Optical Gas Sensor Using Subwavelength Grating-Based Loop-Terminated Mach-Zender Interferometer

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Physics Department

Second Author's Department

Physics Department

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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3042916

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Abdelrahman Nasser Mohamed A. Swillam

Document Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering

Publication Date

1-1-2025

doi

10.1117/12.3042916

Abstract

Recently, Subwavelength gratings (SWG) have received a lot of attention in evanescent field sensing applications, since it offers a high overlap of more than 50% between the optical guided mode and the cladding material (sensing medium), this overlap can be increased by decreasing the duty cycle of the SWG waveguide leading to a much higher waveguide sensitivity. In this paper, an optical gas sensor is proposed based on the emerging subwavelength grating technology in silicon-on-insulator platform operating in the near-infrared (NIR) region around the 1550 nm wavelength.

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