Metasurface‐Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy: An Abundance of Materials and Functionalities

A John‐Herpin, A Tittl, L Kühner, F Richter… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared spectroscopy provides unique information on the composition and dynamics of
biochemical systems by resolving the characteristic absorption fingerprints of their …

Germanium-based integrated photonics from near-to mid-infrared applications

D Marris-Morini, V Vakarin, JM Ramirez, Q Liu… - …, 2018 - degruyter.com
Germanium (Ge) has played a key role in silicon photonics as an enabling material for
datacom applications. Indeed, the unique properties of Ge have been leveraged to develop …

Midinfrared spectroscopic analysis of aqueous mixtures using artificial-intelligence-enhanced metamaterial waveguide sensing platform

J Zhou, Z Zhang, B Dong, Z Ren, W Liu, C Lee - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
As miniaturized solutions, mid-infrared (MIR) waveguide sensors are promising for label-free
compositional detection of mixtures leveraging plentiful absorption fingerprints. However …

Larger-than-unity external optical field confinement enabled by metamaterial-assisted comb waveguide for ultrasensitive long-wave infrared gas spectroscopy

W Liu, Y Ma, X Liu, J Zhou, C Xu, B Dong, C Lee - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanophotonic waveguides that implement long optical pathlengths on chips are promising
to enable chip-scale gas sensors. Nevertheless, current absorption-based waveguide …

[HTML][HTML] Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a low-loss germanium-on-silicon waveguide

A Della Torre, M Sinobad, R Armand, B Luther-Davies… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally demonstrate supercontinuum (SC) generation in a germanium-on-silicon
waveguide. This waveguide exhibits propagation loss between 1.2 dB/cm and 1.35 dB/cm in …

On-chip optical gas sensors based on group-IV materials

J Wu, G Yue, W Chen, Z Xing, J Wang, WR Wong… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Compact and smart optical gas sensors have attracted significant attention over the past few
decades. Among the materials used for developing such gas sensors, group-IV materials …

Heterogeneously integrated graphene/silicon/halide waveguide photodetectors toward chip-scale zero-bias long-wave infrared spectroscopic sensing

Y Ma, Y Chang, B Dong, J Wei, W Liu, C Lee - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy plays an important role in molecule identification and
quantification for widespread applications. Integrated photonics provides opportunities to …

High-quality microresonators in the longwave infrared based on native germanium

D Ren, C Dong, SJ Addamane, D Burghoff - nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
The longwave infrared (LWIR) region of the spectrum spans 8 to 14 μm and enables high-
performance sensing and imaging for detection, ranging, and monitoring. Chip-scale LWIR …

Graded SiGe waveguides with broadband low-loss propagation in the mid infrared

JM Ramirez, Q Liu, V Vakarin, J Frigerio, A Ballabio… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Mid-infrared (mid-IR) silicon photonics is expected to lead key advances in different areas
including spectroscopy, remote sensing, nonlinear optics or free-space communications …

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in silicon-germanium all-normal dispersion waveguides

M Sinobad, A DellaTorre, R Armand, B Luther-Davies… - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate coherent supercontinuum generation spanning over an octave from a
silicon germanium-on-silicon waveguide using∼ 200fs pulses at a wavelength of 4 µm. The …