Are slot and sub-wavelength grating waveguides better than strip waveguides for sensing?

The unique ability of slot and sub-wavelength grating (SWG) waveguides to confine light outside of the waveguide core material has attracted significant interest in their application to chemical and biological sensing. However, high sensitivity to sidewall roughness induced scattering loss in thes...

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Main Authors: Kita, Derek M., Michon, Jerome, Johnson, Steven G, Hu, Juejun
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Optical Society of America 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117587
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