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  • Optics and Photonics
  • Nanotechnology
  • Spectroscopy

Background:

  • Conventional spectrometers face a trade-off between resolution and sensitivity, particularly in miniaturized devices.
  • Scaling down spectrometers often leads to reduced performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a miniaturizable spectrometer platform that overcomes the resolution-sensitivity compromise.
  • To enhance light throughput and photon collection efficiency in spectrometers.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a planar, CMOS-compatible platform with metasurface encoders.
  • Engineered metasurfaces to exhibit photonic bound states in the continuum.
  • Demonstrated tunability by adjusting geometric parameters.

Main Results:

  • Achieved enhanced light throughput as resolution increased.
  • Demonstrated up to a two-orders-of-magnitude improvement in photon collection efficiency.
  • Validated the system's sensitivity advantage using ultralow-intensity fluorescence and astrophotonic spectroscopy.

Conclusions:

  • The developed platform offers a route to integrated, chip-based spectrometers.
  • Maintains high resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) without long integration times.
  • Represents a significant advancement for practical spectrometer utility.