Plasmonic sensors based on tilted Bragg gratings in multicore optical fibers

Bare and gold-coated tilted fiber Bragg gratings (TFBGs) can nowadays be considered as a mature technology for volume and surface refractometric sensing, respectively. As for other technologies, a continuous effort is made towards the production of even more sensitive sensors, thereby enabling a high-resolution screening of the surroundings and the possible detection of rare events. To this aim, we study in this work the development of TFBG refractometers in 4-core fibers. In particular, we show that the refractometric sensitivity of the cut-off mode can reach 100 nm/RIU for a bare grating. Using another demodulation method, a tenfold sensitivity increase is obtained when tracking the extremum of the SPR (surface plasmon resonance) envelope for a gold-coated TFBG configuration. Immobilization of DNA probes was performed as a proof-of-concept to assess the high surface sensitivity of the device.

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

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Optics express - 29(2021), 12 vom: 07. Juni, Seite 18469-18480

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ortega-Gomez, Angel [VerfasserIn]
Loyez, Médéric [VerfasserIn]
Lobry, Maxime [VerfasserIn]
Chah, Karima [VerfasserIn]
Zubia, Joseba [VerfasserIn]
Villatoro, Joel [VerfasserIn]
Caucheteur, Christophe [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 22.06.2021

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1364/OE.430181

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NLM327015160