Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Thermo-optic phase shifters based on silicon-on-insulator platform: state-of-the-art and a review

S Liu, J Feng, Y Tian, H Zhao, L **, B Ouyang… - Frontiers of …, 2022 - Springer
Silicon photonic platforms offer relevance to large markets in many applications, such as
optical phased arrays, photonic neural networks, programmable photonic integrated circuits …

Heterogeneous silicon photonic integrated circuits

T Komljenovic, M Davenport, J Hulme… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We review recent breakthroughs in the silicon photonic technology and components, and
describe progress in silicon photonic integrated circuits. Heterogeneous silicon photonics …

Optimization of thermo-optic phase-shifter design and mitigation of thermal crosstalk on the SOI platform

M Jacques, A Samani, E El-Fiky, D Patel, Z **ng… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We first optimize the design and compare the performance of thermo-optic phase-shifters
based on TiN metal and N_++ doped silicon, in the same SOI process. The designs don't …

Theoretical investigation of graphene-based photonic modulators

J Gosciniak, DTH Tan - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Integration of electronics and photonics for future applications requires an efficient
conversion of electrical to optical signals. The excellent electronic and photonic properties of …

Cascaded ring resonator-based temperature sensor with simultaneously enhanced sensitivity and range

HT Kim, M Yu - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report a cascaded ring resonator (CRR) based, silicon photonic temperature sensor for
simultaneous sensitivity and range enhancement. To achieve the dual enhancement, the …

High sensitivity refractive index and temperature sensor based on semiconductor metamaterial perfect absorber in the terahertz band

M Aslinezhad - Optics Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose theoretically and numerically a highly sensitive refractive index and
temperature sensor based on semiconductor metamaterials in the terahertz range. We …

Graphene-based waveguide integrated dielectric-loaded plasmonic electro-absorption modulators

J Gosciniak, DTH Tan - Nanotechnology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Theoretical investigations of graphene-based electro-optic plasmonic modulators with a
dielectric ridge were analyzed and the results were presented. The effects of different ridge …

Reconfigurable add-drop multiplexer for spatial modes

DAB Miller - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We show how a spatial mode can be extracted from a light beam, leaving the other
orthogonal modes undisturbed, and allowing a new signal to be retransmitted on that mode …

Active control of SPR by thermoresponsive hydrogels for biosensor applications

M Toma, U Jonas, A Mateescu, W Knoll… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The use of thermoresponsive poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)-based hydrogel (pNIPAAm) for
rapid tuning of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is reported. This approach is implemented …