Computational spectrometers are pivotal in enabling low-cost, in-situ and rapid spectral analysis, with potential applications in chemistry, biology, and environmental science. However, filter-based spectral encoding approaches typically use filter arrays, complicating the manufacturing process and hindering device consistency. By capitalizing on the polarization separation effect under oblique incidence (PSEOI), we pioneer the use of a single filter for highly efficient spectral encoding, and propose a novel computational spectrometer spanning visible to mid-infrared wavelengths by combining the Single-Spinning Film Encoder (SSFE) with deep learning-based reconstruction algorithm. The particle swarm optimization (PSO) method is employed to optimize the film configuration of SSFE, achieving low-correlation and high-complexity spectral responses under different polarizations and spinning angles, thereby enhancing both spectral resolution and accuracy of reconstruction across diverse spectral ranges. Spectral resolutions up to 0.5 nm, 2 nm, 10 nm can be realized for single-peak narrowband spectra, and 3 nm, 6 nm, 20 nm for dual-peak narrowband spectra, over the visible, near-, and mid-infrared wavelength ranges, respectively. Moreover, the proposed spectrometer demonstrates an overall 81.38% precision for the classification of 220 chemical compounds, confirming its robustness and precision in practical scenarios, along with the capability for compact, cost-effective spectroscopic solutions.
The on-chip broadband optical spectrometers which cover the entire tissue transparency window (λ=650-1050 nm) with high resolution are highly demanded for the miniaturized bio-sensing and bio-imaging applications. Here, we propose a novel type of spatial heterodyne Fourier transform spectrometer (SHFTS) integrated with a sub-wavelength grating coupler (SWGC) for the dual-polarization bandpass sampling on the Si3N4 platform. Through tuning the coupling angles with different polarization, we experimentally demonstrated the unprecedented broadband spectrum retrieval results with the overall bandw…
Visible dual-comb spectroscopy across more than 100 THz with lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides
University of Colorado Boulder(科罗拉多大学博尔德分校);National Institute of Standards and Technology(美国国家标准与技术研究院);Université Laval(拉瓦尔大学);California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院)
Single-photon counters are single-pixel binary devices that click upon the absorption of a photon but obscure its spectral information, whereas resolving the colour of detected photons has been in critical demand for frontier astronomical observation, spectroscopic imaging and wavelength division multiplexed quantum communications. Current implementations of single-photon spectrometers either consist of bulky wavelength-scanning components or have limited detection channels, preventing parallel detection of broadband single photons with high spectral resolutions. Here, we present the first bro…
Atlas and wavenumber tables for visible part of the rovibronic multiline emission spectrum of the $D_2$ molecule. II. Wavenumber range $18161 ÷14379$ cm$^{-1}$ measured with moderate resolution
Atlas and wavenumber tables for visible part ($419 ÷696$ nm) of the rovibronic multiline emission spectrum of the $D_2$ molecule measured with moderate resolution
For the first time, a CAOS (i.e., Coded Access Optical Sensor) spectrometer is demonstrated. The design implemented uses a reflective diffraction grating and a time-frequency CAOS mode operations Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) in combination with a large area point photo-detector to enable highly programmable linear High Dynamic Range (HDR) spectrometry. Experiments are conducted with a 2850 K color temperature light bulb source and visible band color bandpass and high-pass filters as well as neutral density (ND) attenuation filters. A ~369 nm to ~715 nm input light source spectrum is measur…
A fiber-integrated spectrometer for single-photon pulses outside the telecommunications wavelength range based upon frequency-to-time mapping, implemented by chromatic group delay dispersion (GDD), and precise temporally-resolved single-photon counting, is presented. A chirped fiber Bragg grating provides low-loss GDD, mapping the frequency distribution of an input pulse onto the temporal envelope of the output pulse. Time-resolved detection with fast single-photon-counting modules enables monitoring of a wavelength range from 825 nm to 835 nm with nearly uniform efficiency at 55 pm resolution…
Fast (sub-second) spectroscopy with high spectral resolution is of vital importance for revealing quantum chemistry kinetics of complex chemical and biological reactions. Fourier transform (FT) spectrometers can achieve high spectral resolution and operate at hundreds of ms time scales in rapid-scan mode. However, the linear translation of a scanning mirror imposes stringent time-resolution limitations to these systems, which makes simultaneous high spectral and temporal resolution impossible. Here, we demonstrate an FT spectrometer whose operational principle is based on continuous rotational…
Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy is a crucial workhorse for a plethora of analytical applications and is suitable for diverse materials, including gases, polymers or biological tissue. However, this technologically significant wavelength regime between 2.5-10$μ$m suffers from technical limitations primarily related to the large noise in mid-IR detectors and the complexity and cost of bright, broadband mid-IR light sources. Here, using highly non-degenerate, broadband photon pairs from bright spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in a nonlinear interferometer, we circumvent these limi…
Common transparent polymer films such as cellophane and household tape are frequently used as examples of birefringent materials in textbooks and classroom demonstrations. Qualitatively, birefringence is often demonstrated by layering such films between crossed-polarizers. In this work, we describe an inexpensive experimental setup for the quantitative measurement of birefringence in common household films, suitable for senior high school or undergraduate labs. Whereas traditional approaches for polarization-based classroom experiments typically use monochromatic laser light, we encourage the …
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is an indispensable tool for many practical applications including material analysis and sensing. Existing IR spectroscopy techniques face challenges related to the inferior performance and the high cost of IR-grade components. Here, we develop a new method, which allows studying properties of materials in the IR range using only visible light optics and detectors. It is based on the nonlinear interference of entangled photons, generated via Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC). In our interferometer, the phase of the signal photon in the visible range depen…
Asynchronous Event-Based Spectroscopy for Microsecond-Resolved Spectral Reconstruction
Center for Applied Photonics, INESC TEC(应用光子学中心,INESC TEC);Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto(波尔图大学理学院物理与天文学系)
Self-powered InAs nanowire detector arrays for extended-SWIR spectrometry at room temperature
The Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学);University of Melbourne(墨尔本大学);The University of Sydney(悉尼大学);University of Technology Sydney(悉尼科技大学);Air Force Research Laboratory(空军研究实验室)
Digital micromirror device (DMD) serves in a significant part of computational optical setups as a means of encoding an image by the desired pattern. The most prominent is its usage in the so-called single-pixel camera experiment. This experiment often requires an efficient and homogenous collection of light from a relatively large chip on a small area of an optical fiber or spectrometer slit. Moreover, this effort is complicated by the fact that the DMD acts as a diffractive element, which causes severe spectral inhomogeneities in the light collection. We studied the effect of light diffracti…
The detection of individual photons is an inherently binary mechanism, revealing either their absence or presence while concealing their spectral information. For multi-color imaging techniques, such as single photon spectroscopy, fluorescence resonance energy transfer microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, wavelength discrimination is essential and mandates spectral separation prior to detection. Here, we adopt an approach borrowed from quantum photonic integration to realize a compact and scalable waveguide-integrated single-photon spectrometer capable of parallel detection on…