Highly sensitive refractive index sensor based on two cascaded microfiber knots with vernier effect

A highly sensitive refractive index (RI) sensor based on two cascaded microfiber knots with vernier effect is proposed and demonstrated by theoretical arithmetic. Deriving from high proportional evanescent field of microfiber and sharp spectrum fringes induced by vernier effect, a slight change of a...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Principais autores: Sun, Qizhen, Jia, Weihua, Shum, Perry Ping, Liu, Deming, Xu, Zhilin
Outros Autores: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Formato: Conference Paper
Idioma:English
Publicado em: 2014
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Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104853
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20343
http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1877956
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Resumo:A highly sensitive refractive index (RI) sensor based on two cascaded microfiber knots with vernier effect is proposed and demonstrated by theoretical arithmetic. Deriving from high proportional evanescent field of microfiber and sharp spectrum fringes induced by vernier effect, a slight change of ambient RI will cause large variation of effective RI and significant wavelength shift of resonant peaks, indicating high sensitivity and resolution of the proposed compound resonator. Numerical analysis demonstrates a high sensitivity of 10000nm/RIU and a resolution of 5.57×10−5 RIU at the ambient RI around 1.33 for the fiber diameter of 1μm and cavity radii of R1 = 500μm, R2 = 547.62μm.