Art and Photonics

This page is dedicated to images resulting from experimental measurements in WON, as we believe that some of them are truly mysterious and beautiful and can be used for creating artistic visualizations.

Images resulted by simulation

Experiment by Emadreza Soltanian (Ghent University)

Project: Wideband tunable laser source on a III-V-on-silicon photonic platforms using transfer printing technologies

Fig 1. Light in Si Waveguide

Fig 2. (zoomed) Coupling

Fig.3 Light in III-V Layer

Fig.5 Taper Cross View

Fig. 4 Light in the ring

Fig. 6 Taper Top View

Multi-Project-Wafer run (MPW)

Experiment by Emadreza Soltanian (Ghent University)

Emadreza was working on a design for a Multi-Project-Wafer run (MPW). He had to simulate every basic component of the optical circuit he intended to design. One of the important passive components of an optical circuit is Multi-Mode-Interferometer (MMI). An MMI 1×2 is able to equally split incoming light into two branches. The interesting fact is that it also is able to combine the light coming from 2 branches into 1.

Geometry parameters of the MMI govern its behaviour over the electromagnetic spectrum. Here is a plot of the splitting behaviour of a 1×2 MMI (E-field plot).

Art and Photonics