By expanding the reconstruction-equivalent-chirp (REC) technique into two-Dimensional (2D) grating, we designed a three-wavelength mode converter with three-cascaded tilted sampled Bragg gratings (3C-TSBG). Theoretical simulation results show that the presented 3C-TSBG can realize three-wavelength conversion between the fundamental transverse electric mode (TE0) and the first-order transverse electric mode (TE1). In addition, the mode-conversion wavelength can be tuned by changing the period and tilted angle of the cascaded sampled gratings. More importantly, compared with the cascaded tilted Bragg gratings (C-TBG), the 3C-TSBG can improved the error tolerance and wavelength control accuracy. Therefore, the proposed 3C-TSBG has potential applications in reconfigurable mode-division-multiplexing communication systems and other areas where programmable mode conversion is required.
A photonic nanojets (PNJs) is a highly confined light beam that focuses from the shadow side of microparticles. In this simulation work, we report the realization of a tunable PNJ, which is formed by an engineered two-layer dielectric microcylinder. The key parameters, maximum intensity, length of PNJ and full-width at half maximum (FWHM), of photonic nanojets (PNJs) are studied. Finite difference time-domain (FDTD) analysis shows that under 400nm illumination, a PNJ with a high quality factor of 145.78 is achieved. We find that the photonic nanojets can be tuned by changing the distance between two layers of dielectric microcylinder. Because of its simple structure and flexibility, it has potential applications in optical imaging, nanolithography, and nanoparticle manipulation.
A photonic nanojets (PNJs) is a highly confined light beam that focuses from the shadow side of microparticles. In this simulation work, we report the realization of a tunable PNJ, which is formed by an engineered two-layer dielectric microcylinder. The key parameters, maximum intensity, length of PNJ and full-width at half maximum (FWHM), of photonic nanojets (PNJs) are studied. Finite difference time-domain (FDTD) analysis shows that under 400nm illumination, a PNJ with a high quality factor of 145.78 is achieved. We find that the photonic nanojets can be tuned by changing the distance between two layers of dielectric microcylinder. Because of its simple structure and flexibility, it has potential applications in optical imaging, nanolithography, and nanoparticle manipulation.
A photonic nanojet (PNJ) is a highly focused optical beam with a subwavelength waist on the shadow side of the dielectric microparticle. In this paper, we propose and numerically investigate the PNJ formed by a micro/nanofiber (MNF) array. Three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations are conducted and demonstrate that an ultra-narrow photonic nanojet with a full-width at half maximum (FWHM) waist of 0.2λ can be obtained. Besides, key characteristic parameters of PNJ, including PNJ length, maximum intensity, and FWHM can be flexibly tuned by modifying the refractive index of the MNF, the diameter of the MNF, and the incident wavelength.
In this paper, a novel optical inspection apparatus was studied which enables one to inspect both top and bottom surfaces of the thermoelectric cooler (TEC) components. In the optical inspection apparatus, a right angle prism reflector located beneath the glass stage was used to image the bottom surface of the TEC component on top of the stage. In order to obtain the clear images of two surfaces of the TEC component simultaneously, a proper telecentric imaging lens with sufficient large depth of field needs to be selected to address their optical path difference. A telecentric optical imaging lens DH110-03F50 with depth of field of around 6mm together with a right angle prism reflector with solpe side length of 3.6mm was chosen for this experimental setup. With this apparatus three groups of components were inspected in the experiments and each group has some typical samples with specially selected Passed and Failed features on the surfaces to be examined. The experimental results indicate that the images of both top and bottom surfaces obtained using the optical inspection system are sufficiently clear and well resolved which meets the requirements for the following image processing. The results show that the proposed technique allow us to inspect both top and bottom surfaces of the component with simplified configuration and effective cost. This novel inspecting technique will find applications in the automatic optical inspection systems for the TEC components.
A novel refractometric sensor based on nanofiber is presented. It is used to measure the refractive indices of glucose
solutions of different concentrations. The sensor has a high sensitivity and can detect an index variation of ~10-6. In
addition, by solving Maxwell equations and numerical calculations, phase shift of nanofiber caused by index change of
ambient medium is obtained. Experimental results show that the measured values are in close agreement with the
theoretical values. The stability of the sensor can be applied to many fields, such as biological, chemical and
pharmaceutical and process control applications.
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