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Laser-based manufacturing of freeform glass micro-optics through topological transformation

Samuel Youcef Benketaf

Glass has been the material of choice for making optical elements, in large part due to its intrinsic properties: a temperature-dependent viscosity, which enables shaping the material into a broad variety of functional and artistic glassware. Silica glass ...

EPFL2024

Regional Differences in the Perception of Daylit Scenes across Europe Using Virtual Reality. Part II: Effects of Facade and Daylight Pattern Geometry

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Kynthia Chamilothori

While there is a growing use of complex facade designs in contemporary architecture worldwide and across Europe, little is known about the perceptual effects of these facades and the resulting daylight patterns on occupants, or about how such effects might ...

2022

Guard-Ring-Free InGaAs/InP Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Based on a Novel One-Step Zn-Diffusion Technique

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Myung Jae Lee, Ekin Kizilkan, Utku Karaca, Vladimir Pesic

This work presents a novel InGaAs/InP SPAD structure fabricated using a selective area growth (SAG) method. The surface topography of the selectively grown film deposited within the 70 mu m diffusion apertures is used to engineer the Zn diffusion profile t ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

High sensitivity, incoherent differential imaging

Chiara Bonati

Microscopic visualisation of optically transparent samples has been a topic of interest for several decades. Features such as density or chemical composition can influence the optical phase of transmitted light, and phase contrast can reveal these structur ...

EPFL2022

Transparent composite nano-fibre based multi-layer textile

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Thierry Pelet

A composite multi-layer textile (1), comprising at least one nanofibre layer (11) with nanofibres with diameters below 100nm and one support layer (12) with microfibres with diameters below three microns, wherein the layers (11, 12) were produced by electr ...

2021

Structured light generation by refractive-diffractive micro optical array illuminators

Maryam Yousefi

Structured light generation having broad applications in different optical fields, is the topic of this thesis. Our structured light generation strategy is based on applying periodic microoptical elements at the refraction-diffraction limit, under a focuse ...

EPFL2021

Optical characterization of high numerical aperture microlenses for quality assessment and fabrication process optimization

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Jeremy Béguelin

Accurate characterization of high numerical aperture aspheric microlenses currently is a nonstandard procedure that remains an open challenge. Here, we present and discuss a characterization method based on interferometric and point spread function measure ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Laser engraving device for multiple laser beams

Andreas Schueler, Luc Burnier

The present invention concerns a laser engraving device (1) for engraving a target surface (17). The laser engraving device (1) comprises: a beam splitter (7) for dividing a processing laser beam (25) into a plurality of engraving laser beams (27); a first ...

2020

On the assessment of aspheric refractive microlenses

Jeremy Béguelin

Refractive microlenses and microlens arrays are key components for many applications such as optical data communication, laser and medical devices, or cameras. In particular, refractive micro-optics enables the miniaturization of high-tech systems but also ...

EPFL2020

Application of Fundamental In-Body Radiation Limitations to Practical Design of Antennas for Implantable Bioelectronics

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

Fundamental in-body limitations on achievable radiation efficiency could provide decision-making assistance to engineers working on antennas for implantable bioelectronics. In this study, proof-of-concept conformal microstrip antennas are proposed based on ...

IEEE2020

Correction of spherical surface measurements by confocal microscopy

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Jeremy Béguelin

Refractive microlenses are nowadays widely used in optical systems. Characterizing their surface is essential to ensure their quality and to optimize their fabrication process. This is realized by optical surface profilers thanks to their vertical resoluti ...

IOP Publishing2020

Phase resolved characterization of nanoscale features in optical microstructures

Michail Symeonidis

In this study, we apply interferometric microscopy to study the phase, alongside the intensity, of the light field transmitted through a wide variety of samples. Additionally, we conduct those interferometric measurements at different wavelengths within th ...

EPFL2019

Spatial coherence properties of an LED-based illumination system for mask-aligner lithography

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Raoul Kirner, Johana Bernasconi

A high-power LED-based illumination system has been developed as a replacement for the mercury arc lamps used in mask-aligner lithography. LEDs are arranged in a grid array and placed in the entrance aperture of individual reflectors. Those reflectors decr ...

SPIE2019

Subjective and physiological responses to façade and sunlight pattern geometry in virtual reality

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Giorgia Chinazzo, Kynthia Chamilothori, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues

This study investigates the joint impact of façade geometry and associated sunlight patterns on occupant subjective perception and physiological responses through a novel experimental method coupling physically-based simulations shown in virtual reality wi ...

2019

Raman imaging through multimode sapphire fiber

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Georgia Konstantinou, Sunan Deng

We report on a sapphire fiber Raman imaging probe's use for challenging applications where access is severely restricted. Small-dimension Raman probes have been developed previously for various clinical applications because they show great capability for d ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

The 16 T Dipole Development Program for FCC and HE-LHC

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Peng Gao, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf, Bernhard Auchmann, Mariusz Juchno

A future circular collider (FCC) with a center-of-mass energy of 100 TeV and a circumference of around 100 km, or an energy upgrade of the LHC (HE-LHC) to 27 TeV require bending magnets providing 16 Tin a SO-mm aperture. Several development programs for th ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

High power modular LED-based illumination system for lithography applications

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Raoul Kirner, Johana Bernasconi

Mask-aligner lithography is a technology used to transfer patterns with critical dimensions in the micrometer range from below 1 micron for contact printing to a dozen of microns in proximity printing. This technology is widely used in the fabrication of M ...

2018

Bend translation in multimode fiber imaging

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie

Light propagation in multimode fibers is typically assumed to be extremely sensitive to changes in geometry. We study here a particular configuration where an S-shaped bend is translated between two sections of fiber. In this sliding bend configuration, we ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy for extended focus optical coherence microscopy

Theo Lasser, Arno Pino Bouwens, Jérôme Extermann, Paul James Marchand, Séverine Coquoz

Optical coherence microscopy (OCM) is an interferometric technique providing 3D images of biological samples with micrometric resolution and penetration depth of several hundreds of micrometers. OCM differs from optical coherence tomography (OCT) in that i ...

2017

Scaling effect and its impact on wavelength-scale microlenses

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

We revisit the scaling laws in micro-optical systems to highlight new phenomena arising beyond a conventional optical regime, especially when the size of the system approaches to the operational wavelength. Our goal is to visualize the impact of the scalin ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017