A Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Wire Based Evanescent Field Sensor Export

@article{citeulike:5955554, abstract = {We demonstrate a new, highly sensitive evanescent field sensor using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic wire waveguides. Theoretical analysis shows that thin SOI waveguides can provide higher sensitivity over devices based in all other common planar waveguide material systems for the probing of both thin adsorbed biomolecular layers and bulk homogeneous solutions. A Si photonic wire waveguide was incorporated into a Mach-Zehnder interferometer based sensor, configured to monitor the index change of a homogeneous solution. High effective index change of 0.31 per refractive index unit (RIU) change of the solution was measured, confirming theoretical predictions}, author = {Densmore, A. and Xu, D. X. and Waldron, P. and Janz, S. and Cheben, P. and Lapointe, J. and Delage, A. and Lamontagne, B. and Schmid, J. H. and Post, E.}, citeulike-article-id = {5955554}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2006.887374}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4032846}, day = {19}, doi = {10.1109/LPT.2006.887374}, journal = {Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE}, keywords = {biosensor, experiment, hardcopy, mach-zehnder, sensor, silicon, silicon\_oxide, soi, theory, thesis\_theory, waveguide}, month = {December}, number = {23}, pages = {2520--2522}, posted-at = {2009-10-17 12:54:39}, priority = {2}, title = {A Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Wire Based Evanescent Field Sensor}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2006.887374}, volume = {18}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5955554 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5955554 N2 - We demonstrate a new, highly sensitive evanescent field sensor using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic wire waveguides. Theoretical analysis shows that thin SOI waveguides can provide higher sensitivity over devices based in all other common planar waveguide material systems for the probing of both thin adsorbed biomolecular layers and bulk homogeneous solutions. A Si photonic wire waveguide was incorporated into a Mach-Zehnder interferometer based sensor, configured to monitor the index change of a homogeneous solution. High effective index change of 0.31 per refractive index unit (RIU) change of the solution was measured, confirming theoretical predictions IS - 23 JF - Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE EP - 2522 TI - A Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Wire Based Evanescent Field Sensor VL - 18 SP - 2520 KW - biosensor KW - experiment KW - hardcopy KW - mach-zehnder KW - sensor KW - silicon KW - silicon_oxide KW - soi KW - theory KW - thesis_theory KW - waveguide AU - Densmore, A AU - Xu, DX AU - Waldron, P AU - Janz, S AU - Cheben, P AU - Lapointe, J AU - Delage, A AU - Lamontagne, B AU - Schmid, JH AU - Post, E PY - 2006/12/19/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2006.887374 ER -