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Ultra-sensitive short-wave infrared (SWIR) photon detection is a crucial aspect of ongoing research in quantum technology. However, developing such detectors on a CMOS-compatible silicon technological platform has been challenging due to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 P. Sudha , S. Miyagawa , A. Samanta , D. Moraru

In this paper, we propose and analyze a waveguide-integrated interferometric sensor in which interference occurs between two plasmonic modes propagating in a single plasmonic waveguide. For the purpose of sensing, the vertical plasmonic…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-04 Jacek Gosciniak , Ryszard Piramidowicz

Converting mid-infrared (MIR) radiation to visible or near-infrared wavelengths is essential for imaging and sensing, yet achieving sensitive, low-power, and scalable detection remains challenging. Lanthanide nanocrystals provide an…

Mid-wave infrared (MWIR) frequency comb is expected to dramatically improve the precision and sensitivity of molecular spectroscopy. For high resolution application, high speed MWIR photodetector is one of the key components, however, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jian Huang , Zhiyang Xie , Yaojiang Chen , John Bowers , Baile Chen

We report the development of a new instrument for cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy of the fundamental rovibrational transitions of molecules in the long-wave mid-infrared (LWIR) region from 6500 to 10000 nm. Our setup combines a LWIR…

The twin Sentinel-3 satellites have multi-band radiometers which observe in methane-sensitive shortwave infrared bands with daily global coverage and 500 m ground pixel resolution. We investigate the methane observation capability of…

Measurement of low power infrared light emission spectra from microstructures can be challenging, but is of key importance in several research fields. Fourier transform infrared spectrometers (FTIR) can be used for characterizing such weak…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Maxime Brazeau , Mathieu Giroux , Nada Boubrik , Raphael St-Gelais

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an emerging class of biomarkers that are frequently deregulated in cancer cells and have shown a great promise for cancer classification and prognosis. In this work, we developed a three-way electrochemical sensor for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-02 Mahmoud Labib , Nasrin Khan , Jenny Cheng , John Paul Pezacki , Maxim V. Berezovski

In applications such as atmospheric monitoring of greenhouse gases and pollutants, the detection and identification of trace concentrations of harmful gases is commonly achieved using non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) sensors. These devices…

High-speed mid-infrared (MIR) videography constitutes an enabling tool to monitor and analyze various dynamics in scientific research and industrial applications, such as combustion diagnostics, explosion reactions, photosynthetic tracking,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ruiyang Qin , Kun Huang , Min Peng , Jianan Fang , Ben Sun , Zhengru Guo , Heping Zeng

Mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy is a well-established technique for non-destructive quantitative molecular analysis. Waveguide-integrated sensors provide a particularly compact solution operating with reduced sample volumes while…

Increasing the sweep rate of mid-infrared (MIR) frequency-swept sources offers significant potential for various high-speed spectroscopy-based applications. While continuous-wave frequency-swept lasers have achieved sweep rates up to 1 MHz,…

The interrogation of a sensor based on a highly birefringent film irradiated by an incident beam whose polarization is oriented 45o with respect to the normal film axes is shown to display exceptional features and resolve some outstanding…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-24 Keren Hakshur , Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills , Shlomo Ruschin

This paper proposes a metalens designed to work in 3.3 {\mu}m wavelength which resides in the mid-IR region. The metasurface was created using MoS2 nanopillars taking advantage of high refractive index and low loss. It could be used to make…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-06 Muhammad Mahmudul Hasan , Nezih Pala

Measuring the dispersion of photonic devices with small dispersion-length products is challenging due to the phase-sensitive, and alignment-intensive nature of conventional methods. In this letter, we demonstrate a quantum technique to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Arash Riazi , Eric Y. Zhu , Changjia Chen , Alexey V. Gladyshev , Peter G. Kazansky , Li Qian

We present a new imaging technique, swept-angle synthetic wavelength interferometry, for full-field micron-scale 3D sensing. As in conventional synthetic wavelength interferometry, our technique uses light consisting of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Alankar Kotwal , Anat Levin , Ioannis Gkioulekas

This paper presents an electrolytically gated broadband microwave sensor where atomically-thin graphene layers are integrated into coplanar waveguides and coupled with microfluidic channels. The interaction between a solution under test and…

We have obtained spatially resolved spectra of Titan in the near-infrared J, H and K bands at a resolving power of ~5000 using the near-infrared integral field spectrometer (NIFS) on the Gemini North 8m telescope. Using recent data from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jeremy Bailey , Linda Ahlsved , V. S. Meadows

Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is the golden standard of mid-infrared (MIR) molecular spectroscopic analysis through optically-encoded vibrational signatures. Michelson-type FTIR and MIR dual-comb spectrometers allow us to…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-06 Kazuki Hashimoto , Venkata Ramaiah Badarla , Takuro Ideguchi

This paper presents the work achieved for the manufacturing and characterization of first single-mode waveguides to be used as modal filters for nulling interferometry in the mid-infrared range [4-20 um]. As very high dynamic range is…

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