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FABRICATION AND ANALYSIS OF THIN FILM LITHUM NIOBATE RESONATORS FOR 5GHz FREQUENCY AND LARGE k(t)(2) APPLICATIONS

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli, Seniz Esra Küçük

This work presents the fabrication and analysis of suspended thin film Lithium Niobate resonators. The yield of the new fabrication process presented below is >90% showing devices with high k(t)(2) of 28% resonators at 5GHz, making them suitable for high f ...

IEEE2021

Analysis of uncoated LPGs written in B-Ge doped fiber under proton irradiation for sensing applications at CERN

Tiago Filipe Pimentel Das Neves

In this contribution, a complete dissertation concerning the behavior of a Long Period Grating (LPG) inscribed in a B-Ge co-doped optical fiber by means of an excimer laser and exposed to proton irradiation during a recent extensive campaign performed at t ...

Nature Research2020

Imaging plasma formation in isolated nanoparticles with ultrafast resonant scattering

Christoph Bostedt

We have recorded the diffraction patterns from individual xenon clusters irradiated with intense extreme ultraviolet pulses to investigate the influence of light-induced electronic changes on the scattering response. The clusters were irradiated with short ...

2020

Printing sub-micron structures using Talbot mask-aligner lithography with a 193 nm CW laser light source

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Raoul Kirner

A continuous improvement of resolution in mask-aligner lithography is sought after to meet the requirements of an ever decreasing minimum feature size in back-end processes. For periodic structures, utilizing the Talbot effect for lithography has emerged a ...

2018

Ultrafast Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Liquid Samples

José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara

This thesis focuses on the commissioning and characterization of HARMONIUM, an ultrafast tunable EUV source based on high-harmonic generation for performing photoelectron spectroscopy of liquids. In ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy a short pump pulse i ...

EPFL2016

Nanocrystalline Low-Refractive Magnesium Fluoride Films Deposited by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering: Optical and Structural Properties

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Paul Muralt, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Stefan Mertin

In this work, we study MgF2 thin-film synthesis by reactive pulsed DC magnetron sputtering from a metallic magnesium target in a gas mixture of argon, oxygen, and carbon tetrafluoride (CF4). Nanocrystalline films on silicon and glass substrates with excell ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Annealing of UV Ar+ and ArF excimer laser fabricated Bragg gratings: SMF-28e fiber

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis

Fiber Bragg gratings fabricated in pristine SMF-28e fibers using pulsed ArF-excimer and cw 244-nm Ar+ laser were annealed using tempering rates from 0.0038 to 0.25 K/s. Demarcation energy mapping allowed for the determination of the frequency factors and t ...

Optical Society of America2014

Stability of Fiber Bragg Gratings Fabricated Using UV Ar+ and ArF Excimer in Bismuth-Aluminum-co-Doped Silica Fibers

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis

Continuous annealing of fiber Bragg gratings fabricated using cw and pulsed laser irradiation in Bi-Al-co-doped fibers of different concentrations show activation energy spectra linked to Bi-Al. Thermal stability maps were obtained by their analytical repr ...

2014

M-Plane GaN/InAlN Multiple Quantum Wells in Core-Shell Wire Structure for UV Emission

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Georg Rossbach

We report on the epitaxial growth of high-quality core-shell nonpolar m-plane GaN/InAlN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) on the sidewall facets of c-oriented hexagonal GaN wires. Pseudomorphic growth without generation of threading dislocations has been estab ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Dose dependence of luminescence increase in H2-loaded Bi-Al co-doped optical fibers by cw 244-nm and pulsed 193-nm laser irradiation

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis

The near infrared luminescence is increased in H2-loaded Bi-Al co-doped optical fibers by irradiation of cw 244-nm or pulsed 193-nm laser light. The dose dependence is different for the two lasers. ...

Ieee2013

Thermal decay of UV Ar+ and ArF excimer laser fabricated Bragg gratings in SMF-28e and Bi-Al-doped optical fiber

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis, Pouneh Saffari

Fiber Bragg Gratings were fabricated using a 193-nm-ArF-excimer laser with ac index changes of 0.6×10E-4 and 2.2×10E-4 in pristine and H2-loaded Bi-Al-SiO2 fibers. Thermal annealing of the FBGs was investigated using continuous isochronal annealing. ...

2012

Thermal decay of ArF-excimer-laser fabricated fiber Bragg gratings in Bi-Al-doped optical fibers

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis, Pouneh Saffari

Fiber Bragg Gratings were fabricated using a 193-nm-ArF-excimer laser with ac index changes of 0.6×10E-4 and 2.2×10E-4 in pristine and H2-loaded Bi-Al-SiO2 fibers. Thermal annealing of the FBGs was investigated using continuous isochronal annealing. ...

2012

Fabrication of Bragg gratings in microstructured and step index Bi-SiO2 optical fibers using an ArF laser

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis

An ArF excimer laser was used to fabricate Bragg gratings in fibers with Bi-SiO2 core and microstructured or F-doped claddings without fiber presensitization. Average and modulated refractive index changes of 2.7 x 10(-4) and 1.0 x 10(-4) were induced in p ...

Optical Society of America2012

Fabrication of Bragg Gratings in Microstructured Bi:SiO2 Optical Fiber Using an ArF Laser

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis

An ArF excimer laser was used to fabricate Bragg gratings in Bi:SiO2 core - microstructured cladding optical fiber. Average and modulated refractive index changes of 2.7 × 10E-4 and 1.0 × 10E-4 were induced in pristine fiber. Fiber luminescence was also me ...

IEEE2012

Photosensitivity and stress changes of Ge-free Bi-Al doped silica optical fibers under ArF excimer laser irradiation

Hans Georg Limberger

The photosensitivity of germanium free Bi-Al-doped silica fibers with different bismuth concentrations was investigated using ArF excimer laser radiation at 193 nm and fiber grating formation. For the fiber with the highest bismuth concentration maximum re ...

Optical Society of America2011

Optical fiber-based setup for in vivo measurement of the delayed fluorescence lifetime of oxygen sensors

Georges Wagnières, Hubert van den Bergh

A new optical-fiber-based spectrofluorometer for in vivo or in vitro detection of delayed fluorescence is presented and characterized. This compact setup is designed so that it can be readily adapted for future clinical use. Optical excitation is done with ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2011

Laser-induced stress changes in optical fibers

Florian Dürr

The precise determination of residual stress profiles in optical fibers allows drawing conclusions about radiation-induced density-changes of the fibers doped core glass. The corresponding index changes partially contribute to the phenomenon of photosensit ...

EPFL2005

Relationship between high daily erythemal UV doses, total ozone, surface albedo and cloudiness: An analysis of 30 years of data from Switzerland and Austria

This work investigates the occurrence frequency of days with high erythemal UV doses at three stations in Switzerland and Austria (Davos, Hoher Sonnblick and Vienna) for the time period 1974-2003. While several earlier studies have reported on increases in ...

Elsevier2010

Intrinsic Emittance Reduction of an Electron Beam from Metal Photocathodes

Christoph Peter Hauri

Electron beams in modern linear accelerators are now becoming limited in brightness by the intrinsic emittance of the photocathode electron source. Therefore it becomes important for large scale facilities such as free electron lasers to reduce this fundam ...

2010

Photosensitivity and luminescence of chromium and bismuth doped fibers

Optical fiber materials with broad-band gain in the visible or in the telecommunication window are of great interest for optical communication or the biomedical domain in order to built integrated tunable lasers, amplifiers, ultra-short pulse lasers, or br ...

EPFL2009