title: Integrated Young interferometer sensor with a channel-planar composite waveguide sensing arm.
abstract: A simple integrated Young interferometer sensor was prepared on a glass substrate with a pair of single-mode straight channel waveguides 75 microm apart. A tapered thin film of TiO2 was locally deposited on one channel to form a composite waveguide sensing arm with a greatly enhanced evanescent field. With the prism-coupling method a single beam of laser light was simultaneously launched into the two channels to yield a high-contrast interference pattern. Refractive-index sensitivity of the interferometer and its response to protein adsorption were investigated by using a slit-photodetector assembly to interrogate the sensor signal. The factors affecting the fringe contrast were analyzed.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. zhimei-qi@mail.ie.ac.cn
authors.forename: Zhi-mei
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Shukai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shanhong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xia