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UV written waveguide devices - Bragg gratings and applications in sensors

UV written waveguide devices - Bragg gratings and applications in sensors
UV written waveguide devices - Bragg gratings and applications in sensors
UV direct writing provides a powerful route for the fabrication of integrated optical devices. It has significant benefits in terms of simplicity, flexibility and cost which make it attractive for applying integrated optical concepts to other areas of science and technology. Within our group, we have developed a novel approach for creating Bragg gratings in a planar format, with great flexibility in terms of centre wavelength, bandwidth and position within chip. These planar Bragg grating devices are ideally suited for use in sensors in etched window is created that allows access of the evanescent field of the optical mode to a liquid measurand. The effective index of the mode is altered by the presence of the liquid, and this, in turn, alters the Bragg wavelength of the grating. By measuring the Bragg grating wavelength shift we can resolve refractive index changes of as small 1 part in 10 In this talk, we will present results on sensors for applications in chemical, phase change and biological sensing. Further recent results will show how this sensor configuration may be used with nematic liquid crystals to achieve tunable grating operation with tuning exceeding 100GHz.
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Smith, P.G.R., Gawith, C.B.E., Gates, J.C., Kundys, D.O., Adikan, M.F.R., Holmes, C., Major, H.E., Garcia-Ramirez, M. and Snow, B.D. (2007) UV written waveguide devices - Bragg gratings and applications in sensors. Conference on Advancement of Materials and Nanotechnology (ICAMN 2007), Langkawi, Malaysia. 29 May - 01 Jun 2007. 1 pp .

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UV direct writing provides a powerful route for the fabrication of integrated optical devices. It has significant benefits in terms of simplicity, flexibility and cost which make it attractive for applying integrated optical concepts to other areas of science and technology. Within our group, we have developed a novel approach for creating Bragg gratings in a planar format, with great flexibility in terms of centre wavelength, bandwidth and position within chip. These planar Bragg grating devices are ideally suited for use in sensors in etched window is created that allows access of the evanescent field of the optical mode to a liquid measurand. The effective index of the mode is altered by the presence of the liquid, and this, in turn, alters the Bragg wavelength of the grating. By measuring the Bragg grating wavelength shift we can resolve refractive index changes of as small 1 part in 10 In this talk, we will present results on sensors for applications in chemical, phase change and biological sensing. Further recent results will show how this sensor configuration may be used with nematic liquid crystals to achieve tunable grating operation with tuning exceeding 100GHz.

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Published date: 2007
Additional Information: Invited paper
Venue - Dates: Conference on Advancement of Materials and Nanotechnology (ICAMN 2007), Langkawi, Malaysia, 2007-05-29 - 2007-06-01

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Local EPrints ID: 65753
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/65753
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ORCID for P.G.R. Smith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0319-718X
ORCID for C.B.E. Gawith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-3558
ORCID for J.C. Gates: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8671-5987
ORCID for C. Holmes: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-3760

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Author: P.G.R. Smith ORCID iD
Author: C.B.E. Gawith ORCID iD
Author: J.C. Gates ORCID iD
Author: D.O. Kundys
Author: M.F.R. Adikan
Author: C. Holmes ORCID iD
Author: H.E. Major
Author: M. Garcia-Ramirez
Author: B.D. Snow

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