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Spectral imaging paves way for various fields and particular in biomedical research. However, spectral imaging mainly depending on spatial or temporal scanning, cannot achieve high temporal, spatial and spectral resolution simultaneously.…

Disorder-driven, integrated speckle spectrometers offer exceptional spectral resolution within a compact design. They benefit from enhanced optical path lengths due to multiple light scattering events, however, often at the cost of low…

Conventional spectrometer and polarimeter systems rely on bulky optics, fundamentally limiting compact integration and hindering multi-dimensional optical sensing capabilities. Here, we propose a spectropolarimeter enabled by…

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Encoding of spectral information onto monochrome imaging cameras is of interest for wavelength multiplexing and hyperspectral imaging applications. Here, the complex spatio-spectral response of a disordered material is used to demonstrate…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-09 Rebecca French , Sylvain Gigan , Otto L. Muskens

Terahertz spectrometers with a wide instantaneous frequency coverage for passive remote sensing are enormously attractive for many terahertz applications, such as astronomy, atmospheric science and security. Here we demonstrate a wide-band…

Miniaturized spectrometers are of immense interest for various on-chip and implantable photonic and optoelectronic applications. State-of-the-art conventional spectrometer designs rely heavily on bulky dispersive components (such as…

We demonstrate a compact (40 ${\mu}$m $\times$ 260 ${\mu}$m) spectrometer based on multimode interference aided by scattering of light from random SiO$_2$-filled hole arrays on a silicon-on-insulator platform. We characterize the…

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) comprised of an 11 cm multimode speckle waveguide, a 1x32 splitter, and a linear grating coupler array is fabricated and utilized to receive 2 GHz of radio-frequency (RF) signal bandwidth from 2.5 to 4.5…

SuperSpec is a novel on-chip spectrometer we are developing for multi-object, moderate resolution (R = 100 - 500), large bandwidth (~1.65:1) submillimeter and millimeter survey spectroscopy of high-redshift galaxies. The spectrometer…

The development of optical fibers has revolutionized telecommunications by enabling long-distance broad-band transmission with minimal loss. In turn, the ubiquity of high-quality low-cost fibers enabled a number of additional applications,…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-30 Brandon Redding , Mansoor Alam , Martin Seifert , Hui Cao

Traditional spectral imaging methods are constrained by the time-consuming scanning process, limiting the application in dynamic scenarios. One-shot spectral imaging based on reconstruction has been a hot research topic recently and the…

Optical spectroscopy plays an essential role across scientific research and industry for non-contact materials analysis1-3, increasingly through in-situ or portable platforms4-6. However, when considering low-light-level applications,…

Driven by the growing demand for miniaturized spectrometers for in-situ analysis, and point-of-care diagnostics, conventional spectrometers are often constrained by bulky architectures and pathlength-limited spectral resolution. Achieving…

We present compact integrated speckle spectrometers based on monofractal and multifractal scattering media in a silicon-on-insulator platform. Through both numerical and experimental studies we demonstrate enhanced optical throughput, and…

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The development of miniaturized spectrometers for cost-effective mobile applications remains challenging, as small footprints fundamentally degrade bandwidth and resolution. Typically, achieving high resolution necessitates extended and…

Miniaturized spectrometers for Raman spectroscopy have the potential to open up a new chapter in sensing. Raman spectroscopy is essential for material characterization and biomedical diagnostics, however, its weak signal and the need for…

A general-purpose all-fiber spectrometer is demonstrated to overcome the trade-off between spectral resolution and bandwidth. By integrating a wavelength division multiplexer with five multimode optical fibers, we have achieved 100 nm…

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Spectral measurements in the infrared (IR) optical range provide unique fingerprints of materials which are useful for material analysis, environmental sensing, and health diagnostics. Current IR spectroscopy techniques require the use of…

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Optical spectroscopy the measurement of electromagnetic spectra is fundamental to various scientific domains and serves as the building block of numerous technologies. Computational spectrometry is an emerging field that employs an array of…