Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to François Flory.
The optogeometric properties of various sensitive thin films involved in gas sensing applications are investigated by using the m-line technique and atomic force microscopy. Variations of these optical properties are studied under butane and ozone exposure.
The design of integrated optics filters by use of refinement software based on the Abelès thin-film computation method and the film mode matching method is studied. The results obtained with the two computation methods are compared. Good agreement is obtained provided that the fill factor of the guided mode in the component is high and that modal losses between waveguide sections are simulated by absorption with the Abelès computation method. Integrated optics devices that manage either the amplitude of guided waves such as a dense wavelength division multiplexing narrow-bandpass filter and a gain-flattening filter or the phase of guided waves such as a broadband dispersion compensator are
A pump-and-probe setup that uses a totally reflecting prism coupler is presented. Its electromagnetic and thermal models are described. To our knowledge, the first results are given concerning the measurement of thermal properties of thin films.
Measurements of deltan/deltaT of thin films by the m-lines technique are presented. The importance of the substrate material is shown. An example of the wavelength shift of an optical thin-film filter with temperature is studied both theoretically and experimentally. The theoretical wavelength shift of a dense wavelength-division multiplexing filter is discussed.
The calculated spectral transmittance of a multilayer laser mirror is used to determine the effective index of the single layer equivalent to the multilayer stack. We measure the artificial anisotropy of photoresist thin films whose structure is a one-dimensional, subwavelength grating obtained from interference fringes. The limitation of the theory of the first-order effective index homogenization is discussed. We designed normal-incidence, polarizing coating and a polarization rotator by embedding anisotropic films in simple multilayer structures.