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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 94, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3079671
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chemical sensors; photonic crystals; refractive index; voids (solid)
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We fabricated slotted photonic crystal waveguides and cavities supporting resonant modes in air. Their peculiar geometry enables the detection of refractive index changes in a given analyte with high sensitivity because of the large overlap between the optical mode and the analyte. This yields a high figure of merit for the sensitivity of the device and we are able to report values of S=Delta lambda/Delta n over 1500. By applying a photonic crystal heterostructure to the slotted geometry, we are able to create high quality-factor cavities essential for realizing low detection limits up to Q=50 000.
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