• Photonic Sensors
  • Vol. 12, Issue 3, 220303 (2022)
Liang ZENG1, Jiaqi LI1, Chengyi CAO1, Xudong LI1, Xinyuan ZENG1, Quanhao YU1, Kunhua WEN1、2、*, Jun YANG2、3, and Yuwen QIN2、3
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 3School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s13320-022-0650-0 Cite this Article
    Liang ZENG, Jiaqi LI, Chengyi CAO, Xudong LI, Xinyuan ZENG, Quanhao YU, Kunhua WEN, Jun YANG, Yuwen QIN. An Integrated-Plasmonic Chip of Bragg Reflection and Mach-Zehnder Interference Based on Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguide[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2022, 12(3): 220303 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In this paper, a Bragg reflector is proposed by placing periodic metallic gratings in the center of a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide. According to the effective refractive index modulation caused by different waveguide widths in a period, a reflection channel with a large bandwidth is firstly achieved. Besides, the Mach-Zehnder interference (MZI) effect arises by shifting the gratings away from the waveguide center. Owing to different optical paths with unequal indices on both sides of the grating, a narrow MZI band gap will be obtained. It is interesting to find out that the Bragg reflector and Mach-Zehnder interferometer are immune to each other, and their wavelengths can be manipulated by the period and the grating length, respectively. Additionally, we can obtain three MZI channels and one Bragg reflection channel by integrating three different gratings into a large period. The performances are investigated by finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations. In the index range of 1.33 – 1.36, the maximum sensitivity for the structure is as high as 1 500 nm/RIU, and it is believed that this proposed structure can find widely applications in the chip-scale optical communication and sensing areas.
    Liang ZENG, Jiaqi LI, Chengyi CAO, Xudong LI, Xinyuan ZENG, Quanhao YU, Kunhua WEN, Jun YANG, Yuwen QIN. An Integrated-Plasmonic Chip of Bragg Reflection and Mach-Zehnder Interference Based on Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguide[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2022, 12(3): 220303
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