Polymer waveguide-based optical sensors—Interest in bio, gas, temperature, and mechanical sensing applications

SN Khonina, GS Voronkov, EP Grakhova… - Coatings, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the realization of photonic integrated devices, materials such as polymers are crucial.
Polymers have shown compatibility with several patterning techniques, are generally …

Ultra-wideband integrated photonic devices on silicon platform: from visible to mid-IR

X Guo, X Ji, B Yao, T Tan, A Chu, O Westreich… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics has gained great success mainly due to the promise of realizing compact
devices in high volume through the low-cost foundry model. It is burgeoning from laboratory …

Methane absorption spectroscopy on a silicon photonic chip

L Tombez, EJ Zhang, JS Orcutt, S Kamlapurkar… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Infrared tunable diode-laser absorption spectroscopy (IR-TDLAS) is an enabling technology
for trace-gas detection, with applications ranging from air-quality monitoring to medical …

Are slot and sub-wavelength grating waveguides better than strip waveguides for sensing?

DM Kita, J Michon, SG Johnson, J Hu - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The unique ability of slot and sub-wavelength grating (SWG) waveguides to confine light
outside of the waveguide core material has attracted significant interest in their application to …

Sub-ppm methane detection with mid-infrared slot waveguides

HD Yallew, M Vlk, A Datta, S Alberti… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hybrid integration of photonic chips with electronic and micromechanical circuits is projected
to bring about miniature, but still highly accurate and reliable, laser spectroscopic sensors …

Silicon nitride photonic integration for visible light applications

MAG Porcel, A Hinojosa, H Jans, A Stassen… - Optics & Laser …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, we provide a review of fabrication platforms and state of the art developments
in the area of silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for the visible wavelength …

[HTML][HTML] Breakthrough in silicon photonics technology in telecommunications, biosensing, and gas sensing

M Shahbaz, MA Butt, R Piramidowicz - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has been an area of active research and development. Researchers have
been working on enhancing the integration density and intricacy of silicon photonic circuits …

Silicon photonic olfactory sensor based on an array of 64 biofunctionalized Mach-Zehnder interferometers

L Laplatine, M Fournier, N Gaignebet, Y Hou… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics can address a variety of applications, from datacom and biosensing to
lidars. Recently, this technology has been explored for gas sensing. Detection and …

Silicon nitride waveguide platform for fluorescence microscopy of living cells

JC Tinguely, ØI Helle, BS Ahluwalia - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Waveguide chip-based microscopy reduces the complexity of total internal reflection
fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, and adds features like large field of view illumination …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-sensitive refractive index gas sensor with functionalized silicon nitride photonic circuits

G Antonacci, J Goyvaerts, H Zhao, B Baumgartner… - APL photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Portable and cost-effective gas sensors are gaining demand for a number of environmental,
biomedical, and industrial applications, yet current devices are confined into specialized …