Numerical investigation of supercontinuum generation and optical frequency combs in Si N-based PCF with high nonlinear coefficient

In this paper, a photonic crystal fiber(PCF) with a dispersion-engineered and high nonlinear coefficient has been designed for supercontinuum generation(SCG) and frequency comb generation(FCG). The proposed PCF has a Si_(3)N_(4) rod in the core. This rod provides more optical confinement in the core by increasing the refractive index of the core. This high confinement reduces the effective mode area of PCF and thus increases the nonlinear coefficient.

Design and Optimization of Index-Guiding Photonic Crystal Fiber Gas Sensor

An index guiding photonic crystal fiber used in gas sensing applications is presented. The dependency of the confinement loss and relative sensitivity on the fiber parameters and wavelength is numerically investigated by using the full-vectorial finite element method （FEM）. The simulations showed that the gas sensing sensitivity increased with an increase in the core diameter and a decrease in the distance between centers of two adjacent holes. Increasing the hole size of two outer cladding rings, this structure simultaneously showed up to 10% improved sensitivity, and the confinement loss reached 6x 10-4 times less than that of the prior sensor at the wavelength of 1.5 μm. This proved the ability of this fiber used in gas and chemicals sensing applications.

High Resolution and Wide Dynamic Range Pressure Sensor Based on Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

The authors present a new design of high resolution and wide dynamic range photonic crystal pressure sensor. This sensor is based on two-dimensional photonic crystal with square array of silicon rods surrounded by air. The sensor consists of a photonic crystal waveguide which is coupled to a photonic crystal nanocavity. The waveguide is configured by removing one row of Si rods and nanocavity is formed by modifying the radius of one Si rod. The sensor is designed for 1300 nm-1400 nm wavelengths. Simulation results show that resonant wavelength of nanocavity is linearly shifted to larger wavelengths by increasing the pressure. The designed sensor has a linear behavior between 0.1 GPa to 10 GPa of applied pressure and 8 nrrdGPa of pressure sensitivity.

Four-Channel Label-Free Photonic Crystal Biosensor Using Nanocavity Resonators

In this paper, we design and characterize a novel small size four-channel biosensor based on the two-dimensional photonic crystal with introducing waveguides and nano-cavities in the hexagonal lattice of air pores in the silicon slab. By removing a group of air pores, waveguides are achieved, and nano-cavities are shaped by modifying the radius of air pores. Highly parallel operation of this biosensor due to the special architecture is the capability of the designed structure. The biomaterials which are suspended in a liquid medium inside nano-cavities cause effective refractive index changes which lead to the resonant wavelength shift in the output terminal. According to results, with increasing the refractive index of nano-cavities, resonant wavelengths shifts to longer values. For biochemical sensing like DNA molecule and protein and for the refractive index detection, this novel designed biosensor can be utilized.

Micro-Displacement Sensor Based on High Sensitivity Photonic Crystal

In this paper, we present a micro-displacement sensor formed by the fixed and movable photonic crystal slabs. In this sensor, a waveguide was created by changing the radius of holes rather than removing them. At a proper operating wavelength, the structure could be used as the micro-displacement sensor. The results revealed that the micro-displacement sensor had a sensitivity of 3.6 gm-1, the Q-factor was nearly 180, and the sensing range was 0.0 ~tm - 0.5 p.m. The properties of the micro-displacement sensor are also analyzed theoretically and verified using the finite-difference time-domain （FDTD） method carried out using the software （Rsoft）.

An Optical MIM Pressure Sensor Based on a Double Square Ring Resonator

In this paper, we have proposed a metal-insulator-metal （MIM） pressure sensor which consists of two plasmonic waveguides and a double square ring resonator. The two square rings are connected via a rectangular patch located between the two of them. The surface plasmon polaritons （SPPs） can be transferred from a square ring to the other through this patch. The finite-difference time-domain method （FDTD） has been used to simulate the device. Applying a pressure on the structure, it deforms, and a red shift of 103 nm in the resonance wavelength has been calculated. The deformation is linearly proportional to the wavelength shift in a wide range of wavelength. The proposed optical plasmonic pressure sensor has a sensitivity of 16.5nm/MPa which makes it very suitable for using in biological and biomedical engineering.

Investigation of response time of small footprint photonic crystal AND logic gate

In this paper, the response time of all-optical AND logic gate using the triangular photonic crystal lattice is investigated. The proposed logic gate consists of a photonic crystal nano-resonator formed by changing the size of the dielectric rods. The structure benefits the interference effect mechanism. The contrast ratio of the photonic crystal AND logic gate is obtained as 6 d B. In addition to simplicity, the designed nano-resonator increases the bit rate of logic gate. The delay time and footprint of logic gate are respectively 0.32 ps and 146 μm2. The proposed photonic crystal AND logic gate can operate at a bit rate of 3.12 Tbit/s。

Design and implementation of super-heterodyne nano-metrology circuits

The most important aim of nanotechnology development is to construct atomic-scale devices, and those atomic-scale devices are required to use some measurements that have ability to control and build in the range of these dimensions. A method based on super- heterodyne interferometers can be used to access the measurements in nano-scale. One of the most important limitations to increase the resolution of the displacement measurement is nonlinearity error. According to the base and measurement signals received by optical section of super-heterodyne interferometer, it is necessary for circuits to reconstruct and detect corresponding phase with target displacement. In this paper, we designed, simulated, and implemented the circuits required for electronic part of interferometer by complementary metal-oxide-semicon- ductor （CMOS） 0.5 ~tm technology. These circuits included cascade low-noise amplifiers （LNA） with 19.1 dB gain and 2.5dB noise figure （NF） at 500MHz frequency, band-pass filters with 500MHz central fre- quency and 400 kHz bandwidth, double-balanced mixers with 233/0.6pm ratio for metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors （MOSFETs）, and low-pass filters with 300 kHz cutoff frequency. The experimental results show that the amplifiers have 19.41 dB gain and 2.7 dB noise factor, mixers have the ratio of radio frequency to local oscillator （RF/LO） range between 80 and 2500 MHz with intermediate frequency （IF） range between DC to 1000 MHz, and the digital phase measurement circuit based on the time-to-digital converter （TDC） has a nanosecond resolution.

Transfer matrix modeling of avalanche photodiode

In this article, we calculated and modeled the gain of Ino.53Gao.47As/[nP avalanche photodiode （APD） based on a device mechanism and carrier rate equations using transfer matrix method （TMM）. In fact, a distributed model was presented for calculating impact ionization （I2） and relating different sections of the multiplication region. In this proposed model, recessive equations were used, and device gain is considered proportional to the number of output photo-electrons and photo-holes. By comparison of simulated results with experimental data available in literature, it has been demonstrated the capability of the developed model as a powerful tool for simulating APDs＇ behavior and interpreting their experimentally measured characteristics.