Photonic sensors at the nanoscale

Nigel P. Johnson; Basudev Lahiri; Graham Sharp; Ghazali A. Rahman; Philippe Velha; Ali Khokhar; Richard M. De La Rue; Scott McMeekin

doi:10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254373

Photonic sensors at the nanoscale

Nigel P. Johnson, Basudev Lahiri, Graham Sharp, Ghazali A. Rahman, Philippe Velha, Ali Khokhar, Richard M. De La Rue, Scott McMeekin

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Abstract

Photonic device structures such as photonic crystals, photonic wires and optical metamaterials – all with submicron features can be described as ‘nanophotonic’. Many of these devices and structures can be used as sensors. The usual approach is to photonic sensing is to change the refractive index of a surrounding medium.
Here we consider several nanophotonic sensing systems, including asymmetric split ring resonators, photonic wire cavities and polymer Bragg gratings. We compare the relative merits of high Q structures with a small shift in wavelength from the analyte versus low Q structures with a large shift in wavelength.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) 2012
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781467322287
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254373
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Keywords

photonics
sensors

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Johnson, N. P., Lahiri, B., Sharp, G., Rahman, G. A., Velha, P., Khokhar, A., De La Rue, R. M., & McMeekin, S. (2012). Photonic sensors at the nanoscale. In 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) 2012 (pp. 1-4). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254373

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10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254373