Excitation and Light Collection From Highly Scattering Media With Integrated Waveguides

Author

Ismail, Nur ; Sun, Fei ; Wörhoff, Kerstin ; Driessen, Alfred ; De Ridder, René M. ; Pollnau, Markus

Author_Institution

Integrated Opt. Micro Syst. Group, Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

Volume

23

Issue

5

fYear

2011

fDate

3/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

278

Lastpage

280

Abstract

We investigate excitation and light collection from a scattering medium by an integrated waveguide probe. A probe with one excitation and eight collector waveguides is fabricated in silicon oxynitride technology. Experiments are performed on light collection from a highly scattering water suspension of latex nanospheres. By use of a Monte Carlo model, the propagation of light through highly scattering media is simulated and good agreement with the experimental data is found.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; integrated optics; light propagation; light scattering; nanostructured materials; optical fabrication; optical sensors; optical waveguides; silicon compounds; suspensions; water; Monte Carlo model; SiON; collector waveguides; excitation collection; highly scattering media; integrated waveguides; latex nanospheres; light collection; light propagation; silicon oxynitride technology; water suspension; Scattering; spectroscopy; waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2010.2102014

Filename

5674067