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Exploring Novel Modalities for Optical Diffraction Tomography

In the past decade, optical diffraction tomography has gained a lot of attention for its ability to create label-free three-dimensional (3D) images of the refractive index distribution of biological samples using scattered fields measured through holograph ...

EPFL2023

Optical metasurfaces: synthesis, nanofabrication, and colorful applications

Hsiang-Chu Wang

In this thesis, we mainly utilize silver to construct the meta-atoms. Although suffering from easily oxidized, its excellent lossless property throughout the visible range makes it suitable for study. When preserved properly, silver-made metasurfaces can s ...

EPFL2022

Magneto-optical study of metamagnetic transitions in the antiferromagnetic phase of alpha-RuCl3

Zhe Wang

alpha-RuCl3 is a promising candidate material to realize the so far elusive quantum spin liquid ground state. However, at low temperatures, the coexistence of different exchange interactions couple the effective pseudospins into an antiferromagnetically zi ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Near-field phase profile and far-field contrast modulation for micro-lens arrays at the refraction limit

Toralf Scharf, Maryam Yousefi

We investigate the far-field pattern generation for a micro-lens array (MLA) illuminated under different conditions. Plane wave and Gaussian beam illumination are considered for an MLA with a small diameter of 27 microns and 30 microns period. At these dim ...

2020

Observation of coupled mechanical resonance modes within suspended 3D nanowire arrays

Yusuf Leblebici

Complex yet compact nanoscale mechanisms have largely been absent due to the rather limited availability of components and integration techniques. Especially missing have been efficient interconnects with adjustable characteristics. To address this issue, ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Electronics Emulation for Real-Time Fault Location in Power Systems

François Pierre Gaugaz

This research presents a high-speed hardware platform dedicated to emulate electrical power networks for the fault location. The solution implements an algorithm based on the Electromagnetic Time-Reversal (EMTR) principle, which allows locating faults in v ...

EPFL2017

Discrimination of temperature and strain by combined refractive index and birefringence measurements using coherent Rayleigh sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

Temperature and strain discrimination is experimentally demonstrated in an elliptical-core polarization-maintaining fiber by making use of Rayleigh-based distributed birefringence measurements and the frequency shift of the correlation peak obtained by sta ...

SPIE2017

Method and apparatus for measuring the local birefingence along an optical waveguide

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

This invention relates to a system and method to determine the distributed birefringence profile along an optical fibre. Birefringence manifests as different refractive indices for two orthogonal states of polarization of the light propagating in the optic ...

2016

W-Band Waveguide Filters Fabricated by Laser Micromachining and 3-D Printing

Emile Jacques de Rijk

This paper presents two W-band waveguide bandpass filters, one fabricated using laser micromachining and the other 3-D printing. Both filters are based on coupled resonators and are designed to have a Chebyshev response. The first filter is for laser micro ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Optical properties of rabbit brain in the red and near-infrared: changes observed under in vivo, postmortem, frozen, and formalin-fixated conditions

Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Blaise Lovisa, Andreas Pitzschke

The outcome of light-based therapeutic approaches depends on light propagation in biological tissues, which is governed by their optical properties. The objective of this study was to quantify optical properties of brain tissue in vivo and postmortem and a ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2015

Brillouin dynamic gratings in optical fibres for distributed sensing and advanced optical signal processing

Andrey Denisov

This thesis presents results of a research on applications of Brillouin dynamic gratings - distributed reflectors that can be dynamically created in an optical fibre by two optical waves. A basic theory of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is introduce ...

EPFL2015

Coupling Strength Can Control the Polarization Twist of a Plasmonic Antenna

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Banafsheh Abasahl

The far-field polarization of the optical response of a plasmonic antenna can be tuned by subtly engineering of its geometry. In this paper, we develop design rules for nano antennas which enable the generation of circular polarized light via the excitatio ...

American Chemical Society2013

Optofluidic-tunable color filters and spectroscopy based on liquid-crystal microflows

Demetri Psaltis, Andreas Vasdekis, Julien Cuennet

The integration of color filters with microfluidics has attracted substantial attention in recent years, for on-chip absorption, fluorescence, or Raman analysis. We describe such tunable filters based on the micro-flow of liquid crystals. The filter operat ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Power Quality Problems Compensation With Universal Power Quality Conditioning System

Alfred Rufer

The aim of this paper is to present a universal power quality conditioning system (UPQS) named after unified power quality conditioner, which is extended by adding a shunt active filter at the load side. Its main purpose is to compensate for both supply vo ...

2007

Nonlinear emission properties of an optically anisotropic GaN-based microcavity

Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Jacques Levrat, Gatien Cosendey, Georg Rossbach, Marlene Glauser, Munise Nevin Cobet

The pronounced optical in-plane anisotropy of a suitably designed nonpolar GaN-based microcavity, mainly inherited from the valence-band complexity of wurtzite semiconductors, allows the coexistence of two different light-matter coupling regimes along orth ...

Amer Physical Soc2012

Ultra Low-Power MEMS-based Radio for Wireless Sensor Networks

Christian Enz, Nicola Scolari

The recent advances made in MEMS and particularly in RF MEMS technology are enabling new architectures for the integration of RF transceivers with improved performance and smaller size. Several fundamental building blocks benefit from the availability of h ...

2007

Distributed sensing using polarization sensitive optical low-coherence reflectometry and fiber gratings

Dragan Coric

Optical low coherence reflectometry (OLCR) is non-destructive interferometric technique that allows measuring amplitude and phase of the light reflected from the device under test. OLCR is a powerful tool for the characterization of the various optical dev ...

EPFL2007

A low-voltage complementary metal-oxide semiconductor adapter circuit suitable for input rail-to-rail operation

Mirjana Banjevic

In this article, a low-voltage complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) input signal adapter (ISA) suitable for input rail-to-rail operation of various types of analogue basic building blocks is presented. The adapter acts as a pre-stage with infinit ...

Taylor & Francis2010

Nanoindentation and birefringence measurements on fused silica specimen exposed to low-energy femtosecond pulses

Christian Depeursinge, Yves Bellouard, Tristan Colomb

Femtosecond laser pulses used in a regime below the ablation threshold have two noticeable effects on Fused Silica (a-SiO2): they locally increase the material refractive index and modify its HF etching selectivity. The nature of the structural changes ind ...

2006

RF MEMS Switches for Wide-band (5 - 40 GHz), Tuneable Filters and DMTL Phase Shifters

Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia

In wireless communications, radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems (RF MEMS) technology is attracting tremendous interest across the world as the needs of frequencies gets higher, data bandwidth gets larger and multiple broadband signals have to ...

EPFL2010