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Ray DeCorby

Adjunct Scientist, Photonics
Lab: Edmonton
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Publications:

  1. Nakeeran Ponnampalam (supervisor: Dr. Ray DeCorby), "Chip-scale Photonic Devices in Chalcogenide Glass and Polymer", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Alberta, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Spring 2009.

  2. N. Ponnampalam and R.G. DeCorby, "Self-assembled Hollow Waveguides with Hybrid Metal-dielectric Bragg Claddings", Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 20, pp. 12595-12604, October 1, 2007.

  3. Piotr Kursa (supervisor: Dr. Ray DeCorby), "Fabrication and Characterization of ZnO Thin Films", M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fall 2007.

  4. Mahmoud S. Abbas (supervisor: Dr. Ray G. DeCorby), "Experimental Study of Commercial PAI for Integrated Optics", M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, September 2007.

  5. R.G. DeCorby, N. Ponnampalam, H.T. Nguyen, M.M. Pai, T.J. Clement, "Guided Self-assembly of Integrated Hollow Bragg Waveguides", Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 3902-3915, April 2, 2007.

  6. Ray G. DeCorby, Nakeeran Ponnampalam, Hue T. Nguyen and Thomas J. Clement, "Robust and Flexible Free-Standing All-Dielectric Omnidirectional Reflectors", Advanced Materials - Wiley InterScience, No. 19, pp. 193-196, 2007.

  7. T.J. Clement, R.G. DeCorby, N. Ponnampalam, T.W. Allen, A. Hryciw and A. Meldrum, "Nanocluster Sensitized Erbium-doped Silicon Monoxide Waveguides", Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 25, pp. 12151-12162, December 11, 2006.

  8. Z.G. Ivanova, Z. Aneva, R. Ganesan, D. Tonchev, E.S.R. Gopal, K.S.R.K. Rao, T.W. Allen, R.G. DeCorby and S.O. Kasap, "Low-Temperature Er3+ Emission in Ge-S-Ga Glasses Excited by Host Absorption", ScienceDirect - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, No. 353, pp. 1418-1421, October 2006.

  9. A. Hryciw, C. Blois, A. Meldrum, T. Clement, R. DeCorby and Quan Li, "Photoluminescence from Er-doped Silicon Oxide Microcavities", Science Direct - Optical Materials, No. 28, pp. 673-878, September 2006.

  10. Thomas J. Clement (supervisors: Dr. Ray DeCorby and Dr. Chris Haugen), "Studies on the Potential for Optical Amplification in Erbium-doped Silicon Monoxide ", MSc Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, September 2006.

  11. A. Meldrum, A. Hryciw, A.N. MacDonald, C. Blois, T. Clement, R. DeCorby, J. Wang and Quang Li, "Interaction Between Rare-earth Ions and Amorphous Silicon Nanoclusters Produced at Low Processing Temperatures", ScienceDirect - Journal of Luminescence 121, pp. 199-203, July 2006.

  12. T.J. Clement, N. Ponnampalam, H.T. Nguyen and R.G. DeCorby, "Improved Omnidirectional Reflectors in Chalcogenide Glass and Polymer by Using the Silver Doping Technique", Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 1789-1796, March 2006.

  13. Mahesh M. Pai (supervisor: Dr. Raymond DeCorby), "Microphotonic Device Fabrication In Silver Photodoped Chalcogenide Glasses and Polymers", M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, January 2006.

  14. Y.W. Sun, J. Gospodyn, P. Kursa, J. Sit, R.G. DeCorby and Y.Y. Tsui, "Dense and Porous ZnO Thin Films Produced by Pulsed Laser Deposition", Journal of Applied Surface Science, Vol. 248, pp. 392-396, July 2005.

  15. K. Koughia, M. Munzar, D. Tonchev, C.J. Haugen, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, S.O. Kasap, "Photoluminescence in Er-doped Ge-Ga-Se Glasses", Journal of Luminescence 112 (2005), pp. 92-96, April 2005.

  16. Ray G. DeCorby, Nakeeran Ponnampalam, Mahesh M. Pai, Hue T. Nguyen, Prabhat K. Dwivedi, Thomas J. Clement, Chris J. Haugen, Jim N. McMullin, Safa O. Kasap, "High Index Contrast Waveguides in Chalcogenide Glass and Polymer", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electroncs, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 539-546, March/April 2005.

  17. Ray DeCorby, "Glasses for Photonic Integration", Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (invited), 2005.

  18. Valerie Hughes (supervisor: Ray DeCorby), "Experimental Study of Modelocked Fiber Lasers", M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, 2005.

  19. N.Ponnampalam, R.DeCorby, H.Nguyen P.Dwivedi, C.Haugen, J.McMullin, "Small Core Rib Waveguides with Embedded Gratings in As2Se3 Glass", Optics Express, Vol. 12, No.15, pp 6270-6277, December 13, 2004.

  20. R. DeCorby, C. Haugen, S. Kasap, J. McMullin, F. Hegmann, A. Melddrum, Y. Tsui, "Microphotonic Elements in Glass and Polymer", Workshop on Silicon Photonics - McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, November 2004.

  21. Xianling Chen, J.N. McMullin, C.J. Haugen, R.G. DeCorby, D.M. Klymyshyn, S. Achenbach, J. Mohr, "Coarse WDM Demultiplexer Fabricated with Deep X-Ray Lithography", Photonics North 2004: Optical Components and Devices, SPIE Vol 5577, Ottawa, ON, pp. 312-317, September 2004.

  22. Robert M. Bryce, Nakeeran Ponnampalam, Hue T. Nguyen, Ray G. DeCorby, M.R. Freeman, Y.Y. Tsui, "Poly(ether sulfone) Thin Films: Fabrication and Optical Properties", iSMACK Symposium, September 2004.

  23. N. Ponnampalam, R. DeCorby, H. Nguyen, P. Dwivedi, C. Haugen, J. McMullin, R. Bryce, S. Kasap, "Low Loss Waveguides and Embedded Bragg Grating in As2Se3 Chalcogenide Glass", Optical Society of America, Integrated Photonic Research Meeting, OSA'04, San Francisco, USA, July 2004.

  24. J. Loewen, N. Ponnampalam, H. Nguyen, R. DeCorby, "Long-Range Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides", NanoForum Canada Program, Edmonton, AB, June 16-18, 2004.

  25. Xianling Chen, James N. McMullin, Chris J. Haugen, Ray. G. DeCorby, "Planar Concave Grating Demultiplexer for Coarse WDM Based on Confocal Ellipses", Optical Communications, vol.237, pp.71-77, June 2004.

  26. Trevor Allen (co-supervisors: Dr. Ray DeCorby, Dr. Chris Haugen), "Experimental and Theoretical Study of Chalcogenide Glasses for Erbium-Doped Waveguide Amplifiers", M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, June 2004.

  27. Nakeeran Ponnampalam, Ray DeCorby, P.K. Dwivedi, Hue Nguyen, Mahesh M. Pai, Chris Haugen, Jim McMullin, "Sub-micron Photonic Wire Optical Waveguides in Chalcogenide Glass", NanoForum Canada Technical Program, Edmonton, AB, Poster Presentation, June 2004.

  28. R.M. Bryce, H.T. Nguyen, P. Nakeeran, T. Clement, C.J. Haugen, R.R. Tykwinski, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, , "Polyamide-imide Polymer Thin Films for Integrated Optics", Thin Solid Films, Vol. 458, No. 1, pp. 233-236, June 2004.

  29. R.M. Bryce, H.T. Nguyen, P. Nakeeran, R.G. DeCorby, P.K. Dwivedi, C.J. Haugen, J.N. McMullin, "Direct UV Patterning of Waveguide Devices in As2Se3 Thin Films", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, v22, pp 1044-1047, May 2004.

  30. T.W. Allen, M.M. Hawkeye, C.J. Haugen, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, D. Tonchev, K. Koughia, S.O. Kasap, "Photoluminescence Measurements of Er-doped Chalcogenide Glasses", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 22, pp. 921-924, May/June 2004.

  31. D. Tonchev, S.O. Kasap, C.J. Haugen, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin and T. Allen, "Thermal and Photoluminescence Properties of Er2S3-doped (As2Se3)90(GaSe)5Ge5 Glasses", Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol. 14, pp. 851-852, October 2003.

  32. D.T. Tonchev, C.J. Haugen, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, S.O. Kasap, "Thermal and Photoluminescence Properties of Er3+-doped (GaSe)x(As2Se3)1-x Glasses", Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 326&327 (2003), pp 364-368, October 2003.

  33. Travis Robinson (supervisors: Dr. Ray DeCorby, Dr. Chris Haugen), "Photoinduced Bragg Gratings in Amorphous As2Se3 Thin Films", M.Sc. Thesis, The University of Alberta, September 2003.

  34. R.M. Bryce, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin and Y.Y. Tsui, "Direct Production of Gratings on Polymers using UV Laser Radiation", Proceedings International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems (ICMENS 2003), Banff Alberta, pp. 173-176, July 2003.

  35. Haidong Sun (supervisors: Dr. Jim McMullin, Dr. Ray DeCorby, Dr. Chris Haugen), "Transmission Loss and Dispersion in Conductor-Backed Coplanar Waveguide", M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, June 2003.

  36. T.G. Robinson, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, C.H. Haugen, S.O. Kasap and D. Tonchev, "Strong Bragg Gratings Photoinduced by 633-nm Illumination in Evaporated As2Se3 Thin Films", Optics Letters, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 459-461, March 15, 2003.

  37. C.J. Haugen, D.T. Tonchev, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, T. Allen, K. Maeda, T. Ikari and S.O. Kasap, "Photoluminescence and Thermal Properties of Er-doped As-Se-Ga-Ge Based Glasses", Nonlinear Optics, Vol. 29, pp. 549-555, December 2002.

  38. D.T. Tonchev, C.J. Haugen, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin and S.O. Kasap, "Thermal and Photoluminiscence Properties of Er-doped (GaSe)x(As2Se3)1-x Glasses", XIII International Symposium on Non-oxide Glasses and New Optical Glasses-Extended Abstracts 2, Pardubice, Cech Republic, pp 488-491, September 2002.

  39. Venkat R. Subramanian (supervisor: Dr. Ray DeCorby), "Fabrication of Bragg Gratings in Silicon-On-Insulator Waveguides", M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, September 2002.

  40. J.N. McMullin, R.G. DeCorby, C.J. Haugen, "Integrated Grating Devices for Optical Networks", 2002 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, pp. 53-54, July 2002.

  41. A.C. van Popta, R.G. DeCorby, C.J. Haugen, T. Robinson, J.N. McMullin, D. Tonchev and S.O. Kasap, "Photoinduced Refractive Index Change in As2Se3 by 633nm Illumination", Optic Express, Vol. 10, No. 15, pp. 639-644, July 29, 2002.

  42. Robert M. Bryce, Ray G. DeCorby, Chris J. Haugen, Ying Y. Tsui and James N. McMullin, "Grating Assisted Optical Add Drop Filter Modeling and Fabrication", Proceedings of SPIE, Applications of Photonic Technology 5, Vol. 4833, pp. 995 - 1001, Quebec City, PQ, Canada, June 2-6, 2002.

  43. T.G. Robinson, R.G. DeCorby, C.J. Haugen, J.N. McMullin, S. Bian, S.O. Kasap, D. Tonchev, "Photoinduced Bragg Gratings in Amorphous As2Se3 Thin Films", Opto-Canada: SPIE Regional Meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics, and Imaging, Vol. TD01, pp. 126-128, May 2002.

  44. J.N. McMullin, R.G. DeCorby, C.J. Haugen, "Theory and Simulation of a Concave Diffraction Grating Demultiplexer for Coarse WDM Systems", Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp 758-765, April 2002.

  45. V.R. Subramanian, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, C.J. Haugen, M. Belov, "Fabrication of Aperiodic Gratings on Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) Rib Waveguides using e-beam Lithography", Proceedings of SPIE: Silicon-based and Hybrid Optoelectronics IV, January 2002.

  46. A. Bakhtazad, J.N. McMullin, C.J. Haugen, R.G. DeCorby, "MMI Multiplexer for Dual-Channel Erbium-Doped Waveguide Amplifiers", OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 178-183, August 13, 2001.

  47. R.G. DeCorby, A.J.P. Hnatiw, G. Hillier, "Resonant-Cavity MSM Photodetector Employing in a Burstein-Shifted In0.4GA0.51P-GaAs", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 11, No. 9, pp 1165-1167, September, 1999.

  48. R.G. DeCorby, A.J.P. Hnatiw, J.N. McMullin, "Techniques to Improve Speed and Efficiency of Photodetectors", Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Edmonton, AB, May 9-12, 1999.

  49. A.J.P. Hnatiw, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, C. Callender, R.I. MacDonald, "A Multimode Thermo-optic Polymer Switch for Incorporation in a 4x4 Hybrid Integrated Optoelectronic Switch Matrix", Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'99), Edmonton, AB, May 1999.

  50. A. Hnatiw, D. Boertjes, R. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, I. MacDonald, D. Corazza, E. Johnson, "4x4 Broadband Opteoelectronic Switch for Telecommunications and Signal Processing", COMSIG98, Capetown, SA, Sept 7-8, 1998.

  51. A.J.P. Hnatiw, D.W. Boertjes, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, D.J. Corazza, R.I. MacDonald and E. Johnson, "A 4-Channel Optoelectronic Switch for Use in WDM Networks", 1998 International Conference on Applications of Photonic Technology (ICAPT98), July 27-30, 1998.

  52. R. DeCorby, A. Hnatiw, D. Boertjes, J. McMullin and R.I. MacDonald, "Broadband Impedance-Matched Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetector Arrays", 1998 International Conference on Applications of Photonic Technology (ICAPT98), July 27-30, 1998.

  53. R.G. DeCorby, R.I. MacDonald, J. Noad and F. Gouin, "Large (50 um)2 Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors with 18 GHz Bandwidth at 3 V Bias; Reduction of Hole Pileup ", Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 196-198, July 13, 1998.

  54. D.W. Boertjes, A.J.P. Hnatiw, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, D.J. Corazza and R.I. MacDonald, "A 4-Channel Optoelectronic Switch for WDM Networks", Canadian Conference on Broadband Research (CCBR'98), Ottawa, ON, pp. 129-134, June 22-24, 1998.

  55. Ray G. DeCorby (supervisor: Dr. Ian MacDonald), "Optimization of Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors and Advanced Photodetector Structures", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Alberta, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, April 1998.

  56. R.G. DeCorby, R.K. MacDonald, A.J.P. Hnatiw, D. Boertjes, J.N. McMullin, F. Gouin, J. Noad, "Packaged array of eight MSM photodetectors with uniform 12 GHz bandwidth", Electronic Letters, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 400-401, February 19, 1998.

  57. A.J.P. Hnatiw, D.W. Boertjes, R.G. DeCorby, J.N. McMullin, D.J. Corazza, R.I. MacDonald and E. Johnson, "A Multi-gigahertz 4-Channel Non-blocking Optoelectronic Switch ", Proceedings of SPIE's Photonics West '98 Conference, San Jose, CA, Jan 24-30, 1998.

  58. R.G. DeCorby, R.I. MacDonald, M. Beaudoin, T. Pinnington, T. Tiedje, F. Gouin, "Elimination of Low Frequency Gain in InA1As/InGaAs Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors by Silicon Nitride Passivation", Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 26, No. 12, pp. L25-L28, December 1997.

  59. R.G. DeCorby, R.I. MacDonald, R. Sharma, F. Gouin, J. Noad, N. Puetz, "Frequency-Domain Demonstration of Transit-Time-Limited, Large-Area InGaP-InP-InGaAs MSM Photodetectors", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp. 985-987, July 1997.



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