In this paper, we present an SU-8 based evanescent waveguide with a vertical structure as a biomedical sensor. The waveguide is designed vertically to generate evanescent waves on both left and right surfaces for sensing. It is fabricated by E-beam l...
In this paper, we propose a novel vertical SU-8 waveguide for evanescent analyte sensing. The waveguide is designed to possess a vertical and narrow structure to generate evanescent waves on both sides of the waveguide’s surface, aimed at incre...
We demonstrate the hybrid integration of a lithium niobate microring resonator with a silicon nitride waveguide in the vertical configuration to achieve efficient light coupling. The microring resonator is fabricated on a lithium niobate on insulator...
In this work we investigate the coupling of radiation originating from a vertical-cavity enhanced thermal emitter (VERTE) into an optical waveguide, which can, for instance, act as a sensing element. We present full wave modelling results demonstrati...
In this work, a photonic device integration platform capable of integration of active-passive InP-based photonic devices without the use of material regrowth is introduced. The platform makes use of an adiabatic active-layer waveguide connection (ALW...
The article discusses the design, fabrication, and experimental evaluation of a large-area vertical grating coupler (VGC) enabling simultaneous coupling of multiple input optical beams. The presented VCG was fabricated by direct nanoimprinting of a g...
Ge/Si separate absorption, charge, and multiplication avalanche photodiodes (SACM APDs) coupled with waveguides have shown significant potential as high-sensitivity, low-noise, and high-speed photodetectors for optical communications. In this study,...
We propose a mode switch based on hybrid-core vertical directional couplers with an embedded graphene electrode to realize the switching function with low power consumption. We designed the device with Norland Optical Adhesive (NOA) material as the g...
LNOI devices have emerged as prominent contributors to photonic integrated circuits (PICs), benefiting from their outstanding performance in electro-optics, acousto-optics, nonlinear optics, etc. Due to the physical properties and current etching tec...
The paper presents a novel fully integrated MEMS-based non-resonating operated 2D mechanical scanning system using a 1D push-pull actuator. Details of the design, fabrication and tests performed are presented. The current design utilizes an integrate...
We have investigated a new type of redirection waveguides for concentration solar-cell systems. The solar cell units are to be placed in the peripheral region of the waveguide. The redirection waveguide converts three-dimensionally propagating (3D) p...
We report a novel Mach−Zehnder interferometer (MZI) sensor that utilizes a weak one-dimensional field confinement silica waveguide (WCSW). The WCSW has a large horizontal and vertical aspect ratio and low refractive index difference, which features e...
Integrating the graded index (GRIN) waveguide with the 2-D inversely-tapered waveguide, a new design of spot size converter (SSC) has been proposed to couple the light beam between the cleaved single-mode fiber (SMF) and the silicon (Si) wire wavegui...
In this paper, a hybrid optical guiding system based on low group velocity offered by photonic crystal (PhC) waveguides and vertical confinement as well as high field enhancement of. Surface lasmon polaritons (SPP) is proposed. We show that for effic...
This paper introduces a four-way power combiner operating in the 94 GHz millimeter-wave based on spatial power combining technology. The four millimeter-waves with Gaussian beams are combined in the waveguide, increasing the output power. The combine...
This paper presents the concept of a 2D m × n waveguide-based power combiner (PC) that is scalable with respect to the operating frequency band and number of input ports. To our knowledge, this work reports the first planar (2D) power combiner,...
We propose a hybrid laser microfabrication approach for the manufacture of three-dimensional (3D) optofluidic spot-size converters in fused silica glass by a combination of femtosecond (fs) laser microfabrication and carbon dioxide laser irradiation....
Integrated optical waveguide amplifiers, with their compact footprint, low power consumption, and scalability, are the basis for optical communications. The realization of high gain in such integrated devices is made more challenging by the tight opt...
In the past few decades, silicon photonics has witnessed a ramp-up of investment in both research and industry. As a basic building block, silicon waveguide crossing is inevitable for dense silicon photonic integrated circuits and efficient crossing...
A comparative study is given for the sensitivity of several typical Si nanophotonic waveguides, including SOI (silicon-on-insulator) nanowires, nanoslot waveguides, suspended Si nanowires, and nanofibers. The cases for gas sensing (ncl ~ 1.0) and liq...
In this paper, we demonstrate a waveguide display structure which can realize a large field of view on a two-dimensional plane and a larger exit pupil size at the same time. This waveguide structure has three polarization volume gratings as its coupl...
The possibility of controlling localized fields in multimode shallow water waveguides based on the principle of interference invariance was studied. Within the framework of the numerical experiments in a wide frequency range of 100–350 Hz and r...
Semiconductor nanowires offer a promising route of realizing nanolasers for the next generation of chip-scale optoelectronics and photonics applications. Established fabrication methods can produce vertical semiconductor nanowires which can themselve...
A wideband multi-polarized square-horn antenna based on an orthogonal mode transducer (OMT) is developed for working in the whole W-band in this paper. The designed antenna is capable of radiating multiple polarization modes as horizontal polarizatio...
We report a vertically coupled germanium (Ge) waveguide detector integrated on silicon-on-insulator waveguides and an optimized device structure through the analysis of the optical field distribution and absorption efficiency of the device. The photo...
Channel waveguides with diffraction gratings at their input and output for light injection and extraction, respectively, are extensively exploited for optical and photonic applications. In this paper, we report for the first time on such an architect...
We design and fabricate meter-scale long connectorized paper-like flexible multimode polymer waveguide film with a large bandwidth-length product (BLP) for board-level optical interconnects application. The measured BLP of the multimode waveguide is...
Gallium nitride (GaN) materials with a high chemical stability and biocompatibility are well suited for bio-sensing applications and evanescent wave spectroscopy. However, GaN poses challenges for processing, especially for deep etching using convent...
Symmetric narrow waveguide structure has been developed and fabricated to achieve low beam divergence and improved coupling performance of the 1.95 μm GaSb-based single-transverse-mode diode lasers. The near-field expansion effect of the narrowed...
In this work, the dielectric permittivity of four kinds of wood (Fir, Poplar, Oak, and Beech Tree), used in Italian Artworks and structures, was characterized at different humidity levels. Measurements were carried out using three different probes co...
Topological Weyl semimetals are characterized by open Fermi arcs on their terminal surfaces, these materials not only changed accepted concepts of the Fermi loop but also enabled many exotic phenomena, such as one-way propagation. The key prerequisit...
A silicon photonic microresonator comprising two curved vertical grating couplers and a single suspended Si nanowaveguide (NWG) is developed to investigate the giant enhanced Brillouin scattering in subwavelength NWGs caused by photon-phonon interact...
The proposed structure in this research is constructed on substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology and has a mechanism that produces 16 different and distinct resonant frequencies between 2.45 and 3.05 GHz by perturbing a fundamental TE10 mode...
The mode rotator is an important component in a PLC-based mode-division multiplexing (MDM) system, which is used to implement high-order modes with vertical intensity peaks, such as LP11b mode conversions from LP11a in PLC chips. In this paper, an LP...
An acousto-optic (AO) holographic display unit based on a suspended waveguide membrane was developed. The AO unit consists of a wide bandwidth chirp interdigital transducer (IDT) on a 20 µm thick suspended crystalline 128° YX LiNbO3 membran...
A 4 × 4 wideband millimeter-wave (mmWave) slot array antenna excited by the TE440 mode based on the groove gap waveguide is presented in this paper. A vertical waveguide located in the center of the cavity and two ridges are used to excite the...
Micro–nano cerium oxide particles with regular morphology and good dispersity have been widely used in polishing and other industrial fields. Microwave heating is an effective, controllable and green heating technology. The Venturi reactor used...
A W-band, high-gain, hybrid slot antenna array based on bulk silicon MEMS technology is proposed in this paper. The high-order-mode cavity is explored to excite the 2 × 2-slot basic unit, so as to reach the low-profile requirement of the bulk s...
Hybrid integration of silicon photonics with lithium niobate (LN) devices provides a promising route to enable an excellent modulation performance in silicon photonic integrated circuits. To realize this purpose, a substrate containing a Si film on a...
We report for the first time the direct growth of quantum dot (QD) lasers with electrical pumping on 300 mm Si wafers on both a planar template and in-pocket template for in-plane photonic integration. O-band lasers with five QD layers were grown wit...
Recently, photonic crystals have paved the way to control photonic signals. Therefore, this research numerically investigated the design of the optical switch using the guided-mode resonances in photonic crystals operating in a communication window a...
A novel manufacturing procedure for the fabrication of ultra-wideband cavity-backed substrate integrated waveguide antennas on textile substrates is proposed. The antenna cavity is constructed using a single laser-cut electrotextile patch, which is f...
We investigate both theoretically and experimentally the properties of electromagnetic waves propagation and localization in periodic and quasi-periodic stub structures of Fibonacci type. Each block constituting the Fibonacci sequence (FS) is compose...
This article proposes a novel demonstration of a low-loss polymer channel hybridized with a titania core leading to a nano-waveguide elongated in the normal direction to the substrate. It is aimed at using the quasi-transverse magnetic (TM) mode as t...
The modal property and light propagation in tapered silicon ridge waveguides with different ridge heights are investigated for a silicon on insulator (SOI) platform with a 500 nm silicon (Si) thickness. Mode conversion between the transverse magnetic...
We present a simulation-based study on a 3D heterogeneous photonic integration scheme based on a vertical microring coupler (VμRC). Our research introduces a more compact and efficient layout of photonic devices in the vertical direction, surpassi...
This paper presents a study on the use of optical fiber and a solar concentrator for a building daylighting system. Daylighting is essential for improving indoor environments and reducing electric lighting power consumption in office buildings. Tradi...
This study presents various microwave reactor designs specifically engineered for continuous microwave CO2 desorption, marking a significant advancement in microwave-heating systems. This study explored both horizontal and vertical continuous microwa...
We present a numerical design of the plasmonic memristive switching device operated at the telecommunication wavelength of 1.55 μm, which consists of a triangle-shaped metal taper mounted on top of a Si waveguide, with rational doping in the area bel...
In order to effectively employ through-glass vias (TGVs) for high-frequency software package design, it is crucial to accurately characterize the S-parameters of vertical interconnection structures in 3D glass packaging. A methodology is proposed for...
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