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Wavelength-dependent polarization state of light carries crucial information about light-matter interactions. However, its measurement is limited to bulky, energy-consuming devices, which prohibits many modern, portable applications. Here,…

A micro-ring-resonator (MRR) optical biosensor based on the evanescent field sensing mechanism has been extensively studied due to its high sensitivity and compact device size. However, a suitable on-chip integrated spectrometer device has…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-19 Kyoung Min Yoo , May Hlaing , Sourabh Jain , James Fan , Yue An , Ray T. Chen

Designing miniaturized optical spectrometers is an increasingly active area of research as spectrometers are crucial components for a wide range of applications including chemical and material analysis, medical diagnostics, classical and…

Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is widely used in industrial quality control and automation to test the purity and grade of items. In this research, we propose a novel sensorized end effector and acquisition strategy to capture spectral…

Miniaturized on-chip spectrometers with small footprints, lightweight, and low cost are in great demand for portable optical sensing, lab-on-chip systems, and so on. Such miniaturized spectrometers are usually based on engineered spectral…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-03 Menghan Tian , Baolei Liu , Zelin Lu , Yao Wang , Ze Zheng , Jiaqi Song , Xiaolan Zhong , Fan Wang

Miniaturized spectrometry system is playing an essential role for materials analysis in the development of in-situ or portable sensing platforms across research and industry. However, there unavoidably exists trade-offs between the…

Lensless on-chip microscopy has shown great potential for biomedical imaging due to its large-area and high-throughput imaging capabilities. By combining the pixel super-resolution (PSR) technique, it can improve the resolution beyond the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Xuyang Chang , Shaowei Jiang , Yongcun Hu , Liheng Bian

Recent spectroscopic observations by sensitive radio telescopes require accurate molecular spectral line frequencies to identify molecular species in a forest of lines detected. To measure rest frequencies of molecular spectral lines in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yoshimasa Watanabe , Yutaro Chiba , Takeshi Sakai , Akemi Tamanai , Rikako Suzuki , Nami Sakai

Numerous molecules exhibit unique absorption bands in the fingerprint infrared (IR) region, allowing chemical identification and detection. This makes IR spectroscopy an essential tool in biomedical diagnostics, sensing, and material…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-04 Anna V. Paterova , Zi S. D. Toa , Hongzhi Yang , Leonid A. Krivitsky

Compared with conventional grating-based spectrometers, reconstructive spectrometers based on spectrally engineered filtering have the advantage of miniaturization because of the less demand for dispersive optics and free propagation space.…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-01 Weizhu Xu , Qingbin Fan , Peicheng Lin , Jiarong Wang , Hao Hu , Tao Yue , Xuemei Hu , Ting Xu

Spectral analysis is one of the most powerful technologies for studying and understanding matter. As the devices for spectral analysis, spectrometers are widely used in material detection, isotope analysis, trace gas detection, and the…

Recent advancements in silicon photonics are enabling the development of chip-scale photonics devices for sensing and signal processing applications, among which on-chip spectrometers are of particular interest for precision wavelength…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Uttam Paudel , Todd S. Rose

We present an ultra-compact single-shot spectrometer on silicon platform with broad operation bandwidth and high resolution. It consists of 32 stratified waveguide filters (SWFs) with diverse transmission spectra for sampling the unknown…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-01 Ang Li , Yeshaiahu Fainman

In this study, we present a dual-modal AI framework based on short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectroscopy. The first modality employs a multi-wavelength SWIR imaging system coupled with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to capture spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 El Arbi Belfarsi , Henry Flores , Maria Valero

Sensing with undetected photons has become a vibrant, application-driven research domain with a special focus on the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength region. Since the mid-IR contains spectral bands with highly specific and strong molecular…

A well-adapted visible and infrared spectrograph has been developed for the SNAP (SuperNova/Acceleration Probe) experiment proposed for JDEM. The instrument should have a high sensitivity to see faint supernovae but also a good redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M-H. Aumeunier , A. Ealet , E. Prieto , C. Cerna , P-E. Crouzet

SuperSpec is an on-chip filter-bank spectrometer designed for wideband moderate-resolution spectroscopy at millimeter wavelengths, employing TiN kinetic inductance detectors. SuperSpec technology will enable large-format spectroscopic…

This article describes the design and construction of a portable, compact, and cost-effective microspectrophotometer (MSP) that operates in the range of (200_800 nm). This microscope spectrophotometer records highresolution absorption and…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-07 Negar Karpourazar , Keyvan Khosh Abady , Peter M. Rentzepis

Sensitive mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy is highly demanded in various fields ranging from industrial inspection, biomedical diagnosis to astronomical observation. However, the detection sensitivity of conventional MIR spectrometers has…