Ring-patterned plasmonic photonic crystal thermal light source for miniaturized near-infrared spectrometers

Labib S.; Elsayed A.; Sabry Y.; Sabry Y.; Khalil, Diaa;

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© COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. There is a growing number of spectroscopy applications in the near-infrared (NIR) range including gas sensing, food analysis, pharmaceutical and industrial applications that requires highly efficient, more compact and low-cost miniaturized spectrometers. One of the key components for such systems is the wideband light source that can be fabricated using Silicon technology and hence integrated with other components on the same chip. In this work, we report a ring-patterned plasmonic photonic crystal (PC) thermal light source for miniaturized near-infrared spectrometers. The design is based on silicon and tuned to achieve wavelength selectivity in the emitted spectrum. The design is optimized by using Rigorous Coupled-Wave Analysis (RCWA) simulation, which is used to compute the power reflectance and transmittance that are used to predict the emissivity of the structure. The design consists of a PC of silicon rings coated with platinum. The period of the structure is about 2 μm and the silicon is highly-doped with n-type doping level in the order of 1019-1020cm-3to enhance the free-carrier absorption. The ring etching depth, diameter and shell thickness are optimized to increase its emissivity within a specific wavelength range of interest. The simulation results show an emissivity exceeding 0.9 in the NIR range up to 2.5 μm, while the emissivity is decreased significantly for longer wavelengths suppressing the emission out of the range of interest, and hence increasing the efficiency for the source. The reported results open the door for black body radiation engineering in integrated silicon sources for spectrometer miniaturization.


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Title Ring-patterned plasmonic photonic crystal thermal light source for miniaturized near-infrared spectrometers
Authors Labib S. ; Elsayed A. ; Sabry Y. ; Sabry Y. ; Khalil, Diaa 
Issue Date 1-Jan-2018
Publisher SPIE
Journal Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 
ISBN 9781510615595
DOI 51
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85047431999
10537
10.1117/12.2288988
Scopus ID 2-s2.0-85047431999

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