We have designed an arrayed-waveguide grating in silicon oxynitride technology for the detection of Raman signals from tooth enamel in the spectral region between 890 nm and 912 nm. The detected signals for both parallel and cross polarizations are used to distinguish between healthy and carious regions on the tooth surface of extracted human teeth. Our experimental results are in very good agr...

We review recent progress in integrated photonics devices and their applications for datacom. In addition to current technology used in 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) with a compact form-factor of the transceiver, the next generation of technology for 400GbE seeks a larger number of wavelengths with a more sophisticated modulation format and higher bit rate per wavelength. For wavelength scalabi...

Amethod is presented for calculating the frequencies of non-retarded surface plasmons propagating on a semi-inifinite medium with a surface profile described by a one-dimension quasiperiodic function. The profiles are generated, in analogy with previous work on quasiperiodic superlattices, by repeating unitary cells constructed according to an inflation rule. Dispersion relations are obtained f...

The effect of grating errors on transverse beam stability is analyzed. We,characterize grating errors by random groove displacements and find that transverse displacements due to such errors approach limiting values of the same order as the grating displacements themselves. It therefore appears that transverse stability requirements will not impose unusually stringent precision requirements on ...

We compare quiescent and flare X-ray spectra of the RS CVn binary σ Gem obtained with the Chandra and XMMNewton grating spectrometers. We find that in addition to an overall 25% flux increase, which can be ascribed to variations in the system’s quiescence activity over the 15 months that passed between the observations, there is a hot plasma component of kTe >∼ 3 keV that arises with the flare....

Since its introduction in 2010, self-referenced spectral interferometry (SRSI) has turned out to be an analytical, sensitive, accurate, and fast method for characterizing the temporal profile of femtosecond pulses. We review the underlying principle and the recent progress in the field of SRSI. We present our experimental work on this method, including the development of self-diffraction (SD) e...