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Design procedure and fabrication of reproducible silicon vernier devices for high-performance refractive index sensing

Design procedure and fabrication of reproducible silicon vernier devices for high-performance refractive index sensing
Design procedure and fabrication of reproducible silicon vernier devices for high-performance refractive index sensing
In this paper, we propose a generalized procedure for the design of integrated Vernier devices for high performance chemical and biochemical sensing. In particular, we demonstrate the accurate control of the most critical design and fabrication parameters of silicon-on-insulator cascade-coupled racetrack resonators operating in the second regime of the Vernier effect, around 1.55 µm. The experimental implementation of our design strategies has allowed a rigorous and reliable investigation of the influence of racetrack resonator and directional coupler dimensions as well as of waveguide process variability on the operation of Vernier devices. Figures of merit of our Vernier architectures have been measured experimentally, evidencing a high reproducibility and a very good agreement with the theoretical predictions, as also confirmed by relative errors even lower than 1%. Finally, a Vernier gain as high as 30.3, average insertion loss of 2.1 dB and extinction ratio up to 30 dB have been achieved.
integrated waveguide sensors, optical sensing, Vernier effect, silicon
1424-8220
13548-13567
Troia, Benedetto
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Khokhar, Ali
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Nedeljković, Miloš
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Reynolds, Scott
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Hu, Youfang
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Mashanovich, Goran
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Passaro, Vittorio
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Troia, Benedetto
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Khokhar, Ali
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Nedeljković, Miloš
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Reynolds, Scott
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Hu, Youfang
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Mashanovich, Goran
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Troia, Benedetto, Khokhar, Ali, Nedeljković, Miloš, Reynolds, Scott, Hu, Youfang, Mashanovich, Goran and Passaro, Vittorio (2015) Design procedure and fabrication of reproducible silicon vernier devices for high-performance refractive index sensing. [in special issue: Silicon Based Optical Sensors] Sensors, 15 (6), 13548-13567. (doi:10.3390/s150613548).

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In this paper, we propose a generalized procedure for the design of integrated Vernier devices for high performance chemical and biochemical sensing. In particular, we demonstrate the accurate control of the most critical design and fabrication parameters of silicon-on-insulator cascade-coupled racetrack resonators operating in the second regime of the Vernier effect, around 1.55 µm. The experimental implementation of our design strategies has allowed a rigorous and reliable investigation of the influence of racetrack resonator and directional coupler dimensions as well as of waveguide process variability on the operation of Vernier devices. Figures of merit of our Vernier architectures have been measured experimentally, evidencing a high reproducibility and a very good agreement with the theoretical predictions, as also confirmed by relative errors even lower than 1%. Finally, a Vernier gain as high as 30.3, average insertion loss of 2.1 dB and extinction ratio up to 30 dB have been achieved.

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Accepted/In Press date: 8 June 2015
Published date: 10 June 2015
Keywords: integrated waveguide sensors, optical sensing, Vernier effect, silicon
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 386250
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/386250
ISSN: 1424-8220
PURE UUID: c32a04f8-9d68-44b1-9bd6-289c82ebac0e
ORCID for Miloš Nedeljković: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-7911

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:50

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Author: Benedetto Troia
Author: Ali Khokhar
Author: Scott Reynolds
Author: Youfang Hu
Author: Vittorio Passaro

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