Corning Incorporated

Fundacio Institut De Ciencies Fotoniques

Institucio Catalana De Recerca I Estudis Avancats

The University of Southampton

Institucio Catalana De Recerca I Estudis Avancats (icrea)

Icfo—the Institute Of Photonic Sciences

Avanex Corporation

Fundacio Institute De Ciencies Fotoniques

Icfo

Other

Universidade De Vigo

Institucio Catalana De Recerca / Estudis Avancats

Institut De Ciencies Fotoniques, Fundacio Privada

Institució Catalana De Recerca I Estudis Avançais

Fundado Institut De Ciències Fotóniques &

Valerio Pruneri

Prantik Mazumder

Albert Carrilero

Xinyuan Liu

Kamal Kishore Soni

Lili Tian

Marc Jofre

Wageesha Senaratne

Zhen Song

David Eugene Baker

David Francis Dawson-Elli

Paolo Vergani

Michele Belmonte

Morgan Wilfred Mitchell

Miriam Marchena Martín-Francés

Petr Georgevich Kazansky

Gabriele Bonfrate

Waldimar Amaya

Connie Li

Marc Jofre Cruanyes

Carme Gomez Carbonell

John Christopher Mauro

Theresa Chang

Paul Arthur Sachenik

David John Richardson

Benedict Yorke Johnson

Salvatore Morasca

Frank Koppens

Frederic Christian Wagner

Tanya Mary Monro

Gilberto Brambilla

Srikanth Raghavan

Therese Francoise Arliguie

Antonino Nespola

Luis Martinez Montblanch

Marcos Curty Alonso

Carlos Abellán

Venkata Ramana Raju Valivarthi

Davide Janner

Carlos Abellan Sanchez

Laurence Reekie

Rinu Maniyara

Carlos Abelian Sanchez

Pedro Martinez

Josselin Pello

Roland Alfonso Terborg

Mehmet Alican Noyan

Anatoly Grudinin

Sebastian Etcheverry Cabrera

Juan Rombaut

Massimo Orio

Rinu Abraham Maniyara

Juan Miguel Perez Rosas

Pedro A Martínez

Pedro Antonio Martïnez Cordero

Tonglai Chen

Miriam Marchena

Fabio Gatti

Jan-Hendrik Peters

Mitchel Morgan

Johann Osmond

Stefano Giurgola

Agustin Joel Villatoro

Goncal Badenes

Federico Lucchi

Neil Broderick

Tong Lai Chen

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for generating light pulses, comprising a laser device configured to output the light pulses and a pulse driver configured to supply electrical pulses to the laser device to drive the laser device. Furthermore, the pulse driver is configured to supply the electrical pulses with amplitudes/intensities obeying a pre-determined probability distribution to the laser device such that quadrature values of the light pulses obey another pre-determined probability distribution.

Generation of optical pulses with controlled distributions of quadrature values

A method for physical random number generation includes the steps of: modulating the gain of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser periodically from the lower threshold to the upper threshold and back; maintaining the gain per round trip positive for a longer period than the round trip time of the cavity; maintaining the net gain per round trip negative for a longer period than the round trip time of the cavity, in order to create optical pulses of random amplitude; detecting the optical pulses; converting the optical pulses into electrical analog pulses; and digitising the electrical analog pulses into random numbers.

Method for physical random number generation using a vertical cavity surface emitting laser

Identifying 3D objects A method for identification of 3D objects comprises illuminating at least part of a 3D object with electromagnetic radiation, spectroscopically obtaining spectral data for one or more regions of the 3D object, and generating, at a data processing apparatus, an identification result for the 3D object using a trained machine learning model. The trained machine learning model processes the obtained spectral data for the one or more regions to generate one or more model outputs from which the identification result is derived.

Identifying 3D objects

A method is provided for manufacturing an article comprising a transparent conductive material, wherein a transparent conductive material (e.g., indium tin oxide) is deposited onto a substrate (e.g., fused silica) by physical vapor deposition, then annealed at high temperature (i.e., at least 450° C.) in a nitrogen atmosphere. The resulting article comprises a transparent conductive material that reduces the trade-off between low resistivity (or sheet resistance) and high near infrared transmission. For example, the transparent conductive material thus obtained may possess a transmission of at least 80% at 1550 nm while having a resistivity of less than or equal to about 5×10Ohm-cm and a Haacke figure of merit of at least about 40×10Ω. Also provided is a method for modulating the resistivity and/or the near infrared transmission of a transparent conductive material by annealing the transparent conductive material at a high temperature under nitrogen atmosphere.

Transparent conductor materials with enhanced near infrared properties and methods of forming thereof

Provided herein are methods for forming one or more silicon nanostructures, such as silicon nanotubes, and a silica-containing glass substrate. As a result of the process used to prepare the silicon nanostructures, the silica-containing glass substrate comprises one or more nanopillars and the one or more silicon nanostructures extend from the nanopillars of the silica-containing glass substrate. The silicon nanostructures include nanotubes and optionally nanowires. A further aspect is a method for preparing silicon nanostructures on a silica-containing glass substrate. The method includes providing one or more metal nanoparticles on a silica-containing glass substrate and then performing reactive ion etching of the silica-containing glass substrate under conditions that are suitable for the formation of one or more silicon nanostructures.

Silicon and silica nanostructures and method of making silicon and silica nanostructures

The invention relates to an apparatus for probing a sample comprising a light source for emitting an illuminating light beam, a birefringent element for splitting the illuminating light beam into two sheared beams, a reflective element for reflecting the two sheared beams, wherein the apparatus is configured such that the reflected beams propagate through the birefringent element for recombining the reflected beams, and a detector for detecting the recombined beam, wherein the sample is arrangeable in the optical path of the sheared beams or at the backside of a reflective surface in the optical path of the sheared beams, the reflective surface exhibiting a surface plasmon resonance or a localized surface plasmon resonance.

Apparatus for exploring an optical property of a sample

Disclosed herein are graphene coatings characterized by a porous, three-dimensional, spherical structure having a hollow core, along with methods for forming such graphene coatings on glasses, glass-ceramics, ceramics, and crystalline materials. Such coatings can be further coated with organic or inorganic layers and are useful in chemical and electronic applications.

Transparent substrates comprising three-dimensional porous conductive graphene films and methods for making the same

A method of forming a functionalized device substrate is provided that includes the steps of: forming a graphene layer on a growth substrate; applying a polyimide layer to a glass, glass-ceramic or ceramic substrate, wherein a coupling agent couples the polyimide layer to the said substrate; coupling the polyimide layer to the graphene layer on the growth substrate; and peeling the growth substrate from the graphene layer.

Direct graphene transfer and graphene-based devices

The present invention is directed to compositions for photolithographic masks comprising a substrate and a coating having at least one electrical conducting layer comprising a nitride, a boride or a carbide, and methods of making the same.

Transparent and electrically conductive coatings containing nitrides, borides or carbides

An image cytometer for capturing and analyzing the image of a sample in the momentum domain. The cytometer is provided with a light source for illuminating a sample with a light beam, an optical transforming system positioned behind the sample in the beam propagation direction for generating the Fourier transform in the space plane, a light sensor array and a spatially selective filter positioned with respect to the optical system such that the Fourier transform is imaged onto the light sensor array.

Image cytometer for characterization and quantification of particulate samples

Apparatus for measuring light scattering of a sample comprising a light beam source, means for collimating the beam and making it impinge on the sample in a perpendicular direction, at least one light sensor, and at least one spatial filter between the sample and the optical sensor, provided with two apertures, means for measuring the total power reaching the sensor and means for measuring the power of beams with a low k vector after the beam traverses the filter. The invention provides thus a simplified, portable and compact device for measuring different parameters like haze, turbidity, etc. can be built, for any sample and without the need of changing detectors.

Apparatus for measuring light scattering

Described herein are improved dewetting methods and improved patterned articles produced using such methods. The improved methods and articles generally implement continuous ultra-thin metal-containing films or film stacks as the materials to be dewetted. For example, a method can involve the steps of providing a substrate that has a continuous ultra-thin metal-containing film or film stack disposed on a surface thereof, and dewetting at least a portion of the continuous ultra-thin metal-containing film or film stack to produce a plurality of discrete metal-containing dewetted islands on the surface of the substrate.

Metal dewetting methods and articles produced thereby

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