Performance investigation of triple unsymmetrical micro ring resonator as optical filter as well as biosensor

Abstract

Representation of triple unsymmetrical micro ring resonators (TUMRR) with single input and single output waveguide has been executed in this paper. Statistical demonstration of the presented arrangement is realized in the z-domain by a delay line signal processing method. The transfer function of the triple unsymmetrical micro ring resonator is calculated by Mason’s Gain rule. The offered arrangement is performed on SOI (Silicon in Insulator) platform to achieve the filtering and biochemical sensing intentions. To acquire field response of the arrangement, Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) technique is used. Characteristics of optical filters are studied from the frequency response plot and the achieved free spectral range (FSR) is 243.5 GHz. The shift in wavelength for biosensing application is accomplished through the OptiFDTD software. The sensitivity of the proposed TUMRR based biosensor is around 200-280 nm/RIU for different blood cells where as the Q-factor attained is 1938.