Véronique Bardinal

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present quantitative measurements of the interaction between a guided optical wave and a two-dimensional photonic crystal using spontaneous emission of the material as an internal point source.

TL;DR: In this article, a portable biosensor microsystem consisting of 20 micromechanical cantilevers produced in silicon technology, a polymer microfluidic system for delivery of the samples, an array of 20 vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) with collimated beams thanks to an integrated microlens array, an optical coupling element to provide the optical path required, and chips with the photodetectors and the CMOS circuitry for signal acquisition and conditioning, capable of measuring the cantilever deflection with sub-nanometer resolution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the diffraction efficiency of two-dimensional photonic-bandgap lattices consisting of a triangular array of circular air holes etched in a semiconductor waveguide.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the observation of a cavity mode, at λ = 0.94 µm, which was tightly confined between two slabs of two-dimensional photonic crystals deeply etched into a laser-like heterostructure waveguide.

TL;DR: The fabricated microlenses present focal lengths in the range [55-181mum] and exhibit high optical quality only limited by diffraction behaviour with RMS aberration lower than lambda/14.