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High Quality Factor Confinement Of Bloch Surface Waves At Visible Wavelengths

Hans Peter Herzig, Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes, Babak Vosoughi Lahijani, Raphaël Barbey, Gaël David Osowiecki

We report the first experimental demonstration of high quality factor confinement of Bloch surface waves at visible wavelengths. The cavities consist of planar Fabry-Perot resonators that are fabricated on top of a Bloch surface supporting substrate. This ...

IEEE2018

Revisiting Newton’s rings with a plasmonic optical flat for high-accuracy surface inspection

Olivier Martin, Xiaolong Wang

Two parallel optical surfaces often exhibit colorful fringes along the lines of equal thickness because of the interference of light. This simple phenomenon allows one to observe subwavelength corrugations on a reflective surface by simply placing on it a ...

Springer2016

Development of Tunable Optical MEMS for Advanced Laser Beam Shaping, Homogenizing and Speckle Reduction

Jonathan Masson

In this thesis, the development, design, fabrication and characterization of three innovative laser beam shaping, homogenizing and speckle reduction devices are reported. Typical beam shaping devices are static and not easily adaptable to a large variety o ...

EPFL2012

Development of MEMS Programmable Diffraction Gratings for Spectroscopic Applications in the Visible, Near- and Mid-Infrared

Robert Andrew Lockhart

This work presents the development of two MEMS programmable diffraction gratings designed for spectroscopic applications in the visible, near- and mid-infrared. These devices have been developed to limit distortion of their optical surfaces at rest and thr ...

EPFL2011

Simultaneous cell morphometry and refractive index measurement with dual- wavelength digital holographic microscopy and dye-enhanced dispersion of perfusion medium

Pierre Magistretti, Pierre Marquet, Christian Depeursinge, Benjamin Rappaz, Florian Charrière

Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) allows optical-path-difference (OPD) measurements with nanometric accuracy. OPD induced by transparent cells depends on both the refractive index (RI) of cells and their morphology. This Letter presents a dual-wavelengt ...

2008

Multiple optical trapping in high gradient interference fringes

René Salathé, Fabrice Merenda, Johann Rohner

In biological investigations, many protocols using optical trapping call for the possibility to trap a large number of particles simultaneously. Interference fringes provide a solution for massively parallel micro-manipulation of mesoscopic objects. Concur ...

2006

Fast 10-µs Microelectromechanical Optical Switch inside Planar Hollow Waveguide (PHW)

Philippe Renaud, Roland Guerre

A new concept for a 1 × 2 micromechanical optical switch with 10 μs of switching speed, 29 dB of ON/OFF ratio, and insertion loss of −7.22 dB for λ = 1550 nm and −4.96 dB for λ = 635 nm is presented. The idea is to insert a micromechanical switching mechan ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2006

Optical spectral probing for epithelial tissue characterisation

Philippe Thueler

In this thesis, a new method has been developed, which determines the optical coefficients spectra (absorption and scattering) of small volumes of tissue (1 mm3) by the measurement of spatially resolved reflectance between 480 and 950 nm. Firstly, an algor ...

EPFL2001