D. Zecca, A. Qualtieri, T. Stomeo, M. de Vittorio, G. Magno, M. Grande, V. Petruzzelli, A. D’orazio, B. Prieto‐Simón, N. Voelcker
{"title":"2D photonic crystal membranes for optical biosensors","authors":"D. Zecca, A. Qualtieri, T. Stomeo, M. de Vittorio, G. Magno, M. Grande, V. Petruzzelli, A. D’orazio, B. Prieto‐Simón, N. Voelcker","doi":"10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843901","url":null,"abstract":"Biosensors are devices able to reduce costs and time in biological assays. They are efficient and useful tools also in biochemical assays, providing high performance in sensitivity and selectivity of measurements. In this work, we developed a label-free biosensor based on a two-dimensional photonic crystal patterned on a large area silicon nitride membrane that operates in the visible spectrum for the detection of proteins. The biosensor has been preliminarily tested in solutions of different refractive index, showing as expected a shift of the resonance in the reflection spectrum.","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128093496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Propagation of scintillation light in continuous crystals","authors":"M. Galasso, A. Fabbri, V. Cencelli, L. Colace","doi":"10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843868","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we report on the development of a mathematical model for the propagation of scintillation photons from a given point of a continuous scintillating crystal to a detection surface, through an interposed light guide. The model was used to calculate the radial distribution of the scintillation photons, in order to speed up the design of the optical system. The proposed method allows to generate a random distribution of coordinates of the scintillation photons similar to that obtained with a Monte Carlo simulation but the procedure is considerably faster. The radial light distribution of the proposed model is in good agreement with the GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation. The computational time of the photon coordinate generation for our method is four order of magnitude smaller with respect to the GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation.","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133180037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Pernice, A. Andò, D. Musso, A. Parisi, L. Curcio, G. Adamo, S. Stivala, A. Busacca
{"title":"Optical turbulence measurements and channel modeling of an indoor Free Space Optics link","authors":"R. Pernice, A. Andò, D. Musso, A. Parisi, L. Curcio, G. Adamo, S. Stivala, A. Busacca","doi":"10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843842","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we propose an indoor experimental set-up able to generate several optical turbulence conditions in a Free Space Optics link. Using this set-up, we prove the effectiveness of an irradiance time-series generator based on the Gamma-Gamma model and able to predict the irradiance fluctuations at the receiver, under both weak and moderate turbulence conditions.","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"353 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123545800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Fontani, S. Coraggia, D. Jafrancesco, F. Francini, L. Mercatelli, E. Sani, P. Sansoni
{"title":"Optical damage tests on reflecting materials for solar applications","authors":"D. Fontani, S. Coraggia, D. Jafrancesco, F. Francini, L. Mercatelli, E. Sani, P. Sansoni","doi":"10.1016/J.EGYPRO.2014.10.318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.EGYPRO.2014.10.318","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116157248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controllable Optical Beam By Means of nanopatterened plasmonics device","authors":"F. Bovino, A. Benedetti, A. Veroli, C. Sibilia","doi":"10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843853","url":null,"abstract":"A suitable numerical tool developed has been developed for a fast evaluation of the metal slit-grating system's irradiation diagram. It allows to spare time in the definition of the selected configurations. The customization of the irradiation diagram is a primary step for the design of more complex structures with potential useful capabilities for the manipulation of impinging light waves and the consequent rise of interesting electromagnetic patterns.","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124664608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Taki, A. Signorini, Y. Muanenda, C. Oton, T. Nannipieri, F. Di Pasquale
{"title":"Hybrid Raman/BOTDA fiber optic sensor for temperature and strain measurements","authors":"M. Taki, A. Signorini, Y. Muanenda, C. Oton, T. Nannipieri, F. Di Pasquale","doi":"10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843893","url":null,"abstract":"Cyclic pulse coding is proposed for fast implementation of long-range Brillouin optical time domain analysis and simultaneous static Raman based temperature measurement over 10 km of standard single mode fiber using a narrowband laser source only.","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"394 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122098800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of the absorption spectrum in quantum dots for efficient solar cells","authors":"Giovanni Giannoccaro, T. Muciaccia, V. Passaro","doi":"10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843954","url":null,"abstract":"Today, possibility of photovoltaic efficiency increase with use of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) in solid inorganic solar cells is a dynamic research field due to nanotechnology development and use of III-V and III-V nitride semiconductors (GaN or InGaN). Self-assembled quantum dots (SAQDs) growth in Stranski-Krastanov (SK) mode are very interesting nano-structures in order to achieve this goal. In this paper results derived by a FEM simulation analysis of absorption coefficient done on small zincblende InAs/GaAs and wurtzite InxGa1-xN/InyGa1-yN (In content x > y) SAQDs are shown and related to possible use in solar cells.","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129591638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strain and bending monitoring of a particle detector using Fiber Bragg Grating sensors","authors":"A. Iadicicco, S. Campopiano, M. Della Pietra","doi":"10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843899","url":null,"abstract":"This work is devoted to a feasibility analysis of the use of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensing technology for real-time deformation monitoring of a gaseous tracking particle detector. Our attention is focused on a micromegas (an abbreviation for “micro mesh gaseous structure” (MM)), that is a micro patter gas detector to be applied in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the ATLAS experiment. One mandatory issue for the correct operation of the MM detector is a precise monitoring of its panels' flatness/deformation. To this aim, FBG real-time sensing technology is proposed for its capability to meet important requirements in terms of radiation hardness and insensitivity to magnetic fields and to offer local strain detection with high sensitivity (resolution of 1 με). As a demonstrative target, in this work some FBG sensors have been integrated (surface attached) with a miniature MM detector support panel in order to investigate their potentialities/capabilities in detecting local strain and thus bending. The obtained experimental results confirm that FBG sensors, that tolerate high radiation, are able to monitor deformation and curvature in accord with high energy physics requirements.","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127683835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of dielectric multilayers for multi-band antireflection coatings","authors":"F. Chiadini, A. Scaglione, V. Fiumara","doi":"10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843883","url":null,"abstract":"We present a synthesis method to design quarter-wave dielectric multilayers behaving as N-band antireflection coatings. Examples confirming the effectiveness of our procedure in designing dual- and three-band antireflection coatings for normal as well as oblique incidence are illustrated.","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114360028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance of Bragg grating ring resonator as high sensitivity refractive index sensor","authors":"C. E. Campanella, F. De Leonardis, V. Passaro","doi":"10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FOTONICA.2014.6843873","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we analyze the performance of a refractive index sensor based on resonant optical structures obtained by closing on itself waveguide Bragg gratings. In particular, a waveguide Bragg serpentine (BSRR), which behaves like a Bragg grating, is proposed. This device shows a spectral response characterized by a photonic band gap (PBG) behavior. Very close to the band gap edges, it exhibits split resonant modes coupled by the grating effect and having a splitting magnitude equal to the PBG spectral extension. By changing the effective refractive index, the photonic band gap splitting magnitude varies. Otherwise, the PBG extension still remains almost unvaried if the length of the device changes, because only the Bragg wavelength will shift. By exploiting this physical principle, these devices can be proved as high sensitivity refractive index photonic sensors, based on a sensing mechanism almost immune to the length variations generated from any environmental perturbation.","PeriodicalId":125701,"journal":{"name":"2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130471906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}