On-chip mid-infrared optical sensing with GeSbSe waveguides and resonators

Abstract

We fabricated single mode Ge28Sb12Se60 waveguides and resonators using e-beam lithography and achieved a propagation loss of 3.88 dB/cm at 3.66 µm. We compared BCl3 and CHF3 etch chemistries and determined CHF3 produced 1.5 dB/cm higher propagation losses at 3.6 µm due to C-H bond absorption. We use fabricated waveguides to detect an aromatic aldehyde dissolved in a non-polar solvent with a limit of detection of 1.09 µmol/mL. We then reduce this detection limit to 0.25 µmol/mL using the enhancement produced by a chalcogenide ring resonator.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 03, 2023
Source ID
10.1364/oe.476186

Entities

People

  • Bo Xu
  • Dag Hjelme
  • Greg Krueper
  • Juliet T. Gopinath
  • Michael Grayson
  • Mo Zohrabi
  • Wounjhang Park

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Department of Education
  • University of Colorado Boulder

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Fields of Study

  • Physics

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