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An integrated photonic platform with anchored-membrane structures, the T-Guide, is proposed and numerically investigated. These compact air-clad structures have high index contrast and are much more stable than prior membrane-type…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Jeff Chiles , Sasan Fathpour

We demonstrate a "membrane in the middle" optomechanical system using a silicon nitride membrane patterned as a subwavelength grating. The grating has a reflectivity of over 99.8%, effectively creating two sub-cavities, with free spectral…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Corey Stambaugh , Haitan Xu , Utku Kemiktarak , Jacob Taylor , John Lawall

Data are presented on mutual and self-inductance of various inductors used in multilayered superconductor integrated circuits: microstrips and striplines with widths of signal traces from 250 nm to a few micrometers, located on the same…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-03 Sergey K. Tolpygo , Evan B. Golden , Terence J. Weir , Vladimir Bolkhovsky

Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy (MIM) measurement of photoconductivity with 50 nm resolution is demonstrated using a modulated optical source. The use of a modulated source allows for measurement of photoconductivity in a single…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-09 Scott R. Johnston , Eric Yue Ma , Zhi-Xun Shen

Full-vectorial finite difference method with perfectly matched layers boundaries is used to identify the single mode operation region of submicron rib waveguides fabricated using sili-con-on-insulator material system. Achieving high mode…

We developed a scan mirror mechanism (SMM) that enable a slit-based spectrometer or spectropolarimeter to precisely and quickly map an astronomical object. The SMM, designed to be installed in the optical path preceding the entrance slit,…

In next-generation wireless networks, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are foreseeable to support a large number of antennas at the transceiver as well as a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Chang Cai , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Metasurfaces are paving the way to improve traditional optical components by integrating multiple functionalities into one optically flat metasurface design. We demonstrate the implementation of a multifunctional gap surface plasmon-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Sergejs Boroviks , Rucha A. Deshpande , N. Asger Mortensen , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

This paper presents a scalable beamforming design for maximizing the spectral efficiency (SE) of multi-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communications through joint optimization of the precoder and RIS phase shifts in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Mintaek Oh , Jinseok Choi

We report a comprehensive study on the performance of uniform and non-uniform based subwavelength grating couplers in Silicon-on-Insulator. The two performance metrics, coupling efficiency and bandwidth enhancement and trade-offs is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Siddharth Nambiar , Shankar Kumar Selvaraja

A novel design of large bandwidth, fabrication tolerant, CMOS-compatible compact tapers (15 um) have been proposed and experimentally demonstrated in silicon-on-insulator. The proposed taper along with linear grating couplers for spot-size…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-28 Purnima Sethi , Anubhab Haldar , Shankar Selvaraja

We present the first accurate characterization of high-degree modes, derived using the best MDI full-disk full-resolution data set available. A ninety day long time series of full-disk two arc-second per pixel resolution dopplergrams was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. G. Korzennik , M. C. Rabello-Soares , J. Schou , T. P. Larson

An ultracompact bi-sectional adiabatic tapered coupler, which is suitable for an adiabatic mode transformation between a common single mode SOI wire waveguide and a Si/III-V hybrid waveguide, are proposed for Si/III-V heterogeneous…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Qiangsheng Huang , Jianxin Cheng , Liu Liu , Sailing He

Optical mode-splitting is an efficient tool to shape and fine-tune the spectral response of resonant nanophotonic devices. The active control of mode-splitting, however, is either small or accompanied by undesired resonance shifts, often…

Light scattering in disordered media has been studied extensively due to its prevalence in natural and artificial systems [1]. In the field of photonics most of the research has focused on understanding and mitigating the effects of…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-30 Brandon Redding , Seng Fatt Liew , Raktim Sarma

We present designs for variably polarizing beam splitters. These are beam splitters allowing the complete and independent control of the horizontal and vertical polarization splitting ratios. They have quantum optics and quantum information…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-24 Jefferson Flórez , Nathan J. Carlson , Codey H. Nacke , Lambert Giner , Jeff S. Lundeen

One of the most effective ways to advance the performance of quantum computers and quantum sensors is to increase the number of qubits or quantum resources in the system. A major technical challenge that must be solved to realize this goal…

The on-chip broadband optical spectrometers which cover the entire tissue transparency window ({\lambda}=650-1050 nm) with high resolution are highly demanded for the miniaturized bio-sensing and bio-imaging applications. Here, we propose a…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-15 Kyoung Min Yoo , Ray T. Chen

3-dB couplers, which are commonly used in photonic integrated circuits for on-chip information processing, precision measurement, and quantum computing, face challenges in achieving robust performance due to their limited 3-dB bandwidths…

In this work, a novel highly fabrication tolerant polarization beam splitter (PBS) is presented on an InP platform. To achieve the splitting, we combine the Pockels effect and the plasma dispersion effect in a symmetric 1x2 Mach-Zehnder…