Journal
MICROMACHINES
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/mi12040408
Keywords
photonic crystal fiber; surface plasmon resonance effect; finite element method; liquid sensor; refractive index; sensitivity; linearity
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61775032, 11604042]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [N170405007, N160404009]
- 111 project [B1009]
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This paper presents a refractive index sensor model based on Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) and utilizes the surface plasmon resonance effect for measurement, showing high sensitivity and good linearity, making it suitable for liquid sensing.
This paper proposes a Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) refractive index sensor model based on the surface plasmon resonance effect. The proposed PCF model also uses the full vector finite element method to transfer the structure under the anisotropic Perfect Matching Layer (PML) boundary condition. Numerical calculations were carried out on the sensor characteristics. The calculation results show that the elliptical air hole on the left side of the PCF core is coated with a gold-nano film which serves as a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensing channel to detect the refractive index of liquid materials. Compared with other structures, the resonant peak generated by the excited SPR effect from the elliptical sensing channel has a high sensitivity to the change of the refractive index of the liquid to be measured. With the help of this attribute, it is relatively easy to adjust the sensitivity. The refractive index range of this structure is within 1.43-1.49 and the sensitivity is up to 12,719.97 nm center dot RIU-1. The linearity is good; R-2 = 0.99927, which is very suitable for liquid sensing.
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