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On-chip NIR optical spectrometer based on polymeric waveguide and metallic nano-structures

Malak Karam Awadallah, M.
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Jefimovs, K.
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Alberti, E.
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2014
Moems And Miniaturized Systems Xiii
Photonics West 2014

In this work, we report about optical spectrometry using gold nano-structures printed on a polymer based integrated optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is a single mode buried waveguide, having dimensions of 3x2.2µm 2 . It is made from a combination of photo-polymerizable materials and is fabricated by photolithography on a glass substrate. To sense the electric field inside the waveguide, a gold nano-coupler array of thin lines (50 nm thick and 8 µm length) is embedded on top of the aforementioned waveguide. They are produced by E-beam lithography. The array pitch is 2.872 µm and the number of lines 564, which yields an array of 1.619 mm length. The device is enclosed with a glass superstrate to prevent it from dust and destruction. Both waveguide ports are polished and the output port in particular, is coated with a thin gold layer to assimilate a mirror and hence, it enables the creation of stationary waves inside the structure. The measurement procedure involves light injection using a single mode fiber carrying both visible light (658nm) and infrared light (785nm), used for alignment and measurement purposes respectively. Stationary waves generated inside the guide constitute the spatial interferogram. Locally, light is out-coupled using the nano-couplers and allows measuring the interferogram structure. The resulting pattern is imaged by a vision system involving an opticalmicroscope with a digital camera mounted on-top of it. Signal processing, mainly based on Fast Fourier transform is performed on the captured signal to extract the spectral content of the measured signal.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.2037218
Author(s)
Malak Karam Awadallah, M.
Jefimovs, K.
Alberti, E.
Herzig, Hans Peter  
Scharf, Toralf  
Date Issued

2014

Published in
Moems And Miniaturized Systems Xiii
ISBN of the book

978-0-8194-9890-8

Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of SPIE; 8977

Start page

89770S1

Subjects

Polymer waveguide

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Epocore/Epoclad

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nano-antennas

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nano-couplers

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field samplers

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spectrometer

Editorial or Peer reviewed

NON-REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Photonics West 2014

San Francisco, California, USA

Fabruary 1-6, 2014

Available on Infoscience
March 17, 2014
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/101936
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