Optimized virtual optical waveguides enhance light throughput in scattering media [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Ultrasonically-sculpted gradient-index optical waveguides enable non-invasive light confinement inside scattering media. The confinement level strongly depends on ultrasound parameters (e.g., amplitude, frequency), and medium optical properties (e.g ...
Adithya Pediredla +4 more
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Low-loss, geometry-invariant optical waveguides with near-zero-index materials [PDF]
Nanophotonics, 2022 Optical materials with nearly zero refractive indices have driven emerging applications ranging from geometry-invariant optical tunneling, nonlinear optics, optical cloaking to thermal emission manipulation.
Wang Danqing +6 more
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Properties of Large Core Polymer Optical Bend Waveguides [PDF]
Radioengineering, 2019 We report about properties of large core plastic planar optical bend waveguides. The dimensions of the waveguides were to be compatible with the commonly used plastic optical fiber with diameter 750 µm and the bend radii of the waveguides varied from 30 ...
V. Prajzler, M. Knietel, P. Jasek
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Liquid crystal tunable claddings for polymer integrated optical waveguides [PDF]
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2019 Optical waveguides in photonic integrated circuits are traditionally passive elements merely carrying optical signals from one point to another. These elements could contribute to the integrated circuit functionality if they were modulated either by ...
José M. Otón +5 more
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High-Precision Propagation-Loss Measurement of Single-Mode Optical Waveguides on Lithium Niobate on Insulator [PDF]
Micromachines, 2019 We demonstrate the fabrication of single-mode optical waveguides on lithium niobate on an insulator (LNOI) by optical patterning combined with chemomechanical polishing.
Jintian Lin +8 more
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Flexible Polymer Planar Optical Waveguides [PDF]
Radioengineering, 2014 We report about design, fabrication and properties of flexible polymer optical planar waveguides made of Epoxy Novolak Resin as planar waveguides deposited on various foil substrates.
V. Prajzler +4 more
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Light confinement in liquid crystals for optofluidic integrated microsystems -INVITED [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2021 In this paper technology to make optical waveguides and microfluidic channels integrated on the same substrate will be reported to envisage novel micro-optofluidic chips.
d’Alessandro Antonio, Kumaran Anju M.
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Birefringence compensation in double-core optical waveguides [PDF]
, 1998 A new concept for birefringence compensation in planar optical waveguides applying a double-core structure is introduced. It is demonstrated on waveguides fabricated in silicon oxynitride technology for applications in optical ...
Bona, G.L. +6 more
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Optical Polymer Waveguides Fabricated by Roll-to-Plate Nanoimprinting Technique
Nanomaterials, 2021 The paper reports on the properties of UV-curable inorganic-organic hybrid polymer multimode optical channel waveguides fabricated by roll-to-plate (R2P) nanoimprinting.
Vaclav Prajzler +5 more
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Towards all-optical atom chips based on optical waveguides
New Journal of Physics, 2020 Coherent guiding of atoms in two-colour evanescent light fields of two fundamental modes of suspended optical rib waveguides is investigated theoretically.
Yuri B Ovchinnikov, Folly Eli Ayi-Yovo
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