Achievements
Our products are used by many companies and researchers both in Japan and abroad.
We are also involved in the development of cutting-edge technologies in research, and we would like to introduce some of the papers published on our products.
Alnair
Electrical Pulse Generator (EPG series)
Red picosecond fiber optical parametric oscillator pumped at 914 nm by an Nd-doped MOPA laser source
A Viry, KL Corre, T Robin, H Gilles, S Girard… – Optics …, 2026 – opg.optica.org
Phase-correlation-free quantum key distribution source operating at gigahertz rates
S Kumar, A Marcomini, L Millet, T Taher… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2026
Microsecond-resolved electro-optic dual-comb spectroscopy in the 10~12.5 m fingerprint region for radical kinetics
PL Luo, IY Chen – arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.26512, 2026 – arxiv.org
Phase-locked time-stretch optical coherence tomography for contrast-enhanced retinal microangiography
GH Kim, S Bak, HH Kim, JG Shin… – … on Medical Imaging, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Femtosecond pulses at 914 nm without mode-locking using Nd-doped fiber amplifiers
R Florentin, A Viry, KL Corre, T Robin, T Georges… – Optics Letters, 2025 – opg.optica.org
Ultrafast voltage-induced switching enabled by coupling dynamics in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction
Q Jia, YC Chen, Y Lv, D Zhang, S Liang, Y Yang… – Applied Physics …, 2025 –
On-chip quantum interference of indistinguishable single photons from integrated independent molecules
T Huang, M Xu, W Jin, W Liu, Y Chi, J Tang… – Nature …, 2025 – nature.com
Maximilian Tippmann et al.,Fiber-based double-pass single-crystal photon-pair source for quantum key distribution in a network in PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED 23, 034017, 2025
Raphaël Florentin et al.,Femtosecond pulses at 914 nm without mode-locking using Nd-doped fiber amplifiers in Optics Letters Vol. 50, Issue 5, pp. 1476-1479, 2025
Kentaro Wakui et al.,Modelocked Thermal Frequency Combs for UltrashortChaotic Quantum Optics in Adv. Quantum Technol. 2025,8, 2400026, 2025
Erik L. Braun et al., High-energy, low-jitter, narrowband ps probe laser for kHz-rate fs/ps coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering in Optics Letters Vol. 49, Issue 8, pp. 2161-2164 2024
Tonio F. Kutscher et al., Pulsed swept-source FDML-MOPA laser with kilowatt picosecond pulses around 1550nm in Optics Letters Vol. 48 ,No. 23, 2023
Tonio F. Kutscher et al., Kilohertz Two-Photon SLIDE Microscopy using a newly developed 780nm excitation laser in Advances in Microscopic Imaging IV, Technical Digest Series, paper 126300B, 2023
Yi Zhang et al., ”Phase modulation polarization encoding module applied to one-to-many QKD network based on wavelength division multiplexing.”, Chinese. Opt. Lett.,2022
Hanna Le Jeannic,”Dynamical photon-photon interaction mediated by a quantum emitter”in Nature Portfolio,2022
Zheyuan Zhang et al.,”Overall Non-Mechanical Spectrally Steered LiDAR Using Chirped Amplitude-Modulated Phase-Shift Method” in JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY,VOL. 40, NO. 7,2022
Pei-Ling Luo., Long-wave mid-infrared time-resolved dual-comb spectroscopy of short-lived intermediates in Optics Letters Vol. 45, Issue 24, pp. 6791-6794, 2020
Daniel Christian Kiefer,”Ultraviolette Laser zur Kühlung relativistischer Ionenstrahlen” in Technische Universität Darmstadt,2019
Pei-Ling Luo et al.,Fast molecular fingerprinting with a coherent, rapidly tunable dual-comb spectrometer near 3 μm in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 18400-18405, 2019
N Yokota et al.,Multi-wavelength discrete pulse train generation using chromatic aberration of time lens for ultrafast single-shot optical imaging in Optical Review, Volume 26, pages 713–718, 2019
Hwi Don Lee et al.,”Akinetic swept-source optical coherence tomography based on a pulse-modulated active mode locking fiber laser for human retinal imaging” in Science Reports,DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-36252-z,2018
Michael G. Zhao et al.,Generation of Ultrahigh Speed, ”Ultrashort Flat-Top Picosecond Electrical Pulses by Laser Pulse Shaping and Ultrafast Electro-Optics Sampling” in Electromagnetics Research M,,Vol. 64, 35–41,,2018
FrédéricAudo et al.,”Experimentalobservationoftheemergenceof Peregrine-likeeventsinfocusingdambreakflows in OpticsLetters”,OpticalSocietyof
America -OSAPublishing,43(12),pp.2864-2867,2018
Matthias Eibl et al.,”Two-photon-excited fluorescence (TPEF) and fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) with sub-nanosecond pulses and a high analog bandwidth signal detection”in arXiv,1810.0499,2018
A. Dolcemascolo et al.,”Resonator neuron and triggering multipulse excitability in laser with injected signal” in American Physical Society,Vol. 98, Iss. 6,2018
Professor Hui Deng,”An Ultrafast Electrical and Optical Excitation System for Research” in University of Michigan, FA9550-15-1-0366,2017
MATTHIAS EIBLet al.,”Single pulse two photon fluorescence lifetime imaging (SP-FLIM) with MHz pixel rate” in BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS,Vol. 8, No. 7 ,2017
Kyoya Tokunaga et al.,”Generation of synchronized picosecond pulses by a 1.06-μm gain-switched laser diode for stimulated Raman scattering microscopy” in Opt Express,2;24(9):9617-28,2016
Kevin William Young et al. ,”Minimally Invasive Principles and Technology to Measure Dynamic Skeletal Muscle Sarcomere Length” in UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO,the degree of Doctor of Philosophy,2016
Bruno Garbin,Excitabilité et solitons temporels de phase dans un système laser neuromorphique in UNIVERSITÉ NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS – UFR Sciences,2015
Martin Espig et al.,”LASER SYSTEMS GENERATING SHORT POLARIZED ELECTRON BUNCHES AT THE S-DALINAC” in IPAC2014 T02 Electron Sources,MOPRI021,PP633-635,2014
H. Nagai et al.,Coherence improvement in dispersion-tuned swept laser by pulse modulation. in ELECTRONICS LETTERS, 6th November 2014 Vol. 50 No. 23 pp. 1729–1731, 2014
Tunable Optical Filters (BVF/CVF series)
All-photonic W-band terahertz receiver based on THz-to-optical carrier conversion with soliton microcomb dual carriers for high-speed OOK wireless transmission
Y Matsumura, H Kishikawa, N Kuse, Y Okamura… – Optics …, 2026 – opg.optica.org
Reconfigurable Dual-Band Optoelectronic Oscillator for High-Resolution Radar Ranging
Z Xu, Z Zeng, W Lyu, H Li, Z Zhang… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2026
Zero-Phase-Shift-Point Triggered Optoelectronic Oscillator for Position-and Width-Controllable Microwave Pulse Generation
L Yang, Z Xu, Z Li, Z Zeng, M Wang, H Li… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2026
Self-Referenced and Wide-Range Tunable Microwave Frequency Measurement Using Period-One Oscillation and Spectral Gating
Z Yang, Z Liu, W Dong – Sensors, 2026 – mdpi.com
Intelligent Configuration of Integrated Microwave Photonic Filter Featuring Self‐Stabilization and Programmable Response
Y Shi, Y Yu, Y Liu, K Cao, M Deng… – Laser & Photonics …, 2026 – Wiley Online Library
Hybridization of pulse and continuous-wave based optical quantum computation
T Sonoyama, T Sano, T Suzuki, K Takahashi… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025
Radio-over-FSO/fiber systems for 5G sub-6 GHz/MMW signal transmission using broadband MZM and TOBPF
CP Wang, ST Hayle, HH Lu, WS Tsai… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Broadband microwave signal generation with programmable chirp shapes via low-speed electronics-controlled phase-modulated optical loop
W Lyu, H Tian, Z Fu, L Zhang, Z Zeng, Y Zhang, H Li… – Optics …, 2025 – opg.optica.org
Temperature insensitive electric field sensing system with optical filter
Z Wang, H Dai, L Xiao, B Sun, Y Liu… – … on Information Optics …, 2025 – spiedigitallibrary.org
Transition between low-and high-noise modulation instability microcombs in a silicon nitride microresonator
S Kogure, R Sugano, S Fujii… – Japanese Journal of …, 2025 – iopscience.iop.org
Modelocked thermal frequency combs for ultrashort chaotic quantum optics
K Wakui, Y Tsujimoto, T Kishimoto… – Advanced Quantum …, 2025 – Wiley Online Library
Ultrafast laser frequency tuning based on equivalent optical phase sampling and accumulation
W Lyu, H Tian, Z Fu, L Zhang, Z Zeng, Y Zhang, H Li… – APL Photonics, 2025 – pubs.aip.org
Coherent Dual-Band Chirped Microwave Signal Generation With Programmable Chirp Shapes in a Single Phase-Modulated Optical Loop
W Lyu, Y Zhang, H Tian, Z Fu, L Zhang… – IEEE Transactions …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent configuration of integrated microwave photonic filter with programmable response and self-stabilization
Y Yu, Y Shi, Y Liu, K Cao, M Deng, F Zhang, H Zhou… – 2025 – assets-eu.researchsquare.com
High-Performance Microwave-Frequency Comb Generation Based on Directly Modulated Laser with Filtering Operations
Q Long, Y Jiang, J Xu, X Lan, J Feng, J Yu, Y Luo… – Photonics, 2025 – mdpi.com
Microwave Photonic System for Generating and De-Hopping a Frequency Hopping Signal
C Huang, H Zhang, L Shan, R Bi, H Chen… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2026 – opg.optica.org
Photonics-Based Frequency and Angle of Arrival Measurement System for Multi-Antenna Long-Baseline Direction Finding
A Li, H Chen, EHW Chan – Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2026 – opg.optica.org
Photonics-Enabled Simultaneous THz Signal Demultiplexing and Downconversion
PT Dat, Y Yamaguchi, Y Yoshida… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2026 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Superbunched random fiber laser
Y Xu, Q Ji, Y Pang, W Zhang, X Zhao, Z Qin, Z Liu – 2026 – researchsquare.com
Ultra-broadband and high-accuracy instantaneous frequency measurement based on frequency shift loop and stimulated Brillouin scattering
J Li, W Zhao, J Chen, G Wu – Optics Letters, 2025 – opg.optica.org
On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering to linearize a dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulator
C Catalá-Lahoz, M Merklein, CK Lai… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unbalanced Michelson Interferometer Based Microwave Frequency Measurement System
K Zhi, H Zhang, EHW Chan, C Huang… – IEEE Transactions …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic-Assisted Joint Radar and Communication System Using Overlapped Spectrum for High-Resolution Ranging and High-Speed Data Transmission
J Chen, H Huang, R Zheng, B Mo, Z Yi… – IEEE Transactions …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Co-wavelength-channel integration of ultra-low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing and high-capacity communication
L Gu, C Liu, M Xiang, P Xu, H Yang, W Sun… – Photonics …, 2025 – opg.optica.org
Realising polarisation, phase and intensity modulation using a commercial DP-BPSK modulator
M Liu, H Chen, A Li, M Yu, EHW Chan – Optics Communications, 2025 – Elsevier
Fluorescence enabled phonon counting in an erbium-doped piezo-optomechanical microcavity
L Yang, J Xie, HX Tang – Nanophotonics, 2025 – degruyterbrill.com
Photonic technique for unambiguous AOA measurement without knowing incoming RF signal power
A Li, H Chen, EHW Chan – Optics & Laser Technology, 2025 – Elsevier
Simple photonics-based microwave frequency and power measurement system
C Huang, H Zhang, K Zhi, P Hao, S Wu, EHW Chan – Optics Express, 2025 – opg.optica.org
Bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexing fibre-free-space optical communications using polarisation multiplexing technique and tunable optical vestigial …
HM Lin, CP Wang, HH Lu, ST Hayle… – Communications …, 2024 – nature.com
A multi-access RoFSO communication system incorporating a microwave photonic channel aggregator
H Huang, S Zeng, L Li, Y Huang… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-shot, multi-point remote gas sensing by a linearly chirped laser pulse
X Lou, Z Yuan, R Wang, N Xu, Y Dong – Optics Letters, 2024 – opg.optica.org
Unveiling optical rogue wave behavior with temporally localized structures in Brillouin random fiber laser comb
Y Pang, Q Ji, S Ma, X Zhao, Z Qin, Z Liu… – Advanced …, 2024 – spiedigitallibrary.org
On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering via surface acoustic waves
G Neijts, CK Lai, MK Riseng, DY Choi, K Yan… – APL Photonics, 2024 – pubs.aip.org
Quantum Photonic Devices with Rare Earth Incorporated Thin-Film Lithium Niobate
L Yang – 2024 – search.proquest.com
Field trial of optical transmission experiment employing a microresonator frequency comb light source for low-latency, short-reach optical communication
K Tanikawa, S Fujii, S Kogure, S Tanaka… – IEICE Transactions on …, 2024 – jstage.jst.go.jp
Optical all-pass filter based on dual-injection mrr with arbitrary coupling coefficients
K Cao, Y Yu, Y Chen, S Cui, W Jiang… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated microwave photonic notch filter using a heterogeneously integrated Brillouin and active-silicon photonic circuit
M Garrett, Y Liu, M Merklein, CT Bui, CK Lai… – Nature …, 2023 – nature.com
Tera-sample-per-second arbitrary waveform generation in a synthetic dimension
Y Guan, J Zhang, L Li, R Cao, G Wang, J Chen… – Communications …, 2023 – nature.com
Notch microwave photonic filter with narrow bandwidth and ultra-high all-optical tuning efficiency based on a silicon nanobeam cavity
L Liu, M Ye, Z Yu, W Xue – Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Measurement of amplitude and phase of optical pulse using a silicon photonics optical correlator
K Kondo, H Oshima, O Sugihara – IEEE Photonics Technology …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generation of a long linearly chirped microwave waveform based on a Fourier domain mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator incorporating a frequency shifting loop
Z Yi, J Wo, B Mo, Y Qiao, J Zhang… – IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nanometer-precision surface metrology of millimeter-sized stepped objects using full-cascade-linked synthetic-wavelength digital holography using a line-by-line full …
E Hase, Y Tokizane, K Sadahiro, T Minamikawa… – Optics express, 2023 – opg.optica.org
Stochastic photonic spiking neuron for Bayesian inference with unsupervised learning
B Ma, J Zhang, X Li, W Zou – Optics letters, 2023 – opg.optica.org
Carrier conversion from terahertz wave to dual-wavelength near-infrared light injection-locking to optical comb using asynchronous nonpolarimetric electro-optic …
Y Matsumura, Y Tokizane, E Hase, N Kuse… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 – arxiv.org
Yu Chen et al., “Reconfigurable second-order optical all-pass filter.”, Nanophotonics; 11(13): 3115–3125, 2022.
Risheng Cheng et al., “Supplementary Material – Unveiling photon statistics with a 100-pixel photon-number-resolving detector.”, Yale University, 2022.
Chen Hao et al., “Independent Amplitude and Phase Control of Two Orthogonal Linearly Polarised Light and Its Applications.”, IEEE Photonics Journal, 13(6), 106, 2021.
Yang Hong et al., “Direct-Detection Transmission Over >100 km Distances in a Hollow Core Fiber., “Laser Photonics Rev, 15, 2100102, 2021.
Lingzhi Li et al., “Polarimetric parity-time symmetry in a photonic system.”, Light: Science & Applications 9:169, 2020.
Zhenyu Li et al., “Biotoxoid Photonic Sensors with Temperature Insensitivity Using a Cascade of Ring Resonator and Mach−Zehnder Interferometer.”, ACS Sensor. 5, 2448−2456, 2020.
Shaochen Duan et al., “Photonic-Assisted Regenerative Microwave Frequency Divider With a Tunable Division Factor.”, JOUournal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 38, No. 19, October 1, 2020.
Kohei Noda et al., “First demonstration of Brillouin optical correlation-domain reflectometry based on external modulation scheme.”, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 58, 068004 (2019).
Kohei Noda et al., “外部変調方式に基づくブリルアン光相関領域反射計の動作検証.”, 第66回応用物理学会春季学術講演会 講演予稿集 (2019 東京工業大学 大岡山キャンパス).
Nguyen Pham et al., “Terahertz Device Characterization Based on Electro-optic Near-field Measurement.”, Osaka Univeirsity, Doctor Philosophy in Engineering., March 2018.
Jiqiang Kang et al., “Video-rate centimeter-range optical coherence tomography based on dual optical frequency combs by electro-optic modulators..”, Vol. 26, No. 19, Optics Express 24928, 2018.
N. Kuse et al., “Electro-optic comb based real time ultra-high sensitivity phase noise measurement system for high frequency microwaves.”, Scientific Reports | 7: 2847, 2017.
Saif Al Graiti et al., “Extreme Contrast Enchantment of an All-Optical AND Gate.”, Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology, 2016.
Yu-Han Hung et al., “Period-One Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers for Photonic Microwave Mixing..”, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications,NOLTA2016, Yugawara, Japan, November 27th-30th, 2016.
Mengxi Ji et al., “Enhanced parametric frequency conversion in a compact silicon-graphene microring resonator.”, Vol. 23, No. 14, OPTICS EXPRESS 18679, 2015.
Tunable Laser Source (TLG Series)
Programmable photonic circuit for optical logic operations and 2-bit decoding
NFP Bucaro, Y Hu, S Sunada, T Maruyama – Device, 2026 – cell.com
Experimental instrumentation Optical characterization was conducted using an Alnair Labs TLG-220 narrow linewidth tunable laser and Thorlabs DET01CFC InGaAs photodetectors. …
Physical Reservoir Signal Acquisition for Sub-Nyquist Waveform Reconstruction
Y Ito, A Skalli, T Asai, S Sunada – arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.14504, 2026 – arxiv.org
Expanding detection bandwidth via a photonic reservoir for ultrafast optical sensing
Y Ito, T Niiyama, T Asai, G Tanaka, A Uchida… – Optics …, 2026 – opg.optica.org
A narrow-linewidth laser (Alnair Labs TLG-220; linewidth: 100 kHz; output power: 20 mW) was employed as the light source. The input signal $u(t)$ was generated by an arbitrary …
Dynamic Entropy Amplification via Random Fiber Gratings for 6.58 Gbit/s Physical‐Layer Key Distribution Over 600 km Link
T Qiu, X Xiao, Y Wu, T Qiu, Q Yang… – Laser & Photonics …, 2026 – Wiley Online Library
In the chaos generation part, the light from a laser diode (LD1, Alnair Labs, TLG-200) at ∼1550.1 nm with ∼100 kHz linewidth is modulated by IM1. The driving voltage of IM1 reaches …
WDM-enabled multi-core parallel programmable photonic signal processor
Z Yang, Y Li, S Zheng, S Zhang, Y Chong… – Nature …, 2026 – nature.com
In this study, a 4-channel tunable laser source (Alnair Labs TLG-200) was employed for optical carrier generation. Signal modulation and detection were performed using a commercial …
High-resolution waveguide array-based astronomical spectrograph with cascaded phase modulation
Y Zhong, D Lin, B Xu, Z Zhu, X Tong, Q Zhong… – Chinese Optics …, 2025 – opg.optica.org
A narrow-linewidth laser source (Alnair Labs: TLG-220) was employed, and its output was collimated using a fiber collimator. The collimated light was coupled to the input waveguide …
High-resolution broadband integrated spectrograph for astronomical observation
Y Zhong, Z Zhu, X Tong, G Tong, J Zhang, X Zhu… – Photonics …, 2026 – opg.optica.org
For wavelength calibration, a tunable single-frequency laser (Alnair Labs: TLG-220) was scanned from 1525 nm to 1565 nm in 0.5 nm steps and injected into the input fiber. At each step…
Optical sample-and-hold for clock skew immunity in high-speed channel-interleaved photonic analog-to-digital converters
R Qin, L Zhang, X Chen, J Wu, N Qian, W Zou – Optics Express, 2025 – opg.optica.org
A tunable continuous-wave laser (Alnair Labs TLG-200) generates optical carriers at two wavelengths (C32 and C36 bands), which are combined and coupled into the PADC through a …
Two-photon 3D printing hexagon-beam-supported diaphragm type fiber Fabry–Pérot interferometer for ultrasonic detection
Y Lv, B Yin, Y Wei, X Dou, Y Dong… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2025 – opg.optica.org
A tunable laser (Alnair Labs, TLG-200) serves as the interrogation laser source and is coupled to the sensor via an optical circulator. The reflected signal is detected by a photodetector (…
Low-complexity photonic wireless channel estimation system based on matrix-condition-number theory
Z Yu, Y Zhao, Z Li, S Xu, W Zou – IEEE Photonics Technology …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
We use a continuous-wave laser (Alnair Labs, TLG-200) to produce optical source. RF signal 𝑦(𝑡) and subcarrier signals are generated by a multi-channel arbitrary waveform …
High-Fidelity OFDM Signal Demodulation Enabled by Optical-Sample-and-Hold Photonic ADC
L Zhang, R Qin, N Qian, X Chen, J Wu… – 2025 Asia …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
A tunable continuous-wave laser (Alnair Labs TLG-200) generates optical carriers at two wavelengths (C32 and C36 bands), which are combined and coupled into the PADC through a …
32-bit photonic processor beyond noise limitation based on parallelized bit-slicing
S Yi, Y Chen, S Zhang, H Zhao, S Xu, W Zou – Optics Express, 2025 – opg.optica.org
(Alnair Labs TLG-200). Before entering the LPCU, a tunable delay line…
Sampling bandwidth expansion in channel-interleaved photonic analog-to-digital converters based on optical spectral convolution
X Chen, R Qin, L Zhang, JX Wu, N Qian, W Zou – Optics Express, 2025 – opg.optica.org
The photonic sampling pulses are generated by a continuous wave laser (CW, Alnair Labs, TLG-200) source with a center wavelength of 1548.51 nm and cascaded DPMZMs (iXblue, …
Ultrafast one-chip optical receiver with functional metasurface
G Soma, T Akazawa, E Kato, K Komatsu… – Nature …, 2025 – nature.com
CW light from a narrow-linewidth laser (TLG210, Alnair Labs) was modulated by the IQmodulator, driven by two channel Nyquist-filtered signals from the AWG. The modulated coherent …
Polycrystalline germanium photoconductive detector for integrated lithium niobate platform
H Zhang, X Zeng, X Yu, Y Lu, Y Zhao – IEEE Sensors Journal, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
The laser device model is the TLG-200 tunable laser from Alnair Labs, the source meter is…
High-resolution waveguide array-based astronomical spectrograph with cascaded phase modulation
Z YX, Z ZZ, H JP – 2025 – ir.niaot.ac.cn
A narrow-linewidth laser source (Alnair Labs: TLG-220) was employed, and its output was
collimated using a fiber collimator. The collimated light was coupled to the input waveguide …
Non-contact sub-nanometer displacement sensing based on optical digital coherent detection using frequency-domain filters
J Wang, J Hong, X Wang, L Zheng, W Ren… – IEICE Electronics …, 2024 – jstage.jst.go.jp
The system employs a narrow linewidth laser (Alnair Labs TLG-200) as the probing laser to minimize phase noise. The continuous light emitted by the laser is polarized and split into …
Integration of endogenous sensing and communication based on photonics-enabled cellular base station networks with a spectrum fusion algorithm
Y Zhao, J Wan, S Xu, W Zou – Optics Express, 2024 – opg.optica.org
7 (a), the tunable laser (ALNAIR LABS TLG-220) outputs light with a center wavelength of 1550 nm and a power of 10 dBm, which passes through a polarization controller (PC) and a …
Low Loss 1× 16/40 Flat Type Beam Splitters on Thin Film Lithium Niobate Using Photolithography Assisted Chemo‐Mechanical Etching
Z Zhu, Z Wang, Z Fang, D Lin, Y Zhou… – Laser & Photonics …, 2024 – Wiley Online Library
The light generated from a tunable laser (Alnair Labs: TLG-220) was coupled to the input waveguide through a lensed fiber, the lensed fiber is ground from a single mode fiber (SMF-28) …
Thermo-Optic Switch with High Tuning Efficiency Based on Nanobeam Cavity and Hydrogen-Doped Indium Oxide Microheater
W Tong, S Li, J Zhang, J Dong, B Hu, X Zhang – Photonics, 2024 – mdpi.com
Then, we replace the input light source from the ASE source to a tunable laser (Alnair Labs, TLG-200), replace the DC power supply with an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG, RIGOL, …
Device-compatible ultra-high-order quantum noise stream cipher based on delta-sigma modulator and optical chaos
H Luo, Z Zhang, L Dai, L Zhong, Q Yang… – Communications …, 2024 – nature.com
At the transmitter (Alice), the laser diode (LD1, Alnair Labs, TLG-200) emits a 15 dBm optical carrier with a wavelength of 1550.001 nm and linewidth of ~100 kHz. A polarization con…
Watt-class CMOS-compatible power amplifier
N Singh, J Lorenzen, K Wang, MA Gaafar… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 – arxiv.org
Spectroscopic measurements: For the upperstate lifetime measurement, the device was optically pumped by an amplified low noise CW laser (Alnair labs, TLG 220). We used a high-…
Chip-scale, CMOS-compatible, high energy passively Q-switched laser
N Singh, J Lorenzen, M Sinobad, K Wang… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 – arxiv.org
Experiment (Q switching): In the experiment, the device was optically pumped by an amplified low noise CW laser (Alnair labs, TLG 220). We used a high power polarization maintaining …
Small-footprint photonic reservoir computing chip based on speckle patterns in a multimode waveguide
H Tanaka, T Kan, S Ishimura, H Takahashi… – CLEO: Science and …, 2023 – opg.optica.org
A tunable light source (Alnair Labs, TLG-220) provided a CW light at a wavelength of 1.55μm to the LiNbO3 intensity modulator, which was driven by the 65 GSa/s data signal from an …
Acoustic Wave Sensor Based on the Optical Fiber-Diaphragm Composite Structure
Y Li, W Lyu, Y Liu, C Yu – 2023 Photonics Global Conference …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
The light source is a wavelength-tunable laser (TLG200-S-CLNN-B-FA, Alnair Labs), and the laser output power is 10 dBm. The single-wavelength laser is injected into the MZI by single…
Ppb-level all-optical off-axis QEPAS gas sensor based on dual-wavelength demodulation of out-of-plane vibration mode
J Zhao, Y Pan, P Lu, X Zhang, T Li, J Zhang… – Sensors and Actuators B …, 2023 – Elsevier
In the optical FPI demodulation, a tunable laser (Alnair Labs, Model TLG-210) is used and connected with two wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs). Two identical PDs (New focus, …
High-speed parallel processing with photonic feedforward reservoir computing
J Zhang, B Ma, W Zou – Optics Express, 2023 – opg.optica.org
Then, we use a 4-channel laser diode (Alnair, TLG-200) with a narrow linewidth serving as the driving laser to produce a carrier linewidth of 10 kHz for each laser diode. In the third step, …
Time-domain photonic image processor based on speckle projection and reservoir computing
T Yamaguchi, K Arai, T Niiyama, A Uchida… – Communications …, 2023 – nature.com
High-speed image processing is essential for many real-time applications. On-chip photonic
neural network processors have the potential to speed up image processing, but their …
Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link
A Rizzo, A Novick, V Gopal, BY Kim, X Ji, S Daudlin… – Nature …, 2023 – nature.com
The Si3N4 comb chip was pumped using a tunable cw laser with 7 dBm output power (Alnair Labs TLG-200), which was amplified to …
Experimental demonstration of non-contact and quasi OPD-independent nanoscale-displacement measurement by phase-diversity optical digital coherent detection …
X Wang, M Kondo, M Hanawa – Optics Express, 2023 – opg.optica.org
In the signal detection part on the upper side, we used a narrow-linewidth laser (Alnair Labs TLG-200) as the probe laser to minimize the phase noise. We set up the continuous light …
Ultrafast single-channel machine vision based on neuro-inspired photonic computing
T Yamaguchi, K Arai, T Niiyama, A Uchida… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 – arxiv.org
In our random speckle pattern projector, a narrow linewidth tunable laser (Alnair Labs, TLG-220, linewidth <100 kHz, 30 mW) was used as a coherent light source. To dynamically …
Non-contact Micro-deformation Detection Based on Optical Phase-diversity Digital Coherent Technology
山梨大学大学院， 医工農学総合教育部… – 2023 – yamanashi.repo.nii.ac.jp
Deformation detection is a method to measure the displacement between the start and end position of a target. For example, it can measure the vertical distance that a surface profiling …
Experimental demonstration of noncontact nanometer displacement sensing by optical digital coherent detection
X Wang, M Kondo, M Hanawa – 2022 27th OptoElectronics and …, 2022 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
A narrow linewidth laser (Alnair Labs TLG-200) was used as a laser source. The light from
Simultaneous full set of three-input canonical logic units in a single nonlinear device for an all-optical programmable logic array
W Dong, W Gu, X Gao, Y Yu, J Dong, L Lei… – Optics Express, 2022 – opg.optica.org
Five tunable lasers (TLs) (Alnair Labs TLG-200) generate five continuous-wave (CW)…
Gigahertz-rate random speckle projection for high-speed single-pixel image classification
J Hanawa, T Niiyama, Y Endo, S Sunada – Optics Express, 2022 – opg.optica.org
In the experiment, a narrow linewidth tunable laser (Alnair Labs, TLG-220, linewidth <100kHz, 30 mW) was used as a coherent light source. To dynamically vary the input frequency for …
Capacity expansion of chaotic secure transmission system based on coherent optical detection and space division multiplexing over multi-core fiber
Y Wu, H Luo, M Cheng, C Huang, Z Zhang, L Deng… – Optics Letters, 2022 – opg.optica.org
The optical signal emitted from a laser diode (LD, Alnair Labs, TLG-200) is modulated…
Power-independent microwave instantaneous frequency measurement based on combination of Brillouin gain and loss spectra
X Wang, YL Yang, YQ Xu, Y Cao… – IEEE Photonics …, 2022 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
The optical lightwave is provided by a tunable laser source (CW, TLG-200, Alnair Labs) with a power of 15 dBm. A 50:50 coupler divides the 1550 nm optical lightwave into the upper …
The design of a low-loss, fast-response, metal thermo-optic phase shifter based on coupled-mode theory
W Tong, Y Wei, H Zhou, J Dong, X Zhang – Photonics, 2022 – mdpi.com
The wavelength of tunable laser source (TLS, Alnair Labs, TLG-200) is set at an interference dip around 1550 nm. An Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is incorporated to amplify the …
All-optical light-induced thermoacoustic spectroscopy for remote and non-contact gas sensing
Y Pan, J Zhao, P Lu, C Sima, W Zhang, L Fu, D Liu… – Photoacoustics, 2022 – Elsevier
A near-infrared tunable laser source (Alnair Labs, TLG-210) was employed as the probe light source to generate two probe laser beams with the different wavelengths around 1550 nm. …
The excess noise characteristics of InGaAs/InP APD in consideration of nonlinearity effect
Y Tian, Z Lin, Y Zhao – 13th International Photonics and …, 2022 – spiedigitallibrary.org
The 1550 nm laser (Alnair Labs TLG-200) was attenuated by the variable optical attenuator (VOA) and then was divided into two equal parts by the coupler. One part was monitored by …
Ultra-sensitive ppb-level methane detection based on NIR all-optical photoacoustic spectroscopy by using differential fiber-optic microphones with gold …
H Xiao, J Zhao, C Sima, P Lu, Y Long, Y Ai, W Zhang… – Photoacoustics, 2022 – Elsevier
In the FOM signal demodulation part, a dual-channel narrow linewidth tunable laser (Alnair Labs, Model TLG-200) is used to connect to the fiber-optic microphones through optical …
Four-wavelength quadrature phase demodulation technique for extrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometric sensors
W Zhang, P Lu, Z Qu, J Zhang, D Liu – Optics Letters, 2022 – opg.optica.org
A multi-channel tunable laser of four channels (Alnair Labs, TLG 210) is used to output four laser beams with different wavelengths from four independent ports. A 1 × 4 optical coupler …
Large-dynamic-range and high-stability phase demodulation technology for fiber-optic michelson interferometric sensors
W Zhang, P Lu, Z Qu, J Zhang, Q Wu, D Liu – Sensors, 2022 – mdpi.com
The light of a single wavelength was emitted from a tunable laser (Alnair Labs, TLG 200, Tokyo, Japan), which replaced the single-frequency laser to research the laser wavelength …
Multi-task learning convolutional neural network and optical spectrums enabled optical performance monitoring
C Yu, H Wang, C Ke, Z Liang, S Cui… – IEEE Photonics …, 2022 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
The tunable laser source (TLS, Alnair Labs TLG-200) with a linewidth of less than 100 kHz is used to generate the laser. The center wavelength is set to 1550 nm and ± 1.25 GHz LFD is …
Identify the device fingerprint of OFDM-PONs with a noise-model-assisted CNN for enhancing security
C Fan, H Gong, M Cheng, B Ye, L Deng… – IEEE Photonics …, 2021 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Four ONUs are constructed by an Alnair Labs TLG-200 narrow linewidth tunable laser, a Tektronix AWG7122C arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), four radio frequency amplifiers (…
Polarization splitting grating coupler for optical antenna of LiDARs consisting of two gratings coupling light in a perfectly vertical direction
T Shimogaki, H Fukushima, D Inoue… – IEEE Photonics …, 2021 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fabricated GCs were evaluated by exciting the input waveguide with a continuous-wave laser operating at 1.55 μm (Alnair Labs, TLG-200). The diffracted light from the GCs was …
Integrated Kerr frequency comb-driven silicon photonic transmitter
A Rizzo, A Novick, V Gopal, BY Kim, X Ji… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 – arxiv.org
The Si3N4 comb chip was pumped using a tunable CW laser with 7 dBm output power (Alnair Labs TLG-200) which was amplified to ∼ 1 W using an erbium-doped fibre amplifier (…
Experimental demonstration of a broadband optoelectronic chaos system based on highly nonlinear configuration of IQ modulator
H Luo, M Cheng, C Huang, B Ye, W Shao, L Deng… – Optics Letters, 2021 – opg.optica.org
The light is emitted from a laser diode (LD, Alnair Labs, TLG-200) and then modulated by an IQ modulator (Fujitsu, FTM7961EX/301). After the erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier (…
Passive homodyne phase demodulation technique based on LF-TIT-DCM algorithm for interferometric sensors
W Zhang, P Lu, Z Qu, J Zhang, Q Wu, D Liu – Sensors, 2021 – mdpi.com
Two light beams are emitted from a multi-output tunable laser (Alnair Labs, TLG 210, Tokyo, Japan), whose wavelengths are 1555.682 nm and 1556.776 nm, respectively. Two light …
Optical patching scheme for optical convolutional neural networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing and optical delay lines
S Xu, J Wang, W Zou – Optics letters, 2020 – opg.optica.org
Two continuous-wave light sources at different wavelengths are provided by a four-channel laser source (Alnair Labs TLG-200). An arbitrary waveform generator (AWG, Keysight …
Low Noise Optical Amplifier (LNA Series)
Avalanche photodiodes with dual multiplication layers and ultra-high responsivity-bandwidth products for FMCW lidar system applications
Z Ahmad, SI Kuo, YC Chang, RL Chao… – IEEE Journal of …, 2021 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
We use such an APD connected with a RF low-noise-amplifier (LNA) to serve as the receiver-end in our … This module fully customized design by Alnair Labs is primarily composed of a …
60-GHz millimeter-wave over fiber with directly modulated dual-mode laser diode
CT Tsai, CH Lin, CT Lin, YC Chi, GR Lin – Scientific reports, 2016 – nature.com
After adding a commercial erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA, Alnair Labs, LNA 200-C), emission was filtered by an optical bandpass filter (OBPF, Alnair Labs, TFF-15-1-SM-L-100-FS)…
Detection of mercury (II) ions in water by polyelectrolyte–gold nanoparticles coated long period fiber grating sensor
SY Tan, SC Lee, T Okazaki, H Kuramitz… – Optics …, 2018 – Elsevier
A Yokogawa AQ6370C optical spectrum analyzer and an Alnair-Lab LNA-220C broadband light source were used to monitor the LPFG response throughout the fabrication process. …
A novel hybrid long period fiber grating-diffusive gradient in thin films sensor system for the detection of mercury (II) ions in water
SY Tan, SC Lee, H Kuramitz, F Abd-Rahman – Optik, 2019 – Elsevier
The broadband light source used in the experiment is from Alnair-Lab LNA-220C withpower fluctuation to be in the range of ±0.01 dBm. In this research, all the experiments were ….
High performance Mach–Zehnder-based silicon optical modulators
DJ Thomson, FY Gardes, S Liu, H Porte… – IEEE Journal of …, 2013 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
The output light from the device was amplified using an Alnair Labs LNA 150 EDFA. The light was then filtered to attenuate to some extent the noise from surrounding wavelengths …
Synthetic dimension band structures on a Si CMOS photonic platform
A Balčytis, T Ozawa, Y Ota, S Iwamoto, J Maeda… – Science …, 2022 – science.org
Therefore, the optical signal was amplified using a low-noise Alnair Labs LNA-220-C erbium-doped fiber amplifier, which supplied up to 20 dB of amplification, and an Alnair Labs CVF-…
DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A DOUBLE PASS LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATING CONFIGURATION AND ITS SENSING APPLICATIONS
L CHERN – 2016 – eprints.utar.edu.my
A broadband light source (Alnair Labs, LNA-220C Optical Amplifier) was used throughout the experiments while the t transmission spectra were observed using an optical spectrum …
Wavelength Tunable Filter FBG (WTF Series)
Transmission of O-band wavelength-division-multiplexed heralded photons over a noise-corrupted optical fiber channel
MT Liu, HC Lim – Optics express, 2013 – opg.optica.org
We used two tunable FBG filters (Alnair Labs, WTF-200) to select the photon wavelengths. Three single-photon counter modules (SPCMs) were used. SPCM 1 (IDQ, id210) was used to …
Signal penalties induced by different types of optical filters in 100 Gbps PM-DQPSK based optical networks
X Chen, JAM Pereda, PR Horche – Optical Switching and Networking, 2016 – Elsevier
Optical filters are crucial elements in optical communication networks. However, they seriously affect the signal quality, especially in the concatenation condition. In this paper, we study …
Kilohertz-linewidth Brillouin photonic crystal fiber laser with non-resonance pumping configuration
G Ji, Z Huang, W He, R Yin, Y Zheng… – IEEE Photonics …, 2024 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
WTF-200-T01- 52 1550-SMF from Alnair labs) with a narrow bandwidth of 0.1 53 nm. At a modulation frequency of ~10 GHz, the frequency 54 difference between the two components is …
Practical security bounds against trojan horse attacks in continuous-variable quantum key distribution
Y Pan, L Zhang, D Huang – Applied Sciences, 2020 – mdpi.com
However, this defense measure still has certain loopholes: Take the wideband tunable filter WTF-200-T03 produced by Alnair Labs as an example, as shown in the Figure 5. The pulse …
High-resolution spectroscopy based on optical phase modulator and optical frequency comb
T Shioda, T Mori, T Sugimoto, Y Tanaka… – Optics …, 2009 – Elsevier
The 25 GHz optical frequency comb was amplified and incident into the tunable wavelength filter (Alnair-Labs Corp. WTF-100) where only two peaks in the comb were extracted. Any …
