Highly sensitive refractive index sensor based on plastic optical fiber balloon structure

M. S. Aruna Gandhi; Yuanfang Zhao; Chenxingyu Huang; Yuan Zhang; H. Y. Fu; Qian Li

doi:10.1364/OL.455562

Optics Letters
Vol. 47,
Issue 7,
pp. 1697-1700
(2022)
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.455562

Highly sensitive refractive index sensor based on plastic optical fiber balloon structure

M. S. Aruna Gandhi, Yuanfang Zhao, Chenxingyu Huang, Yuan Zhang, H. Y. Fu, and Qian Li

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M. S. Aruna Gandhi, Yuanfang Zhao, Chenxingyu Huang, Yuan Zhang, H. Y. Fu, and Qian Li, "Highly sensitive refractive index sensor based on plastic optical fiber balloon structure," Opt. Lett. 47, 1697-1700 (2022)

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- Original Manuscript: February 4, 2022
- Revised Manuscript: February 27, 2022
- Manuscript Accepted: March 2, 2022
- Published: March 24, 2022

Abstract

A novel, to the best of our knowledge, design of plastic optical fiber (POF) balloon-based refractive index sensor for the detection of different concentrations of sodium chloride is proposed and experimentally investigated. The experimental characterization supports the finding that the transmission loss is sensitive to the external environment’s targeted refractive index changes of the analyte. The proposed sensor achieves a maximum intensity-based sensitivity of 3105 RIU⁻¹, resolution of 3.22 ×10⁻⁷, and the figure of merit (FOM) is 326 RIU⁻¹ from 2 to 2.5 Mol/L of the analyte with the chosen refractive index changes at 680 nm for a diameter D = 0.1 cm of the POF balloon structure. Furthermore, a high linear performance of 0.9896 is achieved with good robustness against the fabrication imperfection. The ultra-sensitiveness to the refractive index with a simple demonstration of the POF balloon-based structure has potential applications in the chemical, biological, and food safety sensing fields.

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D(cm)	Sensitivity (RIU $^{- 1}$ )		Resolution (RIU)
	600 nm	800 nm	600 nm	800 nm
0.1	3105	3091	$3.22 \times 10^{- 7}$	$3.23 \times 10^{- 7}$
0.2	1974	1902	$5.06 \times 10^{- 7}$	$5.26 \times 10^{- 7}$
0.3	1585	1485	$6.31 \times 10^{- 7}$	$6.73 \times 10^{- 7}$
0.4	1793	1882	$5.57 \times 10^{- 7}$	$5.31 \times 10^{- 7}$
0.5	748	681	$1.33 \times 10^{- 6}$	$1.46 \times 10^{- 6}$

Sensor Structure and Ref.	Sensitivity (RIU $^{- 1}$ )	Dynamic Range (RIU)	Wavelength (nm)
U-shaped [16]	1541	1.33–1.39	650
Microbending tapered [17]	937 $%$	1.33–1.41	635
U-shaped [18]	864	1.33–1.44	635
Side-polished macrobending [19]	981 $%$	1.33–1.44	590
Twisted tapered [20]	3496	1.41–1.44	635
Current work	3105	1.3333–1.3597	680

D(cm)	Sensitivity (RIU $^{- 1}$ )		Resolution (RIU)
	600 nm	800 nm	600 nm	800 nm
0.1	3105	3091	$3.22 \times 10^{- 7}$	$3.23 \times 10^{- 7}$
0.2	1974	1902	$5.06 \times 10^{- 7}$	$5.26 \times 10^{- 7}$
0.3	1585	1485	$6.31 \times 10^{- 7}$	$6.73 \times 10^{- 7}$
0.4	1793	1882	$5.57 \times 10^{- 7}$	$5.31 \times 10^{- 7}$
0.5	748	681	$1.33 \times 10^{- 6}$	$1.46 \times 10^{- 6}$

Sensor Structure and Ref.	Sensitivity (RIU $^{- 1}$ )	Dynamic Range (RIU)	Wavelength (nm)
U-shaped [16]	1541	1.33–1.39	650
Microbending tapered [17]	937 $%$	1.33–1.41	635
U-shaped [18]	864	1.33–1.44	635
Side-polished macrobending [19]	981 $%$	1.33–1.44	590
Twisted tapered [20]	3496	1.41–1.44	635
Current work	3105	1.3333–1.3597	680

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