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Design guidelines for optical resonator biochemical sensors

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Sun, Xiaochen; Hu, Juejun; Kimerling, Lionel C; Agarwal, Anuradha
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose a design tool for dielectric optical resonator-based biochemical refractometry sensors. Analogous to the widely accepted photodetector figure of merit, the detectivity D*, we introduce a new sensor system figure of merit, the time-normalized sensitivity S*, to permit quantitative, cross-technology-platform comparison between resonator sensors with distinctive device designs and interrogation configurations. The functional dependence of S* on device parameters, such as resonant cavity quality factor (Q), extinction ratio, system noise, and light source spectral bandwidth, is evaluated by using a Lorentzian peak fitting algorithm and Monte Carlo simulations to provide theoretical insights and useful design guidelines for optical resonator sensors. Importantly, we find that S* critically depends on the cavity Q factor, and we develop a method of optimizing sensor resolution and sensitivity to noise as a function of cavity Q factor. Finally, we compare the simulation predictions of sensor wavelength resolution with experimental results obtained in Ge[superscript 17]Sb[superscript 12]S[superscript 71] resonators, and good agreement is confirmed.
Date issued
2009-04
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49440
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Materials Processing Center; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Microphotonics Center
Journal
Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics
Publisher
Optical Society of America
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Juejun Hu, Xiaochen Sun, Anu Agarwal, and Lionel C. Kimerling, "Design guidelines for optical resonator biochemical sensors," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26, 1032-1041 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-26-5-1032
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0740-3224

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