Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421948
M. Marell, M. Hill, M. Smit
We show that Bragg gratings can be readily incorporated into metallic nano-lasers which exploit waveguides with semiconductor cores, via modulation of the waveguide width. This provides a simple way to implement laser wavelength control.
{"title":"Distributed Bragg grating frequency control in metallic nano lasers","authors":"M. Marell, M. Hill, M. Smit","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421948","url":null,"abstract":"We show that Bragg gratings can be readily incorporated into metallic nano-lasers which exploit waveguides with semiconductor cores, via modulation of the waveguide width. This provides a simple way to implement laser wavelength control.","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129499110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421970
Yong Ma, A. Khalid, S. Saha, J. Grant, D. Cumming
We have designed and fabricated a low cost THz band pass filter based on a plastic substrate. The filter shows excellent performance for THz applications. We have also investigated its possible application to biological sensing.
{"title":"THz band pass filter on plastic substrates and its application on biological sensing","authors":"Yong Ma, A. Khalid, S. Saha, J. Grant, D. Cumming","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421970","url":null,"abstract":"We have designed and fabricated a low cost THz band pass filter based on a plastic substrate. The filter shows excellent performance for THz applications. We have also investigated its possible application to biological sensing.","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129014658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421962
K. Goda, A. Motafakker-Fard, K. Tsia, B. Jalali
Optical imaging is the most widespread and versatile diagnostics and inspection tool in use today. While most of the current research in imaging is aimed at improving the spatial resolution to below the diffraction limit [1], there are numerous applications that demand improvement in temporal resolution [2]. Imagers with high temporal resolution are needed for studying fast phenomena such as shockwaves, chemical dynamics in living cells, neural activity, laser ablation, and microfluidics biochips. High-speed imaging is ever more important in microscopy because over the micrometer scale, even slow moving phenomena require high temporal resolution [2].
{"title":"Serial Time Encoded Amplified Microscopy (STEAM) for high-throughput detection of rare cells","authors":"K. Goda, A. Motafakker-Fard, K. Tsia, B. Jalali","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421962","url":null,"abstract":"Optical imaging is the most widespread and versatile diagnostics and inspection tool in use today. While most of the current research in imaging is aimed at improving the spatial resolution to below the diffraction limit [1], there are numerous applications that demand improvement in temporal resolution [2]. Imagers with high temporal resolution are needed for studying fast phenomena such as shockwaves, chemical dynamics in living cells, neural activity, laser ablation, and microfluidics biochips. High-speed imaging is ever more important in microscopy because over the micrometer scale, even slow moving phenomena require high temporal resolution [2].","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"12 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117011419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421930
H-Y Li, L. V. van Vugt, S. Ruhle, L. Kuipers, F. Koenderink, D. V. van Dorp, D. Vanmaekelbergh
ZnO is one of the most attractive materials for optical applications in the visible and the near UV range, ranging from large-scale white-light illumination to miniaturized lasers for the near UV. Furthermore, the unique properties of the semiconductor ZnO are of high interest in the field where advanced optics meets the nanoarea. Because of strong exciton transitions near the electronic band gap and an electron-hole binding energy of 60 meV, the optical properties are dominated by strong lightmatter interaction, involving exciton polaritons. In macroscopic ZnO structures, light absorption and emission mediated by excitonpolaritons has been investigated in much detail. It was observed that exciton-photon coupling expressed as the longitudinal-transverse energy splitting is considerable stronger than in other II-VI or III-V semiconductors. In ZnO nanostructures, exciton-photon coupling can even be considerably enhanced due to photon confinement.
{"title":"Exciton polaritons confined in ZnO nanowires","authors":"H-Y Li, L. V. van Vugt, S. Ruhle, L. Kuipers, F. Koenderink, D. V. van Dorp, D. Vanmaekelbergh","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421930","url":null,"abstract":"ZnO is one of the most attractive materials for optical applications in the visible and the near UV range, ranging from large-scale white-light illumination to miniaturized lasers for the near UV. Furthermore, the unique properties of the semiconductor ZnO are of high interest in the field where advanced optics meets the nanoarea. Because of strong exciton transitions near the electronic band gap and an electron-hole binding energy of 60 meV, the optical properties are dominated by strong lightmatter interaction, involving exciton polaritons. In macroscopic ZnO structures, light absorption and emission mediated by excitonpolaritons has been investigated in much detail. It was observed that exciton-photon coupling expressed as the longitudinal-transverse energy splitting is considerable stronger than in other II-VI or III-V semiconductors. In ZnO nanostructures, exciton-photon coupling can even be considerably enhanced due to photon confinement.","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121115060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421933
S. Petit, T. Kurosu, S. Namiki, M. Takahashi, T. Yagi
A simple and efficient cascaded operation of wavelength conversion for any arbitrary input and output wavelengths over 30 nm can be realized, using two dispersion-decreasing highly nonlinear fibers with SBS suppressed by distributed strain.
{"title":"Truly arbitrary wavelength conversion by cascaded four-wave mixing in low dispersion slope SBS suppressed highly nonlinear fibers","authors":"S. Petit, T. Kurosu, S. Namiki, M. Takahashi, T. Yagi","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421933","url":null,"abstract":"A simple and efficient cascaded operation of wavelength conversion for any arbitrary input and output wavelengths over 30 nm can be realized, using two dispersion-decreasing highly nonlinear fibers with SBS suppressed by distributed strain.","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121203962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421954
Naohide Kamitani, N. Goto, S. Yanagiya
Two-dimensional filter for photonic label recognition system using time-space conversion and delay compensation is designed by Genetic-Algorithm. For four-bit BPSK labels at 160Gb/s, eight different labels are distinguished with contrast ratio of 2.74.
{"title":"Optimization of two-dimensional filter for photonic label recognition by Genetic-Algorithm","authors":"Naohide Kamitani, N. Goto, S. Yanagiya","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421954","url":null,"abstract":"Two-dimensional filter for photonic label recognition system using time-space conversion and delay compensation is designed by Genetic-Algorithm. For four-bit BPSK labels at 160Gb/s, eight different labels are distinguished with contrast ratio of 2.74.","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115459651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421982
G. Schmid, W. Leeb, G. Langer
Printed circuit boards with two-photon absorption inscribed waveguides have been developed. We show very low crosstalk when transmitting data simultaneously on closely spaced waveguides and high robustness against electromagnetic interference.
{"title":"Experimental demonstration of the robustness against interference of optical interconnects on printed circuit boards","authors":"G. Schmid, W. Leeb, G. Langer","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421982","url":null,"abstract":"Printed circuit boards with two-photon absorption inscribed waveguides have been developed. We show very low crosstalk when transmitting data simultaneously on closely spaced waveguides and high robustness against electromagnetic interference.","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125279272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421939
Tobias C. Wood, Kevin R. Koh, D. Elson
A hyperspectral fluorescence and polarisation resolved imaging system incorporating a rigid endoscope has been developed for tissue characterisation. A full Mueller Matrix has been recorded for two commercial endoscopes to allow for correction of the complex polarisation properties.
{"title":"Challenges in multimodal (fluorescence, reflectance, polarisation) tissue imaging using rigid endoscopes","authors":"Tobias C. Wood, Kevin R. Koh, D. Elson","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421939","url":null,"abstract":"A hyperspectral fluorescence and polarisation resolved imaging system incorporating a rigid endoscope has been developed for tissue characterisation. A full Mueller Matrix has been recorded for two commercial endoscopes to allow for correction of the complex polarisation properties.","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123061452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421990
A. Benz, C. Deutsch, G. Fasching, K. Unterrainer, A. Andrews, P. Klang, W. Schrenk, G. Strasser
We present the design and realization of active photonic crystal (PhC) terahertz quantum-cascade lasers. The PhC consists of isolated pillars which are fabricated from the laser gain region. A stable single mode operation under all driving conditions is achieved.
{"title":"Gain photonic crystal terahertz quantum-cascade lasers","authors":"A. Benz, C. Deutsch, G. Fasching, K. Unterrainer, A. Andrews, P. Klang, W. Schrenk, G. Strasser","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421990","url":null,"abstract":"We present the design and realization of active photonic crystal (PhC) terahertz quantum-cascade lasers. The PhC consists of isolated pillars which are fabricated from the laser gain region. A stable single mode operation under all driving conditions is achieved.","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122596470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-25DOI: 10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421986
A. Schneider
The sensitivity of electro-optic sampling of terahertz pulses may be doubled for beams of a finite size, since the terahertz field alters the probe beam diffraction and thus the Gouy phases of both polarisations differently.
{"title":"Using the Gouy phase to increase the sensitivity of electro-optic sampling","authors":"A. Schneider","doi":"10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421986","url":null,"abstract":"The sensitivity of electro-optic sampling of terahertz pulses may be doubled for beams of a finite size, since the terahertz field alters the probe beam diffraction and thus the Gouy phases of both polarisations differently.","PeriodicalId":367324,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121159193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}