• Extraordinary evanescent field confinement waveguide sensor for mid-infrared trace gas spectroscopy 

      Vlk, Marek; Datta, Anurup; Alberti, Sebastian; Yallew, Henock Demessie; Mittal, Vinita; Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil; Jágerská, Jana (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-29)
      Nanophotonic waveguides are at the core of a great variety of optical sensors. These structures confine light along defined paths on photonic chips and provide light–matter interaction via an evanescent field. However, waveguides still lag behind free-space optics for sensitivity-critical applications such as trace gas detection. Short optical pathlengths, low interaction strengths, and spurious ...
    • Free-standing tantalum pentoxide waveguides for gas sensing in the mid-infrared 

      Vlk, Marek; Datta, Anurup; Alberti, Sebastian; Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil; Aksnes, Astrid; Jagerska, Jana (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-23)
      Typical applications of integrated photonics in the mid-infrared (MIR) are different from near-infrared (telecom) range and, in many instances, they involve chemical sensing through MIR spectroscopy. Such applications necessitate tailored designs of optical waveguides. Both cross-sectional designs and processing methods of MIR waveguides have been a subject of extensive research, where material ...
    • Optical Waveguides for Infrared Spectroscopic Detection of Molecular Gases 

      Vlk, Marek (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-06-18)
      Fields like medical diagnostics, urban and industrial environmental monitoring or basic microbiological research greatly benefit from advances in chemical and biological sensing. These applications require rapid sample analysis, reduced needs for sample handling, or good sensor network. Such demands can be met with miniaturised sensors utilising methods which secure sufficient sensitivity and ...
    • Sub-ppm Methane Detection with Mid-Infrared Slot Waveguides 

      Yallew, Henock Demessie; Vlk, Marek; Datta, Anurup; Alberti, Sebastian; Zakoldaev, Roman A.; Høvik, Jens; Aksnes, Astrid; Jagerska, Jana (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-21)
      Hybrid integration of photonic chips with electronic and micromechanical circuits is projected to bring about miniature, but still highly accurate and reliable, laser spectroscopic sensors for both climate research and industrial applications. However, the sensitivity of chip-scale devices has been limited by immature and lossy photonic waveguides, weak light–analyte interaction, and etalon effects ...