Design of bragg grating sensors based on submicrometer optical Rib Waveguides in SOI

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1603-1611

  Passaro, Vittorio M N ^a,b   Loiacono, Renzo ^a   D'Amico, Giuseppe ^b   De Leonardis, Francesco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Index Terms Bragg grating; Integrated optics; Optical sensors; Silicon photonics; Silicon on insulator (SOI)

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATING SENSORS; COUPLED MODE THEORY; DETECTION LIMITS; FABRICATION TOLERANCES; FIRST-ORDER; INDEX TERMS-BRAGG GRATING; INTEGRATED OPTICAL SENSORS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS; RIB WAVEGUIDES; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SILICONON-INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY (SOI); SUBMICROMETER SCALE; SUBMICROMETERS; THIRD-ORDER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 63849261538     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.929068     Document Type: Article

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