Highly Sensitive Grating-Coupled Bloch Surface Wave Resonance Biosensor via Azimuthal Interrogation

V. Koju [1], W. M. Robertson [1],
[1] Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA
Published in 2016

A dielectric multilayer structure, with a grating profile on the surface layer, can couple light into a strongly confined surface wave, known as a Bloch surface wave. These surface modes can be used to design bio-sensors. The corrugated surface structure also enables azimuthal angular excitation of Bloch waves. In this paper, we exploit azimuthal interrogation to design highly sensitive Bloch surface wave bio-sensors. We present finite-element based numerical simulations to show enhanced refractive index sensitivity.