scholarly journals Statistical Modelling of Photonic Crystal Fibre Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors Resonant Peak Wavelength for Tolerance Studies

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (19) ◽  
pp. 6603
Author(s):  
Samuel Osifeso ◽  
Suoda Chu ◽  
K. Nakkeeran

We report a statistical approach to model the resonant peak wavelength (RPW) equation(s) of a photonic crystal fibre (PCF)-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors in terms of the PCF structural parameters (air-hole diameter, pitch, core diameter and gold layer thickness) at various tolerance levels. Design of experiments (statistical tool) is used to investigate the role played by the PCF structural parameters for sensing performance evaluation—RPW, across three tolerance levels (±2%, ±5% and ±10%). Pitch of the hollow-core PCF was discovered to be the major influencing parameter for the sensing performance (RPW) of the PCF-based SPR sensor while the inner metal (gold) layer thickness and core diameter are the least contributing parameters. This novel statistical method to derive the sensing performance parameter(s) of the PCF-based SPR sensors can be applied effectively and efficiently in the designing, characterisation, tolerance analysis not only at the research level, but also in optical fibre sensor fabrication industry to improve efficiency and lower cost.

Plasmonics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 861-867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Abdul Khalek ◽  
Sujan Chakma ◽  
Kawsar Ahmed ◽  
Bikash Kumar Paul ◽  
Dhasarathan Vigneswaran ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaopeng Hao ◽  
Shuguang Li ◽  
Xin Yan ◽  
Xuenan Zhang ◽  
Guowen An ◽  
...  

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 408
Author(s):  
Xin Yan ◽  
Yao Wang ◽  
Tonglei Cheng ◽  
Shuguang Li

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·RIU−1. The linearity is good; R2 = 0.99927, which is very suitable for liquid sensing.


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