Optical Waveguiding and Applied Photonics (eBook)

1. Introduction.- 2. Theory and Measurement Approaches.- 2.1 Geometrical Optics and Experimental Setups.- 2.1.1 Application: Optical Characterization of a CTO Bulk Type Nanocomposite Sample.- 2.2 Optical Modes and Measurements Approaches.- 2.2.1 Modes of a Slab Waveguide.- 2.2.2 Modes of a Ridge Waveguide.- 2.2.3 Modes of an Artificial Anisotropic Ridge Waveguide.- 2.2.4 Microtube Modes and Measurements.- 2.3 Coupled Mode Theory.- 2.3.1 Mode Coupling in Nonlinear Waveguide: Fundamental and Second Harmonic Co-propagating Modes.- 2.3.2 Coupling Guided Mode with Radiation Modes.- 2.4 Optical Fiber Modes and Measurements.- 2.4.1 Measurements of Radiating Truncated Optical Fiber and Comparison with Numerical and Analytical Results.Photonic Crystal Fiber.- 2.4.2 Measurement Approach of Photonic Crystal Fiber.- 2.5 Photonic Crystal Modes and Interpretation of Measurements.- 2.6 Scattering and Diffraction of a Discontinuous Optical Waveguide.- 2.7 Quantum Electronics and Measurements.- 2.8 Transmission line Modeling.- 2.8.1 Even and Odd Modes of a Slab Waveguide.- 2.8.2 Arrow waveguides.- 2.8.3 3D Dielectric Corner.- 2.8.4 Metallic Probes.- 3. Optical and Wireless Devices, Fabrication Process and Applications.- 3.1 Optical Sensors.- 3.1.1 Optical Fiber Sensor for Oil Spill.- 3.1.2 IR Spectroscopy Measurements: Hydrocarbon Pollutant Determination.- 3.1.3 Micro Rectangular Aperture as Antenna Sensor and Technological Aspects.- 3.2 Distributed Bragg Reflectors.- 3.2.1 GaN/AlGaN DBR: Technology and Nonlinear Applications.- 3.2.2 4x4 GaN/AlGaN Add Drop Multiplexer Filter.- 3.3 Plasmonic Antenna.- 3.3.1 Plasmonic Permittivity Sensor and Laser Texturing Technology.- 3.3.2 Measurement Approach for Plasmonic Waveguides.- 3.4 Optical Gratings: Induced Artificial Anisotropy.- 3.4.1 Laminated Polarization Splitter (LPS).- 3.4.2 Integrated Optical Gratings.- 3.4.3 Bragg Reflector.- 3.5 Biomedical Optical Devices: Photonic Crystal Devices.- 3.6 Nonlinear Optics: Second Harmonic Generation Processes and Design of 2 Waveguides.- 3.6.1 SH Generation in Ridge Waveguides.- 3.6.2 SH Generation Process in Circular Photonic Crystals.- 3.7 Modeling of SH Generation Process in Optical Cavities.- 3.8 Vertical Microcavity Laser: Active Materials and Modeling.- 3.9 Wireless Sensors: Introduction of Ultrasonic Sensors.- 3.10 Small antenna: Design and Modeling.- 4. Nanotechnology and MEMS: Design, Technology and Measurements.- 4.1 Fabrication Process of Mo/AlN/Mo RMEMS.- 4.1.1 Piezoelectric RMEMS Antennas: Circuital Characterization, Measurements and Manufacturing.- 4.1.2 Image Approach for the Displacement Evaluation.- 4.2 Energy Harvesting measurements of RMEMS.- 4.2.1 RMEMS Modeling and Degenerate Modes.- 4.2.2 Preliminary Experimental Setup.- 4.2.3 Accurate Experimental Setup and Measurements.- 4.3 RF MEMS and Implementations.- 4.3.1 Mo/AlN/Mo Pressure Sensor: Experimentation and Measurements.- 4.3.2 Textured Layouts and Approach to the Measurements.- 4.4 Photonic Crystal by Gold Pillars.- 4.5 Optical Spherical Nanoantennas.- 4.6 Plasmonic Waveguide Design.- 4.7 Modeling of Passive Micro-Nanodevices, Cantilever MEMS and Small Antenna.- 4.7.1 GPU Simulations of Passive Micro/Nanodevices.- 4.7.2 Piezoelectric Cantilever Beam.- 4.7.3 Application: Skin Cancer Wireless Detection System.- 4.7.4 3D Micrometric Antenna for Wireless Systems.- 5. Nanocomposite Materials and Optical Sensors.- 5.1 Introduction of Nanocomposite Materials.- 5.1.1 Polymers and Metallic /Organic Inclusions: Light Scattering.- 5.1.2 Electromagnetic Aspects: EM Absorbing Properties and Optical Enhancement.- 5.1.3 Mechanical Characterization of the PDMS-Au Nanocomposite Material.- 5.1.4 Experimental Setups for the Gold Nanoparticles Generation.- 5.2 Nanocomposite Sensors for Robotics.- 5.2.1 Some Technological Aspects: CTO-Au, PDMS-Au and Optical Fiber Systems.- 5.2.2 Characterization of Nanocomposite Materials.- 5.2.3 Algorithms for Robotics.- 5.2.4 Totally Optical Reflection System by Nanocomposite Tip.- 6. Instrumentation for Measurement Procedures.- 6.1. Measurement issues and its impacts.- 6.2. Common standard parameters for measurements and instrumentation.- 6.3. Instrumentation example for measurements .- 6.4. Design of experimentation in Measurements: Errors, accuracy and repeatability.- 7. Electronic Measurements and Signal processing.- 7.1 Analog and digital chains of measurements.- 7.2 Types of measurements.- 7.3 Experimental setup descriptions, signal processing and hardware.- 7.4 Digital signal processing techniques and hardware.- 7.5 Advanced techniques.- 8. Noise.- 8.1 Definitions and sources.- 8.2. Noise in bipoles and double bipoles.- 8.3. Design of noise removal: measurements and architectures.- 8.4. Practical examples.