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D-Shaped Photonic Crystal Fiber Plasmonic Sensor Based on Silver-Titanium Dioxide Composite Micro-grating

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A D-shaped photonic crystal fiber surface plasmon resonance (PCF-SPR) sensor is proposed for highly sensitive liquid refractive index sensing. Taking sensing sensitivity into consideration, silver-titanium dioxide (Ag-TiO2) composite micro-grating is introduced and SPR is excited within Ag-TiO2 composite micro-grating at the flat D-shaped PCF surface. The finite element method (FEM) based on COMSOL is applied to analyzed numerically response characteristics of the D-shaped sensor, which was research dependent on wavelength and amplitude interrogation method. The results displayed that designed sensor reached excellent amplitude sensitivity of 2245 RIU−1 and wavelength sensitivity of 10,300 nm/RIU for liquid refractive index varying between 1.33 and 1.40. And it also shows that the maximum figure of merit was 480 RIU−1 for proposed sensor after optimization of structural parameters, which has a great prospect in the biological detection and chemical analysis.

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The work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 51902127, 61703090), Jilin City Science and Technology Innovation Development Plan (grant number 201831789), and Science and Technology Development Plan of Jilin Province under Grant (grant number 20190201098JC).

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    Hairui Fang, Chenjing Wei, Hanrui Yang & Bo Zhao

  2. Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Physics and Chemistry of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Normal University, Changchun, 130103, China

    Long Yuan

  3. Research Institute of Jilin Petrochemical Company, Jilin, 132012, China

    Jing Li

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Fang, H., Wei, C., Yang, H. et al. D-Shaped Photonic Crystal Fiber Plasmonic Sensor Based on Silver-Titanium Dioxide Composite Micro-grating. Plasmonics 16, 2049–2059 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-021-01468-9

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