Array of tapered semiconductor waveguides in a fiber for infrared image transfer and magnification

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4168-4175

  Krishnamurthi, M ^a   Sparks, J R ^a   He, R ^a   Temnykh, I A ^a   Baril, N F ^a   Liu, Z ^b   Sazio, P J A ^c   Badding, J V ^a   Gopalan, V ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA; WAVEGUIDES;

ADJACENT PIXELS; CHEMICAL FLUID DEPOSITION; IMAGE TRANSFER; INFRARED IMAGES; INFRARED WAVEGUIDE; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING; OPTICAL THROUGHPUT; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDE; SI-WAVEGUIDE;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 84863117154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004168     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Y. C. Shen, T. Lo, P. F. Taday, B. E. Cole, W. R. Tribe, and M. C. Kemp, "Detection and identification of explosives using terahertz pulsed spectroscopic imaging," Appl. Phys. Lett. 86(24), 241116 (2005).
2. R. Mendelsohn, E. P. Paschalis, P. J. Sherman, and A. L. Boskey, "IR microscopic imaging of pathological states and fracture healing of bone," Appl. Spectrosc. 54(8), 1183-1191 (2000).
3. B. T. Soifer, G. Neugebauer, K. Matthews, E. Egami, E. E. Becklin, A. J. Weinberger, M. Ressler, M. W. Werner, A. S. Evans, N. Z. Scoville, J. A. Surace, and J. J. Condon, "High resolution mid-infrared imaging of ultraluminous infrared galaxies," Astron. J. 119(2), 509-523 (2000).
4. J. F. Head and R. L. Elliott, "Infrared imaging: making progress in fulfilling its medical promise," IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Mag. 21(6), 80-85 (2002).
5. D. J. Titman, "Applications of thermography in non-destructive testing of structures," NDT Int. 34(2), 149-154 (2001).
6. G. Reich, "Near-infrared spectroscopy and imaging: basic principles and pharmaceutical applications," Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev. 57(8), 1109-1143 (2005).
7. L. P. Ghislain, V. B. Elings, K. B. Crozier, S. R. Manalis, S. C. Minne, K. Wilder, G. S. Kino, and C. F. Quate, "Near-field photolithography with a solid immersion lens," Appl. Phys. Lett. 74(4), 501-503 (1999).
8. C. A. Michaels, "Mid-infrared imaging with a solid immersion lens and broadband laser source," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90(12), 121131 (2007).
9. D. A. Fletcher, K. B. Crozier, K. W. Guarini, S. C. Minne, G. S. Kino, C. F. Quate, and K. E. Goodson, "Microfabricated silicon solid immersion lens," J. Microelectromech. Syst. 10(3), 450-459 (2001).
10. M. Shinoda, K. Saito, T. Ishimoto, T. Kondo, A. Nakaoki, N. Ide, M. Furuki, M. Takeda, Y. Akiyama, T. Shimouma, and M. Yamamoto, "High-density near-field optical disc recording," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44(5B), 3537-3541 (2005).
11. Y. Kim, J. Zhang, and T. D. Milster, "GaP solid immersion lens based on diffraction," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 48(3), 03A047 (2009).
12. K. B. Cozier, D. A. Fletcher, G. S. Kino, C. F. Quate, and H. T. Soh, "Near field optical scanning system employing microfabricated solid immersion lens," US Patent 6441359 (2002).
13. F. Huth, M. Schnell, J. Wittborn, N. Ocelic, and R. Hillenbrand, "Infrared-spectroscopic nanoimaging with a thermal source," Nat. Mater. 10(5), 352-356 (2011).
14. M. M. Qazilbash, M. Brehm, G. O. Andreev, A. Frenzel, P. C. Ho, B.-G. Chae, B.-J. Kim, S. Yun, H.-T. Kim, A. Balatsky, O. Shpyrko, M. Maple, F. Keilmann, and D. Basov, "Infrared spectroscopy and nano-imaging of the insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide," Phys. Rev. B 79(7), 075107 (2009).
15. I. Gannot, A. Goren, E. Rave, A. Katzier, V. Gopal, G. Revezin, and J. A. Harrington, "Thermal imaging through infrared fiber/waveguides bundles," Proc. SPIE 5317, 95 (2004).
16. U. Gal, J. Harrington, M. Ben-David, C. Bledt, N. Syzonenko, and I. Gannot, "Coherent hollow-core waveguide bundles for thermal imaging," Appl. Opt. 49(25), 4700-4709 (2010).
17. G. Shvets, S. Trendafilov, J. B. Pendry, and A. Sarychev, "Guiding, focusing, and sensing on the subwavelength scale using metallic wire arrays," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99(5), 053903 (2007).
18. S. Kawata, A. Ono, and P. Verma, "Subwavelength colour imaging with a metallic nanolens," Nat. Photonics 2(7), 438-442 (2008).
19. P. J. A. Sazio, A. Amezcua-Correa, C. E. Finlayson, J. R. Hayes, T. J. Scheidemantel, N. F. Baril, B. R. Jackson, D. J. Won, F. Zhang, E. R. Margine, V. Gopalan, V. H. Crespi, and J. V. Badding, "Microstructured optical fibers as high-pressure microfluidic reactors," Science 311(5767), 1583-1586 (2006).
20. E. Palik, Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids II (Academic Press, New York 1998).
21. P. Mehta, M. Krishnamurthi, N. Healy, N. F. Baril, J. R. Sparks, P. J. A. Sazio, V. Gopalan, J. V. Badding, and A. C. Peacock, "Mid-infrared transmission properties of amorphous germanium optical fibers," Appl. Phys. Lett. 97(7), 071117 (2010).
22. N. F. Baril, B. Keshavarzi, J. R. Sparks, M. Krishnamurthi, I. A. Temnykh, P. J. A. Sazio, A. C. Peacock, A. Borhan, V. Gopalan, and J. V. Badding, "High-pressure chemical deposition for void-free filling of extreme aspect ratio templates," Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.) 22(41), 4605-4611 (2010).
23. N. Healy, J. R. Sparks, P. J. A. Sazio, J. V. Badding, and A. C. Peacock, "Tapered silicon optical fibers," Opt. Express 18(8), 7596-7601 (2010).
24. L. Lagonigro, N. Healy, J. R. Sparks, N. F. Baril, P. J. A. Sazio, J. V. Badding, and A. C. Peacock, "Low loss silicon fibres for photonics applications," Appl. Phys. Lett. 96(4), 041105 (2010).
25. J. R. Sparks, R. He, N. Healy, M. Krishnamurthi, A. C. Peacock, P. J. A. Sazio, V. Gopalan, and J. V. Badding, "Zinc selenide optical fibers," Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.) 23(14), 1647-1651 (2011).