Quantitative phase imaging systems using white light illumination can exhibit lower noise figures than laser-based systems. However, they can also suffer from object-dependent artifacts, such as halos, which prevent accurate reconstruction of the surface topography. In this work, we show that white light diffraction phase microscopy using a standard halogen lamp can produce accurate height maps of even the most challenging structures provided that there is proper spatial filtering at: 1) the condenser to ensure adequate spatial coherence and 2) the output Fourier plane to produce a uniform reference beam. We explain that these object-dependent artifacts are a high-pass filtering phenomenon, establish design guidelines to reduce the artifacts, and then apply these guidelines to eliminate the halo effect. Since a spatially incoherent source requires significant spatial filtering, the irradiance is lower and proportionally longer exposure times are needed. To circumvent this tradeoff, we demonstrate that a supercontinuum laser, due to its high radiance, can provide accurate measurements with reduced exposure times, allowing for fast dynamic measurements.
Radio
frequency (RF) microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based
on Al1–x
Sc
x
N are replacing AlN-based devices because of their higher achievable
bandwidths, suitable for the fifth-generation (5G) mobile network.
However, overheating of Al1–x
Sc
x
N film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) used
in RF MEMS filters limits power handling and thus the phone’s
ability to operate in an increasingly congested RF environment while
maintaining its maximum data transmission rate. In this work, the
ramifications of tailoring of the piezoelectric response and microstructure
of Al1–x
Sc
x
N films on the thermal transport have been studied. The thermal
conductivity of Al1–x
Sc
x
N films (3–8 W m–1 K–1) grown by reactive sputter deposition was found to
be orders of magnitude lower than that for c-axis-textured
AlN films due to alloying effects. The film thickness dependence of
the thermal conductivity suggests that higher frequency FBAR structures
may suffer from limited power handling due to exacerbated overheating
concerns. The reduction of the abnormally oriented grain (AOG) density
was found to have a modest effect on the measured thermal conductivity.
However, the use of low AOG density films resulted in lower insertion
loss and thus less power dissipated within the resonator, which will
lead to an overall enhancement of the device thermal performance.
Abstract:Microring and microdisk lasers are potential candidates for small footprint, low threshold in-plane integrated lasers; however, they exhibit multimode lasing spectra and bistability. Here, we theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel approach for achieving single mode lasing in microring lasers. Our approach is based on increasing the radiation loss of all but one of the resonant modes of microring resonators by integrating second order gratings on the microrings' waveguide. We present single mode operation of electrically pumped semiconductor microring lasers whose lasing modes are lithographically selected via the second order grating. We also show that adding the grating does not increase the lasing threshold current significantly. analysis of large-scale three-dimensional photonic devices with a robust domain decomposition method," Opt.
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