Open AccessOn-chip simultaneous measurement of humidity and temperature using cascaded photonic crystal microring resonators with error correction
Author(s) -
Jianfu Wang,
Suen Xin Chew,
Shijie Song,
Liwei Li,
Linh Nguyen,
Xiaoke Yi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.466362
Subject(s) - resonator , materials science , dielectric , sensitivity (control systems) , optics , fabrication , photonics , optoelectronics , humidity , relative humidity , photonic crystal , silicon , coating , electronic engineering , nanotechnology , physics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , engineering , thermodynamics
We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of cascaded silicon-on-insulator photonic crystal microring resonators (PhCMRRs) for dual-parameter sensing based on a multiple resonances multiple modes (MRMM) technique. Benefitting from the slow-light effect, the engineered PhCMRRs exhibit unique optical field distributions with different sensitivities via the excitation of dielectric and air modes. The multiple resonances of two distinct modes offer new possibilities for enriching the sensing receptors with additional information about environmental changes while preserving all essential properties of traditional microring resonator based sensors. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate the feasibility of extracting humidity and temperature responses simultaneously with a single spectrum measurement by employing polymethyl methacrylate as the hydrophilic coating, obtaining a relative humidity (RH) sensitivity of 3.36 pm/%RH, 5.57 pm/%RH and a temperature sensitivity of 85.9 pm/°C, 67.1 pm/°C for selected dielectric mode and air mode, respectively. Moreover, the MRMM enriched data further forges the capability to perform mutual cancellation of the measurement error, which improves the sensing performance reflected by the coefficient of determination (R 2 -value), calculated as 0.97 and 0.99 for RH and temperature sensing results, respectively.