T-shape slotted photonic crystal based sensor with high sensitivity

Babayigit C., Turduev M., Giden I. H., Bor E., KURT H.

18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016, Trento, Italy, 10 - 14 July 2016, vol.2016-August identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Volume: 2016-August
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/icton.2016.7550437
  • City: Trento
  • Country: Italy
  • Keywords: photonic crystals, bio-chemical sensing, slotted waveguides, refractive index based sensors, BIOSENSOR
  • TED University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

© 2016 IEEE.In this paper, we propose a novel photonic crystal sensor based on refractive index sensing method. The proposed photonic crystal sensor design has a T-shaped sensing slot region to inject bio-material samples with different refractive index values between 1.00 and 1.35. The corresponding highest refractive index unit (RIU) sensitivity of the designed photonic crystal is numerically calculated as 1016 nm/RIU. The designed photonic crystal sensor can be especially utilized for analysing different gas contaminations and diabetic blood samples in the healthcare sector.