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Review of lateral epitaxial overgrowth of buried dielectric structures for electronics and photonics Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Daniel J. Ironside; Alec M. Skipper; Ashlee M. García; Seth R. Bank
Integration of embedded dielectric structures with crystalline III-V materials has generated significant interest, due to a host of important applications and material improvements that are central to high performance optoelectronic devices. The core challenge is the production of high-quality crystalline layers grown above embedded dielectric materials, requiring the growth processes of both lateral
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Suspended Graphene Electromechanical Switches for Energy Efficient Electronics Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Thomas Szkopek; Eli Martel
Improving the energy efficiency of electronics is one of the grand challenges of semiconductor device physics, as global energy consumption by electronics grows in tandem with society’s growing reliance on information technology. Computationally intensive applications such as artificial intelligence further incentivizes the improvement of energy efficiency of electronics. At the corpuscular level of
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Gas lasers pumped by runaway electron preionized diffuse discharge Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Alexei N. Panchenko; Dmitry A. Sorokin; Victor F. Tarasenko
The paper is a review of gas lasers pumped by runaway electron preionized diffuse discharge (REP DD). The various conditions under which the discharge occurs are described. It is shown that in the presence of the highly non-uniform electric field strength distribution in a gap, a stable diffuse discharge in dense gases is ignited without the use of additional sources of ionizing radiation. This, in
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Novel III-V Semiconductor Epitaxy for Optoelectronic Devices through Two-Dimensional Materials Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Chao Zhao; Zhaonan Li; Tianyi Tang; Jiaqian Sun; Wenkang Zhan; Bo Xu; Huajun Sun; Hui Jiang; Kong Liu; Shengchun Qu; Zhijie Wang; Zhanguo Wang
III-V semiconductor materials are the basis of photonic devices due to their unique optical properties. There is an increasing demand for fabricating these devices on unconventional substrates for various applications, such as silicon photonic integrated circuits, flexible optoelectronic devices, and ultralow-profile photonics. However, the III-V semiconductor epitaxy often encounters problems from
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Selective Area Epitaxy By Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition– A Tool For Photonic And Novel Nanostructure Integration Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 P. Daniel Dapkus; Chun Yung Chi; Sang Jun Choi; Hyung Joon Chu; Mitchell Dreiske; Rijuan Li; Yenting Lin; Yoshitake Nakajima; Dawei Ren; Ryan Stevenson; Maoqing Yao; Ting Wei Yeh; Hanmin Zhao
Selective area epitaxial (SAE) growth of III-V materials and devices by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition is selectively reviewed to illustrate the concepts employed in this technology and its most relevant applications. Special focus on the use of SAE use for photonic integration, heterogeneous integration of materials relevant to photonic integration, and nanostructure integration is made. Throughout
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Nanoscale Selective Area Epitaxy: From Semiconductor Lasers to Single-Photon Sources Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-11-13 V.B. Verma; V.C. Elarde
We present a review of selective area epitaxy and its history in the evolution of semiconductor lasers, with a focus on its application at the nanoscale level in the development of quantum dot and nanopore lasers. Recent applications will be discussed including applications to integrated photonics and quantum photonics, such as patterned single-photon sources.
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Hexagonal boron nitride: Epitaxial growth and device applications Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 A. Maity; S.J. Grenadier; J. Li; J.Y. Lin; H.X. Jiang
As a newest family member of the III-nitrides, BN is considered amongst the remaining frontiers in wide energy bandgap semiconductors with potentials for technologically significant applications in deep UV (DUV) optoelectronics, solid-state neutron detectors, electron emitters, single photon emitters, switching/memory devices, and super-capacitors. It was shown that it is possible to produce h-BN epilayers
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Survey of energy-autonomous solar cell receivers for satellite–air–ground–ocean optical wireless communication Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 Meiwei Kong; Chun Hong Kang; Omar Alkhazragi; Xiaobin Sun; Yujian Guo; Mohammed Sait; Jorge A. Holguin-Lerma; Tien Khee Ng; Boon S. Ooi
With the advent of the Internet of Things, energy- and bandwidth-related issues are becoming increasingly prominent in the context of supporting the massive connectivity of various smart devices. To this end, we propose that solar cells with the dual functions of energy harvesting and signal acquisition are critical for alleviating energy-related issues and enabling optical wireless communication (OWC)
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Photonic Ge-Sb-Te phase change metamaterials and their applications Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Tun Cao; Rongzi Wang; Robert E. Simpson; Guixin Li
The ultrafast, reversible, nonvolatile and multistimuli responsive phase change of Ge-Sb-Te (GST) alloy makes it an interesting “smart” material. The optical features of GST undergo significant variation when its state changes between amorphous and crystalline, meaning that they are useful for tuning photonic components. A GST phase change material (PCM) can be efficiently triggered by stimuli such
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Two Dimensional Photonic Crystal Slab Biosensors Using Label Free Refractometric Sensing Schemes: A Review Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Qing Shi; Jianlong Zhao; Lijuan Liang
Biosensor technology is a quite attractive and rapidly developing research field in recent years, and the sub field of optical photonic crystal (PC) biosensor based on label free sensing technology has also made great progress in this period. This review mainly concentrates on advances in the label free refractometric sensing based two dimensional (2D) PC slab biosensors particularly in the last decade
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Er-doped crystalline active media for ~ 3 μm diode-pumped lasers Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Richard Švejkar, Jan Šulc, Helena Jelínková
Lasers based on erbium ions using 4I11/2 → 4I13/2 transition can generate laser radiation in the spectral range from 2.7 μm to 3 μm. Since the strong absorption peak of water is located at 3 μm, there has been an effort to develop a suitable laser source for various medical applications, e.g. dentistry, dermatology, urology, or surgery. Laser radiation from this wavelength range can also be used
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Recent progress in and perspectives of underwater wireless optical communication Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Shijie Zhu, Xinwei Chen, Xiaoyan Liu, Guoqi Zhang, Pengfei Tian
Underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) is an emerging and feasible underwater communication technology and has developed rapidly in recent years. Building a high-performance and practical UWOC system requires comprehensive consideration and optimization design from the device to the system, as well as from the internal modulation to the external environment. This paper provides an overview
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Watt-level ultrafast laser inscribed thulium waveguide lasers Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-05-24 Esrom Kifle, Pavel Loiko, Carolina Romero, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Patrice Camy, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, Xavier Mateos
We report on the first watt-level ultrafast laser inscribed Thulium waveguide (WG) lasers. Depressed-index buried channel WGs with a circular cladding (type III) are produced in monoclinic Tm3+:KLu(WO4)2 crystals. Laser operation is achieved under conventional (3H6 → 3H4) and in-band (3H6 → 3F4) pumping. In the former case, employing a Raman fiber laser emitting at 1679 nm as pump, the continuous-wave
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Rectifying antennas for energy harvesting from the microwaves to visible light: A review Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-05-15 C.A. Reynaud, D. Duché, J.-J. Simon, E. Sanchez-Adaime, O. Margeat, J. Ackermann, V. Jangid, C. Lebouin, D. Brunel, F. Dumur, D. Gigmes, G. Berginc, C.A. Nijhuis, L. Escoubas
Rectifying antennas are often prensented as a potentiel technological breakthrough for energy harvesting. First theorized in the 1970’s, the downsizing of an antenna coupled with a rectifier has become technologically achievable with the progresses of fabrication techniques such as electron beam or photolithography. However, reaching infrared or visible region of the electromagnetic spectra still entails
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Generation, optimization, and application of ultrashort femtosecond pulse in mode-locked fiber lasers Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-04-21 Ying Han, Yubin Guo, Bo Gao, Chunyang Ma, Ruohan Zhang, Han Zhang
Ultrafast femtosecond mode-locked fiber laser plays an indispensable role in medical imaging, space ranging, ophthalmology, terahertz spectroscopy, material micromachining, and so on. It’s not only an important tool for people to explore the world, but also a pillar field of laser technology. This review present the generation of femtosecond pulses in ultrafast mode-locked fiber lasers using active
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Growth, transfer printing and colour conversion techniques towards full-colour micro-LED display Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-04-21 Xiaojie Zhou, Pengfei Tian, Chin-Wei Sher, Jiang Wu, Hezhuang Liu, Ran Liu, Hao-Chung Kuo
Micro light-emitting diode (micro-LED) display, mainly based on inorganic GaN-based LED, is an emerging technique with high contrast, low power consumption, long lifetime and fast response time compared to liquid crystal display (LCD) and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. Therefore, many research institutes and companies have conducted in-depth research on micro-LED in the full-colour display
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Spectral coherence, Part I: Passive-resonator linewidth, fundamental laser linewidth, and Schawlow-Townes approximation Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Markus Pollnau, Marc Eichhorn
The degree of spectral coherence characterizes the spectral purity of light. It can be equivalently expressed in the time domain by the decay time τ or the quality factor Q of the light-emitting oscillator, the coherence time τ coh or length ℓcoh of emitted light or, via Fourier transformation to the frequency domain, the linewidth Δν of emitted light. We quantify these parameters for the reference
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Terahertz sources based on stimulated polariton scattering Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-02-28 Andrew J. Lee, David J. Spence, Helen M. Pask
In this paper we review the field of terahertz (THz) sources which make use of the nonlinear, stimulated polariton scattering (SPS) process. A historical perspective of the technology is offered, in addition to an investigation of modern SPS-based THz sources. Breakthroughs in these source technologies have coincided with rapid developments in laser technology over the past 10 years. We are now in
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Chip-scale GaN integration Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2020-02-11 K.H. Li, W.Y. Fu, H.W. Choi
Blue LEDs and HEMTs based on III-Nitride have been flourishing commercially across the globe, thanks largely to breakthroughs in the material quality of the wide-bandgap compound semiconductor back in the 1990s. The realizations of white-light LEDs, blu-ray systems, and lately efficient compact chargers have drastically changed the way we live and have contributed tremendously to global energy saving
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Recent advances in microwave photonics instantaneous frequency measurements Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Lam Anh Bui
This paper reviews the field of microwave photonics instantaneous frequency measurements (IFM). It aims to consolidate the literature, explains the key implementations and reviews the recent developments. Current photonic IFMs are capable of operating over a wide bandwidth with a good resolution. However, their implementations are often based on discrete components and exhibit limited dynamic range
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Type-II superlattice photodetectors versus HgCdTe photodiodes Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-08-22 A. Rogalski, P. Martyniuk, M. Kopytko
The development of the HgCdTe alloy as the most important intrinsic semiconductor for infrared (IR) technology is well established and recognized. In spite of the achievements in material and device quality, the drawbacks still exist due to bulk and surface instability, lower yields and higher costs particularly in fabrication of long wavelength infrared arrays. The difficulties with this material
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Cr:Colquiriite Lasers: Current status and challenges for further progress Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-08-02 Umit Demirbas
Cr: Colquiriite laser materials (Cr:LiCAF, Cr:LiSAF, Cr:LiSGaF) own broad absorption bands in the visible region that allow direct-diode pumping by well-developed low-cost red diodes. Moreover, they possess broad emission bands in the near infrared that enable widely tunable laser operation (720–1110 nm), and generation of sub-10-fs light pulses via mode-locking. Furthermore, Cr: Colquiriite crystals
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A critical review on two-dimensional quantum dots (2D QDs): From synthesis toward applications in energy and optoelectronics Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-07-31 Arumugam Manikandan, Yu-Ze Chen, Chih-Chiang Shen, Chin-Wei Sher, Hao-Chung Kuo, Yu-Lun Chueh
Recent advances in the development of quantum dots (QDs) have offered new possibilities for the exploration of sensors, bio imaging, batteries, electrochemical water splitting and optoelectronic applications because of their intriguing optical, electrical, catalytic and electrochemical properties. Among QDs, atomically thin two-dimensional quantum dots (2D QDs) derived from graphene sheets, transition
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Toward high-speed visible laser lighting based optical wireless communications Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Cheng-Ting Tsai, Chih-Hsien Cheng, Hao-Chung Kuo, Gong-Ru Lin
Visible wavelength light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes (LDs) enabled optical wireless communication (OWC) is an emerging technology for realizing high-confidentiality and high-speed point-to-point (PtP), vehicle-to-vehicle, and white-lighting data access links in indoor/outdoor free-space and underwater environments. Notably, OWC facilitates users to access more transmission bandwidth and
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Integration of III-V lasers on Si for Si photonics Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-05-24 Mingchu Tang, Jae-Seong Park, Zhechao Wang, Siming Chen, Pamela Jurczak, Alwyn Seeds, Huiyun Liu
Development of Si photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has been impeded due to lack of efficient Si-based light-emitting sources. Because of their indirect bandgap, bulk Ge and Si are very inefficient at emitting light. Therefore, direct-bandgap III-V semiconductors have been extensively exploited for the active region of the lasers for PICs. Heterogeneous and monolithic integration of III-V semiconductor
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Recent progress on metamaterials: From effective medium model to real-time information processing system Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-05-23 Xiaojian Fu, Tie Jun Cui
Electromagnetic (EM) metamaterials are artificially engineered media composed of subwavelength unit cells, which achieve exotic EM properties beyond the limits of natural materials and provide great freedom to manipulate EM waves. Here, we review the recent progress on metamaterials in terms of three aspects: effective medium metamaterials, plasmonic metamaterials, and information metamaterials, respectively
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Quantum plasmonics get applied Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Zhang-Kai Zhou, Jingfeng Liu, Yanjun Bao, Lin Wu, Ching Eng Png, Xue-Hua Wang, Cheng-Wei Qiu
Plasmons, the electromagnetic excitations coupled with electron waves, possess the intrinsic ability of manipulating light at subwavelength scales down to picometer. This ability not only helps uncovering the fascinating quantum behaviors that strengthen the basic understanding of quantum science, but also enables the inventions of various quantum optoelectronic devices, triggering the birth of quantum
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Optical bottle microresonators Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-04-13 M. Sumetsky
The optical microresonators reviewed in this paper are called bottle microresonators because their profile often resembles an elongated spheroid or a microscopic bottle. These resonators are commonly fabricated from an optical fiber by variation of its radius. Generally, variation of the bottle microresonator (BMR) radius along the fiber axis can be quite complex presenting, e.g., a series of coupled
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Design and realization of light absorbers using plasmonic nanoparticles Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Ludovic Escoubas, Miriam Carlberg, Judikael Le Rouzo, Florent Pourcin, Jorg Ackermann, Olivier Margeat, Clement Reynaud, David Duche, Jean-Jacques Simon, Rose-Marie Sauvage, Gérard Berginc
The applications of light absorbers concern photodetectors, optical filters, solar applications or flexible electronics. In this review, we will detail the application of such light absorbers and we will develop the main demonstrations of the use of metallic nanoparticles embedded within a host matrix to fabricate coatings aiming at harvesting light. We will explain how chemically synthetized silver
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Terahertz biophotonics as a tool for studies of dielectric and spectral properties of biological tissues and liquids Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2018-11-10 O.A. Smolyanskaya, N.V. Chernomyrdin, A.A. Konovko, K.I. Zaytsev, I.A. Ozheredov, O.P. Cherkasova, M.M. Nazarov, J.-P. Guillet, S.A. Kozlov, Yu. V. Kistenev, J.-L. Coutaz, P. Mounaix, V.L. Vaks, J.-H. Son, H. Cheon, V.P. Wallace, Yu. Feldman, I. Popov, V.V. Tuchin
In this review, we describe dielectric properties of biological tissues and liquids in the context of terahertz (THz) biophotonics. We discuss a model of the THz dielectric permittivity of water and water-containing media, which yields analysis of the relaxation and damped resonant molecules modes. We briefly describe modern techniques of THz spectroscopy and imaging employed in biophotonics with a
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III-nitride nanowires on unconventional substrates: From materials to optoelectronic device applications Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2018-08-04 Chao Zhao, Nasir Alfaraj, Ram Chandra Subedi, Jian Wei Liang, Abdullah A. Alatawi, Abdullah A. Alhamoud, Mohamed Ebaid, Mohd Sharizal Alias, Tien Khee Ng, Boon S. Ooi
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Quantum coherent nanodynamics by the interplay of localized photons, electron-hole pairs, and phonons Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2018-06-25 Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Akira Ishikawa
Intriguing intrinsic properties of light quanta and related topics are reviewed by emphasizing the self-consistency of light-matter interactions and open nano-systems dynamics. It is pointed out that there still remain fundamental and challenging issues related to quantization of a finite nano-system interacting with a massive (i.e., localized) photon field,as well as with a hierarchical or structured
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Advances and prospects of lasers developed from colloidal semiconductor nanostructures Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2018-05-31 Yue Wang, Handong Sun
Since the first observation of stimulated emission from colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) in year 2000, tremendous progress has been made in developing solution-processed lasers from colloidal semiconductor nanostructures in terms of both understanding the fundamental physics and improving the device performance. In this review paper, we will start with a brief introduction about the fabrication of CQDs
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Nanolasers: Second-order intensity correlation, direct modulation and electromagnetic isolation in array architectures Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2018-05-31 Si Hui Pan, Suruj S. Deka, Abdelkrim El Amili, Qing Gu, Yeshaiahu Fainman
Ideal integrated light emitters for optical interconnects should be compact in size, high in modulation bandwidth, efficient in energy consumption and tunable in frequency. Nanolasers are excellent candidates for such an application. In this article, we review and offer further in-depth analyses in three key aspects of recent nanolaser research, including second order intensity correlation, g2(τ),
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Laser ignition - Spark plug development and application in reciprocating engines Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2018-04-13 Nicolaie Pavel, Mark Bärwinkel, Peter Heinz, Dieter Brüggemann, Geoff Dearden, Gabriela Croitoru, Oana Valeria Grigore
Combustion is one of the most dominant energy conversion processes used in all areas of human life, but global concerns over exhaust gas pollution and greenhouse gas emission have stimulated further development of the process. Lean combustion and exhaust gas recirculation are approaches to improve the efficiency and to reduce pollutant emissions; however, such measures impede reliable ignition when
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Progress and prospects of GaN-based VCSEL from near UV to green emission Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2018-02-28 Hsin-chieh Yu, Zhi-wei Zheng, Yang Mei, Rong-bin Xu, Jian-ping Liu, Hui Yang, Bao-ping Zhang, Tien-chang Lu, Hao-chung Kuo
GaN is a great material for making optoelectronic devices in the blue, blue-violet and green bands. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have many advantages including small footprint, circular symmetry of output beam, two-dimensional scalability and/or addressability, surface-mount packaging, good price-performance ratio, and simple optics/alignment for output coupling. In this paper,
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Non-invasive biomedical research and diagnostics enabled by innovative compact lasers Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-10-12 Karina S. Litvinova, Ilya E. Rafailov, Andrey V. Dunaev, Sergei G. Sokolovski, Edik U. Rafailov
For over half a century, laser technology has undergone a technological revolution. These technologies, particularly semiconductor lasers, are employed in a myriad of fields. Optical medical diagnostics, one of the emerging areas of laser application, are on the forefront of application around the world. Optical methods of non- or minimally invasive bio-tissue investigation offer significant advantages
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Dressed photons in a new paradigm of off-shell quantum fields Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-07-27 Hirofumi Sakuma, Izumi Ojima, Motoichi Ohtsu
This article reviews recent progress in theoretical studies of dressed photons. For providing concrete physical images of dressed photons, several experimental studies are demonstrated. They are applications of dressed photons to novel optical functional devices, nano-fabrication technologies, energy conversion technologies, and photon breeding devices. After these experimental demonstrations, as the
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Two-dimensional topological photonic systems Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-07-25 Xiao-Chen Sun, Cheng He, Xiao-Ping Liu, Ming-Hui Lu, Shi-Ning Zhu, Yan-Feng Chen
The topological phase of matter, originally proposed and first demonstrated in fermionic electronic systems, has drawn considerable research attention in the past decades due to its robust transport of edge states and its potential with respect to future quantum information, communication, and computation. Recently, searching for such a unique material phase in bosonic systems has become a hot research
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Nonlinear optics in optical-fiber nanowires and their applications Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-07-23 Fei Xu, Zhen-xing Wu, Yan-qing Lu
We review recent research on nonlinear optical interactions in optical-fiber nanowires (OFNs) with sub-micron transverse dimensions. Such OFNs, which are fabricated from standard optical fibers, offer numerous beneficial optical and mechanical properties, including strong evanescent fields, high flexibility and configurability, a small mass, and low-loss interconnection to other optical fibers and
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Journeys from quantum optics to quantum technology Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-07-19 Stephen M. Barnett, Almut Beige, Artur Ekert, Barry M. Garraway, Christoph H. Keitel, Viv Kendon, Manfred Lein, Gerard J. Milburn, Héctor M. Moya-Cessa, Mio Murao, Jiannis K. Pachos, G. Massimo Palma, Emmanuel Paspalakis, Simon J.D. Phoenix, Benard Piraux, Martin B. Plenio, Barry C. Sanders, Jason Twamley, M.S. Kim
Sir Peter Knight is a pioneer in quantum optics which has now grown to an important branch of modern physics to study the foundations and applications of quantum physics. He is leading an effort to develop new technologies from quantum mechanics. In this collection of essays, we recall the time we were working with him as a postdoc or a PhD student and look at how the time with him has influenced our
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Coherent multi-dimensional spectroscopy: Experimental considerations, direct comparisons and new capabilities Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-07-14 Jonathan O. Tollerud, Jeffrey A. Davis
Optical Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS) has been developed to probe the electronic states of a diverse range of complex systems. The great advantage of CMDS over linear spectroscopy is the ability to separate and quantify different types of interactions. To do this, multiple carefully controlled femtosecond laser pulses drive a non-linear response in the sample. A specific component of
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A guide to wireless networking by light Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-06-29 Harald Haas, Cheng Chen, Dominic O'Brien
The lack of wireless spectrum in the radio frequency bands has led to a rapid growth in research in wireless networking using light, known as LiFi (light fidelity). In this paper an overview of the subsystems, challenges and techniques required to achieve this is presented.
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From quantum optics to quantum technologies Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-06-15 Dan Browne, Sougato Bose, Florian Mintert, M.S. Kim
Quantum optics is the study of the intrinsically quantum properties of light. During the second part of the 20th century experimental and theoretical progress developed together; nowadays quantum optics provides a testbed of many fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics such as coherence and quantum entanglement. Quantum optics helped trigger, both directly and indirectly, the birth of quantum technologies
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Nano-scale chemical reactions based on non-uniform optical near-fields and their applications Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-06-15 Takashi Yatsui, Maiku Yamaguchi, Katsuyuki Nobusada
Interaction between light and materials is essential in the physics underlying all optical devices, including light emitting devices such as light emitting diodes and lasers, photo-voltaic devices, and photo-synthesis systems. The demand for higher light utilization efficiency is becoming increasingly important for advanced optical devices. This is because, when feature size is smaller than the incident
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Perovskite solar cells - An overview of critical issues Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-06-10 A.B. Djurišić, F.Z. Liu, H.W. Tam, M.K. Wong, A. Ng, C. Surya, W. Chen, Z.B. He
Perovskite solar cell research has been attracting increasing attention in recent years. In this review paper, we will provide an overview of the recent developments in terms of material composition, deposition techniques, and the device architecture (the choice of charge transport layers and electrodes). Then, we will critically discuss some of the major problems, namely device stability, hysteresis
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Diamond photonics for distributed quantum networks Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-05-26 Sam Johnson, Philip R. Dolan, Jason M. Smith
The distributed quantum network, in which nodes comprising small but well-controlled quantum states are entangled via photonic channels, has in recent years emerged as a strategy for delivering a range of quantum technologies including secure communications, enhanced sensing and scalable quantum computing. Colour centres in diamond are amongst the most promising candidates for nodes fabricated in the
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Laser-induced generation of singlet oxygen and its role in the cerebrovascular physiology Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-05-25 O.V. Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, S.G. Sokolovski, A. Goltsov, A.S. Gekaluyk, E.I. Saranceva, O.A. Bragina, V.V. Tuchin, E.U. Rafailov
For over 55 years, laser technology has expanded from laboratory research to widespread fields, for example telecommunication and data storage amongst others. Recently application of lasers in biology and medicine presents itself as one of the emerging areas. In this review, we will outline the recent advances in using lasers for the generation of singlet oxygen, traditionally used to kill tumour cells
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Transfer print techniques for heterogeneous integration of photonic components Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2017-02-03 Brian Corbett, Ruggero Loi, Weidong Zhou, Dong Liu, Zhenqiang Ma
The essential functionality of photonic and electronic devices is contained in thin surface layers leaving the substrate often to play primarily a mechanical role. Layer transfer of optimised devices or materials and their heterogeneous integration is thus a very attractive strategy to realise high performance, low-cost circuits for a wide variety of new applications. Additionally, new device configurations
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Spectral effects of stimulated Raman scattering in crystals Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2016-11-22 David J. Spence
This paper will review the coupling by stimulated Raman scattering between two laser fields and its dependence on the spectral properties of those fields. We describe the coupling in terms of an effective Raman gain that depends on the fields’ linewidths, the material dispersion, and specific experimental conditions. The aim is to provide an intuitive understanding of this behaviour, by presenting
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Quantitative imaging of cell membrane-associated effective mass density using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy (PCEM) Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2016-11-04 Yue Zhuo, Ji Sun Choi, Thibault Marin, Hojeong Yu, Brendan A. Harley, Brian T. Cunningham
Adhesion is a critical cellular process that contributes to migration, apoptosis, differentiation, and division. It is followed by the redistribution of cellular materials at the cell membrane or at the cell-surface interface for cells interacting with surfaces, such as basement membranes. Dynamic and quantitative tracking of changes in cell adhesion mass redistribution is challenging because cells
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Photon management of GaN-based optoelectronic devices via nanoscaled phenomena Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2016-08-30 Yu-Lin Tsai, Kun-Yu Lai, Ming-Jui Lee, Yu-Kuang Liao, Boon S. Ooi, Hao-Chung Kuo, Jr-Hau He
Photon management is essential in improving the performances of optoelectronic devices including light emitting diodes, solar cells and photo detectors. Beyond the advances in material growth and device structure design, photon management via nanoscaled phenomena have also been demonstrated as a promising way for further modifying/improving the device performance. The accomplishments achieved by photon
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Heterojunction and superlattice detectors for infrared to ultraviolet Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2016-05-13 A.G.U. Perera
The interest in Infrared and Ultraviolet detectors has increased immensely due to the emergence of important applications over a wide range of activities. Detectors based on free carrier absorption known as Hetero-junction Interfacial Workfunction Internal Photoemission (HEIWIP) detectors and variations of these heterojunction structures to be used as intervalence band detectors for a wide wavelength
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HgCdTe barrier infrared detectors Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2016-03-04 M. Kopytko, A. Rogalski
In the last decade, new strategies to achieve high-operating temperature (HOT) detectors have been proposed, including barrier structures such as nBn devices, unipolar barrier photodiodes, and multistage (cascade) infrared detectors. The ability to tune the positions of the conduction and valence band edges independently in a broken-gap type-II superlattices is especially helpful in the design of unipolar
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Optically pumped planar waveguide lasers: Part II: Gain media, laser systems, and applications Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2016-01-14 Christos Grivas
The field of optically pumped planar waveguide lasers has seen a rapid development over the last two decades driven by the requirements of a range of applications. This sustained research effort has led to the demonstration of a large variety of miniature highly efficient laser sources by combining different gain media and resonator geometries. One of the most attractive features of waveguide lasers
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III-Nitride nanowire optoelectronics Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2015-12-01 Songrui Zhao, Hieu P.T. Nguyen, Md. G. Kibria, Zetian Mi
Group-III nitride nanowire structures, including GaN, InN, AlN and their alloys, have been intensively studied in the past decade. Unique to this material system is that its energy bandgap can be tuned from the deep ultraviolet (~6.2 eV for AlN) to the near infrared (~0.65 eV for InN). In this article, we provide an overview on the recent progress made in III-nitride nanowire optoelectronic devices
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High speed parametric processing controlled by few photons Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2015-09-03 Ana Pejkic, Stojan Radic
Optical signal processing has long been recognized as a promising route to a new class of fast and energy efficient devices. The former parameter, the speed, has indeed been addressed in a number of different signal processing roles, confirming the superiority of optical signal processing devices with respect to their electronic counterpart. After gaining some maturity, the field has now advanced to
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Technology and engineering aspects of high power pulsed single longitudinal mode dye lasers Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2015-08-11 V.S. Rawat, Jaya Mukherjee, L.M. Gantayet
Tunable single mode pulsed dye lasers are capable of generating optical radiations in the visible range having very small bandwidths (transform limited), high average power (a few kW) at a high pulse repetition rate (a few tens of kHz), small beam divergence and relatively higher efficiencies. These dye lasers are generally utilized laser dyes dissolved in solvents such as water, heavy water, ethanol
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Ultrashort pulse generation in the mid-IR Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2015-08-10 H. Pires, M. Baudisch, D. Sanchez, M. Hemmer, J. Biegert
Recent developments in laser sources operating in the mid-IR (3–8μm) have been motivated by the numerous possibilities for both fundamental and applied research. One example is the ability to unambiguously detect pollutants and carcinogens due to the much larger oscillator strengths of their absorption features in the mid-IR spectral region compared with the visible. Broadband sources are of particular
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Frequency down-conversion of solid-state laser sources to the mid-infrared spectral range using non-oxide nonlinear crystals Prog. Quant. Electron. (IF 7.19) Pub Date : 2015-04-11 Valentin Petrov
The development of parametric devices down-converting the laser frequency to the mid-infrared (3–30 µm) based on non-oxide nonlinear optical crystals is reviewed. Such devices, pumped by solid-state laser systems operating in the near-infrared, fill in this spectral gap where no such lasers exist, on practically all time scales, from continuous-wave to femtosecond regime. All important results obtained
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