Flexible polymer light guides doped with special micro-spheres to combine light leakage and long distance transport are described optically using a simple light distribution model. A constant angular profile of light ...

When a beam of light is incident on a translucent sample, a significant fraction of the light is scattered at high angles. Some of this scattered light may be trapped inside the substrate through multiple reflections ...

Metallic nanowire arrays are created by pumping molten metal into the hollow channels of silica glass PCF. Measurements show that, at certain wavelengths, the core-guided light couples to leaky surface plasmon modes on the ...

A rigorous approach is developed for guiding and coupling in complex microstructured waveguides embedded in photonic crystals. The method, based on Bloch modes and generalized Fresnel coefficients, is applied to ...

We demonstrate the existence of a class of defects in 2D photonic crystals, for which the eigenstates depend only on the defect geometry, and not on details Re photonic crystal parameters or defect size.

We present the first experimental and theoretical results using nonlinear 2D photonic crystals in Chalcogenide. This scheme provides a promising platform to realize low power integrated all-optical switching and logic ...

Simple quantitative performance criteria are developed for translucent materials in terms of hemispherical visible transmittance, and angular spread of transmitted luminance using a half angle. Criteria are linked to ...

This presentation reports on a study of the educational quality and cultural sensitivity offoundation programs operated by Australian universities. The initial phase of the project, that involved a literature review and ...

Transparent Refractive Index Matched Micro-particles (TRIMM) in polymer rods are highly efficient light mixers. This paper addresses the problem of estimating the optimum length for the mixing rods, for a given TRIMM-to-matrix ...