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Waveguide Engineering of Graphene Optoelectronics—Modulators and Polarizers

open access: yesIEEE Photonics Journal, 2018
The concept of incorporating graphene into nanophotonic waveguides has pullulated into massive broadband optoelectronic applications with compact footprint.
Yuan Meng   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plasma waveguides for high-intensity laser pulses

open access: yes, 2001
This thesis documents the development of plasma waveguides for high-intensity laser pulses. Initial work concentrated on the development of the discharge-ablated capillary waveguide, based on the work of A. Zigler (Zigler, A., Y. Ehrlich, C.
Spence, David James   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

All-optical signal processing using cascaded quadratic interactions in periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis investigates all-optical signal processing using cascaded quadratic nonlinearities in periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguides for telecommunication applications.
Liu, Sheng
core  

Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling of the effects of thermal gradients on optical propagation in polymer multimode tapered waveguides in optical backplanes

open access: yes, 2004
Finite difference beam propagation modelling (FD-BPM) calculates the effect of thermal gradients in an optical backplane on the optical field propagation in a polymer multimode linearly tapered waveguide.
Rashed, A.M., Selviah, D.R.
core  

i2000s/2017DAMOP-spin-squeezing-on-nanophotonic-waveguides: Xiaodong Qi's 2017 DAMOP talk slides.

open access: yes, 2017
<p>Slides as PDF and PowerPoint2016 files. Detailed information can be found <a href="https://github.com/i2000s/2017DAMOP-spin-squeezing-on-nanophotonic-waveguides/">here</a> and <a href="https://purl.org/qxd/en/2017DAMOP-spin ...
Qi
core   +1 more source

A Low‐Cost, Handheld Optical Stiffness Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A novel handheld stiffness sensor is presented for real‐time tissue stiffness characterization. By simultaneously sensing contact force and tissue deformation, the device enables accurate stiffness quantification without requiring precise manual control. This approach offers a promising solution for intraoperative tumor detection and minimally invasive
Qianyu Ma   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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