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The polarization splitter-rotator (PSR) plays a significant role in telecom, Datacom, and quantum circuits to meet significant requirements for polarization processing and multiplexing. We design an ultracompact PSR based on a silicon asymmetrical directional coupler (ADC). One waveguide of the ADC is gradually etched in two levels along the coupling region and the S-bend. A trapezoidal taper on the top of the dual-etched waveguide is first formed to satisfy the phase-matching condition for the TM-TE mode conversion, such that the TM mode is cross-coupled from the input waveguide without etching. Then, the etching width gradually increases in the S-bend and the following to achieve a single-mode waveguide for further removal of the residual TM mode. In this way, a high extinction ratio can be achieved for the polarization mode splitting in an ultracompact silicon ADC. For the designed PSR with a total length of about 24 µm, the simulation results reveal that the minimum extinction ratio is greater than 30, 20, or 15 dB within the bandwidth of 33, 100, or 150 nm, respectively, while the maximum polarization conversion loss is less than 0.4, 0.9, or 1 dB.Enhancement of optical to electrical conversion is vital for improving the efficiency of any solar cell. In recent years, use of thin films instead of bulk wafers has resulted in a huge reduction of production cost, and as such, efficiency enhancement of thin-film solar cells is considered in this study. Though this enhancement depends on several factors, most significant among them is the increase in light absorption within the active material of the solar cell. In this work, various types of grating structures on both sides of active solar cell material for light trapping are studied in detail, and a new type of arrangement of optimized grating structure that significantly improves the light absorption is selected. Enhancement of light absorption for change in dielectric material of the grating structure without changing the active material is also observed. Along with structural optimization, simulated electrical characterization of the samples was also performed, which yields a short-circuit current density of 29.27mA/cm2 with conversion efficiency of 14.51%, having a fill factor of 0.83 for a typical ultrathin layer of active material of thickness 2 µm. This is quite significant because typical cells of this category have much lesser conversion efficiency.The purpose of polarization calibration is to measure the response matrix of an instrument and the deviation of noise to correct for subsequent flight measurements. The precision, however, is relative to the states of incident light. We investigate the influence of partially polarized light, in the presence of signal-independent additive noise or signal-dependent Poisson shot noise. We obtain the estimation precision for different numbers of the polarization state generators and analyzers in linear Stokes measurements. To reduce the influence of incident light, we suggest that the numbers of the polarization state generators and analyzers should be greater than or equal to 4. In particular, for an instrument including three polarizers oriented at 0°, 60°, and 120°, estimation precision is found to be dependent on the response matrix and incident polarization states.The measurement of the hydrogen desorption properties of sodium alanate (NaAlH4) powder compacts presents a particular challenge due to various material changes. Therefore, a parallel measurement method for both spectral and gravimetrical data acquisition has been developed. The optical tracking of such chemical reactions with gaseous exhalation requires a special apparatus, since hydrogen absorption/desorption alters the granularity and volume of the sample. The technique combines a commercial Fourier transform infrared spectrometer with a self-developed heatable attenuated total reflection (ATR) cuvette that maintains the indispensable close contact between the ATR medium and sample. In particular, strongly absorbing or scattering samples can be characterized with respect to their transmission changes and their mass loss, due to the evanescent field's penetration depth of a few micrometers into the bulk of the sample. In this work, the first and second desorption step of 2 mol. sirpiglenastat % CeCl3- and TiCl3-doped NaAloptical features are essential and must be taken into account.We present an experimental study in which we compare two different pump-probe setups to generate and detect high-frequency laser-induced ultrasound for the detection of gratings buried underneath optically opaque metal layers. One system is built around a high-fluence, low-repetition-rate femtosecond laser (1 kHz) and the other around a low-fluence, high-repetition-rate femtosecond laser (5.1 MHz). We find that the signal diffracted by the acoustic replica of the grating as a function of pump-probe time delay is very different for the two setups used. We attribute this difference to the presence of a constant background field due to optical scattering by interface roughness. In the low-fluence setup, the optical field diffracted by the acoustic replica is significantly weaker than the background optical field, with which it can destructively or constructively interfere. For the right phase difference between the optical fields, this can lead to a significant "amplification" of the weak field diffracted off the grating-shaped acoustic waves. For the high-fluence system, the situation is reversed because the field diffracted off the acoustic-wave-induced grating is significantly larger than the background optical field. Our measurements show that optical scattering by interface roughness must be taken into account to properly explain experiments on laser-induced ultrasound performed with high-repetition-rate laser systems and can be used to enhance signal strength.This paper introduces a compact and portable sensor based on mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy for NO detection employing a room-temperature continuous wave (CW) distributed feedback quantum cascade laser (DFB-QCL) emitting at 1900.08cm-1. A software-based digital signal generator and lock-in amplifier, in combination with the wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS) technique, were used for the concentration measurement of NO. In addition, a Gabor filter denoising method was developed to improve the performance of the measurement system. As a result, a minimum detection limit of 42 ppbv can be achieved at 3 s integration time, and a measurement precision of 450 ppbv can be reached with a time resolution of 0.1 s. The performance of the compact portable sensor was verified by a series of experiments, denoting great potential of field application for sensitive NO sensing.