Photonics structures

ULTRACOMPACT OPTICAL SENSORS BASED ON HIGH INDEX-CONTRAST PHOTONIC STRUCTURES... 

In the past decade, rapid advancements in photonic technologies have significantly benefited photonic bio/chemical sensors. Numerous novel photonic structures have been invented and developed with tremendous improvement in the three... 

X. Fan (ed.), Advanced Photonic Structures for Biological and Chemical Detection, Integrated Analytical Systems,... 

The collection of chapters in this book represents the most recent global efforts in the research and development of photonic bio/chemical sensing structures. The photonic structures included in book are quite diversified, ranging from optical resonators and interferometers to photonic crystals and specially designed waveguides. For guidance, they are summarized as follows ... 

The creation of photonic structures for chemical and biological detection has been possible through nanofabrication5-10. 

Fig. 16.4 Fabrication and assembly of the NOSA platform with PDMS microfluidics. The three elements of the fabrication are shown with the left column showing the steps involved in fabrica tion of the photonic structure, the middle column showing the fabrication of the fluidics, and the right column the fabrication of the valve layer. The lower image shows the assembly of the three elements into an integrated device similar to that shown in Fig. 16.2d...

Lenne, P. F. Etienne, E. Rigneault, H., Subwavelength patterns and high detection efficiency in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy using photonic structures, Appl. Phys. Lett. 2002, 80, 4106 4108... 

Advanced Photonic Structures for Biological and Chemical Detection... 

While this book surveys a diversified range of photonic sensor structures, it is certainly impossible in one book volume to provide full coverage of all such structures known to science. Thus plasmonic photonic structures, photonic crystal fibers, and nanoparticles will be covered by other upcoming books in this Springer Series Integrated Analytical Systems. ... 

Evolutionary algorithms have been widely used in other areas of physical chemistry, such as photonics. An interesting application is from Lipson et al.16 where the spontaneous emergence of structure was evident when using GAs to design a high-confinement photonic structure. 

Spontaneous Emergence of Periodic Patterns in a Biologically Inspired Simulation of Photonic Structures. 

M. Paulus, and O.J.F. Martin, A fully vectorial technique for scattering and propagation in three-dimensional stratified photonic structures. Optical and Quantum Electronics 33, 315-325 (2001). 

Three-dimensional (3D) structuring of materials allows miniaturization of photonic devices, micro-(nano-)electromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS), micro-total analysis systems (yu,-TAS), and other systems functioning on the micro- and nanoscale. Miniature photonic structures enable practical implementation of near-held manipulation, plasmonics, and photonic band-gap (PEG) materials, also known as photonic crystals (PhC) [1,2]. In micromechanics, fast response times are possible due to the small dimensions of moving parts. Femtoliter-level sensitivity of /x-TAS devices has been achieved due to minute volumes and cross-sections of channels and reaction chambers, in combination with high resolution and sensitivity of optical con-focal microscopy. Progress in all these areas relies on the 3D structuring of bulk and thin-fllm dielectrics, metals, and organic photosensitive materials. 

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