Experimental demonstration of guiding and confining light in nanometer-size low-refractive-index material.

By Qianfan Xu, V. Almeida, Roberto R. Panepucci, Michal Lipson. Optics Letters, 2004

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Optofluidic Microsystems for Chemical and Biological Analysis (2011, background): “…54,55 to guide the light through total internal reflection; photonic crystal structures that enhance the fluorescence signal and thus provide better fluorescence collection efficiency 56–60 ; and slot waveguides that confine both liquid and light within the same submicrometre-sized channel 61 .”
Guided-Wave Optical Biosensors (2007, background): “20) are emerging as very attractive guiding structures for integrated optics [36].”
The photonic integration of non-solid media using optofluidics (2011, methodology): “Such waveguides have been implemented with both solid and liquid slot”
Atomic spectroscopy on a chip (2007, methodology): “In addition, different gases, functional waveguide geometries, and optical elements, such as distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) gratings, can be used on the ARROW platform, and some of the techniques described here may even be applied to nanophotonic structures, such as slot waveguide”
Design of Silicon-Based Slot Waveguide Configurations for Optimum Nonlinear Performance (2007, background): “is known as slot waveguide, has been recently proposed to improve the nonlinear performance in a more effective way than photonic crystals [2], [3].”
Guiding, modulating, and emitting light on Silicon-challenges and opportunities (2005, methodology): “We show experimentally in [38] that, using these structures, light can be confined in lowindex regions that can be as small as 50 nm in width.”
Field enhancement within an optical fibre with a subwavelength air core (2007, methodology): “The only prior experimental evidence of subwavelength confinement at visible or near-infrared wavelengths in dielectric waveguides was obtained from an SOI ridge waveguide incorporating a 50-nm slo”