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Quasi photonic crystal fiber for chemical sensing purpose in the terahertz regime: design and analysis

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In this work, a novel quasi-photonic crystal fiber has been proposed, for the first time, in the chemical sensing purpose in the terahertz (THz) regime. Along with the sensing response, power fraction, scattering loss, effective mode area, and V parameter have been numerically computed by the full-vector finite element method with anisotropic circular perfect matched layers. Numerically computed results show that the proposed sensor offers 70.94%, 71.06%, and 72.19% sensing responses for targeted analytes water, ethanol, and benzene respectively at the optical frequency f = 1 THz. Besides, effective mode area of 1.43 × 105 µm2, 1.48 × 105 µm2 and 1.55 × 105 µm2 have found at the same time for the same analytes. The Q-PCF model proposed in this paper have bright aspects for practical applications in clinical and diagnostic sensing, medical imaging, environmental monitoring purpose and many other fields related to it.

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Technology, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail, 1902, Bangladesh

    Bikash Kumar Paul, Kawsar Ahmed, Shuvo Sen & Md. Shadidul Islam

  2. Group of Biophotomatiχ, Tangail, Bangladesh

    Bikash Kumar Paul & Kawsar Ahmed

  3. Department of Software Engineering, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Bikash Kumar Paul

  4. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

    Dhasarathan Vigneswaran

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Paul, B.K., Ahmed, K., Vigneswaran, D. et al. Quasi photonic crystal fiber for chemical sensing purpose in the terahertz regime: design and analysis. Opt Quant Electron 51, 238 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-019-1956-z

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