Photoptics 2015

Part I. Invited Paper

1. Fiber Microstructure Sensors Based on Focused Ion Beam Technology
Ricardo Melo André, Manuel J. B. Marques, Orlando Frazão

Part II. Optics

2. Focus on the Distal Assembly of a Nonlinear Endomicroscope: A Gradient Index Lens Coupled with a Piezoelectric Scanner for Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements
Claire Lefort, Hussein Hamzeh, Liu Wei, Frédéric Pain, Darine Abi Haidar

3. Improvement of Transverse Offset-Based Single-Mode-Multimode-Single-Mode-Fiber Structure for DPSK Signal Demodulation
Xiaoyong Chen, Paloma R. Horche

4. Application of Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy and Chemometrics in Homeland Security
Adriana Puiu, Gianfranco Giubileo, Stella Nunziante Cesaro, Antonio Palucci

5. Fibre Bragg Grating Sensor Signal Post-processing Algorithm: Crack Growth Monitoring in Fibre Reinforced Plastic Structures
G. Pereira, L. P. Mikkelsen, M. McGugan

Part III. Photonics

6. Free-Space Millimeter-Wave Electro-optic Modulators Using Quasi-Phase-Matching Gap-Embedded-Patch-Antennas on Low Dielectric Constant Substrate
Yusuf Nur Wijayanto, Atsushi Kanno, Hiroshi Murata, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Naokatsu Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Okamura

7. An Efficient Optimization Problem for Modal Reflectivity at Optical Waveguide End-Facet Based on the Formulation of Characteristic Green’s Function Technique
Abdorreza Torabi, Amir Ahmad Shishegar

8. Effect of Exponentially Graded Material on Photonic and Omni-Directional Band Gaps in 1-D Photonic Crystals
Bipin Kumar Singh, Praveen Chandra Pandey

9. Smith-Purcell Based Terahertz Frequency Multiplier: Three Dimensional Analysis
Alireza Tavousi, Ali Rostami, Ghassem Rostami, Mahboubeh Dolatyari

10. Stochastic Resonances and Gated Detection in Photon Number Resolving Detectors
Shree Krishnamoorthy, Harish Ravi, Pradeep K. Kumar, Anil Prabhakar

11. Design Optimization of Silicon-on-Insulator Slot-Waveguides for Electro-optical Modulators and Biosensors
Patrick Steglich, Claus Villringer, Silvio Pulwer, Mauro Casalboni, Sigurd Schrader

Keywords: Physics, Laser Technology, Photonics, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Optical and Electronic Materials, Optics and Electrodynamics