{"title":"Optical detection of defects in high quality surface composites","authors":"N. Heer, O. R. Tutunea-Fatan, J. Wood","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090586","url":null,"abstract":"The principal focus of this study was to assess the feasibility of an experimental technique capable to detect the superficial defects that might be present on the surface of the composite panels fabricated through high volume manufacturing technologies, such as sheet moulding compound (SMC). The preliminary investigations performed suggest that reasonable similarities exist between numerical and experimental setups involving a collimated laser beam projected on a hemispherical concave defect located on a mirror-like flat surface.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132777080","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. Guzmán-Cabrera, Margarita Gomez-Sarabia, M. Torres-Cisneros, M. A. Escobar-Acevedo, J. Guzmán-Sepúlveda
{"title":"Parkinson's disease: Improved diagnosis using image processing","authors":"R. Guzmán-Cabrera, Margarita Gomez-Sarabia, M. Torres-Cisneros, M. A. Escobar-Acevedo, J. Guzmán-Sepúlveda","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090549","url":null,"abstract":"An intensity-based texture segmentation approach for the detection of regions with abnormal texture characteristics in magnetic resonance imaging is presented. Our algorithm is tested over several images taken from The Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI-database), and the results suggest that this approach is suitable for the successful identification and extraction of regions of interest whose properties can be potentially related to signature features of Parkinson disease.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134635499","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":"Silicon nitride micro ring-resonator for chirp modulated lasers","authors":"Saurabh Bedi, F. Nabki, M. Ménard","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090574","url":null,"abstract":"Microring resonators to be implemented with silicon nitride waveguides to increase the extinction ratio of chirp modulated laser are presented. They will be used with tunable lasers addressing 4 different channels spaced by 100GHz.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122973936","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":"Laser-driven strong THz field generation","authors":"Y. Yoo, Ki-Yong Kim","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090602","url":null,"abstract":"We have demonstrated high-repetition-rate (1 kHz), broadband (>20 THz), strong THz field generation (>20 MV/cm) via two-color femtosecond laser filamentation in gases. With low pressure argon, we have achieved laser-to-THz conversion efficiency of ∼0.1%.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127943061","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":"High power, highly efficient mode-locked Yb:KGW laser oscillator","authors":"Haitao Zhao, R. Cisek, V. Barzda","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090562","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the demonstration of a highly efficient SESAM mode-locked Yb:KGW bulk laser that generated 400 fs pulses with an average output power of 12 W. The optical-to-optical efficiency and the slope efficiency were estimated to be 37% and 70%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126624547","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}
J. Guay, A. Cala'Lesina, J. Baxter, P. Gordon, S. Barry, L. Ramunno, P. Berini, A. Weck
{"title":"Coloring and color enhancement on noble metals rendered by plasmonic effects via multi-burst picosecond pulses","authors":"J. Guay, A. Cala'Lesina, J. Baxter, P. Gordon, S. Barry, L. Ramunno, P. Berini, A. Weck","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090580","url":null,"abstract":"We report the angle-independent creation of full color palettes on the surface of silver, gold, copper and aluminum. We show significant color saturation of up to ∼69% and an increase in the lightness range by up to ∼ 60% with the use of multi-burst picosecond pulses. Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations show that high-spatial frequency LIPSS (HSFL) are responsible for the improvements. In addition, we show the passivation and tuning of the colors with the thickness of alumina deposited by atomic layer deposition.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123754361","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":"Optical rogue waves in stimulated Raman scattering","authors":"Y. E. Monfared, S. Ponomarenko","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090577","url":null,"abstract":"We study theoretically and numerically optical rogue wave formation in stimulated Raman scattering inside a hydrogen filled hollow core photonic crystal fiber. We assume a weak noisy Stokes pulse input and explicitly construct the input Stokes pulse ensemble using the coherent mode representation of optical coherence theory, thereby providing a link between optical coherence and rogue wave theories. We show that the Stokes pulse peak power probability distribution function (PDF) acquires a long tail in the limit of nearly incoherent input Stokes pulses. We demonstrate a clear link between the PDF tail magnitude and the source coherence time.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122277390","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":"Thermal lensing in high power Yb:KYW laser","authors":"P. Loiko, S. Manjooran, A. Major","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090582","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal lensing was studied in an N<inf>g</inf>-cut monoclinic Yb:KY(WO4)2 (Yb:KYW) laser crystal under high-power diode pumping at ∼980 nm for the E || Nm and E || Np polarizations. It was shown that thermal lensing is strongly dependent on polarization and is anisotropic.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132996534","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":"Plasmonic photodetector with THz electrical bandwidth","authors":"Saba Siadat Mousavi, P. Berini, A. Stöhr","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090568","url":null,"abstract":"A plasmonic photodetector based on nanomonopoles is proposed and investigated. The detection region is a thin film of InGaAs, placed on a n-doped InP substrate. The responsivity of the photodetector is estimated to be ∼200 mA/W, while its 3 dB electrical bandwidth is ∼ 1 THz.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133486280","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}