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Photonics, Volume 11, Issue 9

September 2024 - 113 articles

Cover Story: SU-8 is an emerging polymer material for integrated optical circuits working in cryogenic environments. We investigated the thermo-optical properties of SU-8 at the wavelength λ = 850 nm, from room temperature down to 14 K. To measure the material properties, we designed and fabricated SU-8 racetrack resonators via electron beam lithography. We measured the resonance spectrum as a function of the temperature, from which we determined the temperature-induced variations in the effective and group indexes of the waveguide. With the aid of eigenmode simulations, we derived the temperature dependence of the SU-8 refractive index. At T~295 K, the thermo-optic coefficient is dnSU−8/dT = −5.3 ± 0.2 × 10−5 K−1. At T~14 K, dnSU−8/dT = −1.27 ± 0.05 × 10−4 K−1. Our research shows the potential of using SU-8 photonics within cryogenic environments. View this paper
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Articles (113)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,948 Views
15 Pages

23 September 2024

We use non-destructive Digital Holographic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (DHSPI), post-processing image analysis and one-dimensional exponential analysis to visualize, map and describe the structural condition of a plaster-based material. The body i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,856 Views
18 Pages

23 September 2024

Aiming at the problems of power attenuation and spot expansion of pulsed laser transmission in snowfall environments, based on ray scattering and Fraunhofer diffraction theories, a model of laser transmission attenuation in snowfall environments is e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,910 Views
23 Pages

22 September 2024

This study developed a fibre-optic laser Doppler velocimetry sensor for use in opaque, high-temperature, and high-pressure fluid flows by inserting the fibre perpendicular to the main flow. The tip of the optical fibre was obliquely polished and chem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,462 Views
18 Pages

Characterizing Normal and Tumour Blood Microcirculatory Systems Using Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Héctor A. Contreras-Sánchez,
  • William Jeffrey Zabel,
  • Costel Flueraru,
  • Lothar Lilge,
  • Edward Taylor and
  • Alex Vitkin

21 September 2024

Blood vessels transport blood and deliver essential molecules to cells. In cancer, the tumour vasculature evolves very differently from healthy tissue, not only in morphology but also in functionality. Comprehensive 3D in vivo imaging of the tumour m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,671 Views
10 Pages

SBS Mitigation by Manipulating the Injecting Polarization Direction in a High-Power Monolithic PM Amplifier

  • Yu Wen,
  • Chun Zhang,
  • Chenxu Liu,
  • Qiuhui Chu,
  • Lingli Huang,
  • Yuan Zhu,
  • Haoyu Zhang,
  • Rumao Tao,
  • Honghuan Lin and
  • Jianjun Wang

21 September 2024

The polarization direction-dependent SBS threshold was investigated, and the terminal polarization control technique was demonstrated to restore the linear polarization state. By increasing the relative angle of the injecting polarization direction f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,319 Views
12 Pages

Iron-Modified Nano-TiO2: Comprehensive Characterization for Enhanced Photocatalytic Properties

  • Élida M. Margalho,
  • Orlando Lima,
  • Cátia Afonso,
  • Iran Rocha Segundo,
  • Salmon Landi,
  • Elisabete Freitas,
  • Manuel F. M. Costa and
  • Joaquim Carneiro

20 September 2024

This study investigates the effect of iron-modified nano-TiO2, using the co-precipitation method with different concentrations of FeCl3 (0.1, 1, and 10%), to improve its photocatalytic properties for outdoor applications. To this end, modified and un...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,177 Views
13 Pages

20 September 2024

TEM00-mode operation is a requirement in many laser-based applications due to the small divergence and high-power density of the emitted laser beam. A solar laser scheme was designed and numerically studied with the goal of increasing the solar-to-la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,611 Views
11 Pages

A Bidirectional Mode-Locked Fiber Laser for Asynchronous Noise-like Pulse Generation

  • Yongguo Zheng,
  • Anshuang Wang,
  • Yue Cai,
  • Fan Zhang and
  • Xinhai Zhang

20 September 2024

We demonstrate a bidirectional fiber laser with an artificial saturable absorber of a step-index multimode fiber sandwiched by single-mode fibers. Two asynchronous noise-like pulse sequences with a repetition frequency difference of 3.16 kHz are obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,589 Views
12 Pages

20 September 2024

Imaging through scattering media is an important and challenging problem, and the technology has been used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, industrial inspections, remote sensing imaging, and biomedical imaging. However, most of the previo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,807 Views
14 Pages

20 September 2024

To effectively mitigate the effects of atmospheric turbulence in free space optical (FSO) communication, we propose a parallel carrier frequency offset estimation (FOE) scheme based on time-tagged QPSK partitioning (TTQP). This scheme can be applied...

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