INTEGRATED PHOTONICS. Includes five associated sub-areas:

1) Silicon Photonics:

Head: Dr. Gustavo A. Torchia

Participants:
- Jeffry Martínez Valdivieso
- Paula Pagano
- Valentin Guarepi
- Sara Garcerte (student)

Collaborators:
- Mauricio Tosi
- Leonardo Morbidel
- Juan Bonaparte (CNEA – Constituyentes)
- Nicolás Abadía (Cardiff University, Wales)

Keywords: power splitters; arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG); grating coupling; end-fire coupling; integrated gas sensors.

 

2) Quantum Optics:

Heads: Dr. Fabián Videla and Dr. Gustavo A. Torchia

Participants:
- Paula Pagano
- Gonzalo Fernández Lobo
- Adrián Demarco

Keywords: photon sources; four-wave mixing; coincidence detection; FPGA technology.

 

3) Biophotonic Sensor Development:

Head: Dr. Gustavo A. Torchia

Participants:
- Juan Manuel Rodríguez
- Jeffry Martínez Valdivieso
- Valentin Guarepi
- Raúl Della Salda

Collaborators:
- Marcos Bilen
- Cristina Borio
- Damian Presti
- Lucas Marchesano
- Lucas Ripoll (UNQ)

Keywords: diagnostics of high-impact diseases; DNA; molecular biology; fluorescent probes.

 

4) Thin-Film Optics:

Heads: Dr. Pablo Vaveliuk and Dr. Gustavo A. Torchia

Participants:
- Demian Biasetti
- Luis Morinigo
- Ian Ariza Cogua (student)
- Gabriel Garlatti (student)

Collaborator:
- Ginés Lifante (Autonomous University of Madrid)

Keywords: dark modes; Fresnel equations in multilayer systems; effective refractive indices; ellipsometry.

 

5) Short-Pulse Compression:

Head: Dr. Gustavo A. Torchia

Participants:
- Pedro Rueda Suescun
- Fabián Videla

Collaborator:
- Federico Furch (Max Born Institute, Berlin)

Keywords: multipass cell pulse compression; TDSE; Crank–Nicolson method; ATIS.

 

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