Surface functionalisation of TiO2 evanescent waveguide sensor for E.coli monitoring

Miniature 10 kHz thermo-optic delay line in silicon

The scanning delay line is a key component of time-domain optical coherence tomography systems. It has evolved since its inception toward higher scan rates and simpler implementation. However, existing approaches still suffer from drawbacks in terms of size, cost, and complexity, and they are not suitable for implementation using integrated...

Atomic layer deposition of TiO2 photonic crystal waveguide biosensors

A photonic crystal waveguide biosensor in the visible is presented for biosensing. The sensor is applied to Refractive Index (RI) measurements. The sensitivity at different wavelength is presented for both air holes and air core configurations of photonic crystal waveguide (PCW) made of TiO2. It is shown that by using Atomic Layer Deposition ...

Thermo-optical delay line for optical coherence tomography

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a powerful medical imaging technology. Its ability to non-invasively probe tissues in depth with high resolution has lead to applications in many fields of medicine, with a large potential for surgical guidance. One of the technological challenges impairing faster adoption of OCT is the relative complexity...

A novel method for nanoprecision alignment in wafer bonding applications

Fly's proprioception-inspired micromachined strain-sensing structure: Idea, design, modeling and simulation, and comparison with experimental results

Simple optical characterisation for biomimetic micromachined silicon strain-sensing structure

This paper presents an on-going work to develop micromachined silicon-based strain sensor inspired from the campaniform sensillum of insects. We present simple optical setup for the characterisation of a membrane-in-recess structure as an early stage in mimicking the natural sensor. The microstructure is a 500 nm-thick SiO2/SiN circular membrane...

Polarization-insensitive PECVD SiC waveguides for photonic sensing

Planar silicon carbide (SiC) waveguides are proposed for fabrication on a silicon substrate with a oxide isolation layer. Using post deposition annealing it is possible to achieve low Polarization-Dependent Loss (PDL) within optical SiC waveguides fabricated using a low temperature deposition technique. Those waveguides have been successfully...

Biomimetic strain-sensing microstructure for improved strain sensor: Fabrication results and optical characterization