231 research outputs found
All-optical wavelength-tunable narrow-linewidth fiber laser
Parameter regulations of narrow-linewidth fiber lasers in frequency domain
has drawn considerable interests for widespread applications in the light
quantum computing, precise coherent detection, and generation of micro-waves.
All-optical methods provide compact, precise and fast accesses to achieving
these lasers with wavelength-tunability. Here, the optical-thermal effects of
graphene is utilized to precisely control operations of free-running lasers
with a tuning speed of 140 MHz/ms. Assisted by the single-longitude-mode
operation and linewidth suppression of stimulated Brillouin backscattering, we
obtain an optical-controllable ~750 Hz fiber laser with a wavelength-tuning
range of 3.7 nm
Optical polarization rogue waves from supercontinuum generation in zero dispersion fiber pumped by dissipative soliton
Optical rogue waves emerge in nonlinear optical systems with extremely large amplitudes, and leave without a trace. In this work, we reveal the emergence of optical polarization rogue waves in supercontinuum generation from a zero-dispersion fiber, pumped by a dissipative soliton laser. Flat spectral broadening is achieved by modulation instability, followed by cascaded four-wave-mixing. In this process, we identify the emergence of optical polarization rogue waves, based on the probability density function of the relative distance among polarization states. Experimental results show that optical polarization rogue waves originate from vector multi-wave-mixing. Besides, we observe double peaks, and even triple peaks in the histogram of the state of polarization. This is a new and intriguing property, never observed so far in optical rogue waves, for example those emerging in the statistics of pulse intensities. Our polarization domain statistical analysis provides a new insight into the still debated topic of the mechanism for rogue wave generation in optical supercontinuum
Knowledge-refined Denoising Network for Robust Recommendation
Knowledge graph (KG), which contains rich side information, becomes an
essential part to boost the recommendation performance and improve its
explainability. However, existing knowledge-aware recommendation methods
directly perform information propagation on KG and user-item bipartite graph,
ignoring the impacts of \textit{task-irrelevant knowledge propagation} and
\textit{vulnerability to interaction noise}, which limits their performance. To
solve these issues, we propose a robust knowledge-aware recommendation
framework, called \textit{Knowledge-refined Denoising Network} (KRDN), to prune
the task-irrelevant knowledge associations and noisy implicit feedback
simultaneously. KRDN consists of an adaptive knowledge refining strategy and a
contrastive denoising mechanism, which are able to automatically distill
high-quality KG triplets for aggregation and prune noisy implicit feedback
respectively. Besides, we also design the self-adapted loss function and the
gradient estimator for model optimization. The experimental results on three
benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of KRDN over
the state-of-the-art knowledge-aware methods like KGIN, MCCLK, and KGCL, and
also outperform robust recommendation models like SGL and SimGCL
Improving image quality in compressed ultrafast photography with a space- and intensity-constrained reconstruction algorithm
The single-shot compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) camera is the fastest receive-only camera in the world. In this work, we introduce an external CCD camera and a space- and intensity-constrained (SIC) reconstruction algorithm to improve the image quality of CUP. The CCD camera takes a time-unsheared image of the dynamic scene. Unlike the previously used unconstrained algorithm, the proposed algorithm incorporates both spatial and intensity constraints, based on the additional prior information provided by the external CCD camera. First, a spatial mask is extracted from the time-unsheared image to define the zone of action. Second, an intensity threshold constraint is determined based on the similarity between the temporally projected image of the reconstructed datacube and the time-unsheared image taken by the external CCD. Both simulation and experimental studies showed that the SIC reconstruction improves the spatial resolution, contrast, and general quality of the reconstructed image
Ultrafast imaging of light scattering dynamics using second-generation compressed ultrafast photography
We present single-shot real-time video recording of light scattering dynamics by second-generation compressed ultrafast photography (G2-CUP). Using G2-CUP at 100 billion frames per second, in a single camera exposure, we experimentally captured the evolution of the light intensity distribution in an engineered thin scattering plate assembly. G2-CUP, which implements a new reconstruction paradigm and a more efficient hardware design than its predecessors, markedly improves the reconstructed image quality. The ultrafast imaging reveals the instantaneous light scattering pattern as a photonic Mach cone. We envision that our technology will find a diverse range of applications in biomedical imaging, materials science, and physics
API Usage Recommendation via Multi-View Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning
Developers often need to decide which APIs to use for the functions being
implemented. With the ever-growing number of APIs and libraries, it becomes
increasingly difficult for developers to find appropriate APIs, indicating the
necessity of automatic API usage recommendation. Previous studies adopt
statistical models or collaborative filtering methods to mine the implicit API
usage patterns for recommendation. However, they rely on the occurrence
frequencies of APIs for mining usage patterns, thus prone to fail for the
low-frequency APIs. Besides, prior studies generally regard the API call
interaction graph as homogeneous graph, ignoring the rich information (e.g.,
edge types) in the structure graph. In this work, we propose a novel method
named MEGA for improving the recommendation accuracy especially for the
low-frequency APIs. Specifically, besides call interaction graph, MEGA
considers another two new heterogeneous graphs: global API co-occurrence graph
enriched with the API frequency information and hierarchical structure graph
enriched with the project component information. With the three multi-view
heterogeneous graphs, MEGA can capture the API usage patterns more accurately.
Experiments on three Java benchmark datasets demonstrate that MEGA
significantly outperforms the baseline models by at least 19% with respect to
the Success Rate@1 metric. Especially, for the low-frequency APIs, MEGA also
increases the baselines by at least 55% regarding the Success Rate@1
Optical puff mediated laminar-turbulent polarization transition
Various physical structures exhibit a fundamentally probabilistic nature over
diverse scales in space and time, to the point that the demarcation line between quantum and
classic laws gets blurred. Here, we characterize the probability of intermittency in the
laminar-turbulence transition of a partially mode-locked fiber laser system, whose degree of
coherence is deteriorated by multiple mode mixing. Two competing processes, namely the
proliferation and the decay of an optical turbulent puff, determine a critical behavior for the
onset of turbulence in such a nonlinear dissipative system. A new kind of polarization rogue
waves is introduced at the point of transition to polarization turbulence. The probabilistic
description of the puff-mediated laminar-turbulence polarization transition provides an
additional degree of freedom for our understanding of the complex physics of lasers
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