Optical diagnostics

• Research area
• Cooperation with academic institutions and applied sphere
• Participation in projects
• Presentations at international conferences
• Some publications (since 2011)
• Contacts

Laboratories

Laboratory of interferometry

Laboratory of fiber optics and plasmonics

Research area:

Bloch surface wave

• Bloch surface wave resonance
• Bloch surface wave resonance based sensors

Plasmonics

• Surface plasmon resonance (SPR)
• SPR sensors with phase detection (method of spectral interferometry, Kretschmann configuration)
• SPR fiber sensors

Fiber-optic sensors

• Fiber temperature sensors
• Fiber displacement sensors

Optical sensors

• Displacement sensors

Dispersion characterization of optical fibers

• Chromatic dispersion (metoda spektrální interferometrie, Machův-Zehnderův interferometr)
• Dispersion of the phase and group birefringence (method of spectral interferometry, Michelson interferometer)
• Intermodal dispersion (method of spectral interferometry, Michelson interferometer)

Dispersion characterization of optical materials

• Group disperion (method of spectral interferometry, Michelson interferometer)
• Disperion of the group birefringence (method of spectral interferometry, Michelson interferometer)
• Noncontact thickness measurement (method of spectral interferometry, Michelson interferometer)

Optical characterization of thin films

• Reflektometry (method of spectral interferometry)
• Nonlinear phase function (method of spectral interferometry)

Cooperation with academic institutions and applied sphere:

Cooperation in the Czech Republic

• Institute of Scientific Instruments of the ASCR, v.v.i., Brno (Ing. Sobota)

International cooperation

• Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (group of prof. Urbanczyk)
• Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Dr. Mergo)
• Military University of Technology, Warsaw (Dr. Swiderski)

Participation in projects:

• Project CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0040 „RMTVC – Regional Material Technology Research Center“. http://www.rmtvc.cz/
• Project CZ.1.07/2.3.00/45.0021 „Improve your technique“. http://www.zlepsisitechniku.cz/
• Project Kontakt MEB051023 – „Nonlinear highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers“
• Project GAČR P102/11/0675 - „Specialty optical fibers for supercontinuum sources and sensors“
• Project Cost LD12003 – „Research of fiber-optic sensors“
• Project of Visegrad fund 21620227 „Silesian nearborder workshop of applied physics“ http://swap.vsb.cz/
• Project SP 2015/173 of Student grant system – „New fiber optic temperature sensors“
• Project ROZP2016/C20 – „Modernization of instrumentation for improving the teaching of doctoral students“
• Project CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_048/0007399 „NKMEA - Nové kompozitní materiály pro environmentální aplikace“ http://nkmea.vsb.cz/

Presentations at international conferences:

2020

• SPIE Photonics Europe, 2020, Online Only, France - Sensing of gaseous analytes via Bloch surface waves.
• SPIE Photonics Europe, 2020, Online Only, France - Surface plasmon resonance detection based on a phase method in the spatial domain.

2019

• SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic - Sensing of gaseous analytes via Bloch surface waves.
• SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic - Golden layer characterization using a phase shift induced by surface plasmon resonance.

2018

• 21th Czech-Polish-Slovak Optical Conference, 3-7 September 2018, Lednice, Czech Republic – On correction of the resonant condition in the effect of surface plasmon resonance .pdf
• 21th Czech-Polish-Slovak Optical Conference, 3-7 September 2018, Lednice, Czech Republic – Sensing of liquid analytes using surface plasmon resonance at different angles of incidence .pdf
• Photonics Europe, 23-26 April 2018, Strasbourg, France – Sensing of liquid analytes via the phase shift induced by surface plasmon resonance .pdf
• Photonics Europe, 23-26 April 2018, Strasbourg, France – Measurement of the dispersion of a liquid analyte using surface plasmon resonance: a theoretical approach .pdf

2016

• 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference, 5-9 September 2016, Jasná, Slovakia – Spectral interferometric fiber optic temperature sensor with enhanced sensitivity .pdf

2015

• Optical Systems Design, 7-10 September 2015, Jena, Germany – Highly sensitive displacement measurement utilizing the wavelength interrogation .pdf
• Optics + Optoelectronics, 13-16 April 2015, Prague, Czech Republic – Highly birefringent fiber-based temperature sensor utilizing the wavelength interrogation .pdf
  

2014

• 19th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference, 8-12 September 2014, Wojanow, Poland – Model of a double-sided surface plasmon resonance fiber-optic sensor .pdf

2013

• 5th European Workshop on Optical Fiber Sensors, Krakow, 19-22 May 2013 – Spectral measurements of polarimetric sensitivity of holey fiber to strain, temperature and hydrostatic pressure .pdf

2012

• Photonics Europe 2012, Optical Sensing and Detection, 16-19 April 2012, Brussels, Belgium – Simulation of surface plasmon fiber-optic sensor including the effect of oxide overlayer thickness change .pdf
• 18th Czech-Polish-Slovak Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 3-7 September 2012, Ostravice, Czech Republic – Metal oxide layer influence on the sensitivity of SPR fiber optic sensor .pdf
• 18th Czech-Polish-Slovak Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 3-7 September 2012, Ostravice, Czech Republic – Zero-dispersion wavelength measurement of fiber polarization modes using a supercontinuum source .pdf

2011

• Symposium on Optical Metrology: Optical Measurement Systems for Industrial Inspection, Munich, Germany, 23-26 May 2011 – Spectral polarimetry-based measurement of the thickness of a thin film .pdf

Some publications (since 2011):

2020

• GRYGA, M., CIPRIAN, D., HLUBINA, P.: Guided-mode resonance based humidity sensing using a multilayer dielectric structure. Optics Express, 28, 2020, 28954-28960.
• URBANCOVA, P., GORAUS, M., PUDIS, D., HLUBINA, P., KUZMA, A., JANDURA, D., DURISOVA, J., MICEK, P.: 2D polymer/metal structures for surface plasmon resonance. Applied Surface Science, 530, 2020, 147279.
• GRYGA, M., CIPRIAN, D., HLUBINA, P.: Sensing concept based on Bloch surface waves and wavelength interrogation. Opt. Lett., 45, 2020, 1096-1099.

2019

• HLUBINA, P., URBANCOVA, P., PUDIS, D., GORAUS, M., JANDURA, D., CIPRIAN, D.: Ultrahigh-sensitive plasmonic sensing of gas using a two-dimensional dielectric grating. Opt. Lett., 44, 2019, 5602–5605.
• GRYGA, M., VALA, D., KOLEJAK, P., GEMBALOVA, L., CIPRIAN, D., HLUBINA, P.: One-dimensional photonic crystal for Bloch surface waves and radiation modes based sensing. Opt. Mater. Express, 9, 2019, 4009-4022.

2018

• CHLEBUS, R., CHYLEK, J., CIPRIAN, D., HLUBINA, P.: Surface plasmon resonance based measurement of the dielectric function of a thin metal film. Sensors, 18, 2018 č. 11, 3693.
• MICHALSKA, M., GRZES, P., HLUBINA, P., SWIDERSKI, J.: Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a fluoroindate fiber with 1.4 W time-averaged power, Laser Phys. Lett., 15, 2018, 045101.

2017

• HLUBINA, P., CIPRIAN, D.: Spectral Phase Shift of Surface Plasmon Resonance in the Kretschmann Configuration: Theory and Experiment, Plasmonics, 12, 2017, s. 1071-1078.
• MICHALSKA, M., HLUBINA P., SWIDERSKI, J.: Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation to 4.7 um in a ZBLAN Fiber Pumped by an Optical Parametric Generator, IEEE Phot. J., 9, 2017, 3200207.
• MIlITKÝ, J., KADULOVÁ, M., CIPRIAN, D., HLUBINA P.: Fiber optic temperature sensing with enhanced sensitivity based on spectral interferometry, Opt. Fiber Technol., 33, 2017, s.45-50.

2016

• LUŇÁČEK, J., HLUBINA P., CIPRIAN, D., DULIAKOVÁ, M., LUŇÁČKOVÁ, M.: Surface plasmon resonance based sensing of aqueous solutions using spectral interferometry. Acta Phys. Pol. A, 129, 2016 č. 1, s. 23–27.
• MIlITKÝ, J., KADULOVÁ, M., HLUBINA P., highly sensitive displacement measurement based on spectral interferometry and Vernier effect. Opt. Commun., 366, 2016, s. 335-339.

2015

• HLUBINA P., DULIAKOVÁ, M., KADULOVÁ, M., CIPRIAN, D., Spectral interferometry-based surface plasmon resonance sensor. Opt. Commun., 354, 2015, s. 240-245.
• HLUBINA P., KADULOVÁ, M., CIPRIAN, D., MERGO, P.: Temperature sensing using the spectral interference of polarization modes in a highly birefringent fiber. Opt. Lasers Eng., 70, 2015, s. 51-56.

2014

• HLUBINA P., KADULOVÁ, M., CIPRIAN, D., SOBOTA, J.: Reflection-based fibre-optic refractive index sensor using surface plasmon resonance. J. Europ. Opt. Soc. Rap. Public., 9, 2014, 14033.

2013

• HLUBINA P., KADULOVÁ, M., MERGO, P.: Chromatic dispersion measurement of holey fibres using a supercontinuum source and a dispersion balanced interferometer. Opt. Lasers Eng., 51, 2013, s. 421-425.
• CIPRIAN, D., HLUBINA P.: Theoretical model of the influence of oxide overlayer thick-ness on the performance of a surface plasmon fibre-optic sensor, Meas. Sci. Technol., 24, 2013 č. 2, 025105.
• HLUBINA P., MARTYNKIEN, T., OLSZEWSKI, J., MERGO, P., MAKARA, M., POTURAJ, K., URBANCZYK, W.: Spectral-domain measurements of birefringence and sensing characteristics of a side-hole microstructured fiber. Sensors, 13, 2013 č. 9, s. 11424-11438.

2012

• HLUBINA P., OLSZEWSKI, J.: Phase retrieval from spectral interferograms including a stationary-phase point. Opt. Commun., 285, 2012, s. 4733-4738.
• HLUBINA P., KADULOVÁ, M., CIPRIAN, D.: Spectral interferometry-based chromatic dispersion measurement of fibre including the zero-dispersion wavelength. J. Eur. Opt. Soc. – Rap. Publ., 7, 2012, 12017.

2011

• SZCZUROWSKI, M., URBANCZYK, W., NAPIORKOWSKI, M., HLUBINA P., hOLLENBACh, U., SIEBER, h., MOhR, J.: Differential Rayleigh scattering method for measurement of polarization and intermodal beat length in optical waveguides and fibers. Appl. Opt., 50, 2011 č. 17, s. 2594-2600.
• HLUBINA P., CIPRIAN, D.: Birefringence dispersion in a quartz crystal retrieved from a channeled spectrum resolved by a fiber-optic spectrometer. Opt. Commun., 284, 2011 č. 12, s. 2683-2686.

Contacts:

Head of research group:

• Assoc. Prof. Petr Hlubina, Ph.D.
  Department of Physics
  Technical University Ostrava
  17. listopadu 2172/15
  708 00 Ostrava-Poruba
  Czech Republic
  
  e-mail: petr.hlubina(zavinac)vsb.cz
  tel.: 59 732 3134

Members of research group:

• RNDr. Dalibor Ciprian, Ph.D. , e-mail:dalibor.ciprian(zavinac)vsb.cz
• Ing. Radek Chlebus, Ph.D. , e-mail:radek.chlebus(zavinac)vsb.cz
• Ing. Iva Bezděková, Ph.D. , email:iva.bezdekova@vsb.cz(zavinac)vsb.cz

Students (Doctoral study):

• Ing. Milan Gryga, Ph.D.
• Ing. Roman Kaňok
• Ing. Jakub Chylek