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We design an all-dielectric L\"uneburg lens as an adiabatic space-variant lattice explicitly accounting for finite film thickness. We describe an all-analytical approach to compensate for the finite height of subwavelength dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Hanhong Gao , Baile Zhang , Steven G. Johnson , George Barbastathis

We report on the theory of a Luneburg lens for forward-volume magnetostatic spin waves, and verify its operation via micromagnetic modelling. The lens converts a plane wave to a point source (and vice versa) by a designed graded index,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 N. J. Whitehead , S. A. R. Horsley , T. G. Philbin , V. V. Kruglyak

A novel design for straight directional waveguide couplers and interferometers is demonstrated in glass, fabricated using femtosecond laser direct writing and operating at telecommunication wavelengths (~1550 nm). The devices consisted of…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-15 Mohan Wang , Martin J. Booth , Patrick S. Salter

A metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguide for electromagnetic energy transport utilizing dispersion engineering to dramatically increase lateral energy confinement via a two-dimensional pattern of Au dots on an optically thin Si membrane is…

Reducing the fabrication cost of photonic integrated circuits while maintaining low optical losses and technological simplicity is essential for their wider implementation. In conventional manufacturing methods, the dielectric cladding…

Manipulation of spoof surface plasmons (SSPs) has recently intrigued enormous interest due to the capability of guiding waves with subwavelength footsteps. However, most of the previous studies, manifested for a single functionality, are…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jin Zhao , Yi-Dong Wang , Li-Zheng Yin , Feng-Yuan Han , Tie-Jun Huang , Pu-Kun Liu

We design compact waveguide couplers via impedance-tunable transformation optics. By tuning impedance coefficients in the original space, two-dimensional metallic and dielectric waveguide couplers are designed with a high efficiency.…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-04 Jun Cao , Lifa Zhang , Weifeng Jiang , Senlin Yan , Xiaohan Sun

Integrated photonics is a powerful platform that can improve the performance and stability of optical systems, while providing low-cost, small-footprint and scalable alternatives to implementations based on free-space optics. While great…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Boris Desiatov , Amirhassan Shams-Ansari , Mian Zhang , Cheng Wang , Marko Loncar

Mode-division-multiplexing (MDM) is attractive as a means to increase the link capacity of a single wavelength for optical interconnects via the use of multiple mode-channels in multimode bus waveguide.In order to route the data in MDM…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Hao Wu , Chenlei Li , Lijia Song , Hon-Ki Tsang , John E Bowers , Daoxin Dai

We propose a practical and efficient solution for the coupling of light from integrated single-mode waveguides to supercollimating planar photonic crystals on conventional silicon-on-insulator platforms. The device consists of a rib…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Vynck , E. Centeno , M. Le Vassor d'Yerville , D. Cassagne

We investigate the subwavelength imaging capacity of a two-dimensional fanned-out plasmonic waveguide array, formed by air channels surrounded by gold metal layers for operation at near-infrared wavelengths, via finite element simulations.…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-15 Nina Podoliak , Peter Horak , Jord C. Prangsma , Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

Integrated lithium niobate (LN) photonic circuits have recently emerged as a promising candidate for advanced photonic functions such as high-speed modulation, nonlinear frequency conversion and frequency comb generation. For practical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 Lingyan He , Mian Zhang , Amirhassan Shams-Ansari , Rongrong Zhu , Cheng Wang , Marko Loncar

High-performance optical beam splitters are of fundamental importance for the development of advanced silicon photonics integrated circuits. However, due to the high refractive index contrast of the silicon-on-insulator platform, state of…

The vast development of integrated quantum photonic technology enables the implementation of compact and stable interferometric networks. In particular laser-written waveguide structures allow for complex 3D-circuits and…

Lithium niobate (LN) is a promising material for future complex photonic-electronic circuits, with wide applications in fields like data communications, sensing, optical computation, and quantum optics. There was a great step toward LN…

Silicon-based micro-devices are considered promising candidates for consolidating several terahertz technologies into a common and practical platform. The practicality stems from the relatively low loss, device compactness, ease of…

The first demonstration of narrowband spectral filtering of multimode light on a 3D integrated photonic chip using photonic lanterns and waveguide Bragg gratings is reported. The photonic lanterns with multi-notch waveguide Bragg gratings…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-12 Izabela Spaleniak , Simon Gross , Nemanja Jovanovic , Robert J. Williams , Jon S. Lawrence , Michael J. Ireland , Michael J. Withford

In this paper, we explore the concept of structural Luneburg Lens (SLL) as a design framework for performing dynamic structural tailoring to obtain a structural wave cloak and a structural waveguide. The SLL is a graded refractive index…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Liuxian Zhao , Miao Yu

Dye-doped hybrid silicate/titanium nanofilms on the glass substrate in the structure of asymmetrical waveguides were studied as the laser system. The spatial and spectral features of laser oscillation of genuine and hollow waveguides were…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-09 E. A. Tikhonov , V. P. Yashchuk , G. M. Telbiz

Broadband spectral filters are highly sought-after in many integrated photonics applications such as ultra-broadband wavelength division multiplexing, multi-band spectroscopy, and broadband sensing. In this study, we present the design,…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-24 Kazim Gorgulu , Emir Salih Magden