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Ultrahigh Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance Effect of Double-Ring Hollow-Core Anti-Resonant Fiber

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In this paper, a refractive index (RI) sensor is presented on the basis of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect of double-ring hollow-core anti-resonant fiber (DR-HC-ARF), which has great sensitivity and wide detection range. In the design, the DR-HC-ARF consists of 12 silica tubes in two layers inside and outside, with the X-forward inner silica tube filled with gold wire. The simulation results indicated that the achievable maximum sensitivity, minimum resolution, and largest figure of merit of the DR-HC-ARF sensor filled with gold wire are −20600 nm/RIU, 4.85 × 10−6 RIU, and 615.79 RIU−1, respectively, when measuring using the confinement loss approach. The maximum sensitivity, minimum resolution, and largest birefringence of the DR-HC-ARF sensor filled with gold wire are −21200 nm/RIU, 4.71 × 10−6 RIU, and 2.38 × 10−4, respectively, for the birefringence analysis approach. The ultrahigh RI sensitivity of DR-HC-ARF sensor filled with gold wire paves a promising way on the applications in the field of biochemical detection.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62105373, 62171487);Knowledge Innovation Program of Wuhan-Shuguang Project (2022010801020408); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of the South-Central MinZu University (CZZ22001).

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  1. School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China

    Min Liu & Xuemin Leng

  2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Wireless Communications, Hubei Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Internet of Things Technology, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Wenjun Ni

  3. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Perry Ping Shum

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Liu, M., Leng, X., Ni, W. et al. Ultrahigh Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance Effect of Double-Ring Hollow-Core Anti-Resonant Fiber. Plasmonics 19, 1475–1485 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-023-02069-4

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