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Design and simulation of a multichannel sensing system for liquid refractometry based on integrated photonics
A.G. Zakoyan 1, G.S. Voronkov 1, V.S. Lyubopytov 1, A.K. Sultanov 1, E.P. Grakhova 1, R.V. Kutluyarov 1

1 Ufa University of Science and Technology,
450076, Ufa, Russia, Z. Validi str., 32

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DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-1268

Pages: 884-894.

Full text of article: English language.

Abstract:
The paper proposes a new architecture for the photonic laboratory-on-a-chip sensing systems, where multiple sensors based on microring resonators (MRR) are fed by a MRR with low quality factor, working as a spectrum shaper. This architecture enables simultaneous intensity scanning of at least four MRR-based sensors on the silicon-on-insulator platform. We evaluated numerically the system’s sensitivity for various schemes of connecting the sensors and the spectrum shaper. The sensor’s sensitivity was 110 nm/RIU. The sensing system configuration largely determines its sensitivity, which reaches 1980 dB/RIU. The considered architecture may be useful for implementing fully integrated optical lab-on-a-chip structures, as well as distributed multichannel sensing systems.

Keywords:
lab-on-a-chip, sensing system, integrated photonics, silicon-on-insulator, ring resonators.

Citation:
Zakoyan AG, Voronkov GS, Lyubopytov VS, Sultanov AK, Grakhova EP, Kutluyarov RV. Design and simulation of a multichannel sensing system for liquid refractometry based on integrated photonics. Computer Optics 2023; 47(6): 884-894. DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-1268.

Acknowledgements:
The research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation: state assignment for USATU, agreement No 075-03-2021-014 dated 29.09.2021 (FEUE-2021-0013).

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