Interferometric approach to solve microring resonance splitting in biosensor applications
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Silicon-on-insulator microring resonators have proven to be an excellent platform for label-free nanophotonic biosensors. The high index contrast of the silicon-on-insulator platform allows for fabrication of micrometer size sensors. However, it also limits the quality of the resonances by introducing an intrinsic mode-splitting. Small deviations from perfect symmetry lift the degeneracy of the normal resonator modes. This severely deteriorates the quality of the output signal. The quality of the resonances is of utmost importance to determine the performance of the microrings as a biosensor. We suggest an integrated interferometric approach to give access to the unsplit, high-quality normal modes of the microring resonator.
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Integrated interferometric approach to solve microring resonance splitting in biosensor applications.
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