Subjects: Optics >> Quantum optics submitted time 2023-02-19
Abstract： A beam splitter (BS) is one of the most critical building blocks in optical systems. Despite various attempts to miniaturize the conventional cube BS reported, it remains a challenge to realize an ultrathin BS with multi-port output, nonuniform splitting ratio and steerable outgoing directions. Herein, we have demonstrated a free-space optical multi-port beam splitter (MPBS) based on a polarization-independent all-dielectric metasurface. By utilizing an optimized phase-pattern paradigm via a gradient-descent-based iterative algorithm on amorphous silicon (a-Si) metasurfaces, we have prepared various MPBS samples with arbitrarily predetermined output port number (2~7), power ratio and spatial distribution of output beams. The experimental results reveal that the MPBSs could achieve high total splitting efficiency (TSE, above 74%) and beam-splitting ratio fidelity (SRF, above 0.992) within the bandwidth of 100nm (1500nm~1600nm). We envision that such MPBS could provide a fabulous flexibility for optical integrated systems design and diverse applications.
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Subjects: Optics >> Quantum optics submitted time 2023-02-19
Jiayi Ouyang
Yuxuan Liao
Zhiyao Ma
Deyang Kong
Xue Feng
Xiang Zhang
Xiaowen Dong
Kaiyu Cui
Fang Liu
Wei Zhang
Yidong Huang
Abstract： Photonic Ising machine is a new paradigm of optical computing, which is based on the characteristics of light wave propagation, parallel processing and low loss transmission. Thus, the process of solving the combinatorial optimization problems can be accelerated through photonic/optoelectronic devices. In this work, we have proposed and demonstrated the so-called Phase-Encoding and Intensity Detection Ising Annealer (PEIDIA) to solve arbitrary Ising problems on demand. The PEIDIA is based on the simulated annealing algorithm and requires only one step of optical linear transformation with simplified Hamiltonian calculation. With PEIDIA, the Ising spins are encoded on the phase term of the optical field and only intensity detection is required during the solving process. As a proof of principle, several 20-dimensional Ising problems have been solved with high ground state probability (0.98 within 1000 iterations for the antiferromagnetic cubic model, >0.99 within 4000 iterations for two random spin-glass models, respectively). It should be mentioned that our proposal is also potential to be implemented with integrated photonic devices such as tunable metasurfaces to achieve large-scale and on-demand photonic Ising machines.
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