{"title":"Energy transfer from ZnO nanocrystals to Terbium (3+) ions: A spectral overlap study","authors":"Vivek Mangalam, K. Pita","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831036","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, nanocrystals of the wide bandgap semiconductor zinc oxide (ZnO) have been widely studied due to its potential application in optoelectronics devices such as light source and detectors. ZnO nanocrystals (ZnO-nc) have a bandgp of 3.37eV and a large exciton binding energy of 60meV, which make them attractive material for devices which operate in the ultraviolet (UV)-blue region of the electromagnetic spectrum [1]. Consequently, ZnO-nc have also been used as sensitizers to excite the rare-earth(RE) ions such as Ce<sup>3+</sup>, Er<sup>3+</sup>, Ho<sup>3+</sup>, Nd<sup>3+</sup>, Tm<sup>3+</sup>, Dy<sup>3+</sup>, Eu<sup>3+</sup> and Tb<sup>3+</sup> [2–9] which absorb the UV-blue emission from the ZnO-nc and in turn emits their own light in the visible or infra-red wavelengths. ZnO-nc have been used as sensitizer mainly due to its large absorption cross-section and broad excitation spectrum [10] compared to the RE ions. Recently, our group has published a detailed study on the energy transfer mechanism from ZnO-nc to Eu<sup>3+</sup> ions [11], which results in strong red emission from Eu<sup>3</sup>+ at 614nm. In the above mentioned study, the contribution of the various ZnO-nc emission centres, which has been identified to consist of seven de-excitation centres [12], in the energy transfer process to the Eu<sup>3+</sup> ions was investigated. In this work, we continue to study the energy transfer contribution from the various ZnO-nc emission centres to the Tb<sup>3+</sup> ions embedded in SiO2, based on the spectral overlap of ZnO-nc emission and Tb<sup>3+</sup> ions excitation. The results from this study, along with our previous results on the energy transfer contribution from the various ZnO-nc emission centres to the Eu<sup>3+</sup> embedded in SiO<inf>2</inf> matrix [11], will help in fabricating proficient red, blue, green and even white light sources by combining the blue, green and red emissions from ZnO-nc, Tb<sup>3+</sup> and Eu<sup>3+</sup>, respectively which can be used in various photonic applications.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124566346","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-throughput real-time imaging flow cytometry based on Fourier sampling","authors":"Qiang Guo, Hong-wei Chen, Yu-xi Wang, Minghua Chen, Sigang Yang, Shihong Xie","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831142","url":null,"abstract":"An imaging flow cytometer based on Fourier sampling is demonstrated to enable high throughput screening with a frame rate of 625 kHz and a throughput of 100,000 cells/s for the first time.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131136570","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}
S. Kanazawa, Y. Ueda, W. Kobayashi, H. Ishii, H. Sanjoh
{"title":"High-speed (>100 Gbit/s) EADFB laser module using flip-chip interconnection technique","authors":"S. Kanazawa, Y. Ueda, W. Kobayashi, H. Ishii, H. Sanjoh","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831049","url":null,"abstract":"High-speed optical transmitters with a flip-chip interconnection were developed. The flip-chip interconnection technique can provide a high modulation bandwidth and low electrical crosstalk. We achieved 8 × 50-Gbit/s simultaneous operation with an EADFB laser array module and 100-Gbit/s operation with an EADFB laser module.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128685517","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}
Xiaoxiao Xue, Y. Xuan, J. Jaramillo-Villegas, Pei-Hsun Wang, Yang Liu, D. Leaird, M. Qi, A. Weiner
{"title":"Coherent Kerr frequency comb generation in microresonators with χ(2) and χ(3) nonlinearities","authors":"Xiaoxiao Xue, Y. Xuan, J. Jaramillo-Villegas, Pei-Hsun Wang, Yang Liu, D. Leaird, M. Qi, A. Weiner","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831235","url":null,"abstract":"Optical frequency comb generation due to interplay between second-order and third-order nonlinearities is demonstrated in a silicon nitride microring resonator which shows normal group velocity dispersion for the fundamental wave. Mode-locked bright and dark pulses are generated at the through and drop ports respectively.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121127608","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":"Enhancements of Raman oscillation and amplification and frequency upconversion by phonon-polariton resonances","authors":"Yujie J. Ding","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831028","url":null,"abstract":"Phonon-polariton resonances are manifestation of the strong interaction between an electromagnetic wave interacts and transverse-optical phonons in a crystalline solid. Such resonances result in great enhancements of ionic second-order nonlinearities [1]. For LiNbO3, dominant element of the ionic second-order nonlinear susceptibility tensor coefficients d33 at 7.5 THz is a factor of about 50 larger than its electronic nonlinearity. Semiconductor materials such as GaAs, GaP, and GaN all exhibit these huge enhancements of the ionic second-order nonlinear coefficients by their polariton resonances. Obviously, one can exploit these huge nonlinear coefficients for greatly enhancing efficiencies of nonlinear parametric processes. The drawback, though, is extremely large absorption being companied with the huge nonlinearities within these strong resonances. Although sum-frequency generation [2], second-harmonic generation [3,4], and generation of THz [5,6], far-IR [7] and mid-IR [8] were investigated near the polariton resonances, the extremely low conversion efficiencies due to extremely large absorption and phase mismatch [2,7] made these nonlinear effects have no practical value.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"29 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122288710","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}
Shashank Gupta, J. Petykiewicz, D. Nam, D. Sukhdeo, J. Vučković, K. Saraswat
{"title":"Remarkable interplay between strain and parasitic absorption unravelling the best route for Si-compatible Germanium laser at room temperature","authors":"Shashank Gupta, J. Petykiewicz, D. Nam, D. Sukhdeo, J. Vučković, K. Saraswat","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7830992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7830992","url":null,"abstract":"A dramatic and previously overlooked interaction of parasitic absorption with strain in germanium (Ge) is demonstrated through extensive simulations and experiments. Uniaxial strain of 4–5% and biaxial strain greater than 1% are the best candidates for a room temperature Ge laser.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126889492","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":"Quantum communication for tomorrow","authors":"W. Munro","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831192","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum physics allows for completely new ways to create, manipulate and store information. Quantum communication, the ability to transmit quantum information, is a primitive for any future quantum Internet. Here we present an overview of this field ranging from quantum key distribution to quantum networks.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126305883","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. M. Nejad, K. Allahverdyan, Charles Brunet, S. Larochelle, L. Rusch
{"title":"Experimental study of receiver complexity in OAM-MDM transmission systems","authors":"R. M. Nejad, K. Allahverdyan, Charles Brunet, S. Larochelle, L. Rusch","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831108","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the impact of intermodal coupling between vector modes supported by specially designed fibers for OAM propagation on the complexity of receiver in OAM-MDM transmission systems.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121454878","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 differential ellipsometric method for accurate chirality measurement","authors":"Guangcan Mi, V. Van","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831280","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a differential ellipsometric method for accurate measurement of chirality based on reflection near critical angle. The method is implemented in a commercial spectroscopic ellipsometer and allows for characterization of the optical rotatory dispersion.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127758170","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}
C. Prodaniuc, N. Stojanović, Z. Qiang, R. Llorente
{"title":"Two-tap digital pre-emphasis for low-bandwidth 112 Gbps, PAM-4 transmissions","authors":"C. Prodaniuc, N. Stojanović, Z. Qiang, R. Llorente","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7830979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7830979","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally demonstrate a PAM-4 transmission at a bit rate of 112 Gbps using low-bandwidth components. By employing a 2-tap pre-emphasis filter we are able to lower the BER floor below 10−6 and to reduce the DSP complexity.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129039213","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}