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High Gain Infrared Collector and Data Node
An infrared collector employs a concentrator formed of a plurality of spatially related gradient-indexed (GRIN) lenses and a photo detector interconnected by optical fibers. Since the GRIN lenses are arranged on a hemispherical shell the concentrator is relatively insensitive to the direction of the incoming infrared radiation. Optical fibers are...
Published: 2/6/2014   |   Inventor(s): Yang Zhao, Dan Hu
Keywords(s): Device, Optical
Category(s): Instrumentation, Optics & Photonics, Physical Sciences, Sensors
Integrated Optical Polarizer for Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides
Integrated optics based on silicon-on-insulator platforms are developing extremely fast due to technological compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication process widely accepted in microelectronics. Wayne State researchers have developed a technology which generates an integrated optical polarizer for high index...
Published: 2/6/2014   |   Inventor(s): Ivan Avrutsky
Keywords(s): Fiber Optic, Optical, Photonic, Polarizer
Category(s): Physical Sciences, Optics & Photonics, MEMS, Materials, Thin films
Sub-monolayer detection with surface selective vibrational spectroscopy
This invention describes a new system and method for performing surface-selective spectroscopic detection with high sensitivity and low detection limits particularly in the visible and fingerprint mid-infrared spectral regions. The method offers a substantial improvement, 10-fold or more, over existing techniques. This invention has already been reduced...
Published: 2/6/2014   |   Inventor(s): Alexander Benderskii, Igor Stiopkin, Himali Jayathilake
Keywords(s): Device, Instrumentation, Method, Nanotechnology, Optical, Photonic
Category(s): Instrumentation, Spectroscopy, Physical Sciences