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Refractive index sensing with Al2O3-nanocoated long-period gratings working at dispersion turning point: temperature cross-sensitivityFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
In this work is discussed an effect of nanocoating long-period grating (LPG) with an aluminum oxide (Al2O3) on its refractive index (RI) and temperature (T) sensitivity. For comparison two LPGs, namely one before and after the nanocoating process were optimized towards working at dispersion turning point (DTP) of higher order cladding modes. The DTP was reached with two methods, i.e., by wet etching of LPG’s cladding and by optimized deposition of Al2O3 thin overlay using atomic layer deposition (ALD) method. For both the cases we show significant increase in RI sensitivity at DTP. When Al2O3 is deposited the RI sensitivity reaches 9270 nm/RIU for traced only one resonance out of the pair and RI in range 1.33-1.34 RIU, what is over 4-fold higher than for the bare LPG. Moreover, T sensitivity for both the structures was compared and the one for Al2O3-coated sample was found to be only up to 12% higher than for the bare sample. Higher RI sensitivity and low temperature cross-sensitivity effects allow for more accurate RI measurements than in case of bare LPGs. The Al2O3-nanocoated LPGs can further find applications in label-free biosensing, due to their optimized sensitivity in RI in range close that of water.
Paper Details
Date Published: 23 April 2017
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 10323, 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 1032314 (23 April 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2267635
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 10323:
25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors
Youngjoo Chung; Wei Jin; Byoungho Lee; John Canning; Kentaro Nakamura; Libo Yuan, Editor(s)
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 10323, 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 1032314 (23 April 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2267635
Show Author Affiliations
Mateusz Śmietana, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland)
Magdalena Dominik, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland)
Magdalena Dominik, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland)
Predrag Mikulic, Univ. du Québec en Outaouais (Canada)
Wojtek J. Bock, Univ. du Québec en Outaouais (Canada)
Wojtek J. Bock, Univ. du Québec en Outaouais (Canada)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 10323:
25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors
Youngjoo Chung; Wei Jin; Byoungho Lee; John Canning; Kentaro Nakamura; Libo Yuan, Editor(s)
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