Dr. Jeffrey C. Owrutsky Profile

Dr. Jeffrey C. Owrutsky

Section Head Research Chemist at US Naval Research Lab

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Publications (16)

Proceedings Article | 15 March 2023 Presentation

Ultrafast dynamics of electron injection from Cu embedded nanoparticles in CeO2 aerogels

Tara Michael, Travis Novak, Paul DeSario, Debra Rolison, Jeffrey Owrutsky, Vanessa Breslin, Adam Dunkelberger

Proceedings Volume PC12419, (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650095

KEYWORDS: Nanoparticles, Copper, Ultrafast phenomena, Wide bandgap semiconductors, Visible radiation, Transition metals, Titanium dioxide, Semiconductors, Oxides, Metals

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Proceedings Article | 3 October 2022 Presentation

Controlling and utilizing vibration-cavity polaritons (Conference Presentation)

Blake Simpkins, Wonmi Ahn, Igor Vurgaftman, Jeremy Pietron, Kenan Fears, Adam Dunkelberger, Jeff Owrutsky

Proceedings Volume PC12195, PC121950E (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633507

KEYWORDS: Polaritons, Chemical reactions, Surface plasmon polaritons, Optical resonators, Optical microcavities, Molecules, Molecular photonics, Molecular energy transfer, Modulation, Materials processing

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Proceedings Article | 3 October 2022 Presentation

Strain modulation of 2D perovskite thin film carrier dynamics

Daniel Ratchford, Vanessa Breslin, Tara Michael, Gloria Bazargan, Daniel Gunlycke, Paul Brown, Junghoon Yeom, Adam Dunkelberger, Jeffrey Owrutsky, Robert Balow, Blake Simpkins

Proceedings Volume PC12209, PC122090G (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632592

KEYWORDS: Perovskite, Carrier dynamics, Thin films, Modulation, Optoelectronics, Time resolved spectroscopy, Metals, Luminescence

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Proceedings Article | 1 August 2021 Presentation

Impact of strain on 2D perovskite carrier dynamics

Daniel Ratchford, Vanessa Breslin, Elizabeth Ryland, Junghoon Yeom, Robert Balow, Blake Simpkins, Paul Brown, Jeffrey Owrutsky, Adam Dunkelberger

Proceedings Volume 11799, 117990H (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594271

KEYWORDS: Perovskite, Carrier dynamics, Optoelectronics, Metals, Luminescence, Time resolved spectroscopy, Thin films, Thin film solar cells, Pollution control, Photovoltaics

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Proceedings Article | 1 August 2021 Presentation

Transient studies of vibration-cavity polaritons

Jeffrey Owrutsky, Andrea Grafton, Adam Dunkelberger, Blake Simpkins, Elizabeth Ryland

Proceedings Volume 11799, 1179905 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594303

KEYWORDS: Polaritons, Infrared spectroscopy, Process control, Infrared radiation, Absorption, Ultrafast phenomena, Tungsten, Saturable absorption, Quantum wells, Quantum electronics

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Proceedings Article | 1 August 2021 Presentation

On-demand modulation of cavity coupling

Blake Simpkins, Wonmi Ahn, Kenan Fears, Jeremy Pietron, Adam Dunkelberger, Jeff Owrutsky

Proceedings Volume 11795, 117950N (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2593617

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Proceedings Article | 20 August 2020 Presentation

Tailoring phonon-polaritons with new materials and active modulation

Daniel Ratchford, Vanessa Breslin, Adam Dunkelberger, Chase Ellis, Alexander Giles, D. Scott Katzer, Igor Vurgaftman, Joseph Tischler, Joshua Caldwell, Jeffrey Owrutsky

Proceedings Volume 11460, 114600W (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2570786

KEYWORDS: Modulation, Mid-IR, Phonons, Calcite, Gallium nitride, Reflectivity, Light-matter interactions, Nanophotonics, Nanolithography, Finite-difference time-domain method

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Proceedings Article | 14 May 2019 Presentation

Actively modulated surface phonon polariton resonances within the long‑wave and far-infrared (Conference Presentation)

Chase Ellis, Adam Dunkelberger, Virginia Wheeler, Daniel Ratchford, Dmitry Chigrin, Marc Currie, Mijin Kim, Chul Soo Kim, Alexander Giles, Bryan Spann, Igor Vurgaftman, Jeffrey Owrutsky, Joshua Caldwell, Joseph Tischler

Proceedings Volume 10983, 1098312 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2519912

KEYWORDS: Modulation, Phonons, Polaritons, Silicon carbide, Plasmonics, Dielectrics, Reflectance spectroscopy, Nanostructuring, Resonators, Nanolithography

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The high optical losses of metal-based plasmonic materials have driven an extensive search for alternative lower-loss materials that can support plasmonic-like effects, such as sub-diffraction confinement of optical fields. One such alternative employs phonon-mediated collective-charge oscillations (surface phonon polaritons, SPhPs) that can be optically excited in nanostructured polar dielectric materials. Similar to plasmonics, tailoring the geometry of polar-dielectric resonators results in resonances that can be spectrally tuned throughout the spectral range between the LO and TO phonons. However, generally, the spectral position and amplitude of these resonances remain fixed after sample fabrication. In this presentation, we discuss recent advancements made by our group in achieving actively tunable localized SPhP resonances in the long-wave- and far-infrared spectral regimes. In particular, we focus on three experiments that demonstrate active modulation of resonances. The first and second experiments focus on tuning the spectral position of localized SPhP resonances in cylindrical nanopillars that are etched into indium phosphide and silicon carbide substrates. In both of these cases we are able to induce resonance shifts as large as 15 cm-1 by optically injecting free-carriers into the pillars. The optical injection introduces a reversible, free-carrier perturbation to the dielectric permittivity that results in a spectral shift of the resonances. While the effects investigated for both the InP and SiC systems are similar, each material allows us to explore a different aspect of the phenomena. For InP we investigate the effects in the far-infrared (303-344 cm-1) with steady-state carrier photoinjection, while for SiC we investigate the dynamics of frequency modulated resonances in the long-wave infrared (797-972 cm-1) via transient reflection spectroscopy. Lastly, in the third experiment we demonstrate the ability to modulate the amplitude of resonances by coating SiC nanopillars with vanadium dioxide, a well-known phase change material that undergoes a metal-to-insulator transition near a temperature of 70 C. As such, we show that by exploiting this phase change we are able to modulate the reflectance and thermal emission of nanopillar arrays. The results described in this work may open the door to tunable, narrow-band thermal sources that operate in the long-wave to far-infrared spectral regimes.

Proceedings Article | 17 September 2018 Presentation

Approaches towards actively tunable mid- to far-infrared nanophotonics (Conference Presentation)

Joshua Caldwell, Adam Dunkelberger, Chase Ellis, Evan Runnerstrom, Kyle Kelley, Thomas Folland, Virginia Wheeler, J. Ryan Nolen, Joseph Tischler, Jeffrey Owrutsky, Igor Vurgaftman, Daniel Ratchford, Chul Soo Kim, Mijin Kim, Jon-Paul Maria

Proceedings Volume 10721, 107210A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2319535

KEYWORDS: Nanophotonics

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Proceedings Article | 21 September 2017 Presentation

Control of vibration-cavity polaritons in the frequency domain (Conference Presentation)

Blake Simpkins, Kenan Fears, Adam Dunkelberger, Wonmi Ahn, Walter Dressick, Igor Vurgaftman, Jeff Owrutsky

Proceedings Volume 10343, 103430N (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274049

KEYWORDS: Polaritons, Molecules, Optical resonators, Vibration control, Chemistry, Photochemistry, Light-matter interactions, Molecular interactions, Infrared radiation

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Proceedings Article | 9 November 2016 Presentation

Probing carrier dynamics in wide-bandgap semiconductor-metal nanoparticle hybrids (Conference Presentation)

Daniel Ratchford, Adam Dunkelberger, Jeff Owrutsky, Pehr Pehrsson

Proceedings Volume 9921, 992112 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237168

KEYWORDS: Titanium dioxide, Nanoparticles, Gold, Absorption, Plasmons, Metals, Atomic layer deposition, Thin films, Carrier dynamics, Semiconductors

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Proceedings Article | 9 November 2016 Presentation

Relaxation dynamics and coherent energy exchange in coupled vibration-cavity polaritons (Conference Presentation)

Blake Simpkins, Kenan Fears, Walter Dressick, Adam Dunkelberger, Bryan Spann, Jeffrey Owrutsky

Proceedings Volume 9918, 991811 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237043

KEYWORDS: Polaritons, Optical resonators, Ultrafast phenomena, Ultrafast measurement systems, Absorption, Infrared radiation, Standards development, Polymethylmethacrylate, Metamaterials, Current controlled current source

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Proceedings Article | 5 October 2015 Presentation

Coherent coupling between a molecular vibration and Fabry-Perot optical cavity to give hybridized states in the strong coupling limit (Presentation Recording)

James Long, Jeff Owrutsky, Kenan Fears, Walter Dressick, Adam Dunkelberger, Ryan Compton, Bryan Spann, Blake Simpkins

Proceedings Volume 9546, 954617 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187040

KEYWORDS: Fabry–Perot interferometers, Optical resonators, Infrared radiation, Visible radiation, Ultrafast phenomena, Absorption, Liquids, Video, Current controlled current source

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Proceedings Article | 5 October 2015 Presentation

Understanding carrier injection effects upon the Reststrahlen band of SiC using transient infrared spectroscopy (Presentation Recording)

Bryan Spann, Ryan Compton, Adam Dunkelberger, James Long, Paul Klein, Daniel Ratchford, Josh Caldwell, Jeff Owrutsky

Proceedings Volume 9546, 95460M (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187111

KEYWORDS: Silicon carbide, Infrared spectroscopy, Phonons, Photons, Carbon dioxide lasers, Reflectivity, Metamaterials, Plasmonics, Polaritons, Infrared imaging

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Proceedings Article | 9 April 2007 Paper

A full-scale prototype multisensor system for fire detection and situational awareness

Christian Minor, Kevin Johnson, Susan Rose-Pehrsson, Jeffrey Owrutsky, Stephen Wales, Daniel Steinhurst, Daniel Gottuk

Proceedings Volume 6571, 65710E (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.719764

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Data fusion, Control systems, Algorithm development, Cameras, Flame detectors, Situational awareness sensors, Prototyping, Telecommunications, Video

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Proceedings Article | 1 February 1992 Paper

Ultrafast infrared spectroscopic studies of condensed phase systems

J. Owrutsky

Proceedings Volume 1599, (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2322306

KEYWORDS: Picosecond phenomena, Infrared spectroscopy, Infrared radiation, Molecules, Ions, Spectroscopy, Chemistry, Transient nonlinear optics, Absorption, Solids

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