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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 16(93), p. 164107

DOI: 10.1063/1.3009560

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An on-chip liquid tunable grating using multiphase droplet microfluidics

Journal article published in 2008 by L. K. Chin ORCID, A. Q. Liu, J. B. Zhang, C. S. Lim, Y. C. Soh
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Abstract

This letter reports the realization of liquid tunable long-period grating (LPG) using multiphase droplet microfluidics that is integrated onto a microfluidic chip. A stream of plugs is formed by two immiscible liquids and acted as LPG. It provides the tunability in the grating period by tuning the flow rates of the liquids, the refractive index and the index variation of the core layer by using different combinations of liquids. The experimental results show attenuation strength of 0.14 and attenuation bandwidth of 7.6 nm. The chip is promising as a sensor for biochemical applications and a tunable filter for optical measurement.