Integrated Young interferometer sensor with a channel-planar composite waveguide sensing arm
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Published on: August 30, 2012
Zhi-mei Qi1, Shukai Zhao, Fang Chen
1State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. zhimei-qi@mail.ie.ac.cn
Abstract:
A simple integrated Young interferometer sensor was prepared on a glass substrate with a pair of single-mode straight channel waveguides 75 microm apart. A tapered thin film of TiO2 was locally deposited on one channel to form a composite waveguide sensing arm with a greatly enhanced evanescent field. With the prism-coupling method a single beam of laser light was simultaneously launched into the two channels to yield a high-contrast interference pattern. Refractive-index sensitivity of the interferometer and its response to protein adsorption were investigated by using a slit-photodetector assembly to interrogate the sensor signal. The factors affecting the fringe contrast were analyzed.
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