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Three-dimensional fabrication of sub-micron optical waveguides in PDMS and other polymer materials

Optical waveguides are one of the most important photonic components. They are indispensable tools in many of todayâ s technologies because of their capacity of guiding light. In particular, compact, low loss, flexible polymer optical waveguides are cruci ...

EPFL2021

Fiber-interface directional coupler inscribed by femtosecond laser for refractive index measurements

Jiangtao Zhou, Zhechen Zhang, Yiping Wang, Jiachen Wang

A novel fiber-interface directional waveguide coupler was inscribed on the surface of a coreless fiber by femtosecond laser, and was successfully applied to highly sensitive refractive index (RI) measurements. The primary arm was first inscribed to couple ...

2020

Functional Elements for Quantum-Dot-Based Integrated Quantum Photonics

Antoine Maxime Delgoffe

Quantum Integrated Photonics (QIP) harnesses quantum-states of light on tiny chips, from generation to processing and eventual detection. Within this context, this thesis explores functional QIP elements resulting from the monolithic integration of semicon ...

EPFL2020

Resonant Waveguide Gratings for Color-Selective Diffraction

Giorgio Quaranta

Resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs), also known as guided mode resonant (GMR) gratings or waveguide-mode resonant gratings, are dielectric structures where these resonant diffractive elements benefit from lateral leaky guided modes and can operate from UV t ...

EPFL2019

Particle size selection in capillary instability of locally heated coaxial fiber

François Gallaire, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Saviz Mowlavi, Isha Shukla

Harnessing fluidic instabilities to produce structures with robust and regular properties has recently emerged as a new fabrication paradigm. This approach is exemplified in the work of Gumennik et al. [Nat. Commun. 4, 2216 (2103)], in which the authors fa ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Formation Rules and Dynamics of Photoinduced χ(2) Gratings in Silicon Nitride Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Edgars Nitiss, Tianyi Liu

Silicon nitride has emerged as a prominent platform for building photonics integrated circuits. While its nonlinear properties based on third-order effects have been successfully exploited, an efficient second harmonic generation in standard stoichiometric ...

2020

Photoinitiator-free Laser Fabrication of Ultra-compact, Low-loss Waveguides in Polydimethylsiloxane

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ye Pu, Giulia Panusa, Jieping Wang

Owing to its excellent elasticity, wide spectral range of transparency, and outstanding chemical and thermal stability, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is an elastomer of great technological importance, being widely used in the fabrication of microfluidic and ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Acoustic Analogues of High-Index Optical Waveguide Devices

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad

High index optical waveguide devices such as slab waveguides, strip waveguides and fibers play extremely important roles in a wide range of modern applications including telecommunications, sensing, lasing, interferometry, and resonant amplification. Yet, ...

Nature Research2018

Photonic Damascene process for integrated high Q microresonator based nonlinear photonic devices

Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

Chip-based optical waveguides formed by a silicon nitride (Si3N4) core and a silicon dioxide (SiO2) cladding are an important platform for low loss waveguides and nonlinear optics. High Q microresonators based on this material system have become a standard ...

EPFL2018

Compact Drop-on-Demand Apparatus Using Light Actuation Through Optical Fibers

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot

A drop delivery system comprising a light source; an optical waveguide bringing light from the light source; and a liquid supplying means configured to bring a liquid at a tip of the optical waveguide, wherein the light source and the optical waveguide are ...

2017