Low-loss integrated planar chalcogenide waveguides for microfluidic chemical sensing

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6444, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hu, Juejun ^a   Tarasov, Vladimir ^a   Carlie, Nathan ^b   Sun, Rong ^a   Petit, Laeticia ^b   Agarwal, Anu ^a   Richardson, Kathleen ^b   Kimerling, Lionel ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chalcogenide waveguide; Chemical sensing; Evanescent sensor; Microfluidics; Thermal reflow

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMA ETCHING; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; TRANSPARENCY;

CHALCOGENIDE WAVEGUIDES; MICROFLUIDIC CHEMICAL SENSING; THERMAL REFLOW;

CHALCOGENIDES;

EID: 34247394613     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.696996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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