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{"title":"Integrated photonics with quantum emitters: a new hybrid integration platform (Conference Presentation)","authors":"D. Ellis, E. Murray, T. Meany, A. Bennett, Frederik F. Floether, James P. Lee, J. Griffiths, G. Jones, I. Farrer, D. Ritchie, A. Shields","doi":"10.1117/12.2227422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227422","url":null,"abstract":"The creation of a quantum photonic integrated circuit, bringing together quantum light sources; detectors; and elements for routing and modulating the photons; is a fundamental step towards a compact and self-contained quantum information processor. Here we report on the realisation of a new hybrid integration platform for InAs Quantum Dot-based quantum light sources and waveguide-based photonic circuits. In this scheme, GaAs devices containing embedded quantum dots are bonded to a silicon oxynitride waveguide circuit such that the quantum dot emission is coupled to the waveguide mode. The output from the waveguide element is coupled into optical fibre (also bonded to the waveguide chip) and the whole assembly is cooled to cryogenic temperatures. Integrated tuneable Mach-Zehnder interferometers permit on-chip photon routing to be achieved and allow the device to act as a path-encoded qubit preparation device. By utilising one such interferometer as a reconfigurable beam splitter, the single photon nature of the emission was confirmed by a Hanbury Brown and Twiss measurement on chip.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123880019","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":"1THz synchronous tuning of two optical synthesizers","authors":"Rudolf Neuhaus, F. Rohde, E. Benkler, T. Puppe, C. Raab, Reinhard Unterreitmayer, A. Zach, H. Telle, J. Stuhler","doi":"10.1117/12.2229607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229607","url":null,"abstract":"Single-frequency optical synthesizers (SFOS) provide an optical field with arbitrarily adjustable frequency and phase which is phase-coherently linked to a reference signal. Ideally, they combine the spectral resolution of narrow linewidth frequency stabilized lasers with the broad spectral coverage of frequency combs in a tunable fashion. In state-of-the-art SFOSs tuning across comb lines requires comb line order switching,1, 2 which imposes technical overhead with problems like forbidden frequency gaps or strong phase glitches. Conventional tunable lasers often tune over only tens of GHz before mode-hops occur. Here, we present a novel type of SFOSs, which relies on a serrodyne technique with conditional flyback,3 shifting the carrier frequency of the employed frequency comb without an intrusion into the comb generator. It utilizes a new continuously tunable diode laser that tunes mode-hop-free across the full gain spectrum of the integrated laser diode. We investigate the tuning behavior of two identical SFOSs that share a common reference, by comparing the phases of their output signals. Previously, we achieved phase-stable and cycle-slip free frequency tuning over 28.1 GHz with a maximum zero-to-peak phase deviation of 62 mrad4 when sharing a common comb generator. With the new continuously tunable lasers, the SFOSs tune synchronously across nearly 17800 comb lines (1 THz). The tuning range in this approach can be extended to the full bandwidth of the frequency comb and the 110 nm mode-hop-free tuning range of the diode laser.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"10 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122522589","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":"A hybrid solar panel maximum power point search method that uses light and temperature sensors","authors":"M. Ostrowski","doi":"10.1117/12.2227549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227549","url":null,"abstract":"Solar cells have low efficiency and non-linear characteristics. To increase the output power solar cells are connected in more complex structures. Solar panels consist of series of connected solar cells with a few bypass diodes, to avoid negative effects of partial shading conditions. Solar panels are connected to special device named the maximum power point tracker. This device adapt output power from solar panels to load requirements and have also build in a special algorithm to track the maximum power point of solar panels. Bypass diodes may cause appearance of local maxima on power-voltage curve when the panel surface is illuminated irregularly. In this case traditional maximum power point tracking algorithms can find only a local maximum power point. In this article the hybrid maximum power point search algorithm is presented. The main goal of the proposed method is a combination of two algorithms: a method that use temperature sensors to track maximum power point in partial shading conditions and a method that use illumination sensor to track maximum power point in equal illumination conditions. In comparison to another methods, the proposed algorithm uses correlation functions to determinate the relationship between values of illumination and temperature sensors and the corresponding values of current and voltage in maximum power point. In partial shading condition the algorithm calculates local maximum power points bases on the value of temperature and the correlation function and after that measures the value of power on each of calculated point choose those with have biggest value, and on its base run the perturb and observe search algorithm. In case of equal illumination algorithm calculate the maximum power point bases on the illumination value and the correlation function and on its base run the perturb and observe algorithm. In addition, the proposed method uses a special coefficient modification of correlation functions algorithm. This sub-algorithm uses the error value between calculated and real maximum power point and on its base modifies correlation function coefficients.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125851151","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-electronic system for real-time structural health monitoring of roofs","authors":"S. Mikheev, I. Konyakhin, O. A. Barsukov","doi":"10.1117/12.2227862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227862","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports the results of computing and physical modeling of measurement optical-electronic system for real-time position control of extended objects with an active tags. We proposed an original method for solving systems of differential equations to calculate the coordinates of the objects. We offer an original multichannel monitoring optical-electronic system based on orthogonal channels. We create the physical model of this system for controlling the position of the pool’s roof.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"s1-17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127193138","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":"Examination of the sintering process dependent micro- and nanostructure of TiO2 on textile substrates","authors":"A. Herrmann, Johannes Fiedler, A. Ehrmann, T. Grethe, A. Schwarz-Pfeiffer, T. Błachowicz","doi":"10.1117/12.2227180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227180","url":null,"abstract":"Eco-friendly and sustainable power generation is one of the important aims of our time. Harvesting renewable energy can, e.g., be done by solar cells. For the integration in textiles, developing solar cells with typical textile haptics and pliability would be ideal. Additionally, textile solar cells should be created from low-purity materials in low-cost processes to be compatible with the textile industry. Thus, dye sensitized solar cells are ideal candidates for the integration of solar cell technology into textiles. In a recent project, we systematically test different material systems applied on textiles in which all functional layers are varied. One of the most crucial points is the sintering process of TiO2 which is only possible on a few textile materials. Additionally, the TiO2 coating itself contains the risk of being not completely isolating, allowing for dye and electrolyte or textile fibers penetrating through this layer and reaching the front electrode. This can result in short circuits or undesired counteracting voltages and currents. The article shows how different coating and sintering technologies of TiO2 on glass and textile fabrics influence the structures of the respective layers on different scales. It illustrates the differences between glass and textile fabrics in terms of the coating process and the resulting layer properties. Time-dependent measurements of open-circuit voltages and efficiencies show the physical implications of variations of the TiO2 layer structure and the resulting inner surfaces. In this way, we depict the different effects arising from undesired modifications of the TiO2 layer structure.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132183525","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":"Measurement of 3D displacement fields from few tomographic projections","authors":"T. Taillandier-Thomas, C. Jailin, S. Roux, F. Hild","doi":"10.1117/12.2227904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227904","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper aims at providing 3D volume images of a deformed specimen based on i) a full 3D image describing the reference state as obtained e.g., from conventional computed tomography and ii) the 3D displacement field accounting for its motion. The displacement field, which is described by much fewer degrees of freedom than the specimen volume itself, is here proposed to be determined from very few projections. The reduction in number of needed projections may be larger than two orders of magnitude. In the proposed approach, the displacement field is described over an unstructured mesh composed of tetrahedra with linear shape functions. The mesh is based on the reconstructed reference volume so that it provides a faithful and accurate description of the specimen, including its boundary. Nodal displacements are determined from the minimization of the quadratic difference between the computed projections of the deformed configuration and the acquired projections (radiographs) for the selected orientations. Well-posedness of the problem requires the number of kinematic unknowns to be small. However, in cases where the geometry is complex, the displacement field may call for many parameters. To deal with such conflicting demands it is proposed to use a regularization based on the mechanical modeling of the displacement field using a linear elastic description.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127999990","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":"Presence capture cameras - a new challenge to the image quality","authors":"Veli-Tapani Peltoketo","doi":"10.1117/12.2227055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227055","url":null,"abstract":"Commercial presence capture cameras are coming to the markets and a new era of visual entertainment starts to get its shape. Since the true presence capturing is still a very new technology, the real technical solutions are just passed a prototyping phase and they vary a lot. Presence capture cameras have still the same quality issues to tackle as previous phases of digital imaging but also numerous new ones. This work concentrates to the quality challenges of presence capture cameras. A camera system which can record 3D audio-visual reality as it is has to have several camera modules, several microphones and especially technology which can synchronize output of several sources to a seamless and smooth virtual reality experience. Several traditional quality features are still valid in presence capture cameras. Features like color fidelity, noise removal, resolution and dynamic range create the base of virtual reality stream quality. However, co-operation of several cameras brings a new dimension for these quality factors. Also new quality features can be validated. For example, how the camera streams should be stitched together with 3D experience without noticeable errors and how to validate the stitching? The work describes quality factors which are still valid in the presence capture cameras and defines the importance of those. Moreover, new challenges of presence capture cameras are investigated in image and video quality point of view. The work contains considerations how well current measurement methods can be used in presence capture cameras.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134024803","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":"Improving the coherence properties of solid-state spin ensembles via optimized dynamical decoupling","authors":"D. Farfurnik, A. Jarmola, L. Pham, Z. H. Wang, V. Dobrovitski, R. Walsworth, D. Budker, N. Bar-Gill","doi":"10.1117/12.2227479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227479","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we optimize a dynamical decoupling (DD) protocol to improve the spin coherence properties of a dense ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Using liquid nitrogen-based cooling and DD microwave pulses, we increase the transverse coherence time T2 from ∼ 0.7 ms up to ∼ 30 ms. We extend previous work of single-axis (Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill) DD towards the preservation of arbitrary spin states. After performing a detailed analysis of pulse and detuning errors, we compare the performance of various DD protocols. We identify that the concatenated XY8 pulse sequences serves as the optimal control scheme for preserving an arbitrary spin state. Finally, we use the concatenated sequences to demonstrate an immediate improvement of the AC magnetic sensitivity up to a factor of two at 250 kHz. For future work, similar protocols may be used to increase coherence times up to NV-NV interaction time scales, a major step toward the creation of quantum collective NV spin states.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134497746","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":"3D transient temperature measurement in homogeneous solid material with THz waves","authors":"M. Romano, A. Sommier, J. Batsale, C. Pradère","doi":"10.1117/12.2225444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2225444","url":null,"abstract":"The first imaging system that is able to measure transient temperature phenomena taking place inside a bulk by 3D tomography is presented. This novel technique combines the power of terahertz waves and the high sensitivity of infrared imaging. The tomography reconstruction is achieved by the 3D motion of the sample at several angular positions followed by inverse Radon transform processing to retrieve the 3D transient temperatures. The aim of this novel volumetric imaging technique is to locate defects within the whole target body as well as to measure the temperature in the whole volume of the target. This new-fashioned thermal tomography will revolutionize the non-invasive monitoring techniques for volume inspection and in-situ properties estimations.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"9896 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131031723","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":"Orthogonal frequency division multiplexed quantum key distribution in the presence of Raman noise","authors":"S. Bahrani, M. Razavi, J. Salehi","doi":"10.1117/12.2227982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227982","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed quantum key distribution (OFDM-QKD) in an integrated quantum-classical wavelength-division-multiplexing system. The presence of an intense classical signal alongside the quantum one generates Raman background noise. Noise reduction techniques should, then, be carried out at the receiver to suppress this crosstalk noise. In this work, we show that OFDM-QKD enables efficient filtering, in time and frequency domains, making it an attractive solution for the high-rate links at the core of quantum-classical networks.","PeriodicalId":285152,"journal":{"name":"SPIE Photonics Europe","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133049928","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}