William S. Rabinovich

TL;DR: Progress in the development of a multiple quan- tum well modulating retroreflector is described, including a description of recent dem- onstrations of an infrared data link between a small rotary-wing un- manned airborne vehicle and a ground-based laser interrogator using the device designed and fabricated at the Naval Research Laboratory.

TL;DR: Compact silicon-on-insulator waveguide thermo-optically tunable Fabry-Perot microcavities with silicon/air Bragg mirrors with high-Q cavities enabling fast switching at low drive power (<10 mW) are demonstrated.

TL;DR: In-plane microfabricated Fabry-Perot cavities with cryogenically etched silicon/air distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) mirrors and integrated silicon-on-insulator rib waveguides with Thermo-optic tuning over 6.7 nm is demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this article, the first trace gas Raman spectra using integrated nanophotonic waveguides were collected using 9.6 mm-long waveguide exposed to ambient trace concentrations of ethyl acetate, methyl salicylate, and dimethyl sulfoxide with one-sigma limits of detection in 100 s integration times equal to 600 ppm, 360 ppb, and 7.6 ppb.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new kind of MQW MRR using a cat's-eye retroreflector was proposed, which decouples the size of the modulator from the diameter of the optical aperture and allows much higher data rates.