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We demonstrate a quantitative broadband fiber sensor, based on evanescent field sensing in the cladding holes of an air-suspended solid-core photonic crystal fiber. We discuss the fabrication process, together with the structural- and…
As silicon photonics transitions from research to commercial deployment, packaging solutions that efficiently couple light into highly-compact and functional sub-micron silicon waveguides are imperative but remain challenging. The 220 nm…
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Speckle imaging is a well known method to achieve diffraction-limited (DL) imaging from ground-based telescopes. The traditional observing method for speckle has been to observe a single, unresolved, source per telescope pointing over a…