2017 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2017

Session

M3-2 Photonics: Devices (DAMOPC/DCMMP) | Photonique: dispositifs (DPAMPC/DPMCM)

M3-2

29 May 2017, 13:30

BioSci 1103 (Queen's University)

Conveners

M3-2 Photonics: Devices (DAMOPC/DCMMP) | Photonique: dispositifs (DPAMPC/DPMCM)

• Adriana Predoi-Cross (Lethbridge University)

1750. Micro/nanostructure engineering for light management in thin-film solar cells

Prof. Xihua Wang (University of Alberta)

29/05/2017, 13:30

Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité

Optimum capture of the incident light through efficient photon management is considered a crucial requirement for realization of ultra-efficient photovoltaic devices. For this purpose, diffraction gratings have been applied for photon management in solar energy conversion. Specifically, due to the hexagonal arrangement of the grating structure, hexagonal gratings can be favorable in integrated...

1843. Application of lasers in gas and chemical sensing

Dr Gautam Das (Lakehead University)

29/05/2017, 14:00

Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité

Fiber lasers have many applications in industry and medicine because of their unique characteristics—an all-fiber design, compact size, cost-effective production and operation, and no need for re-alignment and external cooling. A fiber laser emitting in the infrared region has applications in optical communication, sensing, spectroscopy and nonlinear optics.
The Photonics Research Group is...

1808. Exploiting broadband light-matter interactions using disordered photonic crystals for enhancing solar cell collection efficiencies

Ms Chelsea Carlson (Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy)

29/05/2017, 14:30

Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)

CLOSED - Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)

In recent decades, thin-film technologies have emerged as front-runners in solar light harvesting for their highly-reduced material volume and cost. Absorption lengths exceeding film thickness restricts absorption, but this scale allows us to take advantage of state-of-the-art light-trapping and field enhancing techniques that increase photon lifetimes. One type of structure is the scattering...

1605. WITHDRAWN - Theoretical and experimental investigation on the formation of plasmonic nanostructure on a tapered optical fiber

Mrs Chetna Sharma (Lakehead University)

29/05/2017, 14:45

Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)

CLOSED - Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)

Optical tweezing is a well-known phenomenon for trapping or manipulating dielectric and metallic nanoparticles. The application of metallic nanoparticles in sensing has attracted a lot of attention due to their unique optical and chemical properties. We have developed a unique plasmonic structure on the surface of a multimode tapered optical fiber by optical tweezing of gold nanorods. In order...