Our society is indebted to the numerous inventors and scientists who helped bring about the
incredible technological advances in modern society that we all take for granted. The …

Nanomaterials have superior electronic, optical, and mechanical properties making them
highly suitable for a range of applications in optoelectronics, biomedical fields, and …

The large mid-infrared (MIR) spectral region, ranging from 2.5 µm to 25 µm, has remained
under-exploited in the electromagnetic spectrum, primarily due to the absence of viable …

Single-photon detectors based on superconducting thin films have become a viable class of
technologies for widespread usage in quantum optics. In this tutorial paper we introduce the …

Thanks to intrinsically short electronic relaxation on the ps time scale, III-V semiconductor
unipolar devices are ideal candidates for ultrahigh-speed operation at mid-infrared …

Since its invention in 1994, the quantum cascade laser (QCL) has emerged as a versatile
light source of wavelength 4–12 µm, covering most of the mid-and long-wavelength infrared …

We experimentally demonstrated that composites, being effective in optimizing the
thermoelectric performance, can also enhance photothermoelectric effects in this work. In …

Heterodyne detection based on interband cascade lasers (ICL) has been demonstrated in a
wide range of different applications. However, it is still often limited to bulky tabletop systems …

We present the fabrication of a waveguide with integrated injection optics using a laser
photoinscription technique in the bulk of a chalcogenide glass. The injection optic is a …

Long-wave infrared (LWIR, 8–14 µm) photonics is a rapidly growing research field within the
mid-IR with applications in molecular spectroscopy and optical free-space communication …