T-shape slotted photonic crystal based sensor with high sensitivity
18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016, Trento, Italy, 10 - 14 July 2016, vol.2016-August, (Full Text)
- 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.