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Analysis of a photonic crystal temperature sensor based on Z-shaped ring resonator

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A 2D photonic crystal (PC) sensor based on optical filter has been designed using a PC ring resonator (PCRR). The sensor used a 2D-PCRR triangular lattice with circular silicon rods placed in air background. We employed a ring resonator with Z-shaped core in the investigated structure, which is designed as temperature sensor and investigated theoretically along with high quality factor, transmission and sensitivity parameters. For sensing analysis, the 2D finite-difference time-domain method and the plane-wave expansion approach have been applied. A temperature variation from 0 to 20 °C causes a defect mode shifting and the channel filter wavelength shift was used as sensing mechanism. Using the number of the functionalized rods N = 36 at the temperature of 5 °C, the quality factor, the temperature sensitivity, the refractive index sensitivity and the detection limit of the studied structure were found to be 57,104, 96 pm/°C, 400 nm/RIU and 6.16 × 10–6 RIU, respectively.

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    Ahlem Benmerkhi, Amel Bounouioua, Mohamed Bouchemat & Touraya Bouchemat

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Benmerkhi, A., Bounouioua, A., Bouchemat, M. et al. Analysis of a photonic crystal temperature sensor based on Z-shaped ring resonator. Opt Quant Electron 53, 41 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-020-02730-w

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