• DocumentCode
    1127395
  • Title

    Characterization of Silica Nanowires for Optical Sensing

  • Author

    Themistos, Christos ; Rajarajan, Muttukrishnan ; Rahman, B. M Azizur ; Grattan, Kenneth T V

  • Author_Institution
    Frederick Univ., Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    24
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    5537
  • Lastpage
    5542
  • Abstract
    In this paper, the optical properties of silica nanowires in a Mach-Zehnder-based optical sensor for detecting biomaterial specimens have been studied using the full vectorial H-field formulation of the finite element method. The variation of the propagation constant, the power fraction in the composite nanowires with the variation of the nanowire size and the specimen refractive index, temperature, and wavelength are also presented.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; finite element analysis; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical sensors; refractive index; silicon compounds; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; SiO2; biomaterial; finite element method; nanowire size; optical sensor; power fraction; propagation constant; refractive index; silica nanowires; Biomedical transducers; finite element methods; optical fiber applications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Lightwave Technology, Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0733-8724
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JLT.2009.2026655
  • Filename
    5159370
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1127395