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Progress in integrated photonics enables development of integrated photonics circuits with new unique properties, circuits of the future, and overcomes current limits in information and communication technologies. The packaging of photonic integrated circuits is necessary for taking them out of research laboratories into real implementation in the information and communication technology applications.
Telecom optical fibers are still being the best transmission medium of digital data and analogue signals for long distance applications. The effective coupling of optical radiation between telecom optical fiber with ten microns core dimension and photonic integrated circuits optical waveguides with submicron dimensions are necessary. To address these challenges, we present our concept of photonics integrated circuit packaging with radio frequency, direct current and fiber array ports with automated active alignment system.
SiN is a suitable material for fabricating of photonic integrated circuits with middle refractive index contrast for the visible and near infrared spectral region with ultra-low propagation losses. The paper deals with the design and simulation of fiber to SiN chip butt coupler with single step fabrication process without thickness tapering. Coupler is designed for 850 nm band for coupling between strip 0.25 μm × 1.00 μm waveguide and Nufern's 780-OCT single mode optical fiber with core diameter 4.4 μm. The coupling losses simulation results of the two simulation methods finite-difference beam propagation techniques and eigenmode expansion method are compared.
Optical splitters are passive optical components, which have found applications in a wide range of telecom, sensing, medical and many other scientific areas.
Low-index contrast optical splitters (Silica-on-Silicon (SoS) based waveguide devices) feature many advantages such as low fiber coupling losses and low propagation losses. They are considered an attractive DWDM solution in the telecommunication for all optical signal processing in optical communication systems. Nowadays the steadily increasing data volume in communication networks is driven by a rapid proliferation of home-based and business computers, storage capacities, processing capabilities and the extensive availability of Internet. The challenge is to transfer high data volumes in short periods of time over high distances as lossless as possible. The task of the optical splitters in Fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) network is to split one optical signal in many identical signals bringing for example the same TV signal in different households. Of course, the more buildings can be served by one optical splitter the lower are the installation costs.
High-index contrast optical splitters (such as silicon, silicon nitride or polymer based waveguide devices) feature much smaller waveguide size compared to low index contrast splitters. Such compact devices can easily be implemented on-chip and have already been used in the development of optical sensors, devices for DNA diagnostics and for infrared spectroscopy.
We will present the latest achievements in the design of two mostly used optical splitters (MMI and Y-branch) and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, some applications of the splitters developed in the frame of various projects will be presented.
This work was carried out in the framework of the project PHOCOP (no. SK-AT-2017-0013) and NAMOPRISIN (no. SK-AT-2017-0005) from the Slovak research and development agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and SK 16/2018 and 15/2018 from OeAD-GmbH.
Interstitial photodynamic therapy (iPDT) treats malignant brain cancer cells by irradiation with low power laser light. The light is guided into the human body by diffuse emitting fibers. This study targets the light distribution of optical diffusers within the brain tissue. It was shown, that by submerging an optical diffuser into human brain phantom, its radiation profile measured in air converges towards a Gaussian distribution with increasing phantom depth. A camera method using digital averaging filters as well as an integrating sphere setup, both, smoothing the diffuser radiation profile were applied onto the evaluated diffuser.
Investigations on mechanical stability of laser machined optical fibre tips for medical application
(2019)
Light delivery is a challenging task, when it comes to medical applications. The light is guided through optical fibers from the light source towards the treatment region. In case of interstitial light application, the light has to be decoupled from the fibre and spread to the surrounding tissue. To reach larger tissue volumes, this can be either obtained by adding a scattering volume to the tip of the fibre, or by directly modifying the optical fibre itself in order to break the total reflection within the fibre core. Such modifications can be either on the fibre surface itself or internally in the fibre core. One approach to obtain the fibre structuring could be laser induced surface roughening using an ultrafast laser source. While using volume scattering as diffusor at the fibre tip is currently the gold standard for non-thermal applications (< 0.3W/cm), the decoupling of high power laser intensities for thermal treatment options is still challenging. Structuring the fibre core itself usually is related with a loss of mechanical stability. As fibre breakage and potential loss within the human body can have serious consequences, the mechanical stability is one of the quality criterion in diffuser manufacturing. Therefore, investigations about the mechanical stability of laser manufactured optical fibre diffusers are needed.
In order to evaluate the mechanical stability, a 4-point as well as a 2-point breaking test were developed. Different fibre diffusers, based on volume or surface scattering, were manufactured using fs-laser ablation techniques and its breaking strengths were investigated.
It could be shown that for surface fibre modifications, the mechanical stability reduces with increasing defect depth. The stability significantly drops when the laser ablation was performed in the thermal energy range. Volume scattering modified fibres only showed a slight reduction in stability compared to un-machined fibres.
In conclusion, internal fibre modification seems to be the most promising method to establish optical fibre diffusers, which are capable of several watts of emission power, while preserving its mechanical strength.
Abstract: ams AG is a leading provider of sensing solutions developing semiconductor sensors in a wide variety of fields, with optical sensing as one of the key competences. Since integrated photonics is a promising technology for new sensor systems, ams AG has been developing processes for fully integrated CMOS-compatible photonic components based on Si3N4. This talk will provide an overview on the processing of basic photonic building blocks and their optical properties and performance. We will also give examples for applications in the fields of optical coherence tomography and opto-chemical gas sensing. In the 1980s photonics started its way for common use in telecommunication technology, using optical fiber technologies. In recent years, also a variety of photonic sensors has been proposed and developed. One of the major drawbacks of most of these photonic devices has been the lack of integration into existing (semiconductor) production processes, so far. This integration is feasible using SiN material systems to process monolithically integrated CMOS-compatible photonic sensors in the visible and near-infrared spectrum. We will present the basic processing steps for the SiN photonic technology, the development of some critical processing steps such as SiN deposition and SiN etching as well as several photonic components (waveguides, splitters, etc.) with their optical properties. One of the applications presented relates to optical coherence tomography (OCT), a fast growing imaging technique in ophthalmology. Drawbacks of existing OCT systems are their high costs as well as their bulkiness, which prevents a wider spread use of OCT systems.
One way to overcome both cost and size issues is to integrate optical and electrical components on a single chip.
Part of this work was carried out in the framework of the projects COHESION (funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), no. 848588), OCTCHIP (funded by the EU’ Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, no. 688173), and COLODOR (M-ERA.NET transnational Call 2015, funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), no.854066, and the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany).
We report resent results on the fabrication and characterization of carbon nanogap interdigitated electrode arrays (IDAs) for biosensor applications based on redox cycling. The electrochemical results of the carbon electrodes are compared to our fabricated gold electrodes with similar nanogap distances. The amplification factor and the collection efficiency were recorded by chronoamperometry. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) was utilized to determine the oxidation and reduction potentials as well as for monitoring the electron transfer process. The different deposited carbon materials were characterized by Raman spectroscopy.At present, we successfully fabricated carbon nanogaps down to 80 nm and we are convinced to reach the present fabrication limit of about 30 nm (for gold and platinum electrodes) with carbon as electrode material as well. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first IDA nanogap sensor, which features a gap distance under 100 nm with amorphous carbon as electrode material. Moreover, we present a signal amplification of 32 for carbon electrodes by redox cycling, which is the highest reported amplification so far.
Here we present the highly sensitive detection of dopamine using gold nanogap IDAs with redox-cycling amplification. Through the combination with a facile electrochemical activation and a chronoamperometric multistep protocol fouling of the gold electrode surface can be prevented and a sensitivity of 14 nA μM -1 with excellent linearity up to 10 μM is achieved. The low-cost and reproducible wafer level fabrication process of the nanogap IDAs plays a key role. Electrode and substrate materials can be nearly arbitrarily chosen. Also the gap sizes could be adjusted down to sub-100 nm dimensions with this versatile approach, allowing for very high signal amplification. In comparison to the current gold standard, fastscan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) with carbon fiber microelectrodes (CFMEs), which suffers from high background currents, no elaborate data processing and high-end electronic equipment is needed. Employing our flexible, easy and inexpensive method, DA monitoring with a short acquisition period and a detection limit less than 200 nM is successfully demonstrated.