Publications by Lubos Hvozdara

Manipulating Bloch surface waves in 2D: a platform concept-based flat lens

Tristan Sfez, Hans Peter Herzig, Libo Yu, Lubos Hvozdara, Joab Di Francesco, Elsie Barakat

At the end of the 1970s, it was confirmed that dielectric multilayers can sustain Bloch surface waves (BSWs). However, BSWs were not widely studied until more recently. Taking advantage of their high-quality factor, sensing applications have focused on BSW ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Droplet-based Liquid-Liquid Extraction and On-Chip IR-Waveguide-Spectroscopy Detection of Cocaine in Human Saliva

Nico de Rooij, Hans Peter Herzig, Yu-Chi Chang, Peter Van der Wal, Philip Wägli, Lubos Hvozdara

We present a portable microsystem to quantitatively detect cocaine in human saliva. The chip combines a simple microfluidic method for multiphase liquid-liquid extraction to transfer cocaine from IR-light absorbing saliva to an IRtransparent solvent with t ...

2012

Silicon based micro-optical collimating element for mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers

Pierre-Yves Baroni, Hans Peter Herzig, Lubos Hvozdara, Antoine Muller, Joab Di Francesco

A realization of a high numeric aperture, aspheric, silicon based collimating element for the mid-infrared (4 – 14 microns) Quantum Cascade Lasers, suited for mass production using computer driven reactive ion etching is presented. ...

2012

High numerical aperture silicon collimating lens for mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers manufactured using wafer-level techniques

Pierre-Yves Baroni, Hans Peter Herzig, Lubos Hvozdara, Antoine Muller, Joab Di Francesco

We present an aspheric collimating lens for mid-infrared (4-14 µ) quantum cascade lasers. The lenses were etched into silicon by an inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching system on wafer level. The high refractive index of silicon reduces the heig ...

2012

Investigation of Protein Aggregation with a Bloch Surface Wave Sensor

Hans Peter Herzig, Vincent Paeder, Valeria Musi, Lubos Hvozdara, Sara Santi

We present a study of the dynamics of protein aggregation using a common path heterodyne Bloch surface wave label-free sensing scheme. We demonstrate the ability to detect, during thermal incubation, the first early dynamics events of protein aggregation a ...

2011

CO2 isotope sensor using a broadband infrared source, a spectrally narrow 4.4 μm quantum cascade detector, and a Fourier spectrometer

Hans Peter Herzig, Lubos Hvozdara, Joab Di Francesco

We report a prototype CO2 gas sensor based on a simple blackbody infrared source and a spectrally narrow quantum cascade detector (QCD). The detector absorption spectrum is centered at 2260 cm−1 (4.4 μm) and has a full width at half maximum of 200 cm−1 (25 ...

2011

Detection of protein aggregation with a Bloch surface wave based sensor

Sylvain Herminjard, Hans Peter Herzig, Vincent Paeder, Valeria Musi, Lubos Hvozdara

We present the innovative application of a Bloch surface wave based sensor to the detection of protein aggregation. In Hen Egg White Lysozyme (HEWL) solutions, aggregates are discriminated from the monomeric forms in a label-free detection scheme. ...

Elsevier2011

Single Mode Mid-infrared Waveguide for Evanescent Sensor Scheme in Liquids

Hans Peter Herzig, Yu-Chi Chang, Vincent Paeder, Philip Wägli, Lubos Hvozdara

A Si/Ge based, single mode, mid-infrared optical waveguide, is used as an evanescent sensor in liquid matrix. The selectivity is achieved by the use of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) tuned to the maximum absorption of a given analyte. The cocaine detection ...

2011

High-performance bound-to-continuum quantum-cascade lasers for broad-gain applications

Jérôme Faist, Lubos Hvozdara

Based on the bound-to-continuum active region design, we shall present a high performance continuous-wave (CW) quantum-cascade laser. In contrast to high performance lasers based on a two-phonon resonance transition and a narrow linewidth (< 165 cm(-1)), t ...

2008