Gas Sensing Using a Resilient Polymer Photonic Crystal Nanocavity with Ultra-High Quality Factor

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Clevenson, Hannah A.; Desjardins, Pierre; Gan, Xuetao; Englund, Dirk Robert
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Abstract
We present a high-sensitivity, multi-use optical gas sensor based on a one-dimensional polymer photonic crystal cavity. With an experimental Q exceeding 13100, we predict detection levels on the parts-per-billion range for a variety of gases.
Date issued
2013-06
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87122
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Journal
Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO 2013)
Publisher
Optical Society of America
Citation
Clevenson, Hannah, Pierre Desjardins, Xuetao Gan, and Dirk Englund, "Gas sensing using a resilient polymer photonic crystal nanocavity with ultra-high quality factor," in CLEO: Applications and Technology 2013, paper AF1J.2. San Jose, California USA, June 9-14, 2013. © 2013 Optical Society of America.
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AF1J.2.pdf
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978-1-55752-972-5
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