Optical refractive index sensors with plasmonic and photonic structures: promising and inconvenient truth

Y Xu, P Bai, X Zhou, Y Akimov, CE Png… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Review of plasmonic fiber optic biochemical sensors: improving the limit of detection

C Caucheteur, T Guo, J Albert - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2015 - Springer
This paper presents a brief overview of the technologies used to implement surface plasmon
resonance (SPR) effects into fiber-optic sensors for chemical and biochemical applications …

Tilted fiber Bragg grating sensors

J Albert, LY Shao, C Caucheteur - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Optical fiber gratings have developed into a mature technology with a wide range of
applications in various areas, including physical sensing for temperature, strain, acoustic …

Symmetrical dual D-shape photonic crystal fibers for surface plasmon resonance sensing

C Liu, W Su, Q Liu, X Lu, F Wang, T Sun, PK Chu - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Symmetrical dual D-shape photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) for surface plasmon resonance
(SPR) sensing are designed and analyzed by the finite element method (FEM). The …

Numerical analysis of a photonic crystal fiber for biosensing applications

EK Akowuah, T Gorman, H Ademgil… - IEEE Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a theoretical study on a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) surface plasmon
resonance biosensor. The proposed PCF sensor introduces the concept of simultaneous …

Ultrasensitive plasmonic sensing in air using optical fibre spectral combs

C Caucheteur, T Guo, F Liu, BO Guan… - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) can be excited on metal-coated optical fibres, enabling
the accurate monitoring of refractive index changes. Configurations reported so far mainly …

Plasmonic fiber optic refractometric sensors: From conventional architectures to recent design trends

E Klantsataya, P Jia, H Ebendorff-Heidepriem… - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) fiber sensor research has grown since the first
demonstration over 20 year ago into a rich and diverse field with a wide range of optical fiber …

A novel birefrigent photonic crystal fiber surface plasmon resonance biosensor

R Otupiri, EK Akowuah, S Haxha… - IEEE Photonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A numerical analysis of a novel birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) biosensor
constructed on the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) model is presented in this paper. This …

Plasmonic optical fiber-grating immunosensing: a review

T Guo, Á González-Vila, M Loyez, C Caucheteur - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Plasmonic immunosensors are usually made of a noble metal (in the form of a film or
nanoparticles) on which bioreceptors are grafted to sense analytes based on the …

Design and performance perspectives on fiber optic sensors with plasmonic nanostructures and gratings: A review

AK Sharma, C Marques - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a sharp review of the current state-of-the-art related to the fiber optic
sensors with (i) gratings (namely, fiber Bragg gratings, ie, FBG and long period fiber …