Highly sensitive digital optical sensor based on cascaded high-Q ring-resonators
Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 26, pp. 23817-23822 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.023817
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Abstract
A digital optical sensor based on two cascaded rings with different free spectral ranges (FSRs) is proposed. Because of their different FSRs, the major peak of the spectral response from the output port shifts digitally when the effective refractive index of ring #1 changes. And the shift of the major peak is equal to multiple FSRs of ring #2. Since it is easy to design a ring with a FSR of nanometers, the present digital optical sensor shows an ultra-high sensitivity (at the order of 105 nm/RIU) which is over two orders higher than that of a regular single-ring sensor. By using the present digital optical sensor, it becomes convenient to use an integrated optical micro-spectrometer (even with a low resolution) to monitor the peak shift of the spectral response. Therefore, it is promising to realize a low-cost and portable highly-sensitive optical sensor system on a single chip.
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OCIS Codes
(130.3120) Integrated optics : Integrated optics devices
(130.6010) Integrated optics : Sensors
ToC Category:
Integrated Optics
History
Original Manuscript: November 18, 2009
Revised Manuscript: November 29, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: December 8, 2009
Published: December 11, 2009
Citation
Daoxin Dai, "Highly sensitive digital optical sensor based on cascaded high-Q ring-resonators," Opt. Express 17, 23817-23822 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-26-23817
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