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Integrated opto-mechanical cantilever sensor with a rib waveguide
Hongru Zhang1, Guofang Fan1, Shi Li2
1Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network, Ministry of Education, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
An integrated opto-mechanical cantilever sensor with a rib waveguide is reported in this paper. The device consists of a rib waveguide cantilever with buried waveguides on silicon. The rib cantilever is introduced to match better with the buried waveguide, further for increasing the interface coupling efficiency. With this configuration, single-mode operating can be achieved in transverse direction without decreasing the width of optical waveguide cantilever. The system sensitivity is 1.1 μm-1 which is increased by about 21%, compared with the conventional structure.
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