Title
Design, simulation and fabrication of a hollow core ARROW waveguide in glass substrate for optofluidic applications
Date Issued
20 January 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Universidad de São Paulo
Universidad de São Paulo
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide (ARROW) with hollow core and liquid core are one of the most promising technologies in Lab-on-a-Chips and optofluidic research. Motivated by this, in this paper we present the design, simulation and fabrication processes of hollow core ARROW built in Corning glass substrates and utilizing Si3N4/SiO2 PECVD antiresonant reflecting multilayer films on the channel wall. Details about the TMM/FDM methodology developed for the simple and fast design of ARROW waveguides built with multilayer dielectric thin films deposited over rounded microchannels in glass substrates are exhibited. The preliminary results confirm the light confinement in the hollow core region of the fabricated waveguide structure but further experiment are needed to fully characterize the devices.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales Óptica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84988274682
ISBN of the container
978-147994683-9
Conference
2014 International Caribbean Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems, ICCDCS 2014 - Conference Proceedings
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