In this article, a hybrid photonic crystal fiber has been proposed for chemical sensing. A FEM has been applied for numerical investigation of some propagation characteristics of the PCF at a wider wavelength from 0.7 to 1.7 µm. The geometrical parameters altered to determine the optimized values. The proposed PCF contains three rings of circular holes in the cladding where the core is formulated with microstructure elliptical holes. The simulation result reveals that our proposed PCF exhibits high sensitivity and low confinement loss for benzene, ethanol and water than the prior PCFs. We have also shown that our proposed PCF shows high birefringence for benzene 1.544 × 10−3, for ethanol 1.513 × 10−3 and for water 1.474 × 10−3 at λ = 1.33 µm. The proposed PCF is simple with three rings which can be used for the sensing applications of industrially valuable lower indexed chemicals.

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Hybrid photonic crystal fiber in chemical sensing.

A micro structure folded cladding porous shaped with circular air hole photonic crystal fiber (FP-PCF) is proposed and numerically investigated in a broader wavelength range from 1.4 µm to 1.64 µm (E+S+C+L+U) for chemical sensing purposes. Employing finite element method (FEM) with anisotropic perfectly matched layer (PML) various properties of the proposed FP-PCF are numerically inquired. Filling the hole of core with aqueous analyte ethanol (n = 1.354) and tuning different geometric parameters of the fiber, the sensitivity order of 64.19% and the confinement loss of 2.07 × 10- 5 dB/m are attained at 1.48 µm wavelength in S band. The investigated numerical simulation result strongly focuses on sensing purposes; because this fiber attained higher sensitivity with lower confinement loss over the operating wavelength. Measuring time of sensitivity, simultaneously confinement loss also inquired. It reflects that confinement loss is highly dependable on PML depth but not for sensitivity. Beside above properties numerical aperture (NA), nonlinearity, and effective area are also computed. This FP-PCF also performed as sensor for other alcohol series (methanol, propanol, butanol, pentanol). Optimized FP-PCF shows higher sensitivity and low confinement loss carrying high impact in the area of chemical as well as gas sensing purposes. Surely it is clear that install such type of sensor will flourish technology massively.

https://cyberleninka.org/article/n/1462119.pdf

Folded cladding porous shaped photonic crystal fiber with high sensitivity in optical sensing applications: Design and analysis

Flammable or poisonous gasses in the air are capable of destroying a geographical area of causing a fire, fulmination, and venomous exposure. This paper presents a micro-cored photonic crystal fiber based gas sensor for detecting colorless or toxic gasses and monitoring air pollution by measuring gas condensate components in production facilities. The numerical investigation of the proposed PCF takes place using the finite element method (FEM). The geometrical parameters of proposed PCF are varied to optimize and observe the dependence of guiding properties on them. According to simulated results, the high relative sensitivity of 53.07% is obtained at 1.33 μm wavelength for optimum parameters. In addition, high birefringence of the order 6.9 × 10− 3; lower confinement loss of 3.21 × 10− 6 dB/m is also gained at the same wavelength. Moreover, nonlinear coefficient, effective area, splice loss, V parameters and beat length are reported briefly.

https://cyberleninka.org/article/n/660654.pdf

Proposal of a gas sensor with high sensitivity, birefringence and nonlinearity for air pollution monitoring

In this paper, a highly sensible photonic crystal fiber based on a modified hexagonal structure has mentioned and demonstrated modal analysis precisely. Numerical investigation of the proposed fiber is rigorously computed using full vector finite element method (FV-FEM) with anisotropic perfect match layers. Liquid analytes are used here to infiltrate fiber core. Relative sensitivity is numerically investigated and optimized by varying the different parameters of the proposed structure at a wider wavelength regime 1.0–1.7 μm within IR region. The proposed simple structural PCF shows higher sensitivity as a chemical sensor for lower refractive index chemicals such as Water, Ethanol and Benzene. Moreover, some essential properties such as confinement loss, V parameter, spot size, beam divergence, and nonlinearity are also represented distinctly. The proposed PCF gains higher sensitivity of 53.22%, 48.19% and 55.56% for Ethanol, Water and Benzene respectively at 1.33 μm wavelength with lower confinement loss. Above result reveals that proposed fiber is capable to provide potential impact in telecommunications, chemical sensing as well as bio-sensing also.

Liquid-infiltrated photonic crystal fiber for sensing purpose: Design and analysis

This paper proposes the design and optimization of microstructure optical fiber for liquid sensing applications. A number of propagation characteristics have been compared between two formations of hexagonal cladding of our proposed PCF structure. The core of the proposed PCF structure is designed with two rows of supplementary elliptical air holes. We investigate the performance of the designed PCFs for Ethanol as a liquid sample to be sensed. Numerical analysis is carried out by employing the full vectorial Finite Element Method (FEM) to examine the modal birefringence, confinement loss, relative sensitivity and nonlinear coefficient of the proposed PCF structure.

https://cyberleninka.org/article/n/694802.pdf

A new structure of photonic crystal fiber with high sensitivity, high nonlinearity, high birefringence and low confinement loss for liquid analyte sensing applications

A circular photonic crystal fiber (C-PCF) structure is presented in this paper as a chemical sensor where both core and cladding are micro structured. Finite element method (FEM) has been applied to investigate the propagation characteristics of proposed C-PCF structure. Relative sensitivity and Confinement loss are numerically examined and optimized by varying the different parameters of the proposed structure. Finally, it is found that the simple 3 rings C-PCF structure shows higher sensitivity as well as lower confinement loss at the wavelength 1.33μm.

Priyanka Dhar

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Highly sensitive simple structure circular photonic crystal fiber based chemical sensor