Photonic Crystal Sensors
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2014) | Viewed by 31022
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nano-photonic devices based on photonic crystals and surface plasmonics; optical interconnects for board-to-board and chip-to-chip; optical sensors using surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) and infrared absorption; nonlinear optical devices using state-of-the-art polymer materials: electro-optic modulators and all-optical switching; RF photonic devices
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Dear Colleagues,
During the past two decades, photonic crystal sensors have gained tremendous amount of research interests due to the ultra-compact size, high sensitivity, and ease of integration into various platforms. Compared with conventional optical fiber and waveguide-based sensors, photonic crystals offer unique properties that can be obtained from the photonic bandgap structures. For example, slow-light enhanced photonic crystal waveguide and high Q-factor photonic crystal microcavity have been demonstrated for ultra-sensitive gas sensing and biomarker detection.
This Special issue covers a large scope of research in photonic crystal sensors, and solicits contributions in, but not limited to:
- Innovative photonic crystal sensor structures: photonic crystal slot waveguides, photonic crystal microcavities, photonic crystal fibers, bio-inspired and bio-enabled photonic crystals, metallic photonic crystals, and etc.
- New sensing mechanisms on photonic crystal devices: refractive index sensing, UV-Vis-IR absorption, Raman scattering, fluorescence, or combination of multiplex sensing mechanisms
- Broad engineering applications of photonic crystal sensors: gas sensors, chemical sensors, and biosensors
- Photonic crystal sensors based on emerging materials: silicon, organic materials, biological materials, metals, transparent conductive oxides, and 2-D materials
- Clinical applications of photonic crystal sensors, especially for cancer biomarker detections
Dr. Alan X. Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photonic crystal slabs
- photonic crystal waveguides
- photonic crystal fibers
- photonic bandgap
- slow-light effects
- optical sensors
- biomedical devices
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