The refractive index of GaAs has been measured in the wavelength range from 0.97 to 17 mm, which covers nearly the entire transmission range of the material. Linear and quadratic temperature coefficients of the refractive index have been fitted to data measured between room temperature and 95 °C. In the midinfrared, the refractive index and temperature dependence are obtained from analysis of e...

The application of laser diffraction spectrometry to determine the size distributions of particles in the anomalous diffraction regime, i.e., particles with a refractive-index ratio close to one, has been examined. From a computer simulation, using the Mie theory and the geometrical optics approximation, it could be concluded that for suspensions with a refractive-index ratio near 1, the corres...

The refractive-index nonlinearities of intersubband transitions in GaN/AlN quantum-well waveguides are investigated. A large spectral broadening of TM-polarized near-infrared pulses is observed after propagation through these devices due to intersubband self-phase modulation. From the measured data, a nonlinear refractive index n2 of 1.8 10 −12 cm2 /W is estimated at the operating wavelength of...

A study of the surface modification induced by single femtosecond laser pulses in phosphate glass has revealed surface swelling at fluences just below the ablation threshold. This behavior is different from that observed in other dielectric materials. Optical micrographs obtained with monochromatic light show a pattern of Newton rings within the swollen region whose number scales inversely with...

In this paper, a channel drop ring resonator filter based on two dimensional photonic crystal is proposed which is suitable for all optical communication systems. The multilayer of silicon rods in the center of resonant ring enables one to adjust resonant wavelength of the ring and enhance power coupling efficiency between ring and waveguide. Refractive index and radius of multilayer rods insid...

density, viscosity and refractive index of pure, binary and ternary mixtures of diethanolamine (dea) and methyl diethanolamine (mdea) with water have been measured at different temperatures from 288.15 k to 323.15 k at atmospheric pressure. also, this study presents the effects of mixture composition and temperature upon these thermo- physical properties. to measure the density and refractive i...

polythiophenes are of considerable interest as synthetic metals. the optical properties of polythiophenes can be easily affected by alkyl chain or other side groups to the thiophene ring. the effect of polymerization degree on the energy gap was studied in the case of polythiophene as a conjugated polymer at b3lyp/6-31+g(3d,3p) level of theory. up to n = 16 could be confident that this degree o...

A decade of research on metamaterials (MMs) has yielded great progress in artificial electromagnetic materials in a wide frequency range from microwave to optical frequencies. This review outlines the achievements in photonic MMs that can efficiently manipulate light waves from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared in subwavelength dimensions. One of the key concepts of MMs is effective refractive ...