Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Foundry-fabricated dual-color nanophotonic neural probes for photostimulation and electrophysiological recording
doi: 10.1101/2024.09.25.614961
Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Conceptual diagram of bi-layer grating coupler emitters. The design features a fully-etched grating coupler in SiN2, followed by a corrugated grating in SiN1. The 473 nm emitter (length: 101 µ m) consists of a SiN2 grating (fill factor: 50%, period: 0.47 µ m) with width apodization from 0.254 µ m to 2.038 µ m, followed by a SiN1 corrugated grating (fill factor: 50%, period: 0.47 µ m) with central waveguide width of 0.22 µ m and grating width apodization from 1.431 µ m to 1.5 µ m. The 638 nm emitter (length: 101 µ m) consists of a SiN2 grating (fill factor: 50%, period: 0.63 µ m) with width apodization from 0.493 µ m to 1.381 µ m, followed by a SiN1 corrugated grating (fill factor: 50%, period: 0.63 µ m) with central waveguide width of 0.22 µ m and grating width apodization from 0.627 µ m to 1.26 µ m. (b) Simulated far field projection of the 473 nm grating coupler emitter in water (refractive index, n = 1.3361). (c) Simulated far field projection of the 638 nm grating coupler emitter in water (refractive index, n = 1.3315). Simulations in (b,c) used Lumerical 3D FDTD with combined TE-and TM-polarized input light (modeling depolarized input light).
Article Snippet: Neural probes were designed and simulated using Lumerical finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) optical simulations (Ansys, Inc., Canonsburg, PA, USA).
Techniques: Refractive Index