Optofluidics: Waveguides and devices

In this work we review recent results of our work on optofluidics. We show that single mode optofluidic waveguides with low loss can be realized using antiresonant reflecting optical confinement (ARROW). These waveguides can be fabricated using full standard silicon technology or hybrid silicon-polymer processes. ARROW waveguides have been used...

Reflectance-based Photonic Crystal Liquid Sensors Made of ALD TiO2

A promising concept for a photonic crystal sensor for liquid sensing applications is introduced. The two dimensional photonic crystals are fabricated using a recently developed Atomic layer deposition ARrays Defined by Etch-back technique (AARDE) to obtain large functional surfaces and dense pillar arrays. Photonic signals are collected by means...

Liquid core integrated ring resonator

We report the design and the fabrication of an integrated optofluidic ring resonator based on liquid core antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide (ARROW) operating around ?=635nm with a water filled core (nc=1.33). This waveguide permits a strong coupling between light and analyte as the same microchannel can be used for delivering sample and...

Waveguide based optofluidics

Integrated liquid core AntiResonant Reflecting Optical Waveguide (ARROW) are used as basic component for the realization of complex optofluidic devices. Liquid core ARROW waveguides permit to confine the light in a low refractive index liquid core, by means of two high refractive index cladding layers designed to form a high reflectivity Fabry...

Silicon micro-optics for smart light control

We present an overview of the results of our recent research in the field of adaptive optical components based on silicon microtechnologies, including membrane deformable mirrors, spatial light modulators, liquid-crystal correctors, wavefront sensors, and both spherical and aspherical micro-optical components. We aim at the realization of...