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Optical sensors based on photonic molecules fabricated on Silicon-on-insulator platform

Grant number: 15/12461-8
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Effective date (Start): September 01, 2015
Effective date (End): August 31, 2016
Field of knowledge:Engineering - Electrical Engineering
Principal Investigator:Luis Alberto Mijam Barea
Grantee:Alvaro Ricardo Guiato Catellan
Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The fast advances in research of integrated silicon photonic and optical microcavities are collaborating for a rapid increase in the number of devices with important features such as reduced size and easy integration with the standard Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology and with other devices present in a chip. Consequently, the applications of these devices are also increasing rapidly, reaching areas of high scientific, technologic and strategic interest. In this context, the optical sensors based on microcavities coupled to waveguides are showing up with applications in significant areas such as physics, biology, chemicals and medicine. However, these sensors still have fundamental limitations like the requirement to have simultaneously high quality factor (Q) as well as long free spectral range (FSR) in microcavities with reduced sizes. In this respect, the purpose of this work is to design, fabricate and characterize optical sensors based on Photonic Molecules (PMs) in Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) platforms. These PMs are photonic structures formed by electromagnetic coupling of two or more optical microcavities and their combination with the SOI platform will make it possible to break the fundamental constraint between Q, FSR and the size of the cavities, allowing optical sensors to be free from the limitations that recent optical sensors based on microcavities face.

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Scientific publications
(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
BAREA, LUIS A. M.; SOUZA, MARIO C. M. M.; MORAS, ANDRE L.; CATELLAN, ALVARO R. G.; CIRINO, GIUSEPPE A.; VON ZUBEN, ANTONIO A. G.; BASSANI, JOSE W. M.; FRATESCHI, NEWTON C.; REED, GT; KNIGHTS, AP. Photonic molecules for application in silicon-on-insulator optical sensors. SILICON PHOTONICS XIII, v. 10537, p. 8-pg., . (15/12461-8, 14/04748-2, 15/20525-6)
MORAS, ANDRE L.; SILVA, VALNIR; SOUZA, MARIO C. M. M.; CIRINO, GIUSEPPE A.; VON ZUBEN, ANTONIO A. G.; BAREA, LUIS A. M.; FRATESCHI, NEWTON C.. Integrated Photonic Platform for Robust Differential Refractive Index Sensor. IEEE Photonics Journal, v. 12, n. 5, p. 10-pg., . (15/12461-8, 14/04748-2, 18/25339-4, 15/20525-6)

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Filed patent(s) as a result of this research project

BIOSSENSOR ÓPTICO INTEGRADO, MÉTODO DE DETECÇÃO E USOS DO BIOSSENSOR BR1020170270157 - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) . LUÍS ALBERTO MIJAM BARÊA / MARIO CESAR MENDES MACHADO DE SOUZA / ANDRÉ LUÍS MORAS JR. / NEWTON FRATESCHI - December 2017, 14