Invited Paper Silicon In Optics

Brian Culshaw

doi:10.1117/12.941133

14 October 1987 Invited Paper Silicon In Optics

Brian Culshaw

Proceedings Volume 0798, Fiber Optic Sensors II; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.941133
Event: Fourth International Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Sciences and Engineering, 1987, The Hague, Netherlands

Abstract

Silicon is best known to the optical fibre sensor community as a detector material. However, its remarkable optical and mechanical properties and its ease of fabriation point to an increasing use of material in other contexts. This paper briefly reviews the principal mechanical and optical properties of silicon and describes applications as a mechanically resonant environmental sensor and as a waveguiding medium for evanescent wave devices. High quality, high yield fibre optic sensors fabricated using standard silicon processing techniques are likely to become available in the very near future.

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Brian Culshaw "Invited Paper Silicon In Optics", Proc. SPIE 0798, Fiber Optic Sensors II, (14 October 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.941133

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