A photonic crystal sensor based on the superprism effect

Prasad, Tushar; Mittleman, Daniel M.; Colvin, Vicki L.

doi:10.1016/j.optmat.2006.03.008

Cited by 29 publications

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“…On the theoretical side there has also recently been considerable attention to tuning (Sharkawy et al 2005) and sensing aspects (Kurt and Citrin 2005a, b;Prasad et al 2006;Xiao and Mortensen 2006;Mortensen et al 2006;Mortensen and Xiao 2007;Xiao and Mortensen 2007). In passing, we note that somewhat parallel to the above development there has been Fig.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 73%

Liquid-infiltrated photonic crystals: enhanced light-matter interactions for lab-on-a-chip applications

Mortensen

Xiao

Pedersen

2007

Microfluid Nanofluid

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Optical techniques are finding widespread use in analytical chemistry for chemical and bio-chemical analysis. During the past decade, there has been an increasing emphasis on miniaturization of chemical analysis systems and naturally this has stimulated a large effort in integrating microfluidics and optics in lab-on-a-chip microsystems. This development is partly defining the emerging field of optofluidics. Scaling analysis and experiments have demonstrated the advantage of microscale devices over their macroscopic counterparts for a number of chemical applications. However, from an optical point of view, miniaturized devices suffer dramatically from the reduced optical path compared to macroscale experiments, e.g. in a cuvette. Obviously, the reduced optical path complicates the application of optical techniques in lab-on-a-chip systems. In this paper we theoretically discuss how a strongly dispersive photonic crystal environment may be used to enhance the lightmatter interactions, thus potentially compensating for the reduced optical path in lab-on-a-chip systems. Combining electromagnetic perturbation theory with full-wave electromagnetic simulations we address the prospects for achieving slow-light enhancement of Beer-Lambert-Bouguer absorption, photonic band-gap based refractometry, and high-Q cavity sensing.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 73%

Liquid-infiltrated photonic crystals: enhanced light-matter interactions for lab-on-a-chip applications

Mortensen

Xiao

Pedersen

2007

Microfluid Nanofluid

160

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“…With inverse opal photonic crystals, refractive index variation of the order of 0.02 and having a sensitivity of 10 À3 could be measured [117]. Even though there are other photonic crystal refractive index sensors that have a sensitivity of 10 À5 based on the super prism effect [118], the optical measurements are more complicated than those described in [117].…”

Section: Refractive Index Sensormentioning

confidence: 99%

Photonic crystal sensors: An overview

Nair

Vijaya

2010

Progress in Quantum Electronics

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“…It is the major technology for the structure design of PC in the optical signal processing with certain direction or frequency forbidden or transmitted [4,5] . Due to these characteristics, PC has been applied in a wide variety of areas, such as PC lasers [6] , filters [7] , fibers [8] , sensors [9] , antennas, laser diodes, and so on. A very promising application of photonic bandgap (PBG) structures is to improve the performance of waveguides.…”

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confidence: 99%