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This paper demonstrates the dynamic stressing of viscous liquids in microfluidic channels. An infrared laser pulse is focused within the testing liquid in a microfluidic channel and a spherical shock wave near an air-liquid interface is created. The shock is reflected as a tension wave by the free surface due to the acoustic impedance mismatch. The displacement of the free surface within hundred nanoseconds...
This paper presents an optical force driven nano-machined actuator and the “pull-back” effect of a free-standing arc in an opto-mechanical ring resonator system. This nano-actuator obtains a maximal central displacement of 43.1 nm, with an actuation resolution of 0.28 nm, via tuning the wavelength of the control light at a fixed optical power of 2.8 mW. The “pull-back” effect occurs at the maximal...
The paper presents a liquid jet in thin films (height varies from micro to nanometers) and the study of its dynamics under the effects of the thin film's dimension and viscosity. Furthermore, the penetrating jet velocity is investigated in terms of the laser energy and the distance between the laser focus and the targeted gas bubble surface. In the microchannel, strong shear stress ruptures part of...
Microparticle trapping and manipulation using the optical force in double coupled ring resonator (DCRR) through wavelength tuning is reported in this paper. The DCRR consists of two coupled identical rings, and a waveguide that is side-coupled to the two rings. The microparticles are propelled by optical radiation force and trapped by optical gradient force, which are both generated by the evanescent...
This paper reports a silicon-based micromachined optical power detector with on-chip measurement ability. The optical power is detected by an integrated electron-tunneling displacement transducer, in which optical force is employed as the bridge between optical energy and mechanical energy transition. Compared with the traditional optical power detectors, which are based on photo absorption, the proposed...
This work presents an opto-mechanical linear actuator utilizing the gradient optical force between two identical parallel waveguides. The actuator size shrinks to nanoscale dimensions. Theoretical study shows that the actuator deflection is controlled over optical signals and linearly proportional to the applied optical power. Such optical actuator takes full advantages of the nanotechnology, and...
In this paper, an optical switch driven by the optical force is demonstrated based on Nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) technology. The switch consists of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) and a ring resonator. One of the MZI arms is suspended to enable optical switching by optical force induced displacement. The optical force is introduced by injecting a control light into the ring resonator...
Photonic wire evanescent field (PWEF) sensor chips have been developed for multiplexed label free molecular detection. The sensors are made using 260 nm × 450 nm cross-section silicon waveguides folded into spirals less than 200 μm in diameter, but with an overall sensor length of more than a millimeter. The long propagation length gives a response to molecular binding much better than currently available...
We demonstrate a long-period waveguide grating filter based on coupling the long-range surface plasmon mode of a buried metal stripe to a cladding mode. We achieve a rejection band of ~19 dB at ~1500 nm.
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