摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to optical waveguide-to-fiber interconnects. In one aspect, an optical fiber-to-waveguide interconnect includes a grating coupler (102) located at the end of a waveguide, and a grating layer (110) disposed on the end of an optical fiber (112). The optical fiber includes a core (118) and the grating layer includes a planar, non-periodic, sub-wavelength grating (116). Light carried by the waveguide into the grating coupler is output and coupled into the core via the sub-wavelength grating, and light transmitted along the core to the grating layer is directed by the sub-wavelength grating into the grating coupler for transmission in the waveguide.
摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to nanowire-based systems for performing surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. In one embodiment, a system comprises a substrate (102) having a surface and a plurality of tapered nanowires (104) disposed on the surface. Each nanowire has a tapered end directed away from the surface. The system also includes a plurality of nanoparticles (110) disposed near the tapered end of each nanowire. When each nanowire is illuminated with light of a pump wavelength, Raman excitation light is emitted from the tapered end of the nanowire to interact with the nanoparticles and produce enhanced Raman scattered light from molecules located in close proximity to the nanoparticles.
摘要:
A backlight includes a plate light guide to guide light, a light source to produce light, and a collimating reflector to substantially collimate the produced light. The collimating reflector also is to direct that collimated light into the plate light guide as guided light of the plate light guide. A portion of the guided light in the backlight is to be emitted from a surface of the backlight as emitted light.
摘要:
Light-detection systems that do not destroy the light to be detected or change the propagation direction of the light are described, in one aspect, a light- detection system includes an optical element composed of a substrate with a planar surface and a polarization insensitive, high contrast, sub-wavelength grating composed of posts that extend from the planar surface. The posts and/or lattice arrangement of the posts are non-periodic ally varied to impart orbital angular momentum arid at least one helical wavefront on the light transmitted through the optica! element.
摘要:
Aspects of the present invention are directed to flat sub-wavelength dielectric gratings that can be configured to operate as mirrors and other optical devices. In one aspect, a grating layer (102) has a planar geometry and is configured with lines (206,207). The lines widths, line thicknesses and line period spacings (208) are selected to control phase changes in different portions of a beam of light reflected from the grating such that the phase changes collectively produce a desired wavefront shape in the beam of light reflected from the grating.
摘要:
A direction sensor (200) includes sensor cells (215) that respectively correspond to different directions. Each of the sensor cells (215) includes a light sensor (130, 140) and a grating (120) that couples incident light into the light sensor (130, 140) when the incident light has a specific wavelength and is incident on the grating (120) along the direction corresponding to the sensor cell (215).
摘要:
A light amplifying device (10, 10', 10'', 10''') for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy is disclosed herein. The device (10, 10', 10'', 10''') includes a dielectric layer (12) having two opposed surfaces (S 1 , S 2 ). A refractive index of the dielectric layer (12) is higher than a refractive index of a material or environment directly adjacent thereto. At least one opening (16) is formed in one (S 1 ) of the two opposed surfaces (S 1 , S 2 ) of the dielectric layer (12), and at least one nano-antenna (18, 18') is established on the one (S 1 ) of the two opposed surfaces (S 1 , S 2 ) of the dielectric layer (12). A gain region (14) is positioned in the dielectric layer (12) or adjacent to another (S 2 ) of the two opposed surfaces (S 1 , S 2 ) of the dielectric layer (12).
摘要:
Apparatuses and systems for analyzing light by mode interference are provided. An example of an apparatus for analyzing light by mode interference includes a number of waveguides to support in a multimode region two modes of the light of a particular polarization and a plurality of scattering objects offset from a center of at least one of the number of waveguides.
摘要:
Grating couplers that enable efficient coupling between waveguides and optical fibers are disclosed. In one aspect, a grating coupler includes a transition region that includes a wide edge and tapers away from the edge toward a waveguide disposed on a substrate. The coupler also includes a sub-wavelength grating disposed on the substrate adjacent to the edge. The grating is composed of a series of non-uniformly distributed, approximately parallel lines and separated by grooves with a depth to output light from the grating with TM polarization.
摘要:
An optical interconnect has first (101) and second (103) substantially perpendicular optical waveguides and an optical grating (105) disposed between and evanescently coupled to the waveguides (101, 103). The optical grating (105) includes a plurality perforated rows (107) that are oriented at an angle of approximately 45 degrees with respect to the first (101) and second (103) optical waveguides.