Recent advances in metamaterial integrated photonics

P Cheben, JH Schmid, R Halir… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Since the invention of the silicon subwavelength grating waveguide in 2006, subwavelength
metamaterial engineering has become an essential design tool in silicon photonics …

Silicon photonic olfactory sensor based on an array of 64 biofunctionalized Mach-Zehnder interferometers

L Laplatine, M Fournier, N Gaignebet, Y Hou… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics can address a variety of applications, from datacom and biosensing to
lidars. Recently, this technology has been explored for gas sensing. Detection and …

Inverse design and characterization of compact, broadband, and low-loss chip-scale photonic power splitters

SE Hansen, G Arregui, AN Babar… - Materials for …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The scalability of integrated photonics hinges on low-loss chip-scale components, which are
important for classical applications and crucial in the quantum domain. An important …

A silicon photonic evanescent-field sensor architecture using a fixed-wavelength laser

L Chrostowski, L Dias, M Mitchell… - Optical …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Commercial silicon photonic (SiP) biosensor architectures rely on expensive swept-tunable
lasers that limit their use for widespread, point-of-care applications. An alternative is the use …

Interferometer-based chemical sensor on chip with enhanced responsivity and low-cost interrogation

F Piretta, F Samà, F Bontempi, J Elaskar… - Biomedical Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We report experimental results of an interferometric chemical sensor integrated on a silicon
chip. The sensor measures refractive index variations of the liquid that contacts exposed …

Cost-effective silicon-photonic biosensors using doped silicon detectors and a broadband source

L Dias, H Shoman, E Luan, H Jayatilleka, S Shekhar… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate a cost-effective, microring-based, silicon photonic sensor that
uses doped silicon detectors and a broadband source. Shifts in the sensing microring …

High-performance bimodal evanescent-field sensor with coherent phase readout

A Torres-Cubillo, JM Luque-González… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By comparing optical signals travelling through a sensing and a reference arm,
interferometric photonic sensors achieve remarkable sensitivities and detection limits using …

Optical frequency comb based system for photonic refractive index sensor interrogation

M Knoerzer, C Szydzik, G Ren, CS Huertas… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this contribution, we demonstrate how an optical frequency comb can be used to enhance
the functionality of an integrated photonic biosensor platform. We show that if an optical …

Zero-crosstalk silicon photonic refractive index sensor with subwavelength gratings

SZ Ahmed, M Hasan, K Kim, S Kim - Nano Convergence, 2024 - Springer
Silicon photonic index sensors have received significant attention for label-free bio and gas-
sensing applications, offering cost-effective and scalable solutions. Here, we introduce an …

Silicon photonic integrated interrogator for fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing

Z Jin, J Chen, Y Chang, Q Liu, Z He - Photonics Research, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology has been a promising tool in various
applications. Currently, the large size and relatively high cost of DAS equipment composed …