A Refractive Index Sensor Based on H-Shaped Photonic Crystal Fibers Coated with Ag-Graphene Layers

An Ag-graphene layers-coated H-shaped photonic crystal fiber (PCF) surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor with a U-shaped grooves open structure for refractive index (RI) sensing is proposed and numerically simulated by the finite element method (FEM). The designed sensor could solve the problems of...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2020-01, Vol.20 (3), p.741
Main Authors: Li, Tianshu, Zhu, Lianqing, Yang, Xianchao, Lou, Xiaoping, Yu, Liandong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birefringence
Conjugation
Crystal fibers
Design
Electric fields
Graphene
Grooves
h-shaped optical fiber
liquid refractive index
Oxidation
Parameter sensitivity
photonic crystal fibers
Photonic crystals
Polarized light
Pollution monitoring
Refractivity
Sensors
Silver
surface plasmon resonance
Thickness
Water pollution
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Summary:An Ag-graphene layers-coated H-shaped photonic crystal fiber (PCF) surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor with a U-shaped grooves open structure for refractive index (RI) sensing is proposed and numerically simulated by the finite element method (FEM). The designed sensor could solve the problems of air-holes material coating and analyte filling in PCF. Two big air-holes in the x-axis produce a birefringence phenomenon leading to the confinement loss and sensitivity of x-polarized light being much stronger than y-polarized. Graphene is deposited on the layer of silver in the grooves; its high surface to volume ratio and rich π conjugation make it a suitable dielectric layer for sensing. The effect of structure parameters such as air-holes size, U-shaped grooves depth, thickness of the silver layer and number of graphene layers on the sensing performance of the proposed sensor are numerical simulated. A large analyte RI range from 1.33 to 1.41 is calculated and the highest wavelength sensitivity is 12,600 nm/RIU. In the linear RI sensing region of 1.33 to 1.36; the average wavelength sensitivity we obtained can reach 2770 nm/RIU with a resolution of 3.61 × 10 RIU. This work provides a reference for developing a high-sensitivity; multi-parameter measurement sensor potentially useful for water pollution monitoring and biosensing in the future.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s20030741