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  • CLEO/Europe and EQEC 2011 Conference Digest
  • OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2011),
  • paper CK_P27

Enhancing Chemical Sensitivity of a Tilted Planar Bragg Grating Using a Thin Gold Layer

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Abstract

The use of weakly tilted Bragg gratings to couple light from core waveguide modes to plasmon resonances within thin gold layers has gained increased interest over recent years [1-3]. Chemical sensing using such techniques has a multitude of advantages, including access to developed gold based chemistry for surface functionalisation and an enhancement of chemical sensitivity, particularly for the biochemically ubiquitous solvent, water (1.33). Despite the obvious benefits of such devices, fabrication has principally been limited to optical fibre platforms, with little fabrication development being made in the planar regime [4]. This work reports the use of a thin (50 nm) sputtered gold layer to enhance the chemical sensitivity of a weakly tilted planar Bragg grating (TPBG), illustrated in Figure 1 (a). Therefore, allowing access to the benefits of planar integration for this newly emerging technology.

© 2011 Optical Society of America

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