期刊
SENSORS
卷 21, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s21051799
关键词
chemical sensing; terahertz; fiber sensor; relative sensitivity
资金
- projects of Shenzhen Research Foundation [JCY20170413152328742]
The photonic crystal fiber (PCF) designed for chemical analyte detection in the terahertz regime shows high relative sensitivity and can achieve high birefringence, low dispersion, and large effective modal area. It can be applied to liquid chemical sensing and THz systems requiring wide-band polarization-maintaining transmission and low attenuation.
A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with high relative sensitivity was designed and investigated for the detection of chemical analytes in the terahertz (THz) regime. To ease the complexity, an extremely simple cladding employing four struts is adopted, which forms a rectangular shaped core area for filling with analytes. Results of enormous simulations indicate that a minimum 87.8% relative chemical sensitivity with low confinement and effective material absorption losses can be obtained for any kind of analyte, e.g., HCN (1.26), water (1.33), ethanol (1.35), KCN (1.41), or cocaine (1.50), whose refractive index falls in the range of 1.2 to 1.5. Besides, the PCF can also achieve high birefringence (similar to 0.01), low and flat dispersion, a large effective modal area, and a large numerical aperture within the investigated frequency range from 0.5 to 1.5 THz. We believe that the proposed PCF can be applied to chemical sensing of liquid and THz systems requiring wide-band polarization-maintaining transmission and low attenuation.
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