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Arrayed waveguide grating

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Three-dimensional fabrication of sub-micron optical waveguides in PDMS and other polymer materials

Giulia Panusa

Optical waveguides are one of the most important photonic components. They are indispensable tools in many of todayâ s technologies because of their capacity of guiding light. In particular, compact, low loss, flexible polymer optical waveguides are cruci ...

EPFL2021

Fiber-interface directional coupler inscribed by femtosecond laser for refractive index measurements

Jiangtao Zhou, Zhechen Zhang, Zhe Zhang

A novel fiber-interface directional waveguide coupler was inscribed on the surface of a coreless fiber by femtosecond laser, and was successfully applied to highly sensitive refractive index (RI) measurements. The primary arm was first inscribed to couple ...

2020

Functional Elements for Quantum-Dot-Based Integrated Quantum Photonics

Antoine Maxime Delgoffe

Quantum Integrated Photonics (QIP) harnesses quantum-states of light on tiny chips, from generation to processing and eventual detection. Within this context, this thesis explores functional QIP elements resulting from the monolithic integration of semicon ...

EPFL2020

Resonant Waveguide Gratings for Color-Selective Diffraction

Giorgio Quaranta

Resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs), also known as guided mode resonant (GMR) gratings or waveguide-mode resonant gratings, are dielectric structures where these resonant diffractive elements benefit from lateral leaky guided modes and can operate from UV t ...

EPFL2019

Particle size selection in capillary instability of locally heated coaxial fiber

François Gallaire, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Isha Shukla

Harnessing fluidic instabilities to produce structures with robust and regular properties has recently emerged as a new fabrication paradigm. This approach is exemplified in the work of Gumennik et al. [Nat. Commun. 4, 2216 (2103)], in which the authors fa ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Formation Rules and Dynamics of Photoinduced χ(2) Gratings in Silicon Nitride Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Davide Grassani, Edgars Nitiss, Tianyi Liu

Silicon nitride has emerged as a prominent platform for building photonics integrated circuits. While its nonlinear properties based on third-order effects have been successfully exploited, an efficient second harmonic generation in standard stoichiometric ...

2020

Photoinitiator-free Laser Fabrication of Ultra-compact, Low-loss Waveguides in Polydimethylsiloxane

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ye Pu, Giulia Panusa, Jieping Wang

Owing to its excellent elasticity, wide spectral range of transparency, and outstanding chemical and thermal stability, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is an elastomer of great technological importance, being widely used in the fabrication of microfluidic and ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Acoustic Analogues of High-Index Optical Waveguide Devices

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad

High index optical waveguide devices such as slab waveguides, strip waveguides and fibers play extremely important roles in a wide range of modern applications including telecommunications, sensing, lasing, interferometry, and resonant amplification. Yet, ...

Nature Research2018

Photonic Damascene process for integrated high Q microresonator based nonlinear photonic devices

Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

Chip-based optical waveguides formed by a silicon nitride (Si3N4) core and a silicon dioxide (SiO2) cladding are an important platform for low loss waveguides and nonlinear optics. High Q microresonators based on this material system have become a standard ...

EPFL2018

Compact Drop-on-Demand Apparatus Using Light Actuation Through Optical Fibers

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot

A drop delivery system comprising a light source; an optical waveguide bringing light from the light source; and a liquid supplying means configured to bring a liquid at a tip of the optical waveguide, wherein the light source and the optical waveguide are ...

2017

Near-field characterization of Bloch surface waves based 2D optical components

Richa Dubey

Bloch surface waves (BSWs) are surface electromagnetic modes that propagate at the interface between a multilayer substrate and a homogeneous external medium. The optical field of the surface mode is confined near the surface of the multilayer. This vertic ...

EPFL2017

High spectral resolution waveguide spectrometer with enhanced throughput for space and commercial applications

Mohammadreza Madi

This dissertation presents the results concerning the development of an innovative high spectral resolution waveguide spectrometer, from the concept to the prototype demonstration and the test results. The main innovative aspects of this instrument are the ...

EPFL2016

Excitation of resonant plasmonic cavities by integrated waveguides for sensing applications

Gaël David Osowiecki

Optical sensors represent a large growing market which is nowadays focusing onto advancement in mobile technology. Innovations in the field of optical sensors are mostly driven by the technological advancements in the domain of micro & nanofabrication. One ...

EPFL2016

Minimally Invasive Optical Photoacoustic Endoscopy with a Single Waveguide for Light and Sound

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Salma Farahi, Nicolino Stasio, Ioannis Papadopoulos

An endoscopic device for photoacoustic imaging, including a multimode optical fiber having a distal end and a proximal end, a light source to provide a light beam to the proximal end of the multimode optical fiber, a transducer to capture acoustic waves th ...

2016

Optical-resolution photoacoustic imaging through thick tissue with a thin capillary as a dual optical-in acoustic-out waveguide

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Nicolino Stasio

We demonstrate the ability to guide high-frequency photoacoustic waves through thick tissue with a water-filled silica-capillary (150 mu m inner diameter and 30 mm long). An optical-resolution photoacoustic image of a 30 mu m diameter absorbing nylon threa ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Terabit/s communications using chip-scale frequency comb sources

Tobias Kippenberg, Victor Brasch, Tobias Herr

High-speed optical interconnects rely on advanced wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) schemes. However, while photonic-electronic interfaces can be efficiently realized on silicon-on-insulator chips, dense integration of the necessary light sources stil ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Optical properties of waveguide-coupled nanowires for sub-wavelength detection in microspectrometer applications

Toralf Scharf, Alessandro Crespi

In this paper we experimentally investigate optical interactions between gold nanowires and fs-laser written waveguides in a view of applications for stationary-wave integrated Fourier-transform spectrometers in a movable mirror configuration. For this pur ...

European Optical Society2015

On-chip near-infrared optical spectrometer based on single-mode Epo waveguide and gold nanoantennas

Toralf Scharf, Irène Antoinette Philipoussis, Joab Di Francesco

We report about optical spectrometry using gold nanostructures printed on top of an integrated optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is a single-mode buried waveguide made from a combination of photo-polymerizable materials and is fabricated by photolit ...

Spie-Soc Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2014

Note: Stacked rings for terahertz wave-guiding

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Alessandro Macor

We demonstrate the construction of corrugated waveguides using stacked rings to propagate terahertz frequencies. The waveguide allows propagation of the same fundamental mode as an optical-fiber, namely, the HE11 mode. This simple concept opens the way for ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Stacked rings for terahertz wave-guiding

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Alessandro Macor, Emile Jacques de Rijk

We demonstrate the construction of corrugated waveguides using stacked rings to propagate terahertz frequencies. The waveguide allows propagation of the same fundamental mode as an optical-fiber, namely, the H E11 mode. This simple concept opens the way fo ...

American Institute of Physics2011