Route towards a label-free optical waveguide sensing platform based on lossy mode resonances
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2019Autor
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Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
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Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
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Resumen
According to recent market studies of the North American company Allied Market Research, the field
of photonic sensors is an emerging strategic field for the following years and it is expected to garner $18 billion
by 2021. The integration of micro and nanofabrication technologies in the field of sensors has allowed the
development of new technological concepts such as lab-on-a-chip which have ...
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According to recent market studies of the North American company Allied Market Research, the field
of photonic sensors is an emerging strategic field for the following years and it is expected to garner $18 billion
by 2021. The integration of micro and nanofabrication technologies in the field of sensors has allowed the
development of new technological concepts such as lab-on-a-chip which have achieved extraordinary advances
in terms of detection and applicability, for example in the field of biosensors. This continuous development has
allowed that equipment consisting of many complex devices that occupied a whole room a few years ago, at
present it is possible to handle them in the palm of the hand; that formerly long duration processes are carried out
in a matter of milliseconds and that a technology previously dedicated solely to military or scientific uses is
available to the vast majority of consumers. The adequate combination of micro and nanostructured coatings with
optical fiber sensors has permitted us to develop novel sensing technologies, such as the first experimental
demonstration of lossy mode resonances (LMRs) for sensing applications, with more than one hundred citations
and related publications in high rank journals and top conferences. In fact, fiber optic LMR-based devices have
been proven as devices with one of the highest sensitivity for refractometric applications. Refractive index
sensitivity is an indirect and simple indicator of how sensitive the device is to chemical and biological species,
topic where this proposal is focused. Consequently, the utilization of these devices for chemical and biosensing
applications is a clear opportunity that could open novel and interesting research lines and applications as well as
simplify current analytical methodologies. As a result, on the basis of our previous experience with LMR based
sensors to attain very high sensitivities, the objective of this paper is presenting the route for the development of
label-free optical waveguide sensing platform based on LMRs that enable to explore the limits of this technology
for bio-chemosensing applications. [--]
Materias
Lossy mode resonances,
Optical fiber sensor,
Thin-films,
Sensing platform,
Refractive index
Editor
IFSA Publishing
Publicado en
Sensors & Transducers, Vol. 238, Issue 11, November 2019, pp. 42-48
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute of Smart Cities - ISC /
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoa eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritza Saila
Entidades Financiadoras
This work was supported in part by the Spanish
Ministry of Education and Science-FEDER TEC2016-
78047-R, Government of Navarra 0011-1365-2017-
000117 and Public University of Navarra PJUPNA26
research grants as well as the ATTRACT call financed
by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under grant agreement
No. 777222.