Conventional optical lithography is based on UV-light sources and illuminating photoresists through masks. Currently, the author is working on the use of evanescent waves to perform lithography, and to the best of our knowledge not used before. Evanescent Wave Lithography has some key advantages and singular capabilities as we will try to demonstrate. In particular, it can reach lower resolutio...

The diverging and converging components of localized wave solutions are studied within the framework of both the Whittaker and Weyl plane wave expansions. The specific example of the splash pulse is considered because its evanescent components could be derived in an explicit closed form. It is shown that, in the Weyl picture, the evanescent fields associated with the diverging and converging co...

Here we report a racetrack resonator laser integrated with two photo-detectors on the hybrid AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent device platform. Unlike previous demonstrations of hybrid AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent lasers, we demonstrate an on-chip racetrack resonator laser that does not rely on facet polishing and dicing in order to define the laser cavity. The laser runs continuous-wave (c.w.) at 159...

By means of an analysis on evanescent waves in left-handed materials (LHM), we show that within a slab of such a medium, sandwiched between two positive refraction media, there is amplification of evanescent waves in ideal lossless, dispersiveless media; however, contrary to previous claims, this is limited to a finite width of the slab so that it prevents their restoration and perfect focusing...

The emission of light from whispering-gallery modes excited in microscopic spheres is examined. An evanescent wave is produced by total internal reflection of an optical beam at a planar glass-air interface. This evanescent wave is used to excite whispering-gallery modes in single microscopic spheres placed behind the glass-air interface. The intensity of light emitted into the air half-space f...

We demonstrate thermally limited force spectroscopy using a probe formed by a dielectric microsphere optically trapped in water near a dielectric surface. We achieve force resolution below 1 fN in 100 s, corresponding to a 2 Å rms displacement of the probe. Our measurement combines a calibrated evanescent wave particle tracking technique and a lock-in detection method. We demonstrate the accura...

In this paper, we introduce a graphene-based saturable absorber (GSA) with high damage threshold employing symmetrical evanescent wave interaction for highly stable mode-locking of ultrafast fiber lasers. To enhance the evanescent wave interaction between the graphene layer and the propagating light, graphene flakes are mixed with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), and the graphene/PDMS composite is ...

The inlensity of the evanescent elmromagnetic wave of optically C ~ E ~ K U surface plasmons was measured directly using a scanning tunneling optical rnlcrmcope (STOM) setup. When resonan1 coupling of the driving field to the surface plasrnons was achteved, the measured tntensrty was increased by a factor of 30 larger than the corresponding evanescent wave intensity on a bare glass surface, in ...