Periodic nanostructuring can enhance the optical nonlinearity of plasmonic metals by several orders of magnitude. By patterning a gold film, the largest sub-100 femtosecond nonlinearity is achieved, which is suitable for terahertz rate all-optical data processing as well as ultrafast optical limiters and saturable absorbers.

Mixing dielectric materials in solid-thin-film deposition allows the engineering of thin films' optical constants to meet specific thin-film-device requirements, which can be significantly useful for optoelectronics devices and photonics technologies in general. In principle, by use of radio-frequency (rf) magnetron sputtering, it would be possible to mix any two, or more, materials at differen...

When an azobenzene-containing polymer film is exposed to non-uniform illumination, a light-induced mass migration process may be induced, leading to the formation of relief patterns on the polymer-free surface. Despite many years of research effort, several aspects of this phenomenon remain poorly understood. Here we report the appearance of spiral-shaped relief patterns on the polymer film und...

Optical thin-film coatings are typically limited to designs where the refractive index varies in only a single dimension. However, additional control over the propagation of incoming light is possible by structuring the other two dimensions. In this work, we demonstrate a three-dimensional surface structured optical coating that combines the principles of thin-film optical design with bio-inspi...

The paper describes the design, fabrication and testing of a MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) variable optical attenuator (VOA) made from an organic fluoropolymer thin film. The optical attenuation is achieved by changing the radius of curvature of the organic thin film by actuating a pneumatic force. The size of the organic polymer membrane is 4 mm × 4 mm and the measured centre displac...

In this work, we investigate light concentration in nanoscale ridge apertures and its applications in nanomanufacturing. Optical transmission of ridge apertures in a metal film is optimized by numerical design using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. We show that ridge apertures provide an optical transmission enhancement of several orders of magnitude higher than regularly shaped...

at 30 minutes after intravenous administration of the glomerular renal agent tc-99m-dtpa, both right and left lateral views were obtained. we analyzed the ratio of optical densities (behind the ureter/in front of the ureter). in patients without gross renal failure or retroperitoneal disease, the ratio was always less than 1 (range 0.38 to 0.95, mean 0.68). this represents greater perfusion of ...

In this Work, Laser energy effects on optical and morphological properties of TiO2 thin film has been carried out using Reactive Pulsed Laser as a Deposition technique (RPLD). Q-switched Nd-YAG laser with (λ=1.06μm, t =7nsec) and different energies have been used to ablate pure Titanium target and deposited thin films on glass substrates with constant substrate temperature of (343K). The optica...

Optical anisotropy of porous polymer film with inverse slanted nanocolumnar structure revealed via generalized spectroscopic ellipsometry" (2015).

Cadmium oxide thin films were fabricated on glass substrates by a simplified and low cost spray pyrolysis technique at different substrate temperatures. The X-ray diffraction study showed that irrespective of substrate temperature all the films exhibits a preferential orientation along the (1 1 1) plane. The values of crystallite size were found to be in the range 20.72 – 29.6 nm. The perce...