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Optical microcavity has an important and promising application in high sensitivity sensing, but thermal drift hinders its practical use. In this study, we propose a triple-layer-coated microsphere resonator, which has a high sensitivity in refractive index sensing with low thermal drift. The refractive indexes of the three layers from the inside to the outside are high, low, and high, respectively. The two high refractive index layers can support their own whispering-gallery modes, called the inner mode (IM) and the outer mode (OM). We study the performance of IM and OM with waveguide coupling in refractive index sensing and temperature sensing. The results show that when the thickness of the middle layer is 550 nm, the refractive index sensitivity of IM and OM will be 0.0168 nm/RIU, 102.56 nm/RIU, and the temperature sensitivity will be –19.57 pm/K and –28.98 pm/K, respectively. The sensing is carried out by monitoring the difference in resonant wavelength between IM and OM and the sensing characteristics are optimized by adjusting the thickness of the middle layer. Further, when
${t_B}$ = 400 nm, the refractive index sensitivity can arrive at 75.219 nm/RIU, the detection limit can reach 2.2 × 10–4 RIU, and the thermal drift is reduced to 3.17 pm/K, thereby eliminating the effect of thermal drift to a great degree. This study provides the guidance for designing and improving the microsphere refractive index sensors.-
Keywords:
- optical microcavity /
- coated layer structure /
- whispering-gallery modes /
- refractive index sensing
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图 1 耦合三层膜结构微球腔模型示意图 (a)三层膜结构微球腔模型; (b)二维仿真模型
Figure 1. Schematic drawing of a coupled triple-layer-coated microsphere model: (a) Triple-layer-coated microsphere model; (b) 2D simulation model.
图 2 不同中间膜层厚度时内外模式的电场径向分布曲线及电场分布云图
Figure 2. Electric field distributions of the inner and outer modes and the distributions along the radial direction with a various
${t_B}$ .
图 3 (a)
${t_B} = 550$ nm时球腔的透射谱; (b)外层模式(m = 148); (c)内层模式(m = 140)Figure 3. (a) The transmission spectrum of the microsphere when
${t_B} = 550$ nm; (b) the outer mode (m = 148); (c) the inner mode (m = 140).
图 4 外层模式(a)与内层模式(c)透射谱随外界环境折射率的变化趋势; 外层模式(b)与内层模式(d)谐振波长偏移量
${\rm{\text{δ}}}{\lambda _{\rm{R}}}$ 与外界环境折射率变化量${\rm{\text{δ} }}n$ 的关系Figure 4. Transmission spectra for the outer mode (a) and the inner mode (c) with the change of the external environment RI; The relationship between the shift of the resonance wavelength
${\rm{\text{δ} }}{\lambda _{\rm{R}}}$ and the change of the external environment RI$\text{δ} n$ for the outer mode (b) and the inner mode (d).
图 5 外层模式(a)与内层模式(b)谐振波长
${\lambda _{\rm{R}}}$ 与环境温度$T$ 的关系Figure 5. The relationship between the resonance wavelength
${\lambda _{\rm{R}}}$ and the environment temperature$T$ for the outer mode (a) and the inner mode (b).
图 6 不同中间层厚度
${t_B}$ 时内外模式的折射率灵敏度(a)和温度灵敏度(b)Figure 6. The refractive index sensitivity (a) and temperature sensitivity (b) for the inner mode and the outer mode with a various
${t_B}$ . -
[1] Vahala K J 2003 Nature 424 839
Google Scholar
[2] Song Q H 2019 Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 62 074231
Google Scholar
[3] Hanumegowda N M, Stica C J, Patel B C, White I, Fan X D 2005 Appl. Phys. Lett. 87 201107
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[5] Dong C H, He L, Xiao Y F, Gaddam V, Ozdemir S, Han Z F, Guo G C, Yang L 2009 Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 231119
Google Scholar
[6] Liu S, Sun W Z, Wang Y J, Yu X Y, Xu K, Huang Y Z, Xiao S M, Song Q H 2018 Optica 5 612
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Chen H J, Fang X W, Chen C Z, Li Y 2016 Acta Phys. Sin. 65 194205
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Tang S J, Li B B, Xiao Y F 2019 Physics 48 137
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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