Integrated Photonics for Sensing Applications
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Anu Agarwal, Benjamin Miller, Juejun Hu
- Language: English
This book introduces sensors as an important application area for integrated photonics. It provides a brief historical perspective and highlights key free-space spectroscopic… Read more
This book introduces sensors as an important application area for integrated photonics. It provides a brief historical perspective and highlights key free-space spectroscopic sensing techniques such as FTIR, Raman, SPR, and reflectometry, and it thoroughly explores the advantages of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) sensor systems, which have the potential for low SWAP-C and high performance.
The topics covered include sensor system components such as waveguides (for optical wavelengths less than and greater than 1550 nm), ring resonators and toroids, photonic crystals, MZ interferometers, light input and output, light sources (wavelengths less than and greater than 1550 nm), and spectrometers and detectors. The book considers integrated systems that employ biofunctionalization/sorbents for applications in chem–bio sensing, and it also addresses sensor manufacturing at scale, including materials, PDK development, and sensor packaging.
The topics covered include sensor system components such as waveguides (for optical wavelengths less than and greater than 1550 nm), ring resonators and toroids, photonic crystals, MZ interferometers, light input and output, light sources (wavelengths less than and greater than 1550 nm), and spectrometers and detectors. The book considers integrated systems that employ biofunctionalization/sorbents for applications in chem–bio sensing, and it also addresses sensor manufacturing at scale, including materials, PDK development, and sensor packaging.
• Provides an authoritative reference for the design, manufacturing, testing, and deployment of integrated photonic sensors and sensing systems
• Focuses on an important application area relevant for readers from materials science, electrical and optical engineering, nanotechnology, and manufacturing
• Allows readers to understand the different PIC technologies available, along with their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, and key challenges
• Focuses on an important application area relevant for readers from materials science, electrical and optical engineering, nanotechnology, and manufacturing
• Allows readers to understand the different PIC technologies available, along with their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, and key challenges
Materials Scientists, Electrical Engineers, Optical Engineers
1. Introduction to PIC Sensors
Ben Miller (UR), Juejun Hu (MIT), Anu Agarwal (MIT)
2. Waveguide material platforms for short-wave IR sensing with a focus on silicon nitride
Todd Stievater (NRL)
3. Non SiN waveguide material platforms for visible and near IR sensing
Jay Guo (Michigan)
4. Waveguide platforms for mid-wave IR sensing
Lauren Vivien (C2N, Paris Sud)
5. On-chip spectrometers for sensing
JJ (MIT)
6. On-chip widely tunable lasers for sensing
Jing Zhang (RIT)
7. Refractive index sensing
Ben Miller (UR)
8. Direct absorption spectroscopy with dispersive methods
9. Raman (WERS), SERS, fluorescence spectroscopy
Ben Miller (UR)
10. Functionalization of PICs for molecular adsorption in sensing
Tanya Hutter (UT Austin)
11. Bringing the sample/analyte to the PIC Sensor
Nate Cady (SUNY-Poly)
12. Packaging: fully integrated sensor devices
13. Future of PIC Sensors: Development of PDKs, ADKs, and standards
Kevin McComber (Spark Photonics)
Ben Miller (UR), Juejun Hu (MIT), Anu Agarwal (MIT)
2. Waveguide material platforms for short-wave IR sensing with a focus on silicon nitride
Todd Stievater (NRL)
3. Non SiN waveguide material platforms for visible and near IR sensing
Jay Guo (Michigan)
4. Waveguide platforms for mid-wave IR sensing
Lauren Vivien (C2N, Paris Sud)
5. On-chip spectrometers for sensing
JJ (MIT)
6. On-chip widely tunable lasers for sensing
Jing Zhang (RIT)
7. Refractive index sensing
Ben Miller (UR)
8. Direct absorption spectroscopy with dispersive methods
9. Raman (WERS), SERS, fluorescence spectroscopy
Ben Miller (UR)
10. Functionalization of PICs for molecular adsorption in sensing
Tanya Hutter (UT Austin)
11. Bringing the sample/analyte to the PIC Sensor
Nate Cady (SUNY-Poly)
12. Packaging: fully integrated sensor devices
13. Future of PIC Sensors: Development of PDKs, ADKs, and standards
Kevin McComber (Spark Photonics)
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Anu Agarwal
Anu Agarwal is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, where she is developing an integrated Si-CMOS compatible platform of linear and non-linear materials for photonic devices and systems, especially in the mid-IR regime, for hyperspectral imaging and chem-bio sensing, because most chemical pollutants and biological toxins have their fingerprints in this range.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USABM
Benjamin Miller
Benjamin Miller joined the University of Rochester faculty in 1996, where he is currently Dean’s Professor of Dermatology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, and Optics. His group’s expertise in interferometric and photonic sensing has been applied to the development of several novel optical biosensor platforms, and his group’s work on RNA-targeted drug discovery has resulted in synthetic compounds targeting RNAs involved in several human diseases.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USAJH
Juejun Hu
Juejun (JJ) Hu is currently the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. His primary research interest covers new optical materials exemplified by chalcogenide compounds, as well as enhanced photon-matter interactions in nanophotonic structures. He has authored and coauthored over 150 refereed journal publications and technologies developed in his lab have led to several spin-off companies.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA