A new SOI sensor design for detecting cancer using hybrid waveguide with higher sensitivity than both strip and slot waveguides
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Published:2024-01-27
Issue:3
Volume:56
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ISSN:0306-8919
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Container-title:Optical and Quantum Electronics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Opt Quant Electron
Author:
Shawky Sherine,El-Malek Ahmed H. Abd,Allam Ahmed,Shalaby Hossam M. H.
Abstract
AbstractA new highly accurate optical biomedical sensor is proposed for cancer detection characterized by high sensitivity, small footprint, low cost, and low limit of detection. The sensor is based on double-ring resonators made of silicon on insulator. The type of the waveguide is critical in determining the sensor performance. To compromise the advantages and disadvantages of strip and slot waveguides, a mixed design of both has been introduced in literature at the expense of increased footprint compared to traditional sensors. Indeed, almost 27-fold footprint increase is required to improve the sensitivity by only one third of that of slot waveguide’s sensitivity. In this paper, we introduce a new design that keeps the same footprint of traditional sensors, while achieving high sensitivity. This sensitivity depends on the resonance wavelength shift due to different refractive indices of the biosample. It has the value 109.8 nm/RIU compared to 55.57 nm/RIU and 129.621 nm/RIU for strip and slot waveguides, respectively. The hybrid waveguide quality factor is 537.7 while the quality factors of the strip and the slot waveguides are 627.99 and 380.76, respectively. In addition, the new design achieves the minimum limit of detection (0.0255) when compared to that of traditional designs. Furthermore, a new method of detection is proposed with the same design, providing a higher sensitivity over both traditional waveguide types with a value of 15.3, compared to 13.2 and 11.5 for strip and slot waveguides, respectively. In this method, the sensitivity relies on various values of output transmitted light at the same wavelength due to altering the biocell refractive index. The biosensor output equation is developed. In addition, the relationship between the supermodes and the sensitivity is determined at variance conditions. It is found that there is an inverse relation between them.
Funder
Agreement between Springer Nature and Science, Technology & Innovation Funding Authority (STDF) in cooperation with Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB). Egypt Japan University
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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