Journal
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2963125
Keywords
Fiber Bragg grating; cladding mode; mode transition; surface refractive index sensitivity
Funding
- Southern University of Science and Technology [Y01236228, Y01236128]
- Shenzhen government [Y01236228, Y01236128]
- Shenzhen Post Doctoral research grant
- Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2019A1515011242]
- Shenzhen Postdoctoral Research Grant Program [K19237504]
- Poland by the National Centre for Research and Development [347324/12/NCBR/2017]
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In this work, a detailed study on volume and surface refractive index (RI) sensitivity of cladding modes for a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based sensor is presented. Surface RI sensitivity of the cladding mode of FBGs has been illustrated and quantified with the concept of add-layer sensitivity for the first time to the best of our knowledge. A detailed investigation of mode transition of higher-order cladding modes has been revisited and important characteristics of the cladding modes are observed which could open a new designing path of fabrication and innovative way of the use of this family of optical fiber grating-based sensors. The effect of mode transition of higher-order cladding modes, higher operating wavelength for respective cladding mode and mode stretching effects are combined together to achieve higher volume and surface RI sensitivity of cladding mode of FBG. It has been shown numerically that with proper designing, sub-nanometer (similar to 0.04 nm) attachment of target analyte could be recognized by cladding mode of FBG which is quite promising for application in optical fiber grating bio-sensors. This critical designing method of FBG based surface refractometer would be very helpful in case of the fabrication of highly sensitive sensors for distinct biochemical applications.
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