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Ir. Ashim Dhakal  (Doctoral Researcher)

This person worked in the group from 2011 till 2016.

Affiliation: Phutung Research Institute
E-mail: ad@pinstitute.org
Research Area: Visible Light Bio-spectroscopy. Lab-On-a-Chip Raman Spectroscopy.
Promotor: Roel Baets
PhD Thesis: Ashim Dhakal, Nanofotonische golfgeleiderversterkte Ramanspectroscopie, Nanophotonic Waveguide Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, 9/2016
AshimDhakal
Ashim is a highlander from Phutung en route the famous Langtang national park, Nepal. He joined EU’s Erasmus Mundus Masters in Photonics program in 2009 and graduated jointly from UGent, VUBrusseles, Belgium and USt.Andrews, HWU, Scotland in 2011. Since 2011 he is working in PRG, INTEC, UGent, developing Silicon Nitride photonics platform and utilizing the technology for on-chip Raman spectroscopy.

Specific Research Topics

Publications (36)

    International Journals

  1. N. Le Thomas, A. Dhakal, A. Raza, F. Peyskens, R. Baets, Impact of fundamental thermodynamic fluctuations on light propagating in photonic waveguides made of amorphous materials, Optica, 5(4), p.328-336 doi:10.1364/OPTICA.5.000328 (2018)  Download this Publication (1.1MB).
  2. A. Dhakal, P.C. Wuytens, A. Raza, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Silicon Nitride Background in Nanophotonic Waveguide Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Materials, 10(140), doi:10.3390/ma10020140 (2017)  Download this Publication (1.6MB).
  3. A. Dhakal, P.C. Wuytens, F. Peyskens, K. Jans, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Nanophotonic waveguide enhanced Raman spectroscopy of biological submonolayers, ACS Photonics, 3(12), p.2141-2149 doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00593 (2016).
  4. A. Dhakal, F. Peyskens, S. Clemmen, A. Raza, P.C. Wuytens, H. Zhao, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Single mode waveguide platform for spontaneous and surface-enhanced on-chip Raman spectroscopy, Interface Focus (invited), 6(4), United Kingdom, p.article 20160015 doi:10.1098/rsfs.2016.0015 (2016).
  5. F. Peyskens, A. Dhakal, P. Van Dorpe, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using a Single Mode Nanophotonic-Plasmonic Platform, ACS Photonics, 3(1), p.102-108 doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00487 (2016).
  6. A. Dhakal, A. Raza, F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, S. Clemmen, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Efficiency of evanescent excitation and collection of spontaneous Raman scattering near high index contrast channel waveguides, Optics express, 23(21), p.27391-27404 doi:10.1364/OE.23.027391 (2015)  Download this Publication (3MB).
  7. A. Subramanian, E.M.P. Ryckeboer, A. Dhakal, F. Peyskens, A. Malik, B. Kuyken, H. Zhao, S. Pathak, A. Ruocco, A. De Groote, P.C. Wuytens, D. Martens, F. Leo, W. Xie, U.D. Dave, M. Muneeb, Pol Van Dorpe, J. Van Campenhout, W. Bogaerts, P. Bienstman, N. Le Thomas, D. Van Thourhout, Zeger Hens, G. Roelkens, R. Baets, Silicon and silicon nitride photonic circuits for spectroscopic sensing on-a-chip , Photonics Research (invited), 5(3), p.B47 doi:10.1364/PRJ.3.000B47 (2015)  Download this Publication (1.5MB).
  8. H. Zhao, B. Kuyken, S. Clemmen, F. Leo, A. Subramanian, A. Dhakal, P. Helin, S. Simone, E. Brainis, G. Roelkens, R. Baets, Visible-to-near-infrared octave spanning suprcontinuum generation in a silicon nitride waveguide, Optics Letters, 40(10), United States, p.2177-2180 doi:10.1364/OL.40.002177 (2015)  Download this Publication (510KB).
  9. F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, P. Neutens, A. Dhakal, P. Van Dorpe, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Bright and dark plasmon resonances of nanoplasmonic antennas evanescently coupled with a silicon nitride waveguide, Optics Express, 23(3), p.3088-3101 doi:10.1364/oe.23.003088 (2015)  Download this Publication (1.3MB).
  10. A. Dhakal, A. Subramanian, P.C. Wuytens, F. Peyskens, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Evanescent excitation and collection of spontaneous Raman spectra using silicon nitride nanophotonic waveguides, Optics Letters, 39(13), p.4025-4028 doi:10.1364/ol.39.004025 (2014).
  11. A. Subramanian, P. Neutens, A. Dhakal, R. Jansen, T. Claes, X. Rottenberg, F. Peyskens, S. Selvaraja, P. Helin, B. Du Bois, K. Leyssens, S. Severi, P. Deshpande, R. Baets, P. Van Dorpe, Low-loss singlemode PECVD silicon nitride photonic wire waveguides for 532-900 nm wavelength window fabricated within a CMOS pilot line, IEEE Photonics Journal, 5(6), p.2202809 doi:10.1109/jphot.2013.2292698 (2013)  Download this Publication (683KB).
  12. A. Subramanian, S. Selvaraja, P. Verheyen, A. Dhakal, K. Komorowska, R. Baets, Near infrared grating couplers for silicon nitride photonic wires, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 24(19), p.1700-1703 doi:10.1109/LPT.2012.2212881 (2012)  Download this Publication (411KB).
      International Conferences

    1. E.M.P. Ryckeboer, X. Nie, A. Dhakal, D. Martens, P. Bienstman, G. Roelkens, R. Baets, Spectroscopic sensing and applications in Silicon Photonics, International Conference on Group IV Photonics (invited), Germany, p.81-82 doi:10.1109/group4.2017.8082206 (2017)  Download this Publication (726KB).
    2. S. Clemmen, A. Raza, A. Dhakal, F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, P, Van Dorpe, P.C. Wuytens, H. Zhao, E.M.P. Ryckeboer, S. Severi, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Spectroscopic sensing with silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits, Photonics West 2017, Proc. SPIE 10106, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXI (invited), United States, p.101060T doi:10.1117/12.2256526 (2017)  Download this Publication (1.6MB).
    3. A. Dhakal, P.C. Wuytens, F. Peyskens, A. Skirtach, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Microscope-less Lab-on-a-chip Raman Spectroscopy of Cell-membranes, Photonics Conference (IPC2016), United States, p.144-145 doi:10.1109/ipcon.2016.7831017 (2016)  Download this Publication (236KB).
    4. F. Peyskens, A. Dhakal, P. Van Dorpe, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Hybrid Single Mode Nanophotonic-Plasmonic Waveguides for On-Chip Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, The 7th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Cyrstals and Plasmonics (META'16), Spain, p.424-425 (2016)  Download this Publication (471KB).
    5. A. Dhakal, A. Raza, P.C. Wuytens, F. Peyskens, A. Skirtach, R. Baets, Lab-on-a-chip Raman sensors outperforming Raman microscopes, CLEO, United States, p.paper SM2O.3 doi:10.1364/cleo_si.2016.sm2o.3 (2016).
    6. F. Peyskens, A. Dhakal, P. Van Dorpe, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy on Single Mode Nanophotonic-Plasmonic Waveguides, CLEO 2016, doi:10.1364/cleo_qels.2016.fm4n.7 (2016)  Download this Publication (786KB).
    7. A. Dhakal, P.C. Wuytens, F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, A. Skirtach, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Nanophotonic Lab-On-A-Chip Raman Sensors: a Sensitivity Comparison with Confocal Raman Microscope, BioPhotonics 2015, Italy, p.Th6.3 doi:10.1109/biophotonics.2015.7304021 (2015)  Download this Publication (433KB).
    8. S. Clemmen, H. Zhao, F. Peyskens, A. Dhakal, P.C. Wuytens, A. Subramanian, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy on chip, 28th IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2015), United States, p.623-624 doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-710404-1.50007-3 (2015)  Download this Publication (169KB).
    9. D. Delbeke, A. Subramanian, P. Cardile, W. Woestenborghs, A. Ruocco, J.W. Hoste, D. Martens, A. Dhakal, P. Bienstman, G. Roelkens, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Silicon photonics for on-chip spectrophotometry, 12th International Conference on GPF (invited), United States, p.FC1 doi:10.1109/group4.2015.7305901 (2015)  Download this Publication (897KB).
    10. A. Dhakal, F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Enhanced Spontaneous Raman Signal Collected Evanescently by Silicon Nitride Slot Waveguides, CLEO: 2015 - Laser Science to Photonic Applications, United States, p.paper STh4H.3 doi:10.1364/cleo_si.2015.sth4h.3 (2015).
    11. R. Baets, A. Subramanian, A. Dhakal, F. Peyskens, P.C. Wuytens, E.M.P. Ryckeboer, G. Roelkens, N. Le Thomas, Spectroscopic sensing enabled by silicon photonics, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) (invited), China, (2014)  Download this Publication (678KB).
    12. R. Baets, A. Dhakal, F. Peyskens, P.C. Wuytens, A. Skirtach, N. Le Thomas, A. Subramanian, Resonant enhancement mechanisms in lab-on-chip raman spectroscopy on a silicon nitride waveguide platform, IEEE Photonics Conference 2014 (IPC) (invited), United States, p.500-501 doi:10.1109/ipcon.2014.6995468 (2014)  Download this Publication (1.2MB).
    13. A. Dhakal, P.C. Wuytens, F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Evnascent Raman spectroscopy using photonic waveguides, International Conference on raman Spectroscopy- ICORS 2014, Germany, p.WeA-O-006 (2014)  Download this Publication (269KB).
    14. F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, P. Neutens, A. Dhakal, P.C. Wuytens, P. Van Dorpe, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Enhancement of Raman scattering efficiency by on-chip nanoplasmonic antennas, Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopies 2014 conference, Germany, (2014).
    15. A. Dhakal, P.C. Wuytens, F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Silicon-nitride waveguides for on-chip Raman spectroscopy, SPIE Photonics Europe 14, doi:10.1117/12.2057509 (2014)  Download this Publication (567KB).
    16. P. Neutens, A. Subramanian, M. Ul Hassan, C. Chen, R. Jansen, T. Claes, X. Rottenberg, B. Du Bois, K. Leyssens, P. Helin, S. Severi, A. Dhakal, F. Peyskens, L. Lagae, P. Deshpande, R. Baets, P. Van Dorpe, Characterization of PECVD silicon nitride photonic components at 532 and 900 nm wavelength, 4th Conference on Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits, Belgium, p.article 91331F ( 6 pages) doi:10.1117/12.2052119 (2014)  Download this Publication (561KB).
    17. A. Dhakal, P.C. Wuytens, F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Raman spectroscopy using photonic waveguides, IPS Benelux 2013, Netherlands, (2013)  Download this Publication (5.5MB).
    18. N. Le Thomas, A. Dhakal, F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, T. Claes, K. De Vos, E.M.P. Ryckeboer, R. Bockstaele, P. Bienstman, R. Baets, Biological sensing with integrated silicon and silicon nitride photonics, The 2nd BioPhotonics Conference (invited), Taiwan, p.28-29 (2013)  Download this Publication (296KB).
    19. A. Dhakal, F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Enhancement of light absorption, scattering and emission in high index contrast waveguides, OSA- Advanced Photonics Congress, Optical Sensors, United States, p.ST2B.5  doi:10.1364/sensors.2013.st2b.5 (2013)  Download this Publication (1.2MB).
    20. F. Peyskens, A. Subramanian, A. Dhakal, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, Enhancement of Raman Scattering Efficiency by a Metallic Nano-antenna on Top of a High Index Contrast Waveguide, CLEO 2013, United States, p.paper CM2F.5.pdf doi:10.1364/cleo_si.2013.cm2f.5 (2013)  Download this Publication (313KB).
    21. R. Baets, A. Subramanian, A. Dhakal, S. Selvaraja, K. Komorowska, F. Peyskens, E.M.P. Ryckeboer, N.A Yebo, G. Roelkens, N. Le Thomas, Spectroscopy-on-chip applications of silicon photonics, Photonics West (invited), 8627(01), United States, p.86270I-1 - 86270I-10 doi:10.1117/12.2010498 (2013)  Download this Publication (1MB).
    22. A. Subramanian, S. Selvaraja, A. Dhakal, K. Komorowska, R. Baets, Grating couplers for Si3N4 waveguides at 900 nm, 16th European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO 2012), Spain, p.paper 182 (2012)  Download this Publication (328KB).
    23. A. Dhakal, A. Subramanian, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, The role of index contrast in the efficiency of absorption and emission of a luminescent particle near a slab waveguide, 16th European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO 2012), Spain, p.paper 131 (2012)  Download this Publication (360KB).
        National Conferences

      1. P.C. Wuytens, A. Raza, H. Zhao, N. Turk, F. Peyskens, X. Nie, A. Dhakal, E.M.P. Ryckeboer, S. Clemmen, N. Le Thomas, R. Baets, On-chip Raman Spectroscopy, FEA Research Syposium 2017, Belgium, (2017)  Download this Publication (5MB).
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