Title :
Slow light waveguide and enhanced area microcavity engineering for high sensitivity photonic crystal sensors
Author :
Liang Zhu ; Chakravarty, Sumit ; Cheng-Chih Hsieh ; Wei-Cheng Lai ; Chen, Ray T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate that in photonic crystal sensors with side-coupled cavity-waveguide, group velocity of propagating mode in the coupled waveguide at the resonant mode frequency enhances sensitivity in addition to microcavity mode engineering.
Keywords :
image sensors; micro-optics; microcavities; microsensors; optical sensors; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; slow light; coupled waveguide; enhanced area microcavity engineering; group velocity; high sensitivity photonic crystal sensors; microcavity mode engineering; propagating mode; resonant mode frequency; side-coupled cavity-waveguide; slow light waveguide; Biosensors; Couplings; Microcavities; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Sensitivity;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
