Low detection limit sensor based on subwavelength grating racetrack resonator

Lijun Huang; Hai Yan; Xiaochuan Xu; Swapnajit Chakravarty; Naimei Tang; Huiping Tian; Ray T. Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2252429

22 February 2017 Low detection limit sensor based on subwavelength grating racetrack resonator

Lijun Huang, Hai Yan, Xiaochuan Xu, Swapnajit Chakravarty, Naimei Tang, Huiping Tian, Ray T. Chen

Proceedings Volume 10077, Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XIV; 100770M (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2252429
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Subwavelength grating (SWG) ring resonators have demonstrated better sensitivity compared to the conventional silicon strip ring resonators due to the enhanced photon-analyte interaction. As the sensors are usually used in absorptive ambient environment, it is extreme challenging to further improve the sensitivity of the SWG ring resonator without deteriorating the quality factor because the coupling strength between the bus waveguide and the circular ring resonator is not sufficient to compensate the loss. To explore the full potential of the SWG ring resonator, we experimentally demonstrate a silicon-based high quality factor and low detection limit transverse magnetic (TM) mode SWG racetrack resonator around 1550 nm. A quality factor of 9800 is achieved in aqueous environment when the coupling length and gap are equal to 6.5 μm and 140 nm, respectively. The bulk sensitivity (S) is ~429.7 nm/RIU (refractive index per unit), and the intrinsic detection limit (iDL) is 3.71×10^-4 RIU reduced by 32.5% compared to the best value reported for SWG microring sensors.

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Lijun Huang, Hai Yan, Xiaochuan Xu, Swapnajit Chakravarty, Naimei Tang, Huiping Tian, and Ray T. Chen "Low detection limit sensor based on subwavelength grating racetrack resonator", Proc. SPIE 10077, Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XIV, 100770M (22 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2252429

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