Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 230, Issue -, Pages 536-543Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2016.02.074
Keywords
Evanescent wave absorbance; U-bent plastic optical fiber; Optimum bend diameter; Refractive index; Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR); Plasmonic sensor
Funding
- IIT Madras
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This study presents design and development of evanescent wave absorbance based U-bent plastic optical fiber (POF) probe with high sensitivity and its applications to refractive index (RI) sensing. The probes were fabricated by a controlled decladding procedure to remove the fluorinated polymer without damaging the poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) core and a simple and scalable fabrication technique to obtain POF U-bent probes of desired geometry. U-bent probes of fiber diameter from 250 to 1000 pin were fabricated and optimum bend diameter for each fiber diameter was investigated. The sensitivity was found to be maximum when the bend diameter of the probe varies from 2 to 3 times the fiber diameter. Probes with 500 pin core and 1.25 mm bend diameter showed highest sensitivity (5.574 Delta A(560nm)/Delta RIU) in the visible region to RI changes from 1.33 to 1.47 with a resolution better than 1 milli RI units. Furthermore, U-bent probes were amine functionalized and coated with gold nanoparticles to obtain a localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) based RI sensor that has an 8-fold improvement in RI sensitivity, hence extending their applicability to plasmonic biosensing. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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