Integrated Photonic Ultrasound Transducers for Medical Imaging

Peter J. Harmsma; Maurits S. van der Heiden; Robert K. Altmann; Anne Maaike Gerritsma; Sabiju Valiya Valappil; Benoit A.J. Quesson; Yisbel E. Marin; Mikko Harjanne; Srivathsa Bhat; Sami Ylinen; Päivi Heimala; Anton Stroganov; Andreas Frigg; Paul L.M.J. van Neer

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Integrated Photonic Ultrasound Transducers for Medical Imaging

Peter J. Harmsma^*, Maurits S. van der Heiden, Robert K. Altmann, Anne Maaike Gerritsma, Sabiju Valiya Valappil, Benoit A.J. Quesson, Yisbel E. Marin, Mikko Harjanne, Srivathsa Bhat, Sami Ylinen, Päivi Heimala, Anton Stroganov, Andreas Frigg, Paul L.M.J. van Neer

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BA6203 Silicon photonics

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Abstract

We present our experimental results on ultrasound transducers based on Photonic Integrated Circuits. We have fabricated and tested devices based on Mach Zehnder Interferometers and Ring Resonators, in the thick-Silicon On Insulator platform (VTT, Finland) and Si3N4 platform (Ligentec, Switzerland). We have obtained a Noise Equivalent Pressure which is two orders of magnitude lower than conventional State-Of-The-Art transducers, clearly demonstrating the huge potential of this concept.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIX
Editors	Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Pavel Cheben
Publisher	International Society for Optics and Photonics SPIE
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510684867
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3041703
Publication status	Published - 2025
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIX 2025 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 27 Jan 2025 → 30 Jan 2025

Publication series

Series	Proceedings of SPIE
Volume	13369
ISSN	0277-786X

Conference

Conference	Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIX 2025
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	27/01/25 → 30/01/25

Funding

This work was supported by the TNO Early Research Program (ERP) ‘Opto-acoustics’, NWO grant NWA 1160.18.095 ‘Opto-acoustic sensor and ultrasonic microbubbles for dosimetry in proton therapy’, and partly funded by the European Union, MedIPUT project, HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, Grant 101092947, https://med-iput.eu/.

Keywords

integrated photonics
IPUT
Mach Zehnder Interferometer
membrane
noise-equivalent pressure
ring resonator
transducer
Ultrasound

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Harmsma, P. J., van der Heiden, M. S., Altmann, R. K., Gerritsma, A. M., Valappil, S. V., Quesson, B. A. J., Marin, Y. E., Harjanne, M., Bhat, S., Ylinen, S., Heimala, P., Stroganov, A., Frigg, A., & van Neer, P. L. M. J. (2025). Integrated Photonic Ultrasound Transducers for Medical Imaging. In S. M. Garcia-Blanco, & P. Cheben (Eds.), Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIX Article 133690B International Society for Optics and Photonics SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3041703

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Integrated Photonic Ultrasound Transducers for Medical Imaging. / Harmsma, Peter J.; van der Heiden, Maurits S.; Altmann, Robert K. et al.
Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIX. ed. / Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco; Pavel Cheben. International Society for Optics and Photonics SPIE, 2025. 133690B (Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 13369).

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