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G. C. Righini
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Whispering Gallery Modes Microresonators for Sensing and Biosensing Applications
Whispering Gallery Modes (WGMs) microresonators continue to receive an even greater interest for investigation in many fundamental processes (e.g.: quantum electrodynamics or non–linear optics) and in more app...
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Optical Microbubble Resonator: A Novel Structure for Sensing Applications
Recently a new class of optical resonant microcavities, the so called microbubble resonators (MBRs) for their particular shape, have been demonstrated. Their feature of combining the unique properties of whisp...
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Optical Sensors and Microsystems Using Liquid Crystals
An overview of the basic properties of liquid crystals has been presented as an introduction to the subject of design and fabrication processes of optoelectronic LC devices.
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Optical Tweezers: Laser Manipulation of Microparticles
Although the forces of radiation pressure have been well known to physicists, 1 for a long time it has been difficult to study them in the laboratory due to the presence of temperature gradients causing thermal f...
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Microfabrication Technologies for Integrated Optical Devices
Microelectronics and Integrated Optics (10) share most of the microfabrication technologies, in particular micropatterning. Fabrication processes of 10 devices, however, are subject to specific requirements, i...
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Introduction to Integrated Optics: Characterisation and Modelling of Optical Waveguides
The first demonstration of the laser in 1960 opened the way to the development of lightwave technology; then the production of low-loss optical fibers in the 70s made guided-wave optical communication systems ...
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Spherical Waveguide Multiplexing Device
A wavelength multiplexer is descr ibed, character ized by a re-flection grating coupled to a waveguide spherical geodesic lens. The device, particularly suitable for monomode fibers, can be used also as a tapp...
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Hollow Waveguides for Long-Wavelength I.R. Radiation
The CO2 laser has been extensively used both in industrial and medical applications; however the provision of a flexible delivery system of the I.R. laser light to a target has been the most difficult problem. Up...
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Integrated Optical Signal Processors: Design and Implementation Criteria
A very promising application field for integrated optical (I0) devices is represented by signal processing. In the I0 format it is limited to one-dimensional signals: however, this characteristic is of no cons...
