Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 22, Issue 15, Pages 6112-6120Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01198
Keywords
absorption spectroscopy; waveguide sensors; long-wave infrared; all-dielectric metamaterial; silicon photonics
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We propose an all-dielectric metamaterial-assisted comb (ADMAC) waveguide to greatly enhance the sensing capability. Our sensor operates in the underdeveloped long-wave infrared spectral region, where absorption fingerprints of plentiful chemical bonds are located.
Nanophotonic waveguides that implement long optical pathlengths on chips are promising to enable chip-scale gas sensors. Nevertheless, current absorption-based waveguide sensors suffer from weak interactions with analytes, limiting their adoptions in most demanding applications such as exhaled breath analysis and trace-gas monitoring. Here, we propose an all-dielectric metamaterial-assisted comb (ADMAC) waveguide to greatly boost the sensing capability. By leveraging large longitudinal electric field discontinuity at periodic high-index-contrast interfaces in the subwavelength grating metamaterial and its unique features in refractive index engineering, the ADMAC waveguide features strong field delocalization into the air, pushing the external optical field confinement factor up to 113% with low propagation loss. Our sensor operates in the important but underdeveloped long-wave infrared spectral region, where absorption fingerprints of plentiful chemical bonds are located. Acetone absorption spectroscopy is demonstrated using our sensor around 7.33 mu m, showing a detection limit of 2.5 ppm with a waveguide length of only 10 mm.
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