Mechanophotonics for Organic Photonic Integrated Circuits

Author: Rajadurai Chandrasekar Series: IOP Series in Advances in Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics

Mechanophotonics emerges as a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research discipline, seamlessly intertwining mechanical micromanipulation with the nanophotonics of molecular optical microcrystals.

Product Unavailable

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Summary

Mechanophotonics emerges as a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research discipline, seamlessly intertwining mechanical micromanipulation with the nanophotonics of molecular optical microcrystals.

Description

This book presents the area of Mechanophotonics and the process of fabricating organic photonic integrated circuits (OPICs) using optical crystals and polymer particles through atomic force. It provides the latest developments in focused ion beam milling techniques applied to organic optical crystals to construct organic photonic integrated circuits. After an introduction, the photonic components of OPICs will be presented as well as their properties. Mechanical properties of organic optical crystals are then discussed followed by the mechanical micromanipulation of organic crystals. Last, the author covers the micromanufacturing of organic crystal photonic components using focused-ion beam milling.

Key Features:

The first book on this emerging topic.
Provides various organic crystal photonic components for PICs.
Includes the mechanical properties of organic optical crystals.
Presents mechanical manipulation of organic flexible crystals.
Multidisciplinary with interest from those in optics, materials, chemists, physicists, and crystal engineers.

About the Author

Rajadurai Chandrasekar is a Professor at the University of Hyderabad (UoH). At the UoH he explores the Interaction of Light with Organic Nano/Microsolids. His group made several original and outstanding scientific contributions toward Advanced Organic Photonic Materials and Technologies such as Organic waveguides (passive-type discovered in his lab), resonators, optical modulators, and chiral optical waveguides and resonators, and circuits. He initiated two new research fields namely, (i) Mechanophotonics - a domain that integrates mechanical micromanipulation of single crystal photonic modules towards circuits, and (ii) Crystal photonic foundry - a novel approach involving focused ion beam milling of organic single crystals to produce various organic single crystal photonic modules. He has published about 125 research papers and holds 4 international patents. He has been an elected Fellow of the Optical Society of India (2016), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018), the Indian Academy of Sciences (2020), and the National Academy of Sciences (2023). He is an International Advisory Board Member of several prominent Materials Chemistry and Materials Science journals such as Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Materials Advances, Advanced Optical Materials, ACS Applied Engineering Materials, and Small.