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Analysis of a Surface Plasmon Resonance Probe Based on Photonic Crystal Fibers for Low Refractive Index Detection

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A photonic crystal fiber (PCF)-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) probe with gold nanowires as the plasmonic material is proposed in this work. The coupling characteristics and sensing properties of the probe are numerically investigated by the finite element method. The probe is designed to detect low refractive indices between 1.27 and 1.36. The maximum spectral sensitivity and amplitude sensitivity are 6 × 103 nm/RIU and 600 RIU−1, respectively, corresponding to a resolution of 2.8 × 10−5 RIU for the overall refractive index range. Our analysis shows that the PCF-SPR probe can be used for lower refractive index detection.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51474069), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (Grant No. 2016 M59150), Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (Grant No. E2016007), and City University of Hong Kong Applied Research Grant (ARG) No. 9667122 and Strategic Research Grant (SRG) No. 7004644.

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  1. School of Electronics Science, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, 163318, People’s Republic of China

    Chao Liu, Lin Yang, Qiang Liu & Haiwei Mu

  2. School of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, People’s Republic of China

    Famei Wang & Zhijie Sun

  3. Institute of Microelectronics, Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, 117685, Singapore

    Tao Sun

  4. Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Paul K. Chu

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Liu, C., Yang, L., Liu, Q. et al. Analysis of a Surface Plasmon Resonance Probe Based on Photonic Crystal Fibers for Low Refractive Index Detection. Plasmonics 13, 779–784 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-017-0572-7

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