In the quest for ultrathin materials compatible with CMOS technology for all-optical signal processing applications in integrated photonics, graphene appears to be a promising candidate, with broadband1 optical properties and a high and broadband optical nonlinearity. However, researchers do not agree on the value of its nonlinear refractive index, and commonly used characterization methods do not provide a clear picture of the optical nonlinearity, in terms of its tensor nature or relaxation time. In the first part of this thesis, apart from the previously used Z-scan method, we have also used the ultrafast Optical Kerr Effect method coupled to Optical Heterodyne Detection (OHD-OKE) for the characterization of the third order optical nonlinearity of monolayer CVD graphene at telecom wavelengths. This method allows to separately measure the real and the imaginary part of the third-order nonlinearity, as well as their dynamics. With respect to the Z-scan method, OHD-OKE presents the major advantage of being robust against inhomogeneities of the sample. As such, we have demonstrated that graphene has a negative nonlinear refractive index, contrary to previously reported results. In addition, we have studied the real and imaginary part of graphene’s nonlinearity, when electrostatic gating is applied to change the chemical potential of graphene. Furthermore, we have proposed an enhanced version of the OHD-OKE method, together with the appropriate theoretical framework, in order to extract the tensor elements of the nonlinearity including the out-of-plane tensor elements. In particular, we have measured separately the time response of the two main tensor elements of the nonlinear susceptibility and we have experimentally verified that the out-of-plane tensor components are negligible. In the second part of this thesis, we have investigated, from an experimental point of view, the use of the nonlinear optical response of graphene for all-optical switching applications in integrated photonics. Namely, we have designed simple silicon nitride waveguide structures that constitute basic building blocks of switching devices, which were then fabricated and covered by graphene patches. Finally, we have experimentally tested the graphene-covered structures at low and high power levels and discussed the results. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur et technologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The Clement Ader Institute of Albi and the von Karman Institute follow<p>since numerous years works about IR radiometry with the aim to do quantitative<p>thermography (true temperature measurement without contact). These works allowed<p>to explore potentiality several spectral bands :8-12µm, 3-5µm and recently the<p>0.75-1.7µm band (near IR) with the help of CCD camera (Si) or VisGaAs camera.<p>Studies done in this specific domain have underlined some perturbations emphasized<p>at high-temperature (T>800◦C). This work has to deal in details with the<p>treatment of parameters playing a role in camera measurements. The first of these<p>parameters is the emissivity, this treatment is made in another thesis. The second<p>parameter affects particularly the hot spot location and the spatial distortion. This<p>perturbation comes from convective effect present around every hot objects.The<p>purpose of this thesis is to analyze this effect and to correct it. Indeed, when a hot<p>object is in a colder surrounding media, a temperature gradient is shaped around<p>the object and thus a refractive index gradient too. This phenomena brings inevitably<p>distortions of the spatial information received by the camera. The goal of this<p>work will be to estimate and correct error made on temperature and/or distortion<p>measurement by CCD or VisGaAs camera on hot object.We chose to focus our work<p>on the convective plume created by a hot horizontal disk. This study will be done<p>with an experimental and a numerical approach. For the numerical approach, a raytracing<p>code has been developed in order to obtain numerically the displacement<p>due to the light deviation occurring in the perturbation. The input data of the code<p>is the refractive index of the hot air present around the object. This refractive index,<p>depending on the wavelength, can be found directly from the temperature thanks<p>to the Gladstone-Dale law. The temperature is given by a CFD software such as<p>FLUENT. Experimentally, we will use the Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS)<p>method in order to retrieve the displacement. We can see that the displacement can<p>reach 4 pixels in the plume (corresponding to 1mm in this case). This perturbation<p>has been studied for several spectral bands (visible, near infrared, infrared). Finally,<p>some solutions of correction are given, like using the inverse Abel Transform<p>in order to retrieve from the 2D displacement, a 3D (axisymmetric) refractive index<p>field that we will implement in the ray-tracing code and consequently predict the<p>displacement for any kind of wavelength or distance (distance between the camera<p>and the object)./L’Institut Clément Ader Albi (ICAA) et l’Institut von Karman (IVK)<p>mènent depuis un certain nombre d’années des travaux sur la radiométrie IR dans<p>le but de faire de la thermographie quantitative (mesure de température vraie sans<p>contact). Ces travaux ont permis d’explorer les potentialités de plusieurs bandes<p>spectrales :8-12µm, 3-5µm et plus récemment la bande 0,75-1,7µm (proche IR) à<p>l’aide de caméras CCD (Si) ou VisGaAs. Les travaux effectués dans ce domaine<p>spectral ont permis de mettre en évidence un certains nombre de perturbations<p>renforcées par les hautes températures (T>800◦C). Cette thèse aborde de façon détaillée<p>le traitement d’un certain nombre de grandeurs d’influence liées à la mesure<p>de différents paramètres dans le domaine du proche IR mais également étendus aux<p>domaines du visible et de l’IR. La première de ces grandeurs est l’émissivité dont le<p>traitement a déjà été abordé par d’autres études. La seconde grandeur d’influence<p>touche plus particulièrement à la localisation des points chauds sur l’objet et la distorsion<p>du champ de température apportée par les effets convectifs présents autour<p>d’un objet à haute température, elle est le coeur de cette thèse. En effet, lorsqu’une<p>pièce chaude se trouve dans un milieu ambiant beaucoup plus froid, il se crée un<p>gradient de température et donc d’indice de réfraction autour de la pièce. Or les<p>caméras travaillant dans les différentes bandes spectrales vont être plus ou moins<p>sensibles à ces variations d’indices de réfraction du fait de la dépendance de l’indice<p>optique avec la longueur d’onde et de la résolution spatiale de la caméra utilisée.<p>Ce phénomène, appelé effet mirage, entraîne inévitablement une déformation des<p>informations spatiales reçues par la caméra. Le but de cette thèse a donc été d’estimer<p>et de proposer une première approche pour corriger l’erreur faite sur la mesure<p>de température et/ou de déformation faites par caméras sur des pièces chaudes.<p>La démarche générale du travail a donc été dans un premier temps de calculer le<p>champ de température autour de l’objet considéré en se ramenant d’abord à des cas<p>simplifiés. On en a déduit alors le champ de réfraction entraînant une « déformation<p>» de l’objet, en faisant le lien entre T et n. Cette étape correspond à l’approche<p>numérique de notre étude. Cette étape numérique a été réalisé à l’aide d’un outil de<p>lancer de rayons développée à l’ICA. L’approche expérimentale a consisté à l’utilisation<p>de méthodes telle que la BOS (Background Oriented Schlieren), la PIV,<p>la srtioscopie afin de déduire le champ de déplacements provoqué par le panache<p>convectif. Ces résultats ont été comparés à la méthode numérique et ceci pour différentes<p>longueurs d’ondes. Enfin, une stratégie de correction d’images perturbées<p>a été abordé à l’aide de méthodes telles que la transformée d’Abel inverse afin de<p>remonter au champ d’indice de réfraction 2D axisymétrique à partir d’une déformation<p>plane. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

La thématique de cette thèse est l'alignement moléculaire. Celui-ci est un sujet très important qui ouvre la voie sur un contrôle beaucoup plus fin de nombreux phénomènes. Ainsi, nous avons développé une nouvelle technique de mesure de l’alignement moléculaire suivant un axe et permettant d’en conserver le signe. Celle-ci est, à l’instar des techniques de mesure de l’alignement moléculaire développées dans l’équipe, basée sur la mesure de variation d’indice de réfraction induite par l’alignement moléculaire. La technique développée ensuite permet également la mesure de l’alignement moléculaire, tout en étant aussi une application de celui-ci puisqu’il permet ici la génération de troisième harmonique. L’alignement moléculaire est également mis en oeuvre dans la dernière étude puisque nous montrons qu’il apporte la résolution nécessaire à l’étude de la thermalisation d’un échantillon moléculaire excité / The thematic of this thesis is molecular alignment. The latter is a very important topic that opens the way toward a much more thin control of many phenomenons. So, we have developed a new measurement technique of the molecular alignment along one axis that permits to preserve the sign of alignment. This one is, like other measurement techniques developed by the team,based on the measurement of the refractive index variation induced by the molecular alignment.The technique developed then also permits the molecular alignment measurement, being also an application of it because it allows the third harmonic generation. In the last study, molecular alignment is implemented to show that it brings the necessary resolution for the study of an excited molecular sample thermalization

Cette thèse est consacrée à l’étude de films minces ouverts de cristaux liquides colonnaires sur un substrat solide. Ces matériaux, capables de s’auto-organiser en de larges domaines orientés, sont généralement obtenus à partir de molécules discotiques dérivées de colorants aromatiques. Ces différentes caractéristiques, associées à une bonne mobilité de charges, permettent d'envisager l'utilisation des cristaux liquides colonnaires en film mince dans des dispositifs photovoltaïques. Afin de bénéficier de leurs bonnes propriétés optoélectroniques, les cristaux liquides colonnaires doivent être déposés en film mouillant, d’épaisseur inférieure à 100 nm, et leur orientation contrôlée. Ainsi, pour des applications photovoltaïques, un alignement homéotrope (colonnes normales au substrat) est requis. Inversement, l’orientation planaire uniaxe (colonnes parallèles au substrat), est quant à elle requise pour une utilisation de ces composés dans les polariseurs ou dans les transistors organiques à effet de champ. Dans ce travail, différentes méthodes permettant de contrôler l’alignement de films minces ouverts de cristaux liquides colonnaires ont été développées, permettant d’obtenir aussi bien un ancrage homéotrope par traitement thermique spécifique, qu’un ancrage planaire uniaxe par dépôt préalable d’une couche de téflon. Le contrôle de l’orientation a ainsi permis d’une part de produire un film mince (e ? 50 nm) mouillant en ancrage homéotrope ouvrant la voie vers des cellules solaires organiques efficaces, et d’autre part de déterminer l’ensemble des propriétés optiques (indices complexes anisotropes) de ces matériaux cristallins liquides colonnaires. La dynamique du démouillage et l’état d’équilibre d’un film mince ouvert de cristal liquide colonnaire ont également été étudiés. Les résultats expérimentaux révèlent la formation de gouttelettes anisotropes et la présence d’un film nanométrique lors du démouillage de ce film mince / This thesis deals with columnar liquid crystal studied in the geometry of open supported thin films. Columnar liquid crystals are usually made of disk-shaped molecules derived from aromatic dyes. They are efficient charge transporters with the added capacity to self-assemble in large oriented domains. Consequently, such materials may be used in photovoltaic devices. In order to benefit from their good uniaxial charge mobility, their organization has to be controlled in uniform oriented thin films in the range of thicknesses of typically 100 nm. Homeotropic alignment (columns normal to the interface) is required for solar cells whereas uniaxial planar anchoring (columns parallel to the interface) is needed for applications such as polarizers or organic field effect transistor. Different methods to monitor the alignment in open thin films have been developed in this work, which make possible to achieve either homeotropic anchoring by a specific thermal treatment, or uniaxial planar orientation using a Teflon layer. Based on these orientation skills, a uniform ultra-thin film, free of dewetting and homeotropically oriented, is achieved (down to 50 nm thick) opening the way towards efficient solar cells, and a complete study of the optical properties has been performed (with the determination of the anisotropic complex indices) for different columnar liquid crystals. The dynamics of dewetting and the equilibrium state of a thin supported film have also been investigated. Experimental results show the formation of anisotropic droplets and reveal a nanometric film during dewetting.

This thesis deals with optical distance measurement and 3D scene measurement using focusing techniques with focus on confocal microscopy, depth from focus and depth from defocus. Theoretical part of the thesis is about different approaches to depth map generation and also about micro image defocusing technique for measuring refractive index of transparent materials. Then the camera calibration for focused techniques is described. In the next part of the thesis is described experimentally verification of depth from focus and depth from defocus techniques. For the first technique are shown results of depth map generation and for the second technique is shown comparison between measured distance values and real distance values. Finally, the discussed techniques are compared and evaluated.

The diploma thesis deals with the determination of thickness and refractive index of thin organic films using image analysis. In the theoretical part there are described principles of the methods, which are used to prepare the films (spin coating, inkjet printing, vapour deposition), the characteristics of thin films, ways of finding out the thickness and refractive index of substances (weight methods, electric methods, method based on measurement of absorption coefficient of light, interference microscopy, ellipsometry) and also image analysis (harmonic and wavelet analysis). Interference microscope Epival - Interpako (Carl Zeiss Jena), digital camera Nikon Coolpix 5400 and computer were used for the determination of thickness and refractive index. The thicknesses of layers were set on the basis of interference images of edges and grooves – both from the side of the metal contact and the side of underlying glass. The refractive indices of thin layers were then set using the recorded figures. In the final part of the thesis there are discussed the results of interference images photographed along the full length of the aluminium contact which are used for measuring electrical characteristics of DPP structures. The produces are thicknesses and refractive indices of individual layers.

This diploma thesis deals with determination of carbohydrates in wine. Theoretical part attends to production of wine from grape to treatment and training of wine. It refers saccharides in wine, especially glucose and fructose. The study provides an overview of the available sources concerning the possibilities of determination of carbohydrates in wine by chromatographic methods and Skalar automated chemistry analyser. The study shortly refers simple analytical methods for determination of wine saccharides. The experimental part based on this search deals with analysis of saccharides by high performance liquid chromatography with refractive index detector and UV detector on aminoalkyl column and determination of reducting sugars by Skalar automated chemistry analyser. Finally, the results of these methods were compared.

This paper contains a basic overview and description of optical lenses. It introduces different types of optical lenses and shows how they influence the passing of light beams. It deals with the production of optical lenses and their practical use. It describes types of optical blemishes that exist in real optical systems. Particular attention is given to parameters of optical lenses and their measurement in practice. It includes a Matlab program to calculate parameters of optical lenses derived from the measurements.

This work is dedicated to structural parameter of the refractive index in the atmosphere Cn2 and his various models. For comparison the models are simulated only for one area and only for one day. The work represented the influence of atmospheric turbulence on the communication environment and on the individual models. In addition this work is for selected areas and for the input conditions created program for modeling of structural parameters and meteorological data in the atmosphere

<p>Impressive examples of the generation of hierarchically-patterned, three-dimensional (3-D) structures for the control of light can be found throughout nature. <i>Morpho rhetenor</i> butterflies, for example, possess scales with periodic parallel ridges, each of which consists of a stack of thin (nanoscale) layers (lamellae). The bright blue color of <i>Morpho</i> butterflies has been attributed to controlled scattering of the incident light by the lamellae of the wing scales. Another stunning example is the frustule (microshell) of the <i>Coscinodiscus wailesii</i> diatom, which is capable of focusing red light without possessing a traditional lens morphology. The photonic structures and the optical behaviors of <i>Morpho</i> butterflies and <i>Coscinodiscus wailesii</i> diatoms have been extensively studied. However, no work has been conducted to shift such light manipulation from the visible to the infrared (IR) range via shape-preserving conversion of such biogenic structures. Controlling IR radiation (i.e., heat) utilizing biogenic or biomimetic structures can be of significant utility for the development of energy-harvesting devices. In order to enhance the optical interaction in the IR range, inorganic replicas of biogenic structures comprised of high-refractive-index materials have been generated in this work. Such replicas of <i>Morpho</i> <i>rhetenor</i> scales were fabricated via a combination of sol-gel solution coating, organic pyrolysis, and gas/solid reaction methods. Diatomimetic structures have also been generated via sol-gel coating, gas/solid reaction, and then patterning of pore arrays using focused ion beam (FIB) milling.</p> Throughout the sol-gel solution coating and chemical conversion steps of the processes developed in this study, attention was paid to preserve the starting shapes of the nanopatterned, microscale biogenic or biomimetic structures. Factors affecting such shape preservation included the thicknesses and uniformities of coatings applied to the biogenic or biomimetic templates, nano/microstructural evolution during thermal treatment, and reaction-induced volume changes. A conformal surface sol-gel (SSG) coating process was developed in this work to generate oxide replicas of <i>Morpho rhetenor</i> butterfly scales with precisely-controlled coating thicknesses. The adsorption kinetics and relevant adsorption isotherm of the SSG process were investigated utilizing a quartz crystal microbalance. Analyses of thermodynamic driving forces, rate-limiting kinetic steps, and volume changes associated with various chemical reactions were used to tailor processing parameters for optimized shape preservation.