Liquid core integrated ring resonator

Genni Testa; Yujian Huang; Luigi Zeni; Pasqualina M. Sarro; Romeo Bernini

doi:10.1117/12.874806

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17 January 2011 Liquid core integrated ring resonator

Genni Testa, Yujian Huang, Luigi Zeni, Pasqualina M. Sarro, Romeo Bernini

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Proceedings Volume 7943, Silicon Photonics VI; 794309 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.874806
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report the design and the fabrication of an integrated optofluidic ring resonator based on liquid core antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide (ARROW) operating around λ=635nm with a water filled core (nc=1.33). This waveguide permits a strong coupling between light and analyte as the same microchannel can be used for delivering sample and for confining light. A rectangular-shaped ring resonator has been realized by using four 90-bent waveguides and an multimode interference coupler is used for coupling light from the input bus waveguide to the resonator. The resulting device is very compact, with a total length of 2.5 mm and a required liquid volume of about 0.11nl. The device has been simulated with a two dimensional finite-difference time-domain method for different refractive index core n_c=1.32 (methanol) and n_c=1.43 (dimethylformamide). Moreover, we carried out optical measurements by measuring the transmitted spectrum from the output bus waveguide in both cases. The experimental results confirm that ring with a good quality factor (Q~800) can be achieved in good agreement with the numerical results.

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Genni Testa, Yujian Huang, Luigi Zeni, Pasqualina M. Sarro, and Romeo Bernini "Liquid core integrated ring resonator", Proc. SPIE 7943, Silicon Photonics VI, 794309 (17 January 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.874806

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