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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sorting of Live/dead Escherichia Coli by Means of Dielectrophoresis for Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts, AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR) will represent the leading cause of death worldwide in the next decades. To prevent this phenomenon, rapid antimicrobi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrated Photonics for NewSpace
In the last years, an innovative approach in conceiving Space systems has been proposed, known as NewSpace, aiming at develo** less expensive satellites in short periods of time, also saving costs, reducing tim...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Spaceborne LiDAR for Debris Detection and Tracking
The NewSpace paradigm is causing a significant growth of space debris, making the risk of catastrophic collisions increasingly high. Satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) already perform two collision avoidance ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Scalable Broadband Switching Matrix for Telecom Payload Based on a Novel SWGs-Based MZI
Photonics is a disruptive technology also for enabling telecommunication payloads to achieve high performance and potentially low costs. In this paper, we propose the design of a scalable switching cell that c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrated Microwave Photonics: Overview and Promising Space Applications
Photonic integrated circuits technology now enables the integration of several hundreds of optoelectronic and photonic active and passive devices on a single chip. This technology is having a disruptive impact...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Emerging Applications of Whispering Gallery Mode Photonic Resonators
Whispering Gallery Mode photonic resonators are emerging as key building blocks in many application fields especially because their resonant frequency is very sensitive to the variation of any physical or geom...
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Article
Design of a high-performance optical tweezer for nanoparticle trap**
Integrated optical nanotweezers offer a novel paradigm for optical trap**, as their ability to confine light at the nanoscale leads to extremely high gradient forces. To date, nanotweezers have been realized...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hybrid Ring-Resonator Optical Systems for Nanoparticle Detection and Biosensing Applications
In this work we investigate a method to detect and size nanoparticles interacting with an optical microresonator. Quantum electrodynamics principles, i.e. quantum harmonic oscillators properties, have been emp...
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Chapter
He–Ne and Solid-State Ring Laser Gyroscopes
Commercial success of the He–Ne Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLG) began in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since He–Ne RLG first demonstration in 1963 (Macek and Davis, Appl Phys Lett 2:67–68, 1963 [1]), a number of ind...
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Chapter
Emerging Gyroscope Technologies
This book offers a wide overview of recent advances in gyroscope technologies. In this chapter these technologies are briefly summarized and compared. Very innovative technologies for angular rate sensing, whi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a New Hybrid Resonator for Biosensing Applications
A novel optical biosensor realized in SOI technology has been proposed. A preliminary study involving common configurations such as ring- and disk-resonator has been carried out in order to design and then to ...
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Chapter
Physical Effects in Gyroscopes
Recently developed angular rate sensors are all based on two fundamental physical effects, i.e. Sagnac and Coriolis effects. In this chapter these physical effects are briefly discussed to allow the comprehens...
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Chapter
Introduction
Inertial sensors, which allow to measure linear acceleration and angular velocity, are emerging as a crucial class of sensors and their applications are continuously increasing. They were first developed for a...
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Chapter
Integrated Optical Gyroscopes
Integrated optics has led to the development of miniaturized optical devices that have very complex functionality on a single chip. A number of integrated optical devices, such as lasers, amplifiers, multiplex...
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Chapter
Fiber Optic Gyroscopes
In the late 1960s, the development of the fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) was started at US Naval Research Laboratories, Washington (USA) (Brown RB, NRL Memorandum Report N1871, 1968). The exploitation of optical ...
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MEMS Gyroscopes
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are very attractive devices which are exploited in a wide spectrum of application fields such as automotive, consumer electronics, medicine, biotechnology and so on. Glo...
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Article
Investigation of a point-like and plane-wave excitation in 2D photonic bandgap microcavities using Green’s function method
We report on a new model for simulating wave propagation in two-dimensional photonic crystals (PhCs) by means of Green’s functions rearranged to fit on the geometrical and physical properties of the structure ...
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Article
Evidence of different β-phases in highly protonated z-cut H:LiNbO3 waveguides by raman scattering
waveguides is demonstrated by the Raman scattering technique. Multimode waveguides have been produced by using pyrophosphoric, benzoic, and diluted benzoic acids as a proton source. The proton-exchanged (PE) ...
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Chapter
Rb:KTP Optical Waveguides
KTi0PO4 (KTP) has unique nonlinear and electrooptic properties, very attractive for a variety of applications in the field of nonlinear and integrated optics. At room temperature, it has a ferroelectric structure...
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Soliton-Based Logic Gates and Soliton Transmission Systems
This chapter provides access to basic envelope solitons concepts, the motivation for their study in the area of electromagnetic wave transmission and, finally, the elements underpinning the proposed use for so...
