학술논문

Increasing the numerical aperture of waveguides in Gorilla glass® for smartphone applications
Document Type
Conference
Source
2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC, 2017 Conference on). :1-1 Jun, 2017
Subject
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical waveguides
Apertures
Writing
Glass
Absorption
Biosensors
Photonics
Language
Abstract
Improving smartphones to offer increased utility is of great interest to users. Some devices like SPR sensors [I] or photonics crystal biosensor [2] have been demonstrated but these devices need a lot of hardware added-on to the phone, are not integrated and consume additional space. Our approach is to use a 750 μm thick smartphone protective glass and write photonic structures in it. We have already demonstrate a low loss single mode waveguide which have been use to build a Mach-Zehnder based temperature sensor [3]. One problem with these waveguides is the low refractive index change, around 10 −5 , which gives us a numerical aperture of 0.008 limiting the device prospects inside the bulk glass.