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 …

Controlling light propagation in multimode fibers for imaging, spectroscopy, and beyond

H Cao, T Čižmár, S Turtaev, T Tyc… - Advances in Optics and …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Light transport in a highly multimode fiber exhibits complex behavior in space, time,
frequency, and polarization, especially in the presence of mode coupling. The newly …

Wavefront shaping: a versatile tool to conquer multiple scattering in multidisciplinary fields

Z Yu, H Li, T Zhong, JH Park, S Cheng, CM Woo… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
Optical techniques offer a wide variety of applications as light-matter interactions provide
extremely sensitive mechanisms to probe or treat target media. Most of these …

Light fields in complex media: Mesoscopic scattering meets wave control

S Rotter, S Gigan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The newly emerging field of wave front shaping in complex media has recently seen
enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the experimental …

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 …

Harnessing disorder for photonic device applications

H Cao, Y Eliezer - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
For photonic devices, structural disorder and light scattering have long been considered
annoying and detrimental features that were best avoided or minimized. This review shows …

Digital confocal microscopy through a multimode fiber

D Loterie, S Farahi, I Papadopoulos, A Goy… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Acquiring high-contrast optical images deep inside biological tissues is still a challenging
problem. Confocal microscopy is an important tool for biomedical imaging since it improves …

Microtaper leaky-mode spectrometer with picometer resolution

Q Cen, S Pian, X Liu, Y Tang, X He, Y Ma - eLight, 2023 - Springer
The wide application of optical spectroscopy makes miniaturized spectrometers with
fundamental importance. The scalability, high-performance, low-cost, and small footprint are …

Optical fiber specklegram sensors for mechanical measurements: A review

AG Leal-Junior, A Frizera, C Marques… - IEEE Sensors …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a review of FSS technology. The operation principle and main
characteristics of specklegram are presented and the applications of FSSs are thoroughly …

Evanescently coupled multimode spiral spectrometer

B Redding, S Fatt Liew, Y Bromberg, R Sarma, H Cao - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We designed a high-resolution compact spectrometer based on an evanescently coupled
multimode spiral waveguide. Interference between the modes in the waveguide forms a …