In this study, a polarization-control setup for intensity-resolved guided mode resonance sensors is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. The experimental results are in good agreement with the simulation data based on rigorous coupled wave approach calculations. The proposed intensity-resolved measurement setup transfers polarization ellipses, which are produced from guided mode resonance ...

Several possibilities for the use of elastic light scattering in the backscatter range (scattering angle theta(s) > 140 deg) for determination of size, velocity, and refractive index of spherical particles are investigated. First the phase Doppler technique is considered. Numerical simulations of light scattering with the Lorenz-Mie theory are used to show that the phase Doppler technique is un...

We propose and demonstrate a novel and simple dual-parameter measurement scheme based on a cascaded optical fiber device of long-period grating (LPG) and photonic crystal fiber (PCF) modal interferometer. The temperature and refractive index (RI) can be measured simultaneously by monitoring the spectral characteristics of the device. The implemented sensor shows distinctive spectral sensitiviti...

The excellent sorption kinetics, reversibility, and guest-induced changes in the MOF structure and/or properties make them intriguing candidates, in particular, for sensing. However, only a few of these changes (mainly luminescence quenching) have been explored for sensing purposes due to their small magnitude or the diffi culty in their measurement. Integrating MOFs into devices will allow the...

INTRODUCTION Various optical measurement techniques have been developed for the characterization of surface states during electrochemical processes. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy has been used in combination with electrochemistry to investigate the electronic structure of metal-electrolyte interfaces [1]. We reported the current efficiency of refractive index changes that occurre...

We have constructed a new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to measure the index of refraction of transmissive materials in the wavelength range from the visible to the vacuum ultraviolet. An etalon of the material is illuminated with synchrotron radiation, and the interference fringes in the transmittance spectrum are measured using a Fourier transform spect...

In this paper, the measurement of refractive indices of a set of spherical particles is presented. A set of particles is illuminated by a pulsed laser beam. The particles scatter the light toward a CCD camera. A complex interference fringe patterns are recorded by the CCD camera. These interferences fringes depend on these characteristics of the illuminated particles: 3D relative locations, siz...

We present a refractometer based on the principle of total internal reflection that can sensitively record, in real time, the refractive index of fluids over a wide range of refractive indices. The device uses a divergent laser beam and a linear diode array, and has no mechanical or optical moving parts, enabling us to achieve the measurement of a refractive index at a sensitivity level of 10(-...

We demonstrate a new imaging technique for cold atom clouds based on phase retrieval from a single diffraction measurement. Most single-shot diffractive imaging methods for cold atoms assume a monomorphic object to extract the column density. The method described here allows quantitative imaging of an inhomogeneous cloud, enabling recovery of either the atomic density or the refractive index, p...