Design and fabrication of multilayer GRIN lenses by multi-material additive manufacturing for light coupling applications in planar optoelectronic systems

Hossein S. Rezaei; Gerrit Hohenhoff; Peter Jaeschke; Stefan Kaierle; Ludger Overmeyer

doi:10.1117/12.2545914

25 February 2020 Design and fabrication of multilayer GRIN lenses by multi-material additive manufacturing for light coupling applications in planar optoelectronic systems

Hossein S. Rezaei, Gerrit Hohenhoff, Peter Jaeschke, Stefan Kaierle, Ludger Overmeyer

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Proceedings Volume 11283, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIV; 112831K (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2545914
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

An integrated refractive index gas sensor working in the Mid infrared (MIR) region and utilizing suspended silicon waveguide is presented. Although many integrated refractive index gas sensors have been proposed in the literatures, their operating wavelength is limited to the near infrared range. Our proposed gas sensors can operate in the mid infrared up to 10μm, were many gases have their absorption fingerprints in order to enhance the sensing performance. A finite difference solver is used to perform the sensitivity analysis of the suspended silicon waveguide in the MIR range for gaseous medium. The analysis shows that a suspended silicon waveguide can achieve high waveguide sensitivity with a minimal mode loss. Thus, we designed a high performance Mach Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) gas sensor using a suspended silicon waveguide as the sensing arm. Three dimensional finite difference time domain (3D-FDTD) solver is used in the design and optimization of two designs. One for the wavelength interrogation scheme of detection and another one for the intensity interrogation scheme. The first design, exhibits high wavelength sensitivity S=7028 nm/RIU and can reach high figure of merit (FOM) of around 180 RIU-1 for both wavelength and intensity interrogation methods with only 250μm sensing arm length. The second design furtherly enhances the intensity interrogation FOM to reach 370RIU-1 at the same length. Intensity interrogation needs only a laser source and a detector. Hence, using our sensor in intensity interrogation based read-out offers compact, low cost and mass scale fabrication which makes our proposed sensor a good platform for lab on chip technology.

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Hossein S. Rezaei, Gerrit Hohenhoff, Peter Jaeschke, Stefan Kaierle, and Ludger Overmeyer "Design and fabrication of multilayer GRIN lenses by multi-material additive manufacturing for light coupling applications in planar optoelectronic systems", Proc. SPIE 11283, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIV, 112831K (25 February 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2545914

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