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Optimization of Multimode Fibers for Surface Plasmon Resonance Based Sensors Under Spectral and Single Wavelength Intensity Interrogation

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In an optical fiber based SPR sensor, a segment of metal clad silica fiber is used as the sensing element and resonant coupling occurs to the surface plasmon mode excited at the interface of the metal and ambient which surrounds the sensing element. When polychromatic light is transmitted through the sensing element, the spectrum of light detected at the other end shows minima at a resonance wavelength. In wavelength interrogation, the shift in the resonance wavelength is a measure of change in the refractive index of the ambient. Alternatively, intensity interrogation can be used in which the change in transmitted power at a given wavelength is a measure of change in refractive index of the ambient. The sensitivity and detection accuracy of the sensor depend on the numerical aperture (NA) of the multimode optical fiber used to fabricate the sensor. In the present work, we have carried out a study of the dependence of the sensitivity and detection accuracy on numerical aperture to obtain the optimal value for a multimode optical fiber which is used to fabricate the sensing element under both wavelength and intensity interrogation. For a gold clad sensing element with l/a = 33.33 for the refractive index of the ambient in the range 1.33 to 1.38, the optimized numerical aperture is obtained as \(NA\)= 0.2 for spectral interrogation mode. At this optimal value, the sensitivity is estimated to be 4040 nm/RIU and detection accuracy lies between 20 and 48 μm−1. In single wavelength intensity interrogation, at the He–Ne laser wavelength (633 nm), the optimized numerical aperture is obtained as \(NA\)= 0.42. Experimental results on a sensing element fabricated with gold coating on the core of a plastic clad silica fiber are also reported.

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The authors would like to thank the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India for the financial support.

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Shivani Sital and Anjli Baliyan. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Shivani Sital and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Sital, S., Baliyan, A., Sharma, E.K. et al. Optimization of Multimode Fibers for Surface Plasmon Resonance Based Sensors Under Spectral and Single Wavelength Intensity Interrogation. Plasmonics 17, 665–673 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-021-01556-w

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