Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid publications, Vol 1 (2006)
Highly dispersive photonic band-gap-edge optofluidic biosensors
Abstract
strongly sensitive to the refractive index of the liquid, which is
used to tune dispersion of the photonic crystal. The upper frequency band-gap edge shifts about 1.8~nm for $\delta n=0.002$, which is quite sensitive. Results from transmission spectra agree well with those obtained from the band structure theory.
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