Ultrasensitive Gas-Phase Chemical Sensing Based on Functionalized Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities

Chen, Yu; Fegadolli, William S.; Jones, William M.; Scherer, Axel; Li, Mo

doi:10.1021/nn4050547

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“…Sophisticated slotted waveguides [141,[151][152][153] as well as nanobeam cavities [140,146,150,[154][155][156][157][158][159][160] have also been implemented for analyte-specific stoichiometric studies and biomolecule micromanipulation. Extreme, sub-attomolar detection of a streptavidin protein was reported for nanoslot PhC nanolasers [139,[161][162][163][164][165][166][167][168], while novel PhC nanocavities combined with plasmonic nanostructures have emerged as hybrid photonic-plasmonic biosensors [169][170][171][172][173][174][175][176][177][178][179].…”

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Advances in optoplasmonic sensors – combining optical nano/microcavities and photonic crystals with plasmonic nanostructures and nanoparticles

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Nanophotonic device building blocks, such as optical nano/microcavities and plasmonic nanostructures, lie at the forefront of sensing and spectrometry of trace biological and chemical substances. A new class of nanophotonic architecture has emerged by combining optically resonant dielectric nano/microcavities with plasmonically resonant metal nanostructures to enable detection at the nanoscale with extraordinary sensitivity. Initial demonstrations include single-molecule detection and even single-ion sensing. The coupled photonic-plasmonic resonator system promises a leap forward in the nanoscale analysis of physical, chemical, and biological entities. These optoplasmonic sensor structures could be the centrepiece of miniaturised analytical laboratories, on a chip, with detection capabilities that are beyond the current state of the art. In this paper, we review this burgeoning field of optoplasmonic biosensors. We first focus on the state of the art in nanoplasmonic sensor structures, high quality factor optical microcavities, and photonic crystals separately before proceeding to an outline of the most recent advances in hybrid sensor systems. We discuss the physics of this modality in brief and each of its underlying parts, then the prospects as well as challenges when integrating dielectric nano/microcavities with metal nanostructures. In Section 5, we hint to possible future applications of optoplasmonic sensing platforms which offer many degrees of freedom towards biomedical diagnostics at the level of single molecules.

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Advances in optoplasmonic sensors – combining optical nano/microcavities and photonic crystals with plasmonic nanostructures and nanoparticles

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“…This is due to low baseline transmission and limited input and output ports in an in-line coupling configuration. Multiplexing functionality can be greatly improved by evanescently side-coupling to PCN cavities [9,23].…”

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Efficient side-coupling to photonic crystal nanobeam cavities via state-space overlap

2019

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We present design guidelines for realizing side-coupled photonic crystal nanobeam (PCN) cavities with efficient coupling to low order resonances through adjusting the overlap of the PCN cavity mode and a feeding bus waveguide in both physical and k-space. We show that optimal side-coupled configurations function at a non-zero k-vector offset between the bus waveguide and PCN cavity modes. The straightforward design of side-coupled PCNs with high contrast resonances opens the door to their practical implementation in multiplexed, on-chip photonic devices.

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“…Many applications flourish including optical switch and logic gate [2], tunable filters [3], gas sensing and single molecule detection [4,5], Fano resonance operations [6], optomechanics [7,8], nonlinear frequency conversion [9,10], etc. Recently, photonic crystal split-beam cavities attracted numerous interests from researchers that further reduce the cavity geometries and enable feasible mechanical motions resulting from a higher degree of freedom.…”

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Design of mechanically-tunable photonic crystal split-beam nanocavity

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Photonic crystal split-beam nanocavities allow for ultra-sensitive optomechanical transductions but are degraded due to their relatively low optical quality factors. We have proposed and experimentally demonstrated a new type of one-dimensional photonic crystal split-beam nanocavity optimized for an ultra-high optical-quality factor. The design is based on the combination of the deterministic method and hill-climbing algorithm. The latter is the simplest and most straightforward method of the local search algorithm that provides the local maximum of the chosen quality factors. This split-beam nanocavity is made up of two mechanical uncoupled cantilever beams with Bragg mirrors patterned onto it and separated by a 75-nm air gap. Experimental results emphasize that the quality factor of the second-order TE mode can be as high as 1.99×10(4). Additionally, one beam of the device is actuated in the lateral direction with the aid of a NEMS actuator, and the quality factor maintains quite well even if there is a lateral offset up to 64 nm. Potentially promising applications, such as sensitive optomechanical torque sensor, local tuning of Fano resonance, all-optical-reconfigurable filters, etc., are foreseen.

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Ultrasensitive Gas-Phase Chemical Sensing Based on Functionalized Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities

Cited by 70 publications

References 22 publications

Advances in optoplasmonic sensors – combining optical nano/microcavities and photonic crystals with plasmonic nanostructures and nanoparticles

Advances in optoplasmonic sensors – combining optical nano/microcavities and photonic crystals with plasmonic nanostructures and nanoparticles

Efficient side-coupling to photonic crystal nanobeam cavities via state-space overlap

Design of mechanically-tunable photonic crystal split-beam nanocavity

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