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3D-printed facet-attached optical elements for beam shaping in optical phased arrays
Authors:
Stefan Singer,
Yilin Xu,
Sebastian Tobias Skacel,
Yiyang Bao,
Heiner Zwickel,
Pascal Maier,
Lukas Freter,
Philipp-Immanuel Dietrich,
Mathias Kaschel,
Christoph Menzel,
Sebastian Randel,
Wolfgang Freude,
Christian Koos
Abstract:
We demonstrate an optical phased-array (OPA) equipped with a 3D-printed facet-attached element for shaping and deflection of the emitted beam. The beam shaper combines freeform refractive surfaces with total-internal-reflection (TIR) mirrors and is in-situ printed to edge-emitting waveguide facets using high-resolution multi-photon lithography, thereby ensuring precise alignment with respect to on…
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We demonstrate an optical phased-array (OPA) equipped with a 3D-printed facet-attached element for shaping and deflection of the emitted beam. The beam shaper combines freeform refractive surfaces with total-internal-reflection (TIR) mirrors and is in-situ printed to edge-emitting waveguide facets using high-resolution multi-photon lithography, thereby ensuring precise alignment with respect to on-chip waveguide structures. In a proof-of-concept experiment, we achieve a grating-lobe free steering range of $\pm 30°$ and a full-width-halfmaximum (FWHM) beam divergence of approximately $2°$. The concept opens an attractive alternative to currently used grating structures and is applicable to a wide range of integration platforms.
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Submitted 9 January, 2023; v1 submitted 24 March, 2022;
originally announced March 2022.
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A verified equivalent-circuit model for slotwaveguide modulators
Authors:
Heiner Zwickel,
Stefan Singer,
Clemens Kieninger,
Yasar Kutuvantavida,
Narek Muradyan,
Thorsten Wahlbrink,
Shiyoshi Yokoyama,
Sebastian Randel,
Wolfgang Freude,
Christian Koos
Abstract:
We formulate and experimentally validate an equivalent-circuit model based on distributed elements to describe the electric and electro-optic (EO) properties of travellingwave silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) slot-waveguide modulators. The model allows to reliably predict the small-signal EO frequency response of the modulators exploiting purely electrical measurements of the frequency-dependent RF tr…
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We formulate and experimentally validate an equivalent-circuit model based on distributed elements to describe the electric and electro-optic (EO) properties of travellingwave silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) slot-waveguide modulators. The model allows to reliably predict the small-signal EO frequency response of the modulators exploiting purely electrical measurements of the frequency-dependent RF transmission characteristics. We experimentally verify the validity of our model, and we formulate design guidelines for an optimum trade-off between optical loss due to free-carrier absorption (FCA), electro-optic bandwidth, and π-voltage of SOH slot-waveguide modulators.
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Submitted 10 December, 2019;
originally announced January 2020.
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Terahertz Transition-Edge Sensor with Kinetic-Inductance Amplifier at 4.2 K
Authors:
Artem Kuzmin,
Steffen Doerner,
Stefan Singer,
Ilya Charaev,
Konstantin Ilin,
Stefan Wuensch,
Michael Siegel
Abstract:
Different terrestrial terahertz applications would benefit from large-format arrays, operating in compact and inexpensive cryocoolers at liquid helium temperature with sensitivity, limited by the 300-K background radiation only. A voltage-biased Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) as a THz detector can have sufficient sensitivity and has a number of advantages important for real applications as linearity…
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Different terrestrial terahertz applications would benefit from large-format arrays, operating in compact and inexpensive cryocoolers at liquid helium temperature with sensitivity, limited by the 300-K background radiation only. A voltage-biased Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) as a THz detector can have sufficient sensitivity and has a number of advantages important for real applications as linearity of response, high dynamic range and a simple calibration, however it requires a low-noise current readout. Usually, a current amplifier based on Superconducting Quantum-Interference Device (SQUID) is used for readout, but the scalability of this approach is limited due to complexity of the operation and fabrication. Recently, it has been shown that instead of SQUID it is possible to use a current sensor, which is based on the nonlinearity of the kinetic inductance of a current-carrying superconducting stripe. Embedding the stripe into a microwave high-Q superconducting resonator allows for reaching sufficient current sensitivity. More important, it is possible with the resonator approach to scale up to large arrays using Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM) in GHz range. Here, we demonstrate the operation of a voltage-biased TES with a microwave kinetic-inductance current amplifier at 4.2 K. We measured the expected intrinsic Noise-Equivalent Power NEP ~$5\times 10^{-14} \; \rm W/Hz^{1/2}$ and confirmed that a sufficient sensitivity of the readout can be reached in conjunction with a real TES operation. The construction of an array with the improved sensitivity ~ $10^{-15}\; \rm W/Hz^{1/2}$ at 4.2 K could be realized using a combination of the new current amplifier and already existing TES detectors with improved thermal isolation.
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Submitted 2 July, 2018;
originally announced July 2018.
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Relaxation of Spin Polarized $^3$He in Mixtures of $^3$He and $^4$He Below the $^4$He Lambda Point
Authors:
Q. Ye,
D. Dutta,
H. Gao,
K. Kramer,
X. Qian,
X. Zong,
L. Hannelius,
R. D. McKeown,
B. Heyburn,
S. Singer,
R. Golub,
E. Korobkina
Abstract:
We report the first study of the depolarization behavior of spin polarized 3He in a mixture of 3He-4He at a temperature below the 4He Lambda point in a deuterated TetraPhenyl Butadiene-doped deuterated PolyStyrene (dTPB-dPS) coated acrylic cell. In our experiment the measured 3He relaxation time is due to the convolution of the 3He longitudinal relaxation time, T1, and the diffusion time constan…
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We report the first study of the depolarization behavior of spin polarized 3He in a mixture of 3He-4He at a temperature below the 4He Lambda point in a deuterated TetraPhenyl Butadiene-doped deuterated PolyStyrene (dTPB-dPS) coated acrylic cell. In our experiment the measured 3He relaxation time is due to the convolution of the 3He longitudinal relaxation time, T1, and the diffusion time constant of 3He in superfluid 4He since depolarization takes place on the walls. We have obtained a 3He relaxation time ~3000 seconds at a temperature around 1.9K. We have shown that it's possible to achieve values of wall depolarization probability on the order of (1-2)x10^-7 for polarized 3He in the superfluid 4He from a dTPB-dPS coated acrylic surface.
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Submitted 8 April, 2008; v1 submitted 21 March, 2006;
originally announced March 2006.
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Disparity of tropospheric and surface temperature trends: New evidence
Authors:
David H. Douglass,
Benjamin D. Pearson,
S. Fred Singer,
Paul C. Knappenberger,
Patrick J. Michaels
Abstract:
Observations suggest that the earth's surface has been warming relative to the troposphere for the last 25 years; this is not only difficult to explain but also contrary to the results of climate models. We provide new evidence that the disparity is real. Introducing an additional data set, R2 2 meter temperatures, a diagnostic variable related to tropospheric temperature profiles, we find trend…
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Observations suggest that the earth's surface has been warming relative to the troposphere for the last 25 years; this is not only difficult to explain but also contrary to the results of climate models. We provide new evidence that the disparity is real. Introducing an additional data set, R2 2 meter temperatures, a diagnostic variable related to tropospheric temperature profiles, we find trends derived from it to be in close agreement with satellite measurements of tropospheric temperature. This suggests that the disparity likely is a result of near-surface processes. We find that the disparity does not occur uniformly across the globe, but is primarily confined to tropical regions which are primarily oceanic. Since the ocean measurements are sea surface temperatures, we suggest that the disparity is probably associated with processes at the ocean-atmosphere interface. Our study thus makes unlikely some of the explanations advanced to account for the disparity; it also demonstrates the importance of distinguishing between land, sea and air measurements
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Submitted 14 July, 2004;
originally announced July 2004.
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Altitude dependence of atmospheric temperature trends: Climate models versus observation
Authors:
David H. Douglass,
Benjamin D. Pearson,
S. Fred Singer
Abstract:
As a consequence of greenhouse forcing, all state of the art general circulation models predict a positive temperature trend that is greater for the troposphere than the surface. This predicted positive trend increases in value with altitude until it reaches a maximum ratio with respect to the surface of as much as 1.5 to 2.0 at about 200 to 400 hPa. However, the temperature trends from several…
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As a consequence of greenhouse forcing, all state of the art general circulation models predict a positive temperature trend that is greater for the troposphere than the surface. This predicted positive trend increases in value with altitude until it reaches a maximum ratio with respect to the surface of as much as 1.5 to 2.0 at about 200 to 400 hPa. However, the temperature trends from several independent observational data sets show decreasing as well as mostly negative values. This disparity indicates that the three models examined here fail to account for the effects of greenhouse forcings.
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Submitted 14 July, 2004;
originally announced July 2004.