European Joint Doctorate Programme on Optical Sensing using Advanced Photo-Induced Effects

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

First edition of the network newsletter

The first edition of a regular newsletter for the project will be released

Website

The domain name will be registered and an initial website for OPTAPHI will go live

Other (2)

Workshop 1

The first 3day workshop on Semiconductor Growth and Fabrication for Photonics will be organised by UM

Summer school

The 5day summer school will be organised by UNIBA

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

InAs-Based Quantum Cascade Lasers with Extremely Low Threshold

Author(s): Kumar Kinjalk; Daniel Andres Díaz-Thomas; Zeineb Loghmari; Michael Bahriz; Roland Teissier; Alexei N. Baranov
Published in: Photonics; Volume 9; Issue 10; Pages: 747, vol 9, 2022, Page(s) 747, ISSN 2304-6732
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/photonics9100747

Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Detection of Ethane in the Near-IR Exploiting a Highly Performant Spectrophone

Author(s): Fabrizio Sgobba; Giansergio Menduni; Stefano Dello Russo; Angelo Sampaolo; Pietro Patimisco; Marilena Giglio; Ezio Ranieri; Vittorio M. N. Passaro; Frank K. Tittel; Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Applied Sciences, 10, 2020, Page(s) 2447, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app10072447

"Mid-Infrared Intracavity Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy with pptv – Level Sensitivity Using a T-shaped Custom Tuning Fork"

Author(s): Hayden, Jakob; Giglio, Marilena; Sampaolo, Angelo; Spagnolo, Vincenzo; Lendl, Bernhard
Published in: Photoacoustics, 25, 2022, Page(s) 100330, ISSN 2213-5979
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2022.100330

Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy for hydrocarbon trace gas detection and petroleum exploration

Author(s): Angelo Sampaolo, Giansergio Menduni, Pietro Patimisco, Marilena Giglio, Vittorio M.N. Passaro , Lei Dong, Hongpeng Wu, Frank K. Tittel, Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Fuel, 227, 2020, Page(s) 118118, ISSN 0016-2361
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2020.118118

Partial least-squares regression as a tool to retrieve gas concentrations in mixtures detected using quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy

Author(s): Andrea Zifarelli, Marilena Giglio, Giansergio Menduni, Angelo Sampaolo, Pietro Patimisco, Vittorio M. N. Passaro, Hongpeng Wu, Lei Dong, and Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Analytical Chemistry, 92, 2020, Page(s) 11035-11043, ISSN 0003-2700
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00075

Parts-per-billion detection of carbon monoxide: A comparison between quartz-enhanced photoacoustic and photothermal spectroscopy.

Author(s): Davide Pinto; Harald Moser; Johannes P. Waclawek; Stefano Dello Russo; Pietro Patimisco; Vincenzo Spagnolo; Bernhard Lendl
Published in: Photoacoustics, 22, 2021, Page(s) 100244, ISSN 2213-5979
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2021.100244

Front-End Amplifiers for Tuning Forks in Quartz Enhanced PhotoAcoustic Spectroscopy

Author(s): Giansergio Menduni; Angelo Sampaolo; Pietro Patimisco; Marilena Giglio; Stefano Dello Russo; Andrea Zifarelli; Arianna Elefante; Piotr Z. Wieczorek; Tomasz Starecki; Vittorio M. N. Passaro; Frank K. Tittel; Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Applied Sciences, 10, 2020, Page(s) 2947, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app10082947

Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy exploiting low-frequency tuning forks as a tool to measure the vibrational relaxation rate in gas species

Author(s): Stefano Dello Russo, Angelo Sampaolo, Pietro Patimisco, Giansergio Menduni, Marilena Giglio, Christine Hoelzl, Vittorio M.N. Passaro, Hongpeng Wu, Lei Dong, Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Photoacoustics, 21, 2021, Page(s) 100227, ISSN 2213-5979
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2020.100227

H2S quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy sensor employing a liquid-nitrogen-cooled THz quantum cascade laser operating in pulsed mode

Author(s): Angelo Sampaolo, Chenren Yu, Tingting Wei, Andrea Zifarelli, Marilena Giglio, Pietro Patimisco, Huan Zhu, Haiqing Zhu, Li He, Hongpeng Wu, Lei Dong, Gangyi Xu, Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Photoacoustics, 21, 2021, Page(s) 100219, ISSN 2213-5979
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2020.100219

Single-mode interband cascade laser with a slotted waveguide

Author(s): J. A. M. Fordyce, D. A. Diaz-Thomas, L. O’Faolain, A. N. Baranov, T. Piwonski, and L. Cerutti
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, vol 121, 2022, Page(s) 211102, ISSN 1077-3118
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/5.0120460

Tuning of Graphene-Based Optical Devices Operating in the Near-Infrared

Author(s): Artem S. Vorobev; Giuseppe Valerio Bianco; Giovanni Bruno; Antonella D'Orazio; Liam O'Faolain; Marco Grande
Published in: Applied Sciences, 11, 2021, Page(s) 8367, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11188367

Quantum cascade lasers monolithically integrated on germanium

Author(s): K. KINJALK, A. GILBERT, A. REMIS, Z. LOGHMARI, L. CERUTTI, G. PATRIARCHE, M. BAHRIZ, R. TEISSIER, A. N. BARANOV, J. B. RODRIGUEZ, AND E. TOURNIÉ
Published in: Optics Express, Vol 30, n°25, 2022, Page(s) 45259, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.472473

Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy for multi-gas detection: A review

Author(s): Angelo Sampaolo, Pietro Patimisco, Marilena Giglio, Andrea Zifarelli, Hongpeng Wu, Lei Dong, Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Analytica Chimica Acta, 2021, Page(s) 338894, ISSN 0003-2670
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2021.338894

Fiber-Coupled Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy System for Methane and Ethane Monitoring in the Near-Infrared Spectral Range.

Author(s): Giansergio Menduni; Fabrizio Sgobba; Stefano Dello Russo; Ada Cristina Ranieri; Ada Cristina Ranieri; Angelo Sampaolo; Pietro Patimisco; Marilena Giglio; Vittorio M. N. Passaro; Sebastian Csutak; Dario Assante; Ezio Ranieri; Eric Geoffrion; Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Molecules, 25, 2020, Page(s) 5607, ISSN 1420-3049
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/molecules25235607

Modeling and Design of a Semi-Integrated QEPAS Sensor

Author(s): Martino De Carlo; Giansergio Menduni; Angelo Sampaolo; Francesco De Leonardis; Vincenzo Spagnolo; Vittorio M. N. Passaro
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39, 2020, Page(s) 646, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2020.3030682

Mid-Infrared Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Sensor for ppb-Level CO Detection in a SF6 Gas Matrix Exploiting a T-Grooved Quartz Tuning Fork.

Author(s): Bo Sun; Andrea Zifarelli; Andrea Zifarelli; Hongpeng Wu; Stefano Dello Russo; Stefano Dello Russo; Shangzhi Li; Pietro Patimisco; Pietro Patimisco; Lei Dong; Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Analytical Chemistry, 92, 2020, Page(s) 13922-13929, ISSN 0003-2700
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02772

Light-induced thermo-elastic effect in quartz tuning forks exploited as a photodetector in gas absorption spectroscopy.

Author(s): Stefano Dello Russo; Andrea Zifarelli; Pietro Patimisco; Angelo Sampaolo; Tingting Wei; Hongpeng Wu; Lei Dong; Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Optics Express, 28, 2020, Page(s) 19074-19084, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.393292

Environmental Monitoring of Methane with Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Exploiting an Electronic Hygrometer to Compensate the H2O Influence on the Sensor Signal.

Author(s): Arianna Elefante; Giansergio Menduni; Hubert Rossmadl; Verena Mackowiak; Marilena Giglio; Angelo Sampaolo; Pietro Patimisco; Vittorio M. N. Passaro; Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: Sensors, 20, 2020, Page(s) 2935, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s20102935

Sub-ppb-level CH4 detection by exploiting a low-noise differential photoacoustic resonator with a room-temperature interband cascade laser.

Author(s): Huadan Zheng; Yihua Liu; Haoyang Lin; Ruifeng Kan; Pietro Patimisco; Angelo Sampaolo; Marilena Giglio; Wenguo Zhu; Jianhui Yu; Frank K. Tittel; Vincenzo Spagnolo; Zhe Chen
Published in: Optics Express, 28, 2020, Page(s) 19446-16456, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.391322

Analysis of the Optical Coupling Between GaSb Diode Lasers and Passive Waveguides: A Step Toward Monolithic Integration on Si Platforms

Author(s): Michele Paparella, Laura Monge Bartolome, Jean-Baptiste Rodriguez, Laurent Cerutti, Marco Grande, Liam O’Faolain, and Eric Tournié
Published in: IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 14 n°5, 2022, Page(s) 6651206, ISSN 1943-0655
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jphot.2022.3203593

Conference proceedings (4)

New Developments in Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Sensing Real-World Applications

Author(s): Marilena Giglio, Pietro Patimisco, Angelo Sampaolo, Hongpeng Wu, Lei Dong, Frank K. Tittel and Vincenzo Spagnolo
Published in: 2020 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2020, Page(s) We.A4.1, ISSN 2161-2064
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icton51198.2020.9203336

Q- factor enhancement in photonic crystal cavities based on trapezoidal slotted nano-sticks for refractive index sensing

Author(s): J. H. Mendoza-Castro, Liam O’Faolain, M. Grande
Published in: 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), 2021, Page(s) 1-1, ISBN 978-1-6654-1876-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec52157.2021.9542649

Analysis of the optical coupling between 2.3µm GaSb diode lasers and passive waveguides for monolithic integration on Si platforms

Author(s): M. Paparella, L. Monge-Bartolome, L. Cerutti, J.-B. Rodriguez, M. Grande, L. O’Faolain, and E. Tournié.
Published in: 2022 IEEE International Photonics Conference, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ipc53466.2022.9975716

DFB Style Slotted Waveguide Interband Cascade Lasers

Author(s): J. A. M. Fordyce, D. A. Díaz-Thomas, T. Piwonski, A. N. Baranov, L. O’Faolain, and L. Cerutti1
Published in: Compound Semiconductor Week 2022, 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-5340-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/csw55288.2022.9930442