scholarly journals A Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fiber for Terahertz Spectroscopic Chemical Sensing

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1799
Author(s):  
Tianyu Yang ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Yunjie Shi ◽  
Shidi Liu ◽  
Yuming Dong
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Fiber ◽  
Chemical Sensing ◽  
Numerical Aperture ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Relative Sensitivity ◽  
Chemical Sensitivity ◽  
High Birefringence ◽  
Crystal Fiber ◽  
Polarization Maintaining

A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with high relative sensitivity was designed and investigated for the detection of chemical analytes in the terahertz (THz) regime. To ease the complexity, an extremely simple cladding employing four struts is adopted, which forms a rectangular shaped core area for filling with analytes. Results of enormous simulations indicate that a minimum 87.8% relative chemical sensitivity with low confinement and effective material absorption losses can be obtained for any kind of analyte, e.g., HCN (1.26), water (1.33), ethanol (1.35), KCN (1.41), or cocaine (1.50), whose refractive index falls in the range of 1.2 to 1.5. Besides, the PCF can also achieve high birefringence (∼0.01), low and flat dispersion, a large effective modal area, and a large numerical aperture within the investigated frequency range from 0.5 to 1.5 THz. We believe that the proposed PCF can be applied to chemical sensing of liquid and THz systems requiring wide-band polarization-maintaining transmission and low attenuation.

scholarly journals A Highly Sensitive, Polarization Maintaining Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensor Operating in the THz Regime

Photonics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohel Rana ◽  
Nirmala Kandadai ◽  
Harish Subbaraman
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Fiber ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Relative Sensitivity ◽  
Computational Technique ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
High Birefringence ◽  
Crystal Fiber ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Imaging And Spectroscopy

In this paper, a high sensitivity, polarization preserving photonic crystal fiber (PCF), based on circular air holes for sensing in the terahertz (THz) band, is presented. The finite element method, a practical and precise computational technique for describing the interactions between light and matter, is used to compute the modal properties of the designed fiber. For the designed PCF, comprising of circular air holes in both the cladding and in the porous core, a relative sensitivity of 73.5% and a high birefringence of 0.013 are achieved at 1.6 THz. The all circular air-hole structure, owing to its simplicity and compatibility with the current fiber draw technique for PCF fabrication, can be realized practically. It is anticipated that the designed fiber can be employed in applications such as detection of biological samples and toxic chemicals, imaging, and spectroscopy.

scholarly journals Theoretical Considerations of Photonic Crystal Fiber with All Uniform-Sized Air Holes for Liquid Sensing

Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Abdul Mu’iz Maidi ◽  
Pg Emeroylarffion Abas ◽  
Pg Iskandar Petra ◽  
Shubi Kaijage ◽  
Nianyu Zou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Fiber ◽  
Nonlinear Coefficient ◽  
Numerical Aperture ◽  
Relative Sensitivity ◽  
Effective Area ◽  
Confinement Loss ◽  
Crystal Fiber ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Liquid Sensing

A novel liquid-infiltrated photonic crystal fiber model applicable in liquid sensing for different test liquids—water, ethanol and benzene—has been proposed. One core hole and three air hole rings have been designed and a full vector finite element method has been used for numerical investigation to give the best results in terms of relative sensitivity, confinement loss, power fraction, dispersion, effective area, nonlinear coefficient, numerical aperture and V-Parameter. Specially, the assessed relative sensitivities of the proposed fiber with water, ethanol and benzene are 94.26%, 95.82% and 99.58%, respectively, and low confinement losses of 1.52 × 10−11 dB/m with water, 1.21 × 10−12 dB/m with ethanol and 6.01 × 10−16 dB/m with benzene, at 1.0 μm operating wavelength. This novel PCF design is considered simple and can be easily fabricated for practical use, and the assessed waveguide properties has determined the potential applicability in real liquid sensing applications.

High birefringence and broadband dispersion compensation photonic crystal fiber

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mahbub Hossain ◽  
Md. Shamim Ahsan ◽  
Niloy Sikder ◽  
Md. Ekhlasur Rahaman ◽  
Abdullah Al-Mamun Bulbul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Fiber ◽  
Wavelength Division Multiplexing ◽  
Dispersion Compensation ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Square Lattice ◽  
Relative Dispersion ◽  
Dispersion Slope ◽  
High Birefringence ◽  
Crystal Fiber

AbstractWe propose a perfectly square lattice photonic crystal fiber (PCF) which shows high birefringence and negative dispersion. To set up high asymmetry in the core, dual line imperfection is considered where the fill fraction ratio and defect air hole diameter exhibit significant impact on dispersion and birefringence. Numerical analyses of guiding properties of the proposed PCF are done using finite element method with perfectly matched layer boundary condition from 1.2 to 1.8 μm wavelength. The optimized square lattice PCF presents high birefringence of 2.48 × 10−2 and dispersion of −777.66 (ps/nm.km) at 1.55 μm wavelength. In addition, the proposed PCF offers ultra-low confinement and insertion loss at 1.55 μm wavelength. Moreover, −0.45 (ps/nm2.km) dispersion slope and 0.0045 nm−1 relative dispersion slope are observed at 1.55 μm wavelength. Additionally, the proposed PCF maintains dispersion and birefringence variation of ±30 (ps/nm.km) and ±0.00001 between 1.5 and 1.6 μm wavelength ranges, respectively. Furthermore, the proposed PCF shows high quality factor and low bit error rate at 10 dBm input power. We believe the proposed square lattice PCF can be deployed in wavelength division multiplexing based optical fiber transmission system for wide-band dispersion compensation.

scholarly journals High sensitive triangular photonic crystal fiber sensor design applicable for gas detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
A. Abbaszadeh ◽  
S. Makouei ◽  
S. Meshgini
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Gas Sensor ◽  
Photonic Crystal Fiber ◽  
Relative Sensitivity ◽  
Effective Area ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Confinement Loss ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
High Birefringence ◽  
Crystal Fiber

A new triangular photonic crystal fiber with a based microstructure core gas sensor has been proposed for the wavelength range from 1.1μm to 1.7μm. The guiding trait of the proposed structure depends on geometric parameters and wavelength, which are numerically studied by the finite element method. According to the results, the relative sensitivity obtained as high as 75.14% at 1.33μm wavelength. high birefringence and effective area are also obtained by order of 3.75×10-3 and 14.07 μm2 finally, low confinement loss of 1.41×10-2 dB/m is acquired at the same wavelength. The variation of the diameters in the cladding and core region is investigated and the results show that this structure has good stability for manufacturing goals. Since the results show the highest sensitivity at wavelengths around 1.2μm to 1.7μm, which is the absorption line of many gases such as methane (CH4), hydrogen fluoride (HF), ammonia (NH3), this gas sensor can be used for medical and industrial applications.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Ultrasensitive Hexagonal-Cored Photonic Crystal Fiber for Hazardous Chemical Sensing

Photonics ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Abdul Mu’iz Maidi ◽  
Norazanita Shamsuddin ◽  
Wei-Ru Wong ◽  
Shubi Kaijage ◽  
Feroza Begum
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Fiber ◽  
Chemical Sensing ◽  
Chromatic Dispersion ◽  
Relative Sensitivity ◽  
Crystal Fiber ◽  
Hazardous Chemical ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Vector Finite Element Method ◽  
Vector Finite Element

A highly sensitive non-complex cored photonic crystal fiber sensor for hazardous chemical sensing with water, ethanol, and benzene analytes has been proposed and is numerically analyzed using a full-vector finite element method. The proposed fiber consists of a hexagonal core hole and two cladding air hole rings, operating in the lower operating wavelength of 0.8 to 2.6 µm. It has been shown that the structure has high relative sensitivity of 94.47% for water, 96.32% for ethanol and 99.63% for benzene, and low confinement losses of 7.31 × 10−9 dB/m for water, 3.70 × 10−10 dB/m ethanol and 1.76 × 10−13 dB/m benzene. It also displays a high power fraction and almost flattened chromatic dispersion. The results demonstrate the applicability of the proposed fiber design for chemical sensing applications.

A Novel High-Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fiber and its Polarization Maintaining Properties

2013 ◽  
Vol 760-762 ◽  
pp. 185-189
Author(s):  
Jian Hui Zeng ◽  
Xu You Li ◽  
Wen Bin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Fiber ◽  
Theoretical Method ◽  
High Birefringence ◽  
Crystal Fiber ◽  
Vector Finite Element Method ◽  
Vector Finite Element ◽  
Polarization Maintaining ◽  
Modal Field ◽  
Full Vector

A novel high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) was proposed and analyzed by full-vector finite element method (FEM). The modal field and birefringence properties were investigated. All of air holes in proposed PCF are round, and their diameters are the same. It is greatly reduce the difficulty of fabrication. According to the results of numerical analysis, it can be observed that the mode birefringence of this novel PCF can be easily achieve the order of 10-3at 1.55μm. This research provides effective theoretical method for the fabrication, development and construction of high-birefringence photonic crystal fiber.

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