A fully integrated silicon photonic wire sensor array chip and reader instrument

Author

Densmore, A. ; Xu, D. -X ; Sabourin, N.A. ; McIntosh, H. ; Cheben, P. ; Schmid, J.H. ; Ma, R. ; Vachon, M. ; Delâge, A. ; Sinclair, W. ; Lapointe, J. ; Li, Y. ; Lopinski, G. ; Lamontagne, B. ; Janz, S.

Author_Institution

Nat. Res. Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

350

Lastpage

352

Abstract

A complete instrumentation system for interrogating silicon photonic wire waveguide sensor array chips has been built and demonstrated. The system is designed to read 16 or more photonic wire sensors on a single silicon chip simultaneously and in real time, while delivering sample fluid to the sensors through microfluidic channels fabricated monolithically on the chip. The chip can be inserted into the instrument, automatically aligned with input optics and fluid connection, and be ready for measurement in a few minutes.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; microfluidics; optical sensors; optical waveguides; silicon; Si; instrumentation system; microfluidic channels; photonic wire sensor array chip; photonic wire waveguide sensor array chips; reader instrument; Arrays; Instruments; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon; Wires; Biosensor; photonic wire; silicon photonics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1949-2081

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8338-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053813

Filename

6053813