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Fabrication and Characterization of On-Chip Integrated Silicon Photonic Bragg Grating and Photonic Crystal Cavity Thermometers
Published
Author(s)
Nikolai Klimov, Thomas P. Purdy, Zeeshan Ahmed
Abstract
We report on the fabrication and characterization of photonic-based nanothermometers, a silicon photonic Bragg grating and photonic crystal cavity. When cladded with silicon dioxide layer the sensors have at least eight times better sensitivity compared to the sensitivity of conventional fiber Bragg grating sensors. We demonstrate that these photonic thermometers are viable temperature sensing solution.
Klimov, N.
, Purdy, T.
and Ahmed, Z.
(2015),
Fabrication and Characterization of On-Chip Integrated Silicon Photonic Bragg Grating and Photonic Crystal Cavity Thermometers, 2015 TechConnect World Innovation Conference , Washington , DC, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=918438
(Accessed October 10, 2025)