Title :
Nano-silicon-photonic Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer-on-a-chip
Author :
Bin Dong ; Hong Cai ; Yuan Dong Gu ; Zhen Chuan Yang ; Yu Feng Jin ; Yi Long Hao ; Dim Lee Kwong ; Ai Qun Liu
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
This paper reports a nano-silicon-photonic Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer-on-a-chip, which is integrated with fiber-waveguide coupler and photo detector on a single silicon chip. Spectrometer based on Fourier transform, for the first time, has been miniaturized into a waveguide based silicon photonic chip. Our breakthrough research on on-chip spectrometer using nano-silicon-photonic fabrication processes to eliminate moving parts and confine light in nano-waveguides, which can effectively reduce the spectrometer chip size (1 cm × 1 cm) and lower the power consumption (<; 10 mW), while maintaining high resolution (<; 10 cm-1). It has high potential applications in biomedical and physical spectroscopy field.
Keywords :
Fourier transform infrared spectra; Fourier transform optics; integrated optics; nanofabrication; nanophotonics; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre fabrication; photodetectors; silicon; Si; biomedical field; fiber-waveguide coupler; integrated optics; light confinement; nano-silicon-photonic Fourier transform infrared spectrometer-on-a-chip; nano-silicon-photonic fabrication processes; nano-waveguide based silicon photonic chip; photodetector; physical spectroscopy field; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Couplers; Fourier transforms; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; System-on-chip;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA