Chip scale integrated microresonator sensing systems.
Medicine, environmental monitoring, and security are application areas for miniaturized, portable sensing systems. The emerging integration of sensors with other components (electronic, photonic, fluidic) is moving sensing toward higher levels of portability through the realization of self-contained chip scale sensing systems. Planar optical sensors, and in particular, microresonator sensors, are attractive components for chip scale integrated sensing systems because they are small, have high sensitivity, can be surface customized, and can be integrated singly or in arrays in a planar format with other components using conventional semiconductor fabrication technologies. This paper will focus on the progress and prospects for the integration of microresonator sensors at the chip scale with photonic input/output components and with sample preparation microfluidics, toward self-contained, portable sensing systems.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0291, USA. nan.jokerst@duke.edu
Nan
N
Jokerst
Matthew
M
Royal
Sabarni
S
Palit
Lin
L
Luan
Sulochana
S
Dhar
Talmage
T
Tyler
D056656:Lab-On-A-Chip Devices; D046208:Microchip Analytical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D018511:Systems Integration