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Design of an Ultra-Compact and Highly-Sensitive Temperature Sensor Using Photonic Crystal Based Single Micro-Ring Resonator and Cascaded Micro-Ring Resonator

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In the present report, a photonic crystal based micro-ring resonator (MRR) structure is proposed which is very compact in size and has very fast response and is employed for temperature sensing purpose. Temperature sensing application for both the single MRR and cascaded MRR is illustrated in this paper. The sensitivity of the reported structure is increased from 2.9 nm/°C to 3.4 nm/°C by cascading two MRR. The refractive index of the material is subjected to change with the variation in temperature which results in the shift of the resonant wavelength of the proposed sensor. The finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation is utilized to see the transmission spectrum of the proposed structure and analyzing the shift in the resonance wavelength the temperature is calculated. The proposed design is simple, reliable and may be integrated into different transducer and sensing applications.

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Acknowledgements

This research work is a part of research project entitled “Design of photonic crystal micro-ring resonator based all-optical sensors” under taken by Dr. Jayanta Kumar Rakshit which is funded by “Third phase of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP-III): Minor (seed) Research grant scheme at NIT Agartala”, India. (Ref. No.: F.NITA.2 (265-Estt)/2019/TEQIP-III/Research Grant/9469-71).

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  1. Department of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, National Institute Of Technology Agartala, Argartala, Tripura, 799046, India

    Uttara Biswas & Jayanta Kumar Rakshit

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Argartala, Tripura, 799046, India

    Joyashree Das

  3. Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Techno Engineering College, Banipur, Habra, West Bengal, India

    Gaurav Kumar Bharti

  4. Department of Physics, MLB Government College, Nokha, Bikaner, Rajasthan, 334803, India

    Bhuvneshwer Suthar

  5. Smart Photonics Lab, Department of Computing and Information Systems, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, 47500, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

    Angela Amphawan

  6. Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Angela Amphawan

  7. University of Tunis El Manar, National Engineering School of Tunis Communications Systems LR-99-ES21(LR-Sys’Com-ENIT), 1002, Tunis, Tunisia

    Monia Najjar

  8. University of Tunis El Manar, Higher Institute of Computer, 2080, Ariana, Tunisia

    Monia Najjar

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Biswas, U., Rakshit, J.K., Das, J. et al. Design of an Ultra-Compact and Highly-Sensitive Temperature Sensor Using Photonic Crystal Based Single Micro-Ring Resonator and Cascaded Micro-Ring Resonator. Silicon 13, 885–892 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-020-00489-z

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