• 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 ...
    • Multiplexed Mach-Zehnder interferometer assisted ring resonator sensor 

      Yadav, Mukesh; Aksnes, Astrid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-04)
      A Mach-Zehnder interferometer assisted ring resonator configuration (MARC)-based multiplexed photonic sensor with a large measurement range is experimentally demonstrated. The presented MARC sensor consists of a balanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a ring resonator acting as a sensing component. It produces transmission responses with unique spectral signatures, which depend on the physical ...
    • Spectral shaping of ring resonator transmission response 

      Yadav, Mukesh; Noh, Jong Wook; Hjelme, Dag Roar; Aksnes, Astrid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We present a Mach-Zehnder interferometer assisted ring resonator configuration (MARC) to realize resonator transmission spectra with unique spectral signatures and significantly large effective free spectral ranges. Transmission spectra with unique spectral signatures are generated by changing the angular separation between the through port and the drop port waveguides of the ring resonator (RR). ...
    • 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 ...
    • Waveguide asymmetric long-period grating couplers as refractive index sensors 

      Høvik, Jens; Yadav, Mukesh; Noh, Jong Wook; Aksnes, Astrid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-29)
      A highly sensitive integrated photonic transducer is designed by utilizing asymmetric long-period gratings on a silicon waveguide. These gratings are formed by periodic perturbation of the waveguide width, leading to coupling between the fundamental mode and the 1st order asymmetric leaky mode. The coupled modes are studied via finite-element and finite-difference time-domain methods. Only a single ...