• DocumentCode
    510682
  • Title

    Highly-sensitive optical sensor using two cascaded-microring resonators with Vernier effect

  • Author

    Jin, Lei ; Li, Mingyu ; He, Jian-Jun

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Integrated Optoelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 310027
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-6 Nov. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A highly-sensitive optical sensor comprising of two cascaded microring resonators with Vernier effect is investigated theoretically. It is shown that a refractive index change in the order of 10−7 RIU can be measured from the relative intensities of two adjacent modes.
  • Keywords
    Biomedical optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Optical sensors; Optical surface waves; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Resonance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2009 Asia
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-877-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-877-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5377348