A novel UV transparent visible scattering spectroscopic material based on refractive index matching by dispersing specific CaF2 particles into the PDMS matrix was proposed. This hybrid material can be used to develop a UV bandpass filter that showed high transmittance around 260-280 nm and wider bandwidth in the UV region. Furthermore, micro-CaF2 particle size with narrower size distribution that can be fabricated by grinding, precipitation, and centrifugal separation, showed narrower bandwidth of transmittance spectra after dispersing in the PDMS matrix.
Super-PDMS with solvent dispersibility promises flexible PDMS-based waveguides in both the cladding and the core. The PDMS can fabricate a micro ~ submicron scale structure easily like waveguide by wet process, as oppose to conventional PDMS which uses imprinting to create microstructures. The refractive index of the PDMS is about 0.1 higher than that of conventional one. Super PDMS solutions dispersed in 1,2 dichloroethane solvent maintained transparent crystals in spontaneous drying after drawing, even at a high concentration of 15 wt.%. A flexible PDMS waveguide with a conventional PDMS cladding and a super PDMS core propagated light even with a waveguide bend radius of 2.5 mm, which is smaller than the minimum bend radius of a typical optical fiber.
Mold free and additive embedding of quasi-spatial filter (QSF) for simple optical detection was proposed. With a concept of “silicone optical technology (SOT)” we proposed, fully flexible and digitally fabrication of compact optical module for flow-injection analysis (FIA) was demonstrated. It was attained by combining silicone 3D printed rough-frame and injecting and coating method for embedding SOT-QSF that can trap unexpected light signal as tilted incidence. SOT-QSF’s coaxial cylindrical structure of PDMS core and carbon-dispersed-PDMS clad was fabricated by injecting and coating method. The coating properties and optical trapping performance was evaluated. These embedding techniques and method developments will be useful for on-site applications with general FIA researches and for rapid on-demand-fabrication based on researcher’s idea.
Dynamic and rapid spectral shifts of whispering-gallery mode (WGM) from microdisk laser were studied. The microdisks with diameter about 100 μm were fabricated by ink-jet printing of Rhodamine 590 doped polymer. Sharper edge microdisk and rounder edge microdisk were pumped with Q-switched Nd:YAG laser(@532 nm). A spectral shift −3.77×10-3 nm/(μJ·mm-2) was occurred in the case of the rounder edge microdisk, which is smaller than the spectral shift −4.21×10-3 nm/(μJ·mm-2) in the case of the sharper edge microdisk. Expecting the anomalous dispersion and Rhodamine 590 degradation affect, under the same excitation condition, the WGM spatial modification can also led to the shifts. And the modification was caused by interaction between the sharpened-edge and the increased optical gain.
Novel microdisk optical 3D structure fabrication was demonstrated in a room temperature and atmospheric condition with tens-seconds processing duration. This additive manufacturing scheme of polymeric microdisk was based on the ink-jet technique with hyperbranched polymer TZ-001. And whispering-gallery mode (WGM) lasing with a low threshold was confirmed by doping LDS798 or Rhodamine 590 dyes. The diameters both 75 µm were archived. The WGM lasing at around 800 nm wavelength by the LDS798, and at around 600 nm by the Rhodamine 590. Low lasing threshold about 2~3 µJ/mm2 were confirmed. And shift of peak wavelength was observed on the Rhodamine590:TZ-001 disk.
We report a saturated absorption characteristic of carbon nanowall and Q-switched laser operation using carbon nanowall saturable absorber. Carbon nanowall is vertically aligned nanographite sheets on Si substrate synthesized by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method. A polyimide thin film, with incorporated carbon nanowall, coated by spin-coating method, is used as saturable absorber. Linear absorption spectrum of carbon nano-walls was observed without absorption peak wavelength range from 1000 to 2000nm. Modulation depth of carbon nanowall saturable absorber was measured with wavelength of about 1560nm. Q-switch laser operation with carbon nanowall saturable absorber and erbium doped optical fiber was demonstrated.
In this work, a drop-on-demand piezoelectric ink-jet system has been employed to fabricate disposable photodiodes as
the detectors on the integrated lab-on-chip lasers. J-aggregated films of a cyanine dye, NK-1952 doped into a conductive
polymer, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) on the indium tin oxide (ITO)
substrate have made by the ink-jet method, respectively. With the thin Al layer on the top of cyanine dye films as the
cathode, while ITO substrate as the anode, the photodiodes have been demonstrated to be wavelength sensitive under the
excitation of a tunable pico-second laser, which corresponds to the characteristic red-shifted, sharp and narrow J-aggregate
absorption peak of each cyanine dye employed. The influence of ink-jet fabrication parameters, presence of
metal ions and pH value of dye solutions on the J-aggregate formation and also the wavelength sensitivity of the
photodiodes have been systematically investigated and the mechanisms involved have been discussed. It is found that by
optimizing the ink-jet fabrication parameters such as UV exposure dose amount, and substrate temperature, or by
introducing ions such as K+, Na+, or H+, the wavelength resolution of the ink-jet printed photodiodes can be improved
significantly, and wavelength resolution of less than 0.1nm may be expected.
Novel fabrication technique of organic solid state waveguide dye laser has been developed for easy fabrication and
surface integration. Polymeric waveguides fabrication based on dispensing and drawing scheme can control a refractive
index with 0.001 resolution and can stack multiple-layer just in a limited area. It can realize more complicated laser
system in comparison with our previous technique. New proposed DFB laser with Quasi-Mode-Coupled were also
demonstrated in improve performance.
We have developed an extreme sensitive trace element detection technique that has been labeled Laser ablation atomic fluorescence (LAAF) spectroscopy, and applied to a nanometer-scale solid surface analysis. The absolute weight of the detection limit of 870 ag (10-18g) and high depth resolution of 3.6 nm had been demonstrated in trace sodium detection of polymethylmethacrylate. As a laser ablation was used in the LAAF spectroscopy, the behavior of the ablation plume is a very important factor for high sensitivity. So, we tried to control the plume by a buffer gas and an assist mask for more sensitive analysis. The diffusion velocity of the ablated particles was modified in collision with the gas molecules. Furthermore, it was found that the form of the plume was changed by the mask. Thus, improvement of the detection sensitivity of the LAAF is expected using this approach.
Integratable lasers were studied by using plastic waveguide laser made of laser dye doped PMMA. The wavelength coverage was over 400 nm∼1100nm and the laser waveguides showed durability of more than millions. Optically pumping system with waveguiding technique was also proposed, and laser integration techniques were studied for micro-spectroscopic application.
Various kinds of nonlinear Raman spectroscopy, such as coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS), stimulated Raman gain spectroscopy (SRGS), photo-acoustic Raman spectroscopy (PARS), and thermal-lens Raman spectroscopy (TLRS), can be applied for the detection of molecules in the atmosphere. In traditional nonlinear Raman spectroscopy, two lasers whose frequency difference was tuned to the Raman shift frequency had to be prepared. We proposed a new configuration using a Nd:YAG laser and a Raman shifter. The Raman shifter contained the same kind of gas to be measured, so that efficient Raman-shifted beam was automatically generated in this simple configuration. We demonstrated sensitive detection of H2 and CH4 in the atmosphere by various kinds of nonlinear Raman spectroscopy as mentioned above. The detection limit was approximately 1-30 ppm level in every method using a sample gas cell. In the case of SRGS, remote sensing is possible, and the detection sensitivity can be increased using long optical pass as in the absorption spectroscopy, because the signal is obtained by a coherent light beam and there is no limitation caused by phase-matching condition. Using the Mie scattering in the atmosphere as a distributed mirror, a new type of nonlinear Raman lidar can be constructed. In this paper, we discussed on the feasibility of long-pass and lidar measurement for the detection of CH4, H2 and CO2 by SRGS using a pulsed Nd:YAG laser.
In the present work, a sensing system for methane gas leakage monitoring based on a differential absorption lidar with a high temporal resolution is proposed and a spectrally narrowed light source at 1.67 ?m is developed for the same. To realize a compact light source, an injection seeded optical parametric oscillator (OPO) combined with two-stage optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) is considered. Both OPO and OPAs were pumped by a compact frequency doubled Nd:YAG laser, and a single—mode diode laser (781.6 nm) was employed for injection seeding of the OPO. The output energy of around 5 mJ corresponding to a pump input of 85 mJ was obtained using Ce doped KTP (Ce:KTiOPO4) crystals. The spectral width of the source was measured as 0.5 cm-1 with a beam divergence angle of less than 2 mrad. These output characteristics are satisfactorily meeting the requirements to detect the methane leakage in a short range.
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