mid infraREd Fully Integrated CHemical sensors

Project Information

REDFINCH

Grant agreement ID: 780240

DOI 10.3030/780240

Project closed

EC signature date 23 November 2017

Start date 1 December 2017

End date 31 December 2021

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 3 993 211,25

EU contribution € 3 993 211,25

Coordinated by

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
France

Deliverables

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

200cm-1 tuning range hybrid QCL on silicon chip

200cm1 tuning range hybrid QCL on silicon chip This deliverable is a piece of hardware consisting in a silicon chip including QCL structures with the ability of 200 cm1 wavelength tenability

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (5)

REDFINCH branding and promotional material

A cohesive brand image (logos, slide/poster templates, flyers, etc) for the project will have been developed, and made available for the consortium's use.

Website

Website of the project launched. Website will include publicly accessible descriptions of the project aims and deliverables, list of partners and links to partner websites, a primary contact point for the project, and descriptions of project results as they become available. The website will be regularly updated with news and announcements - this will be tracked as part of the Exploitation, Dissemination & Communication Plan.

Communication Kit - Version 1

The project will also provide a communication kit about the project (narrative text, photographs, slides and any other suitable communication material, complemented with copyright licences for the European Commission and for Photonics21). The narrative text will target a general audience and focus on the technical achievements as well as on the economical and societal benefits for the EU. This communication kit will be provided to the Commission at the beginning of the project with updates at mid-term and at the end.

Communication kit - Version 2

An updated version of the communication kit will be provided to the Commission, including details of any new project results/dissemination.

Communication Kit - Version 3

A final version of the communication kit will be provided to the Commission including details of all project results and their impact

Documents, reports (5)

Validation of a PAS based hydrogen purity analyzer

Validation of a PAS based hydrogen purity analyzerDeliverable 71 consists of a test report that contains the results of the lab validation of the PAS based hydrogen purity analyzer task 72 as well as the results of the field campaign done during task 74

Validation of stationary and mobile PAS leak detectors

Deliverable 72 consists of a test report that contains the results of measurements of the detection limit accuracy dynamic range crosssensitivities and response time of stationary and mobile demonstrators The measurements will performed using a test leak in the lab with three wireless stationary sensor nodes and a mobile carpet type leak sensor

Validation of sensor for analysis of liquids in dairy applications

The developed sensing devices for liquid sensing shall finally be applied to real samples taking from the dietary industry In doing so the analytical figures of merit under real world conditions will be tested For that purpose special attention will be given to appropriate sample conditioning and comparison validation of the obtained results with external reference methods carried through subcontracting to third parties

Analytical figures of merit for protein sensing in aqueous solution

The optimized MZI geometries will be applied to the analysis of proteins in aqueous solutions Samples of increasing complexity in protein composition as well as matrix variations shall be studied The obtained results shall be summarized in this report

Optimized assemblies and their functionality

The report Deliverable 66 will contain the results of tests carried out with the gas leak detector based on PAS after the optimization step The test report will include detection limit accuracy repeatability dynamic range and response time

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Broadband laser-based mid-infrared spectroscopy employing a quantum cascade detector for milk protein analysis

Author(s): Alicja Dabrowska, Mauro David, Stephan Freitag, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Gottfried Strasser, Borislav Hinkov, Andreas Schwaighofer, Bernhard Lendl
Published in: Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, Issue 350, 2021, Page(s) 130873, ISSN 1873-3077
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2021.130873

GaSb-based laser diodes grown on MOCVD GaAs-on-Si templates

Author(s): Laura Monge-Bartolome, Bei Shi, Billy Lai, Guilhem Boissier, Laurent Cerutti, Jean-Baptiste Rodriguez, Kei May Lau, Eric Tournié
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 29/7, 2021, Page(s) 11268, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.419396

Methane leak detection by tunable laser spectroscopy and mid-infrared imaging

Author(s): Thomas Strahl, Johannes Herbst, Armin Lambrecht, Eric Maier, Jonas Steinebrunner, Jürgen Wöllenstein
Published in: Applied Optics, Issue 60/15, 2021, Page(s) C68, ISSN 1559-128X
Publisher: Optical Society of America (OSA)
DOI: 10.1364/ao.419942

Octave-spanning low-loss mid-IR waveguides based on semiconductor-loaded plasmonics

Author(s): David, M., Dabrowska, A., Sistani, M., Doganlar, I. C., Hinkelmann, E., Detz, H., Weber, W. M., Lendl, B., Strasser, G. & Hinkov, B.
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 29, 2021, Page(s) 43567–43579, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.443966

Model of thermo-optic nonlinear dynamics of photonic crystal cavities

Author(s): S. Iadanza, M. Clementi, C. Hu, S. A. Schulz, D. Gerace, M. Galli, L. O’Faolain
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 102/24, 2020, Page(s) 245404, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.102.245404

Comparison of laser-based photoacoustic and optical detection of methane

Author(s): Thomas Strahl, Johannes Herbst, Eric Maier, Sven Rademacher, Christian Weber, Hans-Fridtjof Pernau, Armin Lambrecht, Jürgen Wöllenstein
Published in: Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems, Issue 10/1, 2021, Page(s) 25-35, ISSN 2194-878X
Publisher: Copernicus Publications on behalf of the AMA Association for Sensor Technology
DOI: 10.5194/jsss-10-25-2021

Thermo-optically induced transparency on a photonic chip

Author(s): Marco Clementi, Simone Iadanza, Sebastian A. Schulz, Giulia Urbinati, Dario Gerace, Liam O’Faloain and Matteo Galli
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 10, 2021, Page(s) 240, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-021-00678-4

Mid-IR refractive index sensor for detecting proteins employing an external cavity quantum cascade laser-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Author(s): Alicja Dabrowska, Andreas Schwaighofer, Stefan Lindner, Bernhard Lendl
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 28/24, 2020, Page(s) 36632, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.403981

Crystal Phase Control during Epitaxial Hybridization of III-V Semiconductors with Silicon

Author(s): Marta Rio Calvo, Jean-Baptiste Rodriguez,Charles Cornet, Laurent Cerutti, Michel Ramonda, Achim Trampert, Gilles Patriarche, and Eric Tournié
Published in: Advanced Electronic Materials, 2021, Page(s) 2100777, ISSN 2199-160X
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202100777

Photonic crystal lasers: from photonic crystal surface emitting lasers (PCSELs) to hybrid external cavity lasers (HECLs) and topological PhC lasers [Invited]

Author(s): S. Iadanza; A. A. Liles; S. M. Butler; S. P. Hegarty; L. O’Faolain
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 3245-3274, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.430748

Shape optimization for the design of passive mid-infrared photonic components

Author(s): Nicolas Lebbe, Alain Glière, Karim Hassan, Charles Dapogny, Edouard Oudet
Published in: Optical and Quantum Electronics, Issue 51/5, 2019, Page(s) 363, ISSN 0306-8919
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11082-019-1849-1

High-throughput quantitation of bovine milk proteins and discrimination of commercial milk types by external cavity-quantum cascade laser spectroscopy and chemometrics

Author(s): Milagros Montemurro, Andreas Schwaighofer, Anatol Schmidt, María J. Culzoni, Helmut K. Mayer, Bernhard Lendl
Published in: The Analyst, Issue 144/18, 2019, Page(s) 5571-5579, ISSN 0003-2654
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9an00746f

Molecular-beam epitaxy of GaSb on 6°-offcut (001) Si using a GaAs nucleation layer

Author(s): M. Rio Calvo, J-B. Rodriguez, L. Cerutti, M. Ramonda, G. Patriarche, E. Tournié
Published in: Journal of Crystal Growth, 2019, Page(s) 125299, ISSN 0022-0248
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2019.125299

pH titration of β-lactoglobulin monitored by laser-based Mid-IR transmission spectroscopy coupled to chemometric analysis

Author(s): Andreas Schwaighofer, Mirta R. Alcaraz, Laurin Lux, Bernhard Lendl
Published in: Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Issue 226, 2020, Page(s) 117636, ISSN 1386-1425
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117636

EXPRESS: External Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser-Based Mid-Infrared Dispersion Spectroscopy for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Liquid-Phase Samples

Author(s): Stefan Lindner, Jakob Hayden, Andreas Schwaighofer, Tobias Wolflehner, Christian Kristament, Maria Gonzales-Cabrera, Stefan Zlabinger, Bernhard Lendl
Published in: Applied Spectroscopy, 2019, Page(s) 000370281989264, ISSN 0003-7028
Publisher: Society for Applied Spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1177/0003702819892646

Downsizing and Silicon Integration of Photoacoustic Gas Cells

Author(s): A. Glière, P. Barritault, A. Berthelot, C. Constancias, J.-G. Coutard, B. Desloges, L. Duraffourg, J.-M. Fedeli, M. Garcia, O. Lartigue, H. Lhermet, A. Marchant, J. Rouxel, J. Skubich, A. Teulle, T. Verdot, S. Nicoletti
Published in: International Journal of Thermophysics, Issue 41/2, 2020, ISSN 0195-928X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10765-019-2580-7

Mid-infrared laser diodes epitaxially grown on on-axis (001) silicon

Author(s): Marta Rio Calvo, Laura Monge Bartolomé, Michaël Bahriz, Guilhem Boissier, Laurent Cerutti, Jean-Baptiste Rodriguez, Eric Tournié
Published in: Optica, Issue 7/4, 2020, Page(s) 263, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: OSA Publishing
DOI: 10.1364/optica.388383

Beyond Beer's Law: Why the Index of Refraction Depends (Almost) Linearly on Concentration

Author(s): Thomas G. Mayerhöfer, Alicja Dabrowska, Andreas Schwaighofer, Bernhard Lendl, Jürgen Popp
Published in: ChemPhysChem, 2020, ISSN 1439-4235
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000018

Edge-Coupling of O-Band InP Etched-Facet Lasers to Polymer Waveguides on SOI by Micro-Transfer-Printing

Author(s): Ruggero Loi, Steven Kelleher, Raja Fazan Gul, Antonio Jose Trindade, David Gomez, Liam O'Faolain, Brian Corbett, Simone Iadanza, Brendan Roycroft, James O'Callaghan, Lei Liu, Kevin Thomas, Agnieszka Gocalinska, Emanuele Pelucchi, Alexander Farrell
Published in: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Issue 56/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 0018-9197
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jqe.2019.2958365

Volume Fabrication of Quantum Cascade Lasers on 200 mm-CMOS pilot line

Author(s): J. G Coutard, M. Brun, M. Fournier, O. Lartigue, F. Fedeli, G. Maisons, J. M Fedeli, S. Nicoletti, M. Carras, L. Duraffourg
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, Page(s) 6185, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63106-4

InAs-based quantum cascade lasers grown on on-axis (001) silicon substrate

Author(s): Z. Loghmari, J.-B. Rodriguez, A. N. Baranov, M. Rio-Calvo, L. Cerutti, A. Meguekam, M. Bahriz, R. Teissier, E. Tournié
Published in: APL Photonics, Issue 5/4, 2020, Page(s) 041302, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0002376

Etched-cavity GaSb laser diodes on a MOVPE GaSb-on-Si template

Author(s): Laura Monge-Bartolome, Tiphaine Cerba, Daniel A. Díaz-Thomas, Michaël Bahriz, Marta Rio Calvo, Guilhem Boissier, Thierry Baron, Jean-Baptiste Rodriguez, Laurent Cerutti, Eric Tournié
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 28/14, 2020, Page(s) 20785, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.397164

Impact of the ridge etching-depth on GaSb-based laser diodes

Author(s): Laura Monge-Bartolome, Laurent Cerutti, Eric Tournié
Published in: Electronics Letters, Issue (early view online), 2021, ISSN 1350-911X
Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
DOI: 10.1049/ell2.12392

Mid-infrared III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on Si substrates

Author(s): Tournié, E., Monge Bartolome, L., Rio Calvo, M., Loghmari, Z., Díaz-Thomas, D. A., Teissier, R., Baranov, A. N., Cerutti, L. & Rodriguez, J.-B.
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 11, 2022, Page(s) 165, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-022-00850-4

Study of the Effects of Cavity Mode Spacing on Mode-Hopping in III–V/Si Hybrid Photonic Crystal Lasers

Author(s): Praveen K. J. Singaravelu; Sharon M. Butler; Robert N. Sheehan; Alexandros A. Liles; Stephen P. Hegarty; Liam O’Faolain
Published in: Crystals, Vol 11, Iss 848, p 848 (2021), Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 848, ISSN 2073-4352
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/cryst11080848

Conference proceedings (1)

Photoacoustic cell on silicon for mid-infrared QCL-based spectroscopic analysis

Author(s): Jean-Guillaume Coutard, Alain Glière, Jean-Marc Fédéli, Olivier Lartigue, Jules Skubich, Guillaume Aoust, Alexandre Teulle, Thomas Strahl, Sergio Nicoletti, Mathieu Carras, Laurent Duraffourg
Published in: MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XVIII, 2019, Page(s) 30, ISBN 9781-510625051
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2506514