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We proposed a refractive index (RI) sensing method with temperature compensation by using an optical frequency comb (OFC) sensing cavity employing a multimode-interference (MMI) fiber, namely, the MMI-OFC sensing cavity. The MMI-OFC sensing…

We demonstrate a multipurpose microwave frequency identification solution that is implemented based on a photonic integrated chip and is able to identify different types of microwave signals, including single-frequency, multiple-frequency,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Xu Wang , Feng Zhou , Dingshan Gao , Jinran Qie , Xi Xiao , Jianji Dong , Xinliang Zhang

Pixel size in cameras and other refractive imaging devices is typically limited by the free-space diffraction. However, a vast majority of semiconductor-based detectors are based on materials with substantially high refractive index. We…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-28 Bo Fan , Sandeep Inampudi , Viktor A. Podolskiy

Photonic systems based on microring resonators have a fundamental constrain given by the strict relationship among free spectral range (FSR), total quality factor (QT) and resonator size, intrinsically making filter spacing, photonic…

A liquid filled, low refractive index material inner-coated silica micro-tube has been proposed and studied as a coupled micro-resonator sensor to greatly enhance biochemical sensor sensitivity. Its unique coupling phenomenon has been…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tao Ling , L. Jay Guo

High quality integrated diamond photonic devices have previously been demonstrated in applications from non-linear photonics to on-chip quantum optics. However, the small sample sizes of single crystal material available, and the difficulty…

Determination of refractive index of micro-disks of a calcinated ($1100^\circ$C in air) photo-resist SZ2080$^\mathrm{TM}$ was carried out using transmission and reflection spectroscopy. Interference fringes at specific…

The use of the Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) platform has been prominent for realizing CMOS-compatible, high-performance photonic integrated circuits (PICs). But in recent years, the silicon-nitride-on-silicon-dioxide (SiN-on-SiO$_2$) platform…

We have implemented a multi-functional optofluidic sensor that can monitor changes in the refractive index and pressure of biofluid simultaneously and can detect free-solution molecular interaction in-situ. In this paper, we demonstrate two…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-16 Zhida Xu , Logan Liu

We present highly sensitive refractometers based on a long-period grating in a large mode area PCF. The maximum sensitivity is 1500 nm/RIU at a refractive index of 1.33, the highest reported for any fiber grating. The minimal detectable…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lars Rindorf , Ole Bang

We numerically design a hybrid plasmonic dielectric refractive index biosensor comprising ametal insulator metal (MIM) bus waveguide evanescently coupled to a silicon core resonator. The geometry is optimized with a genetic algorithm (GA)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-27 Alireza Khalilian , Hima Nikafshan Rad

Plasmonic sensing has been in the spotlight for decades, the concept and applications of which have been generalized to spoof surface plasmons (SSPs) in the microwave band. Here, we report a compact and wireless sensor within a printed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Xuanru Zhang , Jia Wen Zhu , Tie Jun Cui

The field of integrated photonics has significantly impacted numerous fields including communication, sensing, and quantum physics owing to the efficiency, speed, and compactness of its devices. However, the reliance on off-chip bulk lasers…

An integrated photonic platform is proposed for strong interactions between atomic beams and annealing-free high-quality-factor (Q) microresonators. We fabricated a thin-film, air-clad SiN microresonator with a loaded Q of $1.55\times10^6$…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-05 Ali Eshaghian Dorche , Bochao Wei , Chandra Raman , Ali Adibi

We present a full-spectrum machine learning framework for refractive index sensing using simulated absorption spectra from meta-grating structures composed of titanium or silicon nanorods under TE and TM polarizations. Linear regression was…

Detecting specific target analytes and differentiating them from interfering background effects is a crucial but challenging task in complex multi-component solutions commonly encountered in environmental, chemical, biological, and medical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Beibei Zeng , Yongkang Gao , Filbert J. Bartoli

Sensors based on the phenomenon of surface plasmon resonance have limited sensitivity, up to 123 degree/Refractive Index Unit, which restricts their applicability in detecting subtle changes gin biological media (around 10-5 RIU). To…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-12 Rostyslav Terekhov , Zoya Eremenko , Sergii Kulish

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide exceptional light confinement due to their inherent decoupling from radiative channels. Small symmetry breaking transforms BIC into quasi-BIC (qBIC) that couples to free-space radiation enabling…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-01 Xingye Yang , Alexander Antonov , Haiyang Hu , Andreas Tittl

The detection of single particles or molecules represents a critical milestone in the development of biosensing technologies. Recently developed optical sensors based on quasi-bound states in the continuum (qBICs) have primarily focused on…

The development of versatile and novel material platforms for integrated photonics is of prime importance in the perspective of future applications of photonic integrated circuits for quantum information and sensing. Here we present a…