A cascaded symmetrical dual-taper Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure based on guided-mode and leaky-mode interference is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the interference spectrum characteristics of interferometer has been analyzed by the Finite Difference-Beam Propagation Method (FD-BPM). When the diameter of taper waist is 20 μm-30 μm, dual-taper length is 1 mm and taper distance is 4 cm-6...

A first accurate measurement of the complex refractive index in an intralipid emulsion is demonstrated, and thereby the average scatterer particle size using standard Mie scattering calculations is extracted. Our method is based on measurement and modeling of the reflectance of a divergent laser beam from the sample surface. In the absence of any definitive reference data for the complex refrac...

With the development of computers and their surrounding equipments, the simulation of complicated flow structures around aircrafts will further become easier and cheaper by applying computational fluid dynamics. However, in order to judge whether the flow field obtained is reasonable or not, turbulent models and/or numerical schemes should be selected based on the comparison with experimental r...

Fiber-optic Fabry-Pérot interferometers (FPI) can be applied as optical sensors, and excellent measurement sensitivity can be obtained by fine-tuning the interferometer design. In this work, we evaluate the ability of selected dielectric thin films to optimize the reflectivity of the Fabry-Pérot cavity. The spectral reflectance and transmittance of dielectric films made of titanium dioxide (TiO...

Negative Refractive Index Materials Victor Veselago,1 Leonid Braginsky,2 Valery Shklover,3 and Christian Hafner4 ∗ 1Laboratory of Magnetic Materials, A. M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, 38 Vavilov Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia 2Institute of Semiconductors’ Physics, 13 Lavrent’eva Pr., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia 3Laboratory of Crystallography, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland 4L...

Monolayer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) has attracted much attention, due to its attractive properties, such as two-dimensional properties, direct bandgap, valley-selective circular dichroism, and valley Hall effect. However, some of its fundamental physical parameters, e.g. refractive index, have not been studied in detail because of measurement difficulties. In this work, we have synthesized h...