Publications related to Argon fluoride laser

Disentangling Thermal from Electronic Contributions in the Spectral Response of Photoexcited Perovskite Materials

Majed Chergui, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Malte Oppermann, Lijie Wang

Disentangling electronic and thermal effects in photoexcited perovskite materials is crucial for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications but remains a challenge due to their intertwined nature in both the time and energy domains. In this study, we emp ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Divertor detachment and reattachment with mixed impurity seeding on ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Claude Martin Février

Using newly developed spectroscopic models to measure the divertor concentration of Ne and Ar, it is shown that the experimental detachment threshold on ASDEX Upgrade with Ar-only and mixtures of Ar+N or Ne+N scales as expected in comparison with an analyt ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

First developments towards producing inductive magnetic sensors using state-of-the-art photolithography techniques

Duccio Testa, Marcus Cemes, Ambrine Douhane

Inductive magnetic sensors are needed for tokamak operation to provide the low-frequency (LF) measurements leading to the equilibrium reconstruction and to monitor the higher frequency (HF) instabilities; the HF magnetic sensors are often also used as a ba ...

2023

Low-noise frequency-agile photonic integrated lasers for coherent ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Andrey Voloshin, Vladimir Shadymov

Stable and tunable integrated lasers are fundamental building blocks for applications from spectroscopy to imaging and communication. Here the authors present a narrow linewidth hybrid photonic integrated laser with low frequency noise and fast linear wave ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Sensitivity and spectral control of network lasers

Alexis Arnaudon, Dinika Saxena

Recently, random lasing in complex networks has shown efficient lasing over more than 50 localised modes, promoted by multiple scattering over the underlying graph. If controlled, these network lasers can lead to fast-switching multifunctional light source ...

Nature Portfolio2022

FABRICATION AND ANALYSIS OF THIN FILM LITHUM NIOBATE RESONATORS FOR 5GHz FREQUENCY AND LARGE k(t)(2) APPLICATIONS

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Seniz Esra Küçük, Soumya Yandrapalli, Victor Plessky

This work presents the fabrication and analysis of suspended thin film Lithium Niobate resonators. The yield of the new fabrication process presented below is >90% showing devices with high k(t)(2) of 28% resonators at 5GHz, making them suitable for high f ...

IEEE2021

Analysis of uncoated LPGs written in B-Ge doped fiber under proton irradiation for sensing applications at CERN

Tiago Filipe Pimentel Das Neves

In this contribution, a complete dissertation concerning the behavior of a Long Period Grating (LPG) inscribed in a B-Ge co-doped optical fiber by means of an excimer laser and exposed to proton irradiation during a recent extensive campaign performed at t ...

Nature Research2020

Generating optical pulses via a soliton state of an optical microresonator coupled with a chip based semiconductor laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Hairun Guo, Arslan Sajid Raja

A light pulse source (100), being adapted for generating repetitive optical pulses (1), comprises a continuous wave cw laser device (10) being arranged for providing cw laser light (2), an optical waveguide (20) being optically coupled with the cw laser de ...

2020

Tolerancing the surface form of aspheric microlenses manufactured by wafer-level optics techniques

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Jeremy Béguelin

Tolerancing is an important step toward the fabrication of high-quality and cost-effective lens surfaces. It is critical for wafer-level optics, when up to tens of thousands microlenses are fabricated in parallel and whose surfaces cannot be formed individ ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Compound micromachines powered by acoustic streaming

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Furkan Ayhan, Murat Kaynak

This paper presents the design, fabrication, and operation of compound micromachines powered by acoustic streaming. The machine components were directly incorporated around pillars serving as shafts without further assembly steps using a single-step in sit ...

IEEE2019

Improvements on the uniformity of large-area microlens arrays in Fused Silica

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Raoul Kirner, Jeremy Béguelin

The uniformity of large microlens arrays in Fused Silica is governed by the production process. It comprises photolithographic patterning of a spin-coated layer of photoresist on a 200mm wafer with a molten resist reflow process and subsequent dry etching. ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

On Advanced Large-Field Photolithography

Raoul Kirner

The information age we live in today relies on highly integrated devices. They are fabricated with the help of photolithography, the patterning technique at the heart of their production. With the continuous demand for higher integration density to achieve ...

EPFL2019

Imaging hair cells through laser-ablated cochlear bone

Demetri Psaltis, Ye Pu, Marilisa Romito

We report an innovative technique for the visualization of cells through an overlying scattering medium by combining femtosecond laser bone ablation and two-photon excitation fluorescence (TPEF) microscopy. We demonstrate the technique by imaging hair cell ...

2019

Printing sub-micron structures using Talbot mask-aligner lithography with a 193 nm CW laser light source

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Raoul Kirner, Andreas Vetter

A continuous improvement of resolution in mask-aligner lithography is sought after to meet the requirements of an ever decreasing minimum feature size in back-end processes. For periodic structures, utilizing the Talbot effect for lithography has emerged a ...

2018

3D monolithic dielectrophoretic actuators and resonators written by femtosecond laser

Tao Yang

The last few decades have witnessed exciting advances in micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS) including revolutionary development of fabrication processes and an ever increasing expansion of their domain of applications. In parallel, femtosecond l ...

EPFL2017

Complex light in 3D printing

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Edgar Emilio Morales Delgado

3D printing as a tool to generate complicated shapes from CAD files, on demand, with different materials from plastics to metals, is shortening product development cycles, enabling new design possibilities and can provide a mean to manufacture small volume ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

W-Band Waveguide Filters Fabricated by Laser Micromachining and 3-D Printing

Emile Jacques de Rijk, Mathieu Billod, Cheng Guo

This paper presents two W-band waveguide bandpass filters, one fabricated using laser micromachining and the other 3-D printing. Both filters are based on coupled resonators and are designed to have a Chebyshev response. The first filter is for laser micro ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Fine structuration of low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) microreactors

Paul Muralt, Albert Renken, Bo Jiang, Lioubov Kiwi, Thomas Maeder, Julien Haber

The development of microreactors that operate under harsh conditions is always of great interest for many applications. Here we present a microfabrication process based on low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology for producing microreactors which ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Stability of Fiber Bragg Gratings Fabricated Using UV Ar+ and ArF Excimer in Bismuth-Aluminum-co-Doped Silica Fibers

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis

Continuous annealing of fiber Bragg gratings fabricated using cw and pulsed laser irradiation in Bi-Al-co-doped fibers of different concentrations show activation energy spectra linked to Bi-Al. Thermal stability maps were obtained by their analytical repr ...

2014

Annealing of UV Ar+ and ArF excimer laser fabricated Bragg gratings: SMF-28e fiber

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis

Fiber Bragg gratings fabricated in pristine SMF-28e fibers using pulsed ArF-excimer and cw 244-nm Ar+ laser were annealed using tempering rates from 0.0038 to 0.25 K/s. Demarcation energy mapping allowed for the determination of the frequency factors and t ...

Optical Society of America2014