title: Silicon on-chip bandpass filters for the multiplexing of high sensitivity photonic crystal microcavity biosensors.
abstract: A method for the dense integration of high sensitivity photonic crystal (PC) waveguide based biosensors is proposed and experimentally demonstrated on a silicon platform. By connecting an additional PC waveguide filter to a PC microcavity sensor in series, a transmission passband is created, containing the resonances of the PC microcavity for sensing purpose. With proper engineering of the passband, multiple high sensitivity PC microcavity sensors can be integrated into microarrays and be interrogated simultaneously between a single input and a single output port. The concept was demonstrated with a 2-channel L55 PC biosensor array containing PC waveguide filters. The experiment showed that the sensors on both channels can be monitored simultaneously from a single output spectrum. Less than 3 dB extra loss for the additional PC waveguide filter is observed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin , 10100 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78758, USA.
authors.forename: Hai
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-2756-7683
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin , 10100 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78758, USA.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7675-8542
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: Omega Optics, Inc. , 8500 Shoal Creek Blvd., Austin, Texas 78757, USA.
authors.forename: Swapnajit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chakravarty
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin , 10100 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78758, USA.
authors.forename: Chun-Ju
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Yang
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Donglei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Ray T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Chen
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