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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 20, Issue 21, Pages 23162-23173Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.023162
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- European Commission (OPTIBIO)
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA PD)
- National Development Agency [TAMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0025, REG_KD_09-2-2009-0022-NANOFLAG]
- HAS
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Grating Coupled Interferometry (GCI) using high quality waveguides with two incoupling and one outcoupling grating areas is introduced to increase and precisely control the sensing length of the device; and to make the sensor design suitable for plate-based multiplexing. In contrast to other interferometric arrangements, the sensor chips are interrogated with a single expanded laser beam illuminating both incoupling gratings simultaneously. In order to obtain the interference signal, only half of the beam is phase modulated using a laterally divided two-cell liquid crystal modulator. The developed highly symmetrical arrangement of the interferometric arms increases the stability and at the same time offers straightforward integration of parallel sensing channels. The device characteristics are demonstrated for both TE and TM polarized modes. (C)2012 Optical Society of America
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