• DocumentCode
    1570837
  • Title

    Imaging by SOI waveguides

  • Author

    Song, Q. ; Tomov, I. ; Tien, EK ; Qian, F. ; Sang, X. ; Tatiraju, S. ; Meyer, J. ; Boyraz, O.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci. Dept., UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    392
  • Lastpage
    393
  • Abstract
    We show that silicon waveguides can simultaneously be utilized as focusing device and also as detectors in nonlinear fluorescence imaging. Detection and imaging of Lt20mum erbium particles by using 1550 nm excitation are demonstrated experimentally.
  • Keywords
    erbium; fluorescence; multiphoton processes; optical focusing; optical images; optical planar waveguides; silicon; yttrium compounds; SOI waveguide imaging; Si-SiO2; Y2O3:Er3+; erbium particles; focusing device; multiphoton fluorescence; multiphoton imaging; nonlinear fluorescence imaging; semiconductor based planar waveguide technology; silicon waveguides; wavelength 1550 nm; Detectors; Erbium; Fluorescence; High-resolution imaging; Laser excitation; P-i-n diodes; Particle scattering; Semiconductor waveguides; Silicon; Transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Acapulco
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1931-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1932-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688655
  • Filename
    4688655