II
superlattice nBn photodetectors. Our detectors consist of a high-index absorber/waveguide …

10 Gbps DPSK transmission over free-space link in the mid-infrared

Y Su, W Wang, X Hu, H Hu, X Huang, Y Wang, J Si… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate the implementation of 10 Gbps high-speed mid-infrared
(MIR) free-space optical (FSO) communication, by means of our developed robust high …

1.7 W holmium-doped fluoroindate fiber laser at 3920 nm

T Boilard, V Fortin, M Lemieux-Tanguay, P Paradis… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A monolithic fiber laser emitting 1.7 W at 3920 nm is experimentally demonstrated in a Ho^
3+: InF_3 fiber. The cavity comprises a pair of highly reflective fiber Bragg gratings written in …

Waveguide-integrated mid-infrared photodetection using graphene on a scalable chalcogenide glass platform

J Goldstein, H Lin, S Deckoff-Jones, M Hempel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of compact and fieldable mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy devices
represents a critical challenge for distributed sensing with applications from gas leak …