On-chip near-infrared optical spectrometer based on single-mode Epo waveguide and gold nanoantennas

Maurine Malak; Konstantins Jefimovs; Irène Philipoussis; Joab Di Francesco; Toralf Scharf

doi:10.1117/1.JMM.13.2.023011

20 June 2014 On-chip near-infrared optical spectrometer based on single-mode Epo waveguide and gold nanoantennas

Maurine Malak, Konstantins Jefimovs, Irène Philipoussis, Joab Di Francesco, Toralf Scharf

Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Vol. 13, Issue 2, 023011 (June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMM.13.2.023011

Abstract

We report about optical spectrometry using gold nanostructures printed on top of an integrated optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is a single-mode buried waveguide made from a combination of photo-polymerizable materials and is fabricated by photolithography on a glass substrate. To detect the electric field inside the waveguide, a gold nanocoupler array of thin lines (50 nm thick and 8 μm in length) is embedded on top of the aforementioned waveguide. They are produced by e-beam lithography. Both waveguide ports are polished, and the output port, in particular, is coated with a thin gold layer to assimilate a mirror and hence, it enables the creation of stationary waves inside the structure. Stationary waves generated inside the guide constitute a spatial interferogram. Locally, light is out-coupled using the nanocouplers and allows measuring the interferogram structure. The resulting pattern is imaged by a vision system involving an optical microscope with the objective lenses of different magnifications and a digital camera mounted on top of the microscope. The 5× objective lens demonstrates a superior performance in retrieving the investigated spectrum compared to 20× and 100× objectives. Fast Fourier transform is performed on the captured signal to extract the spectral content of the measured signal.

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Maurine Malak, Konstantins Jefimovs, Irène Philipoussis, Joab Di Francesco, and Toralf Scharf "On-chip near-infrared optical spectrometer based on single-mode Epo waveguide and gold nanoantennas," Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS 13(2), 023011 (20 June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMM.13.2.023011

Published: 20 June 2014

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