Miniaturization of optical spectrometers

Z Yang, T Albrow-Owen, W Cai, T Hasan - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Optical spectrometry is one of the most powerful and widely used
characterization tools in scientific and industrial research. Benchtop laboratory spectrometer …

Silicon photonic platform for passive waveguide devices: materials, fabrication, and applications

Y Su, Y Zhang, C Qiu, X Guo… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics has attracted tremendous interest from academia and industry, as the
fabrication of the silicon family of photonic devices is mostly compatible with the …

Ultraspectral imaging based on metasurfaces with freeform shaped meta‐atoms

J Yang, K Cui, X Cai, J Xiong, H Zhu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces have an exceptional capacity to manipulate the phase, amplitude,
polarization, or spectrum of light. However, unit cells, or meta‐atoms, of metasurfaces are …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated reconstructive spectrometer with programmable photonic circuits

C Yao, K Xu, W Zhang, M Chen, Q Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical spectroscopic sensors are a powerful tool to reveal light-matter interactions in many
fields. Miniaturizing the currently bulky spectrometers has become imperative for the wide …

[HTML][HTML] High-performance and scalable on-chip digital Fourier transform spectroscopy

DM Kita, B Miranda, D Favela, D Bono, J Michon… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
On-chip spectrometers have the potential to offer dramatic size, weight, and power
advantages over conventional benchtop instruments for many applications such as …

MEMS-enabled on-chip computational mid-infrared spectrometer using silicon photonics

Q Qiao, X Liu, Z Ren, B Dong, J Xia, H Sun, C Lee… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
On-chip spectrometers using silicon photonics offer a compact, energy-efficient, and cost-
effective solution to biochemical spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging in integrated and …

[HTML][HTML] Broadband picometer-scale resolution on-chip spectrometer with reconfigurable photonics

C Yao, M Chen, T Yan, L Ming, Q Cheng… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Miniaturization of optical spectrometers is important to enable spectroscopic analysis to play
a role in in situ, or even in vitro and in vivo characterization systems. However, scaled-down …

Compact spectrometer based on a disordered photonic chip

B Redding, SF Liew, R Sarma, H Cao - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Light scattering in disordered media has been studied extensively due to its prevalence in
natural and artificial systems. In photonics most of the research has focused on …

[HTML][HTML] Breaking the resolution-bandwidth limit of chip-scale spectrometry by harnessing a dispersion-engineered photonic molecule

H Xu, Y Qin, G Hu, HK Tsang - Light: Science & Applications, 2023 - nature.com
The chip-scale integration of optical spectrometers may offer new opportunities for in situ bio-
chemical analysis, remote sensing, and intelligent health care. The miniaturization of …

An integrated broadband spectrometer on thin-film lithium niobate

D Pohl, M Reig Escalé, M Madi, F Kaufmann… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Optical spectrometry is a tool to investigate wavelength-dependent light–matter interactions
and is widely used in astronomy, physics and chemistry. Integration and miniaturization of …