A review for optical sensors based on photonic crystal cavities

Y Zhang, Y Zhao, R Lv - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2015 - Elsevier
This review covers photonic crystal cavities (PCCs) and their applications in optical sensors,
with a particular focus on the structures of different PCCs. For each kind of optical sensor …

Dispersion engineered slow light in photonic crystals: a comparison

SA Schulz, L O'Faolain, DM Beggs, TP White… - Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the different types of dispersion engineered photonic crystal waveguides that
have been developed for slow light applications. We introduce the group index bandwidth …

Design of a label-free photonic crystal refractive index sensor for biomedical applications

M Danaie, B Kiani - Photonics and nanostructures-fundamentals and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Two photonic crystal optical refractive index sensors have been proposed in this paper.
These sensors can be used for detection of basal cell cancer. A rod-type square lattice of …

Advancement in silicon integrated photonics technologies for sensing applications in near-infrared and mid-infrared region: a review

NL Kazanskiy, SN Khonina, MA Butt - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Exploration and implementation of silicon (Si) photonics has surged in recent years since
both photonic component performance and photonic integration complexity have …

Applications and developments of on-chip biochemical sensors based on optofluidic photonic crystal cavities

Y Zhang, Y Zhao, T Zhou, Q Wu - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Photonic crystal (PC) cavities, which possess the advantages of compactness, flexible
design, and suitability for integration in a lab-on-a-chip system, are able to distinguish slight …

A low-power all optical decoder based on photonic crystal nonlinear ring resonators

T Daghooghi, M Soroosh, K Ansari-Asl - Optik, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, an all-optical 2-to-4 decoder based on photonic crystal nonlinear ring
resonators is proposed. The designed decoder has one enable port which can control …

Review on the optimization methods of slow light in photonic crystal waveguide

Y Zhao, YN Zhang, Q Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Slow light in photonic crystal waveguide (PCW) is now being heavily investigated for
applications in optical devices. However, slow light with high group index in perfect PCW is …

Compact optical switches and modulators based on dispersion engineered photonic crystals

L O'Faolain, DM Beggs, TP White… - IEEE Photonics …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We use slow-light photonic crystals to enhance optical switching and modulation in silicon.
By using dispersion-engineered designs, a switch as short as 5¿ m was achieved, in which …

Ultrafast adiabatic manipulation of slow light in a photonic crystal

T Kampfrath, DM Beggs, TP White, A Melloni… - Physical Review A …, 2010 - APS
We demonstrate by experiment and theory that a light pulse propagating through a Si-based
photonic-crystal waveguide is adiabatically blueshifted when the refractive index of the Si is …

Disorder-induced incoherent scattering losses in photonic crystal waveguides: Bloch mode resha**, multiple scattering, and breakdown of the Beer-Lambert law

M Patterson, S Hughes, S Schulz, DM Beggs… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
Through a combined theoretical and experimental study of disorder-induced incoherent
scattering losses in slow-light photonic crystal slab waveguides, we show the importance of …