Mechanophotonics for Organic Photonic Integrated Circuits.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chandrasekar, Rajadurai.

Series:

IOP Series in Advances in Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nanophotonics.

Nonlinear optics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Institute of Physics Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

Mechanophotonics emerges as a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research discipline, seamlessly intertwining mechanical micromanipulation with the nanophotonics of molecular optical microcrystals.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Author biography

Professor Rajadurai Chandrasekar

List of symbols

List of abbreviations

Chapter Introduction

1.1 The nature of light waves

1.1.1 The Maxwell and Helmholtz equations

1.1.2 The resemblance between the Helmholtz and Schrödinger equations

1.2 The photon nature of light

1.3 The polarization states of light

1.4 The chemistry and physics of materials

1.4.1 Population inversion-less lasers

1.5 Nonlinear optical (NLO) properties

1.5.1 Second harmonic generation (SHG)/frequency doubling/up-conversion

1.5.2 Two-photon absorption (TPA)

1.5.3 Molecular building blocks for NLO materials

1.6 Mechanical properties of organic crystals

1.6.1 Flexible molecular crystals and their types

1.6.2 Molecules forming mechanically flexible crystals

1.7 Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) [128,129]

1.7.1 Inorganic PICs

1.7.2 Organic PICs (OPICs) [64,166,167]

References

Chapter Properties of organic PIC components

2.1 Waveguides

2.1.1 Electromagnetic field in waveguides

2.1.2 Evanescent wave coupling

2.1.3 Types of waveguides

2.1.4 Bent (mechanically flexible) waveguides

2.1.5 Optical loss in bent waveguides

2.1.6 NLO (chiral) waveguides

2.2 Optical cavities

2.2.1 F-P microcavities

2.2.2 WGM cavities

2.2.3 Electrostriction-mediated mode shifts in an organic polar NLO crystal cavity

2.2.4 Organic photochromic multi-block crystal as light intensity modulators

2.2.5 Organic single-mode lasers, mode filters, and laser arrays

Chapter Mechanophotonics: mechanical micromanipulation of molecular crystals into various photonic components

3.1 The need for mechanophotonics

3.2 Mechanophotonics - mechanical micromanipulation of organic optical crystals

3.2.1 Lifting of optical waveguiding crystals.

3.2.2 Cutting of crystal cavities

3.2.3 Discovery of pseudo-plasticity: moving/bending of a crystal

3.2.4 Slicing/separation of an optical crystal waveguide from a bundled aggregate

3.2.5 Moving/aligning/integrating operations in monolithic crystal optical waveguides

3.2.6 Transferring and integrating crystal optical waveguides for hybrid circuits

3.2.7 Rolling of crystal optical waveguides

3.2.8 Standing of twisted-crystal optical waveguides

3.2.9 3D Stacking of twisted-crystal optical waveguides

3.2.10 Interlocking of twisted-crystal optical waveguides

3.3 Pathways to apply crystal micromanipulation towards OPICs

3.3.1 Crystal library and mechanophotonics

3.3.2 Focused ion beam milling of organic crystal into photonic components

3.3.3 Automation of mechanophotonics and artificial intelligence

Chapter Organic single-crystal photonic components and integrated circuits

4.1 Curved (micro) organic waveguides

4.1.1 Bent waveguides

4.1.2 Bending strain-dependent optical loss

4.1.3 Effect of waveguide-cavity bending on optical modes

4.1.4 Spiral waveguides

4.2 Directional couplers (DCs)

4.2.1 A monolithic organic 2×2 DC

4.2.2 A monolithic organic 2×2 asymmetric DC coupler

4.2.3 A hybrid organic 2×2 DC

4.2.4 A hybrid 3-layer DC for optical neural networks

4.3 Add-drop filters (ADFs)

4.3.1 A monolithic organic ADF

4.3.2 A hybrid and reconfigurable organic ADF

4.3.3 A hybrid and reconfigurable organic circuit

4.3.4 A hybrid organic circuit with two ring resonators

4.3.5 A reconfigurable hybrid circuit made from spiral and straight waveguides

4.4 Organic crystal optical interferometers

4.5 Wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs)

4.6 LED-powered organic single-crystal optical waveguides for VLC technologies

References.

Chapter Crystal photonics foundry

5.1 Crystal photonics foundry for organic photonic integrated circuits

5.1.1 FIB milling technology

5.1.2 Utilization of perylene single crystals for FIB milling

5.1.3 FIB milling of coumarin-153 single crystals

5.1.4 A tandem approach to fabricate a hybrid organic-add-drop filter (HOADF)

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Print version: Chandrasekar, Rajadurai Mechanophotonics for Organic Photonic Integrated Circuits

ISBN:

9780750353366

OCLC:

1451140126