Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Hawkins, Thomas A."
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All-fibre heterogeneously-integrated frequency comb generation using silicon core fibre
Sohanpal, Ronit; Ren, Haonan; Deakin, Callum; Heidt, Alexander; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula; Peacock, Anna; Liu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Originally developed for metrology, optical frequency combs are becoming increasingly pervasive in a wider range of research topics including optical communications, spectroscopy, and radio or microwave signal processing. ... -
Broadband infrared and THz transmitting silicon core optical fiber
Sørgård, Trygve; Song, Seunghan; Vullum, Per Erik; Kores, Cristine; Mølster, Kjell Martin; Laurell, Fredrik; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Österberg, Ulf Lennart; Gibson, Ursula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Silicon waveguide structures are a viable alternative for the transmission of signals over a wide range of frequencies, and new fabrication methods are key to increased applications. In this work, THz transparency of ... -
Bulk fabrication and properties of solar grade silicon microwires
Martinsen, Fredrik A; Ballato, John; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)We demonstrate a substrate-free novel route for fabrication of solar grade silicon microwires for photovoltaic applications. The microwires are fabricated from low purity starting material via a bulk molten-core fibre ... -
Characterisation of Silicon (Si) fibre Bragg grating in near-infrared band for strain and temperature sensing
Theodosiou, Antreas; Kalli, Kyriacos; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Fokine, Michael; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This letter describes fibre Bragg grating inscription in crystalline siliconcore fibre using visible light femtosecond laser pulses. The femtosecond pulses at 517 nm propagate through the transparent silica glass cladding ... -
CO2 laser annealed SiGe core optical fibers with radial Ge concentration gradients
Wu, Wei; Balci, Mustafa H.; Song, Seunghan; liu, chunxin; Fokine, Michael; Laurell, Fredrik; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)CO2 laser annealing of SiGe core, glass-clad optical fibers is a powerful technique for the production of single-crystal cores with spatially varying Ge concentrations. Laser power, laser scan speed and cooling air flow ... -
Fiber Integrated Wavelength Converter Based on a Silicon core Fiber with a Nano-spike cCoupler
Huang, Meng; Ren, Haonan; Aktas, Ozan; Shen, Li; Wang, Jiang; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula; Peacock, Anna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Abstract—An all-fiber integrated nonlinear silicon photonicwavelength converter has been proposed and fabricated using thesilicon core fiber platform. The silicon fiber was spliced directly toa conventional single ... -
Four-wave Mixing-based Wavelength Conversion and Parametric Amplification in Submicron Silicon Core Fibers
Wu, Dong; Shen, Li; Ren, Haonan; Huang, Meng; Lacava, Cosimo; Campling, Joseph; Sun, Shiyu; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Gibson, Ursula; Petropoulos, Periklis; Ballato, John; Peacock, Anna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Silicon core fibers represent a versatile platform for all-fiber integrated nonlinear optical applications. This paper describes the state of the art in four-wave mixing-based parametric amplification, and wavelength ... -
Ge-capped SiGe core optical fibers
Wu, Wei; Balci, Mustafa H.; Muhlberger, Korbinian; Fokine, Michael; Laurell, Fredrik; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)CO2 laser processing offers the possibility to inscribe structures within glass-clad SiGe-core fibers by altering the spatial distribution of the Si and Ge. Spatial segregation of Ge to the end of a fiber is shown via ... -
Laser recrystallization and inscription of compositional microstructures in crystalline SiGe-core fibres
Coucheron, David Andre; Fokine, Michael; Patil, Nilesh; Breiby, Dag Werner; Buset, Ole Tore; Healy, Noel; Peacock, Anna; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Jones, Maxwell; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Glass fibres with silicon cores have emerged as a versatile platform for all-optical processing, sensing and microscale optoelectronic devices. Using SiGe in the core extends the accessible wavelength range and potential ... -
Laser restructuring and photoluminescence of glass-clad GaSb/Si-core optical fibres
Song, Seunghan; Lønsethagen, Kristin; Laurell, Fredrik; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Fokine, Michael; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Semiconductor-core optical fibres have potential applications in photonics and optoelectronics due to large nonlinear optical coefficients and an extended transparency window. Laser processing can impose large temperature ... -
Laser structuring, stress modification and Bragg grating inscription in silicon-core glass fibers
Fokine, Michael; Theodosiou, Antreas; Song, Seunghan; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Kalli, Kyriacos; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Semiconductor core fibers have numerous potential applications in optoelectronics and photonics, and the key to realizing these opportunities is controlled processing of the material. We present results on laser treatments ... -
Light trapping in horizontally aligned silicon microwire solar cells
Martinsen, Fredrik Aleksander; Smeltzer, Benjamin; Ballato, John; Jones, Maxwell; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)In this study, we demonstrate a solar cell design based on horizontally aligned microwires fabricated from 99.98% pure silicon via the molten core fiber drawing method. A similar structure consisting of 50 μm diameter close ... -
Localised structuring of metal-semiconductor cores in silica clad fibres using laser-driven thermal gradients
Song, Seunghan; Laurell, Fredrik; Meehan, Bailey; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The molten core drawing method allows scalable fabrication of novel core fibres with kilometre lengths. With metal and semiconducting components combined in a glass-clad fibre, CO2 laser irradiation was used to write ... -
Low-loss silicon core fibre platform for mid-infrared nonlinear photonics
Ren, Haonan; Shen, Li; Runge, Antoine; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula; Peacock, Anna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Broadband mid-infrared light sources are highly desired for wide-ranging applications that span free-space communications to spectroscopy. In recent years, silicon has attracted great interest as a platform for nonlinear ... -
Material properties of tapered crystalline silicon core fibers
Franz, Yohann; Runge, A. F.; Ren, Haonan; Healy, Noel; Ignatyev, K.; Jones, Maxwell; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula; Peacock, Anna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Crystalline silicon optical fibers are emerging as a promising platform for a wide range of optoelectronic applications. Here we report a crystallographic study of the material properties within silicon fibers that have ... -
Nonlinear optical properties of polycrystalline silicon core fibers from telecom wavelengths into the mid-infrared spectral region
Ren, Haonan; Shen, Li; Wu, D; Aktas, Ozan; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula; Peacock, Anna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Polycrystalline silicon core fibers (SCFs) fabricated via the molten core drawing (MCD) method are emerging as a flexible optoelectronic platform. Here, the optical transmission properties of MCD SCFs that have been tapered ... -
Silicon-core glass fibres as microwire radial-junction solar cells
Martinsen, Fredrik A; Smeltzer, Benjamin; Nord, Magnus Kristofer; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Vertically aligned radial-junction solar cell designs offer potential improvements over planar geometries, as carrier generation occurs close to the junction for all absorption depths, but most production methods still ... -
Tapered silicon core fibers with nano-spikes for optical coupling via spliced silica fibers
Ren, Haonan; Aktas, Ozan; Franz, Yohann; Runge, Antoine; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula; Peacock, Anna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Abstract: Reported here is the fabrication of tapered silicon core fibers possessing a nanospike input that facilitates their seamless splicing to conventional single mode fibers. A proofof-concept 30 µm cladding diameter ...