Journal
PHOTONIC SENSORS
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 279-290Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13320-020-0601-6
Keywords
Hybrid plasmonic waveguide; finite element method; methane gas; evanescent field absorption gas sensor; polarization-insensitive
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [16-29-09528_ofi_m]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the State assignment FSRC Crystallography and Photonics RAS [007-GZ/Ch3363/26]
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This study introduces a design of a hybrid plasmonic waveguide optimized for the absorption of methane gas at a specific wavelength. Through modal analysis and parameter optimization, high mode sensitivity and evanescent field ratio for both TE and TM hybrid modes are achieved. The proposed waveguide design shows potential for gas sensing applications with improved sensitivity.
We propose a polarization-insensitive design of a hybrid plasmonic waveguide (HPWG) optimized at the 3.392 mu m wavelength which corresponds to the absorption line of methane gas. The waveguide design is capable of providing high mode sensitivity (S-mode) and evanescent field ratio (EFR) for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) hybrid modes. The modal analysis of the waveguide is performed via 2-dimension (2D) and 3-dimension (3D) finite element methods (FEMs). At optimized waveguide parameters, S-mode and EFR of 0.94 and 0.704, can be obtained for the TE hybrid mode, respectively, whereas the TM hybrid mode can offer S-mode and EFR of 0.86 and 0.67, respectively. The TE and TM hybrid modes power dissipation of similar to 3 dB can be obtained for a 20-mu m-long hybrid plasmonic waveguide at the 60% gas concentration. We believe that the highly sensitive waveguide scheme proposed in this work overcomes the limitation of the polarization controlled light and can be utilized in gas sensing applications.
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