Sensitive, small, broadband and scalable optomechanical ultrasound sensor in silicon photonics

WJ Westerveld, M Mahmud-Ul-Hasan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ultrasonography and photoacoustic,(optoacoustic) tomography have recently seen great
advances in hardware and algorithms. However, current high-end systems still use a matrix …

Silicon-photonics acoustic detector for optoacoustic micro-tomography

Y Hazan, A Levi, M Nagli, A Rosenthal - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Medical ultrasound and optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging commonly rely on the
concepts of beam-forming and tomography for image formation, enabled by piezoelectric …

Rapid quantitative measurement of internal ultrasonic field in acousto-optic modulator via off-axis digital holography

J Zhang, J Tang, J Zuo, J Wu, K Li, J Zhang… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The internal ultrasonic field of an acousto-optic crystal determines the effects of acousto-
optic modulator (AOM) devices. Conventionally, schlieren method is used for the …

[HTML][HTML] Silicon photonic acoustic detector (SPADE) using a silicon nitride microring resonator

M Nagli, R Moisseev, N Suleymanov, E Kaminski… - Photoacoustics, 2023 - Elsevier
Silicon photonics is an emerging platform for acoustic sensing, offering exceptional
miniaturization and sensitivity. While efforts have focused on silicon-based resonators …

Noise reduction in resonator-based ultrasound sensors by using a CW laser and phase detection

L Riobó, Y Hazan, F Veiras, M Garea, P Sorichetti… - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The detection of ultrasound via optical resonators is conventionally performed by tuning a
continuous-wave (CW) laser to the linear slope of the resonance and monitoring the …

Passive quadrature demodulation of an ultrasonic fiber-optic interferometric sensor using a laser and an acousto-optic modulator

G Liu, Y Zhu, Z Liu, M Han - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate the use of a single-frequency laser and an acousto-optic
modulator (AOM) for quadrature demodulation of fiber-optic ultrasonic sensors whose …

Simultaneous multi-channel ultrasound detection via phase modulated pulse interferometry

Y Hazan, A Rosenthal - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In optical detection of ultrasound, resonators with high Q-factors are often used to maximize
sensitivity. However, in order to perform parallel interrogation, conventional interferometric …

Miniaturized ultrasound detector arrays in silicon photonics using pulse transmission amplitude monitoring

Y Hazan, M Nagli, A Levi, A Rosenthal - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics holds promise for a new generation of ultrasound-detection technology,
based on optical resonators, with unparalleled miniaturization levels, sensitivities, and …

Ultrasound detection via low-noise pulse interferometry using a free-space Fabry-Pérot

O Volodarsky, Y Hazan, A Rosenthal - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Coherence-restored pulse interferometry (CRPI) is a recently developed method for optical
detection of ultrasound that achieves shot-noise-limited sensitivity and high dynamic range …

Burst-mode pulse interferometry for enabling low-noise multi-channel optical detection of ultrasound

O Volodarsky, Y Hazan, M Nagli, A Rosenthal - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Ultrasound detection via optical resonators can achieve high levels of miniaturization and
sensitivity as compared to piezoelectric detectors, but its scale-up from a single detector to …