Optical electric field sensor sensitivity direction rerouting and enhancement using a passive integrated dipole antenna

Appl Opt. 2017 Jun 10;56(17):4911-4916. doi: 10.1364/AO.56.004911.

Abstract

This work introduces a passive dipole antenna integrated into the packaging of a slab-coupled optical sensor to enhance the directional sensitivity of electro-optic electric field measurements parallel to the fiber axis. Using the passive integrated dipole antenna described in this work, a sensor that can typically only sense fields transverse to the fiber direction is able to sense a 1.25 kV/m field along the fiber direction with a gain of 17.5. This is verified through simulation and experiment.