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PCF Based Sensor with High Sensitivity, High Birefringence and Low Confinement Losses for Liquid Analyte Sensing Applications

Ademgil, Huseyin, Haxha, Shyqyri (2015) PCF Based Sensor with High Sensitivity, High Birefringence and Low Confinement Losses for Liquid Analyte Sensing Applications. Sensors, 15 (12). pp. 31833-31842. ISSN 1424-8220. E-ISSN 1424-8220. (doi:10.3390/s151229891) (KAR id:53581)

Abstract

In this paper, we report a design of high sensitivity Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) sensor with high birefringence and low confinement losses for liquid analyte sensing applications. The proposed PCF structures are designed with supplementary elliptical air holes in the core region vertically-shaped V-PCF and horizontally-shaped H-PCF. The full vectorial Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations performed to examine the sensitivity, the confinement losses, the effective refractive index and the modal birefringence features of the proposed elliptical air hole PCF structures. We show that the proposed PCF structures exhibit high relative sensitivity, high birefringence and low confinement losses simultaneously for various analytes.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.3390/s151229891
Uncontrolled keywords: evanescent sensing; photonic crystal fiber based; fiber sensors; integrated optics
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Tina Thompson
Date Deposited: 04 Jan 2016 14:23 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 13:32 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/53581 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Haxha, Shyqyri.

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