Thanks to advanced semiconductor microfabrication technology, chip-scale integration and
miniaturization of lab-on-a-chip components, silicon-based optical biosensors have made …

The marriage of highly sensitive biosensor designs with the versatility in sample handling
and fluidic manipulation offered by lab-on-a-chip systems promises to yield powerful tools …

While silicon photonic resonant cavities have been widely investigated for biosensing
applications, enhancing their sensitivity and detection limit continues to be an area of active …

Since the discovery of the Bragg's law in 1913, Bragg gratings have become important
optical devices and have been extensively used in various systems. In particular, the …

Nanophotonics, manipulating light–matter interactions at the nanoscale, is an appealing
technology for diversified biochemical and physical sensing applications. Guided-wave …

Integrated Microwave photonics (IMWP) signal processing using Photonic Integrated
Circuits (PICs) has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years as an enabling …

In this paper, a racetrack ring resonator design based on a subwavelength grating double
slot waveguide is presented. The proposed waveguide scheme is capable of confining the …

Direct optical detection has proven to be a highly interesting tool in biomolecular interaction
analysis to be used in drug discovery, ligand/receptor interactions, environmental analysis …

This work presents simulation and experimental results of ultra-thin optical ring resonators,
having larger Evanescent Field (EF) penetration depths, and therefore larger sensitivities, as …

We present waveguide Bragg gratings with misaligned sidewall corrugations on a silicon-on-
insulator platform. The grating strength can be tuned by varying the misalignment between …