Unique measurements setup has been designed to examine the fiber-length-dependent energy conversion in multi-core-type photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) at the illumination of femto-second Ti-Sapphire laser pulses. Gradual spectral change of some peaks generating through 5 m-long PCF has been observed by using this system. Those peaks and their shifts have been identified as solitons and soliton self-frequency shift. On the other hand, the origin of peaks in shorter-wavelength regime is neither dispersive waves which are emitted and trapped by solitons nor idler waves generated by four-wave mixing or sum-frequency shift. Wavelength dispersion profiles of 5m-long PCF have been determined by measuring chromatic dispersion using a spectroscopic streak camera and the supercontinuum light, which is generated from a 20-mm-long PCF under illumination of a femto-second Ti-sapphire laser pulse.
We have developed nanoimprint technology to fabricate functional optical components. The future and usage of various molds for nanoimprint are described and their patterning examples are shown. Several applications of the nanoimprint technology are introduced; anti-reflection surface structure by using graded convex and concave patterns, extremely low threshold dye laser by 2-dimensional photonic crystals infiltrated with a gain medium, and various semiconductor nanostructures being used for functional optical devices. Nanoimprint is key technology to realize these components.
KEYWORDS: Polymers, Photonic crystals, Dendrimers, Polymerization, Luminescence, Photopolymerization, Absorption, Active optics, Confocal microscopy, Energy transfer
We have fabricated a polymer solid-state microstructure for optical application by two-photon-induced polymerization
technique. The photopolymerization resin contains conventional laser-dye and dendrimer. A dendrimer can
encapsulate the laser-dyes, limiting cluster formation and intermolecular energy transfer, and promising a high level of
optical gain. The effect can be extended to prepare an optically active microstructure using the two-photon-induced
polymerization technique. We fabricated a polymeric microcavity, which consisted of <400 nm-linewidth strips
arranged in layer-by-layer structure. The periodic variation in the refractive index gave rise to Bragg reflection. A
laser emission was measured in the microcavity under optical excitation. The spectral linewidth was about 0.1 nm
above the lasing threshold. We investigate both the material functions in the molecular scale and controlling the device structure
for desired applications such as a polymer DFB and photonic crystal.
We reported the solid-state laser composed of an Al2O3 photonic crystal and an organic gain medium. The photonic crystal was fabricated through the impinging technique and electrochemical process, which do not require any elaborate process used in the lithographic device technology, but they are effortless for transferring the periodic pattern in the photonic crystal and controlling its photonic band gap. When the photonic crystal was infiltrated with the organic gain material, we found a laser emission under optical excitation. The minimum laser-threshold was about 2.4 nJ/pulse, where linewidth of laser emission was as narrowed as 0.09 nm. We explain the laser action as due to the photonic band edge effect, and precise control of the laser mode and oscillation wavelength through the control of the photonic stop band and small change in the refractive index of the gain medium.
Silicon-based electronics has matured and holds a dominant position in critical technologies for computing systems. Advances in micro-miniaturization techniques enable us to fabricate nanometric devices with novel functions based on mesoscopic physics, and we expect that such devices will innovate on existing systems. Optics has also made tremendous progress since the first laser to generate quasi-coherent light was developed. Lasers are now widely used in basic science and in practical applications such as information processing and communications systems. Many studies have demonstrated novel functions in logics based on not only non-linear effects of media but also quantum-optic effects in nanometer-scaled structures. However, how to overcome the diffraction limit remains an unsolved fundamental problem how to break down the diffraction limit. Here, we report some ideas for nanophotonics and present a future picture of computing systems.
Site dependent nonlinear optical properties are characterized by pumping 140 fs pulses at independently addressable small quasi-cores formed by imperfection in index-guiding photonic crystal fiber (PCF). The positional assignment of pumping site onto the PCF is achieved based on the reflection method to observe in situ the waveguiding structure of PCF input face relative to the fixed focal point of the collimated laser beam. A series of input peak power dependent spectra at several small quasi-cores demonstrate visible light formation down to the violet, which are discussed in comparison with those for the center core leading to supercontinuum generation. Visible light formation at quasi-cores is principally due to an increase of the degree of anomalous dispersion by decreasing the core size. The observations presented in this work classify the nature of nonlinear optical processes through the slightly distorted PCF, leading to nonlinear optical manipulation by individual cores within the single PCF.
A highly ordered nanochannel array structure with high aspect ratios was fabricated based on the anodization of aluminum. A texturing treatment of the Al surface was carried out by nanoindentation process using the SiC mold initiated the development of an ideally-arranged-hole-array structure of anodic porous alumina. The hole-array has ideal hexagonal arrangement over millimeter dimensions, and the aspect ratio of the channel was over 150. In this report, the fabrication of the highly ordered nanochannel array and the application of the obtained structure to the preparation of nanostructures are described.
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