Publications related to Physical optics

3D diffractive optics for linear interconnects and nonlinear processing

The optical domain presents potential avenues for enhancing both computing and communication due to its inherent properties of bandwidth, parallelism, and energy efficiency. This research focuses on harnessing 3-Dimensional (3D) diffractive optics for nove ...

EPFL2024

Machine Learning at the Atomic Scale

Michele Ceriotti, Félix Benedito Clément Musil

Statistical learning algorithms are finding more and more applications in science and technology. Atomic-scale modeling is no exception, with machine learning becoming commonplace as a tool to predict energy, forces and properties of molecules and condense ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2019

On the Limits of Precision Glass Molding for Diffractive Optical Elements

Karin Prater

Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) consist of surface reliefs with dimensions in the micrometer range and nanometer precision. Two technologies dominate: Elements replicated in plastic and directly microfabricated elements in fused silica. Plastic DOEs ar ...

EPFL2017

Radiative characterization of random fibrous media with optically large long cylindrical fibers

Sophia Haussener

Radiative heat transfer is analyzed in participating media consisting of long cylindrical fibers with a diameter in the limit of geometrical optics. The absorption and scattering coefficients and the scattering phase function of the medium are determined b ...

Elsevier2017

Design of periodic nano- and macro-scale textures for high-performance thin-film multi-junction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Etienne Antoine Julien Moulin

Surface textures in thin-film silicon multi-junction solar cells play an important role in gaining the photocurrent of the devices. In this paper, a design of the textures is carried out for the case of amorphous silicon/micro-crystalline silicon (a-Si:H/m ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Transition of optical regime in miniaturized optical systems: light interactions beyond the refraction limit

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

We investigate the transition of optical regimes of miniaturized optical systems using two canonical examples, where the refraction of light limits the system performance. A ball-lens and a solid immersion lens (SIL) are considered, whose refractive respon ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

On the design of unit-cells for acoustic metasurfaces

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

Acoustic metasurfaces have gained popularity for their capability to tailor the phase front of transmitted and reflected waves. While most of researches conducted in this topic are spinning around different applications and peculiar physics of these surfac ...

IEEE2015

Multilevel Micro-Structuring of Glassy Carbon for Precision Glass Molding of Diffractive Optical Elements

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Karin Prater

A consumer market for diffractive optical elements in glass can only be created if high efficient elements are available at affordable prices. In diffractive optics the efficiency and optical properties increases with the number of levels used, but in the ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

2D Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Setup and Ultrafast Dynamics of Porphyrins

Andre Al Haddad

The first section of the thesis discusses the development and implementation of a two dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy setup, that permits the recording of electronic 2D spectra in the visible regime. A hollow core fiber was used to generate broa ...

EPFL2015

Photonic design of embedded dielectric scatterers for dye sensitized solar cells

Ali Dabirian

Embedded dielectric scatterers comprise an important approach for light trapping in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) due to their simple fabrication process. The challenge in applying these scatterers lies in finding the optimal dimensions and concentrati ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Surface micro-structuring of glassy carbon for precision glass molding of diffractive optical elements

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Karin Prater

Glassy carbon is used nowadays for a variety of applications because of its mechanical strength, thermal stability and non-sticking adhesion properties. This makes it also a suitable candidate as mold material for precision compression molding of low and h ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Combining Monte Carlo methods with coherent wave optics for the simulation of phase-sensitive X-ray imaging

Peter Modregger, Marco Stampanoni

Phase-sensitive X-ray imaging shows a high sensitivity towards electron density variations, making it well suited for imaging of soft tissue matter. However, there are still open questions about the details of the image formation process. Here, a framework ...

International Union of Crystallography2014

Phase Anomalies in Micro-Optics

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

We present a comprehensive review on the latest research activities that explore the Gouy phase and indicate the recent experimental progresses for its observations in studies that rely on a longitudinal-differential interferometer. The latter is a far-fie ...

Elsevier, Amsterdam2013

Improving metal reflectors by suppressing surface plasmon polaritons: a priori calculation of the internal reflectance of a solar cell

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf

Imperfect internal reflectance of near-bandgap light reduces the performance of all solar cells, and becomes increasingly detrimental as absorbers become thinner. We consider light incident on the silicon/dielectric/metal structure at the back of rear-pass ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Observation of Axial Phase Evolution of Highly Confined Light Fields

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

Highly confined light fields demonstrate peculiar phase features, e.g., Gouy phase anomaly. Longitudinal-differential phase measurements by a high-resolution interference microscope are applied to investigate phase evolutions of confined light fields for p ...

2011

Analytical ultracentrifugation to support the development of biomaterials and biomedical devices

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Jutta Christine Wandrey, Conlin O'Neil, Urara Hasegawa

Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) primarily serves to investigate hydrodynamic and thermodynamic properties of natural and synthetic macromolecules and colloids in solution, dispersion or suspension. Beside such more conventional use, AUC can support ma ...

2011

On the Characteristics of Highly Confined Light Fields : A High-Resolution Interference Microscopy Study

Myun Sik Kim

The Investigation of highly confined light fields created by different mechanisms, such as refraction, diffraction, and scattering, are the main subject of this thesis. We distinguish a specific scattering phenomenon of dielectric microspheres from general ...

EPFL2011

Characterisation of photonic crystal and nanophotonics devices with Fourier optics

Romuald Houdré, Nicolas Le Thomas, Jana Jágerská

We report on the experimental investigation of the Floquet-Bloch modes propagation inside photonic crystal (PhC) structures as well as their emission from the structures with far-field optics. We demonstrate that far-field optical experiments can be used t ...

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Compositional reflectance and transmittance model for multilayer specimens

Roger Hersch, Mathieu Hébert

We propose a compositional model for predicting the reflectance and the transmittance of multilayer specimens composed of layers having possibly distinct refractive indices. The model relies on the laws of geometrical optics and on a description of the mul ...

2007

Numerical parametric lens for shifting, magnification and complete aberration compensation in digital holographic microscopy

Christian Depeursinge, Tristan Colomb, Etienne Cuche, Frédéric Montfort, Nicolas Aspert, Florian Charrière, Pierre Marquet, Jonas Kühn, Stéphane Bourquin, Mihaela Marian

The concept of numerical parametric lenses (NPL) is introduced to achieve wavefront reconstruction in digital holography. It is shown that operations usually performed by optical components and described in ray geometrical optics, such as image shifting, m ...

2006