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12 March 2024 Silicon nitride devices for visible and near-infrared refractive index sensing
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Abstract
Refractive index (RI) sensors based on silicon nitride on insulator (SiNOI) waveguide platform are designed and fabricated. SiNOI offers many advantages among which CMOS compatibility, low propagation losses, tolerance to temperature and fabrication variations as well as wide transparency range. The designed RI sensors include micro-ring resonators (MRRs), Mach-Zehnder Interferometers (MZIs) and loop-terminated MZIs (LT-MZIs) operating at both visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The sensors include strip and slot based sensing arms for chemical and biological sensing. These different components and the whole spectrum were designed and optimized using finite difference eigenmode (FDE) and finite difference time domain (FDTD) solvers. The sensors were fabricated using electron beam lithography in a SiN multi-project wafer (MPW).
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Raghi S. El Shamy, Xun Li, and Mohamed A. Swillam "Silicon nitride devices for visible and near-infrared refractive index sensing", Proc. SPIE 12889, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVIII, 1288915 (12 March 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3007896
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KEYWORDS
Sensors

Silicon nitride

Refractive index

Optical components

Biosensing

Visible radiation

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