Photonic devices
Integrated Nonlinear Photonic Devices
... I thank my advisor Professor Kerry Vahala for his guidance and mentorship through- out my graduate study. In mid-March of 2012, I had the first meeting with Kerry in Watson 234 at Caltech. After praying through the week, ...
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Free-carrier effects in polycrystalline silicon-on-insulator photonic devices
... of devices designed in this thesis is accomplished at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Semiconductor and Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory ...superfluous photonic structures and only a few ...
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Aperiodic and Asymmetric Multiple Quantum Well Photonic Devices: A Novel Transfer Matrix Based Model
... Abstract: Eigen states and Eigen functions are computed for aperiodic and asymmetric Multiple Quantum Wells (MQWs) by a faster, simpler and more accurate algorithm based on Transfer Matrix method. Time independent ...
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Fundamentals and applications of spatial dissipative solitons in photonic devices
... in applications though it is probably fair to say that many aspects of the switching process and potentials for optimization are not well understood at this point (see also Sec. 3.4.2). The results reported by Tanguy et ...
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Design and optimization of compact spot-size converters for silicon photonic devices
... scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs) ...integrated photonic platform, in which ultra-compact photonic circuits can be achieved due to a very high index ...
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Wavelength scale Confinement of Light and Its Applications in On Chip Photonic Devices
... the photonic crystal slab and the substrate is large enough, approximately h > a, such that the photon confinement mechanism of PBG is still ...the photonic crystal slab rests directly against a ...
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Measurement of the local optical phase and amplitude in photonic devices using scanning near field microscopy
... A prior investigation has proven SNOM to be well suited for the characterisation of microstructured fibres [14], showing that the technique is capable of achieving an accurate profile of[r] ...
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Design and optimization of photonic devices and optical fibers for space-division multiplexing
... A novel OI configuration based on 8-core heterogeneous TA-MCF and a mode splitter using ADC are proposed to overcome the expected capacity crunch in short reach optical transmission system. Through simulations, we have ...
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InSb based quantum dot nanostructures for mid infrared photonic devices
... There is continuous worldwide interest in the development of light sources and detectors for the mid-infrared (2-5 µm) spectral range driven by the extensive range of potential applications, including environmental gas ...
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A high efficiency input/output coupler for small silicon photonic devices
... than up to the fibre dimension. This means that the mode becomes less well confined in the core of the waveguide and exists substantially in the cladding (typically silica or polymer). Therefore the effective index of ...
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High accuracy transfer printing of single-mode membrane silicon photonic devices
... One potential alternative is transfer printing (TP). TP is an attractive approach for vertical device integration technologies, and unlike wafer bonding it provides an effective route for back-end processing, offering ...
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Micro-fabrication of advanced photonic devices by means of direct point-by-point femtosecond inscription in silica
... Since the early demonstrations of grating inscription in various fibers using a femtosecond laser, 6 much effort has been spent to improve the quality of fiber gratings and to understand the mechanisms of the residual ...
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Applications of light propagation in novel photonic devices
... In this second part of this thesis I will describe investigations to control the propagation of light in materials whose physical properties have been modu- lated in some way. Such materials are commonly referred to as ...
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NANOSCALE PHOTONIC DEVICES FABRICATED USING DNA NANOSTRUCTURES
... In summary, two FRET-based waveguides and a systematic approach to fabricate four different nanoparticle arrays have been demonstrated. FRET-based waveguides have been successfully designed, fabricated, and characterized ...
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Optimization of silicon photonic devices for polarization diversity applications
... integrated photonic quantum circuits ...of photonic integrated devices based on SOI nanowires and at the end enables polarization transparent silicon nano-PICs [7], [57], which play an important role ...
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Design of Optical Devices Based on Hybrid Periodic/Fibonacci Photonic Crystal in the Visible and the Near Infrared Domains
... or Photonic Band Gap (PBG) materials are a new class of optical nanostructures with a periodic modulation in the dielectric constants on the length scale comparable to optical ...futuristic photonic ...
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ULTRA-HIGH BW OPTICAL COMMUNICATION USING OXYGEN PLASMA ASSISTED InP BASED HYBRID Si LASER
... Silicon evanescent amplifier can be easily integrated with the silicon waveguide after the optical signals were modulated. Recently hybrid silicon based amplifier attained the capability for high speed amplification up ...
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Photonic Applications of Silicon Nanostructures
... It is impor tant to achieve efficient electroluminescence (EL) in order to employ Si-NS for the production of photonic devices. At present commercial LEDs have external efficiency orders of magnitude higher ...
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Thermoelectric performance of Na doped GeSe
... other applications, such as optoelectronics,30,31 resistive memory cells,32 glass-forming materials for photonic devices with thin-film structures,33,34 photovoltaic applications,30 and r[r] ...
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Engineering Optical and Thermal Properties of Two Dimensional Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayer
... resonant photonic structures that are deterministically designed using a unique reverse design approach based on leaky mode ...and photonic devices when the devices reduced to nanoscale even ...
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