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    Spectrally Selective Mid-Wave Infrared Detection Using Fabry-Pérot Cavity Enhanced Black Phosphorus 2D Photodiodes.
    Yan, W ; Shresha, VR ; Jeangros, Q ; Azar, NS ; Balendhran, S ; Ballif, C ; Crozier, K ; Bullock, J (American Chemical Society, 2020-10-27)
    Thin two-dimensional (2D) material absorbers have the potential to reduce volume-dependent thermal noise in infrared detectors. However, any reduction in noise must be balanced against lower absorption from the thin layer, which necessitates advanced optical architectures. Such architectures can be particularly effective for applications that require detection only within a specific narrow wavelength range. This study presents a Fabry-Pérot cavity enhanced bP/MoS2 midwave infrared (MWIR) photodiode. This simple structure enables tunable narrow-band (down to 0.42 μm full width at half-maximum) photodetection in the 2-4 μm range by adjusting the thickness of the Fabry-Pérot cavity resonator. This is achieved while maintaining room-temperature performance metrics comparable to previously reported 2D MWIR detectors. Zero bias specific detectivity and responsivity values of up to 1.7 × 109 cm Hz1/2 W-1 and 0.11 A W-1 at λ = 3.0 μm are measured with a response time of less than 3 ns. These results introduce a promising family of 2D detectors with applications in MWIR spectroscopy.
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    High-resolution mid-infrared spectral reconstruction using a subwavelength coaxial aperture array
    Craig, B ; Meng, J ; Shrestha, VR ; Cadusch, JJ ; Crozier, KB (OSA & IEEE, 2019-01-01)
    We demonstrate mid-infrared computational spectroscopy using an array of coaxial aperture filters. We experimentally determine material transmission spectra using an algorithm whose inputs are the transmission spectra and the power transmitted through each filter.
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    Mid-infrared computational spectroscopy with an electrically-tunable graphene metasurface
    Shrestha, VR ; Craig, B ; Amani, M ; Bullock, J ; Javey, A ; Crozier, KB (OSA - Optical Society of America, 2019-01-01)
    We demonstrate graphene-plasmonic metasurfaces whose mid-infrared reflection spectra are electrically-tunable. Using measurements of the power reflected by the metasurfaces at different drive voltages, the source spectrum is computationally reconstructed by the recursive least squares method.
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    Long -Wave In a ed Photodetectors Based on Platinum Diselenide
    Azar, NS ; Shrestha, VR ; Bullock, J ; Amani, M ; Kim, H ; Javey, A ; Crozier, KB (IEEE, 2020)
    We demonstrate long wave infrared photodetectors based on the transition metal dichalcogenide platinum diselenide (PtSe2) in its bulk form for the first time to our knowledge. Fabricated devices show sub-millisecond response times.
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    Visible to Long-Wave Infrared Photodetectors based on Copper Tetracyanoquinodimethane (CuTCNQ) Crystals
    Balendhran, S ; Hussain, Z ; Shrestha, VR ; Cadusch, J ; Ye, M ; Kim, H ; Ramanathan, R ; Bullock, J ; Javey, A ; Bansal, V ; Crozier, KB (OSA - Optical Society of America, 2020-08-01)
    We demonstrate room-temperature photodetectors at wavelengths from visible (450 nm, 532 nm) to near- (850 nm), short-wave (1550 nm), mid-wave (4.5 \mu m) and long-wave (8.35 \mu m) infrared. These are based on drop-cast Cu TCNQ crystals.
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    Visible to long-wave infrared chip-scale spectrometers based on photodetectors with tailored responsivities and multispectral filters
    Cadusch, JJ ; Meng, J ; Craig, BJ ; Shrestha, VR ; Crozier, KB (De Gruyter Open, 2020-09-01)
    Chip-scale microspectrometers, operational across the visible to long-wave infrared spectral region will enable many remote sensing spectroscopy applications in a variety of fields including consumer electronics, process control in manufacturing, as well as environmental and agricultural monitoring. The low weight and small device footprint of such spectrometers could allow for integration into handheld, unattended vehicles or wearable-electronics based systems. This review will focus on recent developments in nanophotonic microspectrometer designs, which fall into two design categories: (i) planar filter-arrays used in conjunction with visible or IR detector arrays and (ii) microspectrometers using filter-free detector designs with tailored responsivities, where spectral filtering and photocurrent generation occur within the same nanostructure.
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    Mid- to long-wave infrared computational spectroscopy using a subwavelength coaxial aperture array
    Craig, BJ ; Meng, J ; Shrestha, VR ; Cadusch, JJ ; Crozier, KB (Nature Publishing Group, 2019-09-19)
    Miniaturized spectrometers are advantageous for many applications and can be achieved by what we term the filter-array detector-array (FADA) approach. In this method, each element of an optical filter array filters the light that is transmitted to the matching element of a photodetector array. By providing the outputs of the photodetector array and the filter transmission functions to a reconstruction algorithm, the spectrum of the light illuminating the FADA device can be estimated. Here, we experimentally demonstrate an array of 101 band-pass transmission filters that span the mid- to long-wave infrared (6.2 to 14.2 μm). Each filter comprises a sub-wavelength array of coaxial apertures in a gold film. As a proof-of-principle demonstration of the FADA approach, we use a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microscope to record the optical power transmitted through each filter. We provide this information, along with the transmission spectra of the filters, to a recursive least squares (RLS) algorithm that estimates the incident spectrum. We reconstruct the spectrum of the infrared light source of our FTIR and the transmission spectra of three polymer-type materials: polyethylene, cellophane and polyvinyl chloride. Reconstructed spectra are in very good agreement with those obtained via direct measurement by our FTIR system.