Chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau II en micro- et nano-photonique

Canada Research Chair Tier II in Micro- and Nano-photonics

Résumé des activités de notre recherche, Feb. 05, 1Mb
Resume of the group research activities, Feb. 05, 1Mb

PolyGuide fibers
Overview of the microstructured optical fibers for datacom, sensing, plasmonics and smart textile applications fabricated in our group, Aug. 07, 11Mb

Prospective Students:
Outstanding MSc and PhD students are always welcome to apply . Our current focus is in the domain of design and fabrication of microstructured and photonic crystal fibers for various practical applications. We are also active in the experimental and theoretical research in the area of nanooptics and plasmonics.

Books:

M. Skorobogatiy, J. Yang Fundamentals of Photonic Crystal Guiding (Cambridge University Press, 2009) ISBN-10: 0521513286 ISBN-13: 978-0521513289 312p., 108 figs., 21 conceptual problems and solutions

News Releases about our work:

	Karma Chameleon project. Smart textiles, Photonic Bandgap textiles, Feb. 2009
	Nature Photonics - Colour-tunable textiles, News and Views, Nov. 2008
	Physics Today - Photonic fabric, Back Scatter, Oct. 2008, page 108, © AIP 2008
	Laser Focus World - Low-loss porous terahertz fibers would turn tight corners, Apr. 2008
	Laser Focus World - Photonic-crystal fibers become biocompatible, Feb. 2007
	Photonics Spectra - Biodegradable Holey Fiber Enables Drug Delivery, Jan. 2007
	Nature Photonics - Plasmonics: Sensors tune in, Oct. 2006
	Optics.org - Environmentally friendly fiber takes on medical role, July 2006
	Les possibilités infinies de la fibre microstructurée, Oct. 2006 The infinite potential of microstructured fibres, Oct. 2006

Theory, manufacturing and application of photonic crystal fibers:
Our primary objective is to speed up the maturation of photonic crystal technology and its penetration into the industrial sector. Research at the Engineering Physics Department is broadened by our comprehensive research program in Photonic Band Gap (PBG) materials and devices with applications in telecommunications, industry and medicine.

Experimentally we focus on preform fabrication and fiber drawing of polymer microstructured fibers for biomedical and sensing applications. We also pursue fabrication of planar and two dimensional photonic crystals for nanophotonics (plasmonics). Theoretically our group pursues an effort in design of novel highly integrated photonic crystal components based on fibers and planar waveguides, as well as modeling of the photonic crystal fiber fabrication process including fluid dynamics of fiber drawing, heat transfer in high power fiber links, and influence of imperfections on fiber and planar device performance.

Some of the Photonic Crystal Fibers and systems fabricated in our group:

	Highly reflective photonic textiles based on Photonic Band Gap fibers, Futurotextiel 08 exhibition, Kortrijk, Belgium
	Color-tunable photonic textiles using Photonic Crystal Fibers
	"Colorful" solid core plastic Bragg fibers in the visible
	Bodegradable and Biocompatable Microstructured Fiber for In-Vivo Sensing
	Hollow Bragg Fiber for Low Loss Radiation Transmission from the Visible to THz
	Multicore Porous Fiber for Imaging and Sensing
	Multimode Microstructured Fiber for Sensing Applications
	Group Poster

Software packages from our group:

PolyMOF - modesolvers for the Microstructured and Photonic Crystal Fibers, updated Aug. 2007


PolyFIT - statistical imperfection analysis sofware and high resolution 2D Pxtal images, updated Nov. 2005


Reviews of selected photonic technologies:

Bringing nanotechnology into fiber optics, updated Oct. 2009, 9Mb

Overview of the photonic textiles, updated March 2009, 21Mb

Overview of THz waveguides and applications, updated Apr. 2007, 2.1Mb

Overview of Microstructured Fibers for sensor applications, updated Feb. 2006, 1.6Mb

Slides from my graduate course "Indroduction to Photonic Crystals"
1) 1D Photonic Crystals (Multilayer stacks), updated Jan. 2005, 1Mb
2) Hollow planar waveguides and multilayer stacks, updated Oct. 2005, 1Mb
3) Quasi-1D Photonic Crystals (Bragg fibers), updated Feb. 2005, 4Mb
4) Battling Imperfection in Photonic Crystals, updated Oct. 2005, 6Mb
5) Some applications of PC's, 5Mb