A Novel High Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multi-Core Micro/Nano Fiber
Abstract A refractive index sensor based on a multi-core micro/nano fiber is proposed for low refractive index solutions. At first, the mode field distribution of the tapered multi-core fiber is analyzed with the finite element model (FEM). After that, the relationship between the refractive index s...
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| author | Yuefeng Qi Jin Zhang Qi Feng Xin Zhang Yanyan Liu Ying Han |
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| description | Abstract A refractive index sensor based on a multi-core micro/nano fiber is proposed for low refractive index solutions. At first, the mode field distribution of the tapered multi-core fiber is analyzed with the finite element model (FEM). After that, the relationship between the refractive index sensitivity and the diameter of the multi-core micro/nano fiber is calculated. At last, four sensors with different sizes are explored, and when the taper length is 16.20 mm, the refractive index sensitivity of the sensor can reach 5815.50 nm/RIU, which agrees with the theoretical analysis. The refractive index measurement error is less than 0.5‰, which has a high practical application value. The longer the taper length is, the smaller the fiber diameter is. According to the theoretical analysis, when the fiber diameter is less than 4.864 µm, the structure sensor’s refractive index sensitivity is higher than 10000 nm/RIU. At the same time, when the sensor’s taper length is 15.99 mm, its temperature sensitivity is −0.1084 nm/°C. Compared with single-mode fiber, the sensor proposed here has the advantages of stability, compact structure, and high sensitivity, which has a potential in the field of seawater salinity measurement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce3209f5b49e434bb348e06e2b67509a2022-12-22T01:37:35ZengSpringerOpenPhotonic Sensors1674-92512190-74392019-05-019319720410.1007/s13320-019-0554-9A Novel High Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multi-Core Micro/Nano FiberYuefeng Qi0Jin Zhang1Qi Feng2Xin Zhang3Yanyan Liu4Ying Han5School of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan UniversitySchool of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan UniversitySchool of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan UniversitySchool of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan UniversitySchool of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan UniversitySchool of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan UniversityAbstract A refractive index sensor based on a multi-core micro/nano fiber is proposed for low refractive index solutions. At first, the mode field distribution of the tapered multi-core fiber is analyzed with the finite element model (FEM). After that, the relationship between the refractive index sensitivity and the diameter of the multi-core micro/nano fiber is calculated. At last, four sensors with different sizes are explored, and when the taper length is 16.20 mm, the refractive index sensitivity of the sensor can reach 5815.50 nm/RIU, which agrees with the theoretical analysis. The refractive index measurement error is less than 0.5‰, which has a high practical application value. The longer the taper length is, the smaller the fiber diameter is. According to the theoretical analysis, when the fiber diameter is less than 4.864 µm, the structure sensor’s refractive index sensitivity is higher than 10000 nm/RIU. At the same time, when the sensor’s taper length is 15.99 mm, its temperature sensitivity is −0.1084 nm/°C. Compared with single-mode fiber, the sensor proposed here has the advantages of stability, compact structure, and high sensitivity, which has a potential in the field of seawater salinity measurement.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13320-019-0554-9Fiber optic sensorrefractive index measurementmulti-core fiber |
| spellingShingle | Yuefeng Qi Jin Zhang Qi Feng Xin Zhang Yanyan Liu Ying Han A Novel High Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multi-Core Micro/Nano Fiber Photonic Sensors Fiber optic sensor refractive index measurement multi-core fiber |
| title | A Novel High Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multi-Core Micro/Nano Fiber |
| title_full | A Novel High Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multi-Core Micro/Nano Fiber |
| title_fullStr | A Novel High Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multi-Core Micro/Nano Fiber |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Novel High Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multi-Core Micro/Nano Fiber |
| title_short | A Novel High Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multi-Core Micro/Nano Fiber |
| title_sort | novel high sensitivity refractive index sensor based on multi core micro nano fiber |
| topic | Fiber optic sensor refractive index measurement multi-core fiber |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13320-019-0554-9 |
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