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An Exposed-Core Grapefruit Fibers Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor.
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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) [Sensors (Basel)] 2015 Jul 14; Vol. 15 (7), pp. 17106-14. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Jul 14. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- To solve the problem of air hole coating and analyte filling in microstructured optical fiber-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors, we designed an exposed-core grapefruit fiber (EC-GFs)-based SPR sensor. The exposed section of the EC-GF is coated with a SPR, supporting thin silver film, which can sense the analyte in the external environment. The asymmetrically coated fiber can support two separate resonance peaks (x- and y-polarized peaks) with orthogonal polarizations and x-polarized peak, providing a much higher peak loss than y-polarized, also the x-polarized peak has higher wavelength and amplitude sensitivities. A large analyte refractive index (RI) range from 1.33 to 1.42 is calculated to investigate the sensing performance of the sensor, and an extremely high wavelength sensitivity of 13,500 nm/refractive index unit (RIU) is obtained. The silver layer thickness, which may affect the sensing performance, is also discussed. This work can provide a reference for developing a high sensitivity, real-time, fast-response, and distributed SPR RI sensor.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1424-8220
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 26184227
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s150717106