Microdisk Resonator With Negative Thermal Optical Coefficient Polymer for Refractive Index Sensing With Thermal Stability

Authors

• Tao Ma, College of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
• Jinhui Yuan, State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China
• Feng Li, Photonics Research Centre, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
• Lei Sun, State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China
• Zhe Kang, Photonics Research Centre, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
• Binbin Yan, State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China
• Qiang Wu, Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UKFollow
• Xinzhu Sang, State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China
• Heng Liu, College of Electrica and Electrical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
• Fang Wang, College of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Henan Normal University,Xinxiang, China
• Bo Wu, College of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
• Chongxiu Yu, State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China
• Gerald Farrell, Technological University DublinFollow

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Article

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a microdisk resonator with negative thermal optical coefficient (TOC) polymer for refractive index (RI) sensing with thermal stability. The transmission characteristics and sensing performances by using quasi-TE01 and quasi-TM01 modes are simulated by a three-dimensional finite element method. The influences of the TOC, RI, and thickness of the polymer on the sensing performances are also investigated. The simulation results show that the RI sensitivity Sn and temperature sensitivity ST with different polymers are in the ranges of 25.1-26 nm/RIU and 67.3-75.2 pm/K for the quasi-TE01 mode, and 94.5-110.6 nm/RIU and 1.2-51.3 pm/K for the quasi-TM01 mode, respectively. Moreover, figure-of-merit of the temperature sensing for the quasi-TM01 mode is in the range of 2 × 10 -4 -8 × 10 -3 , which can find important application in the implementation of the adiabatic devices.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2018.2811758

Recommended Citation

Ma, T., Yuan, J. & Li, F. (2018). Microdisk resonator with negative thermal optical co-efficient polymer for refractive index sensing with thermal stability. IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 10, no. 2. doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2018.2811758