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Surface plasmon resonance based photonic crystal fiber sensor for bio samples detection

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A novel photonic crystal fiber sensor based on surface plasmon resonance with a broad detection range was designed. Gold is selected as the plasmonic material with an external coating approach which simplifies the detection process and device fabrication. The sensing characteristics were investigated using the finite element method (FEM). Because both the x and y-polarized modes result in nearly the same loss properties, the obtained responses are declared for the y-polarized mode. The confinement loss analysis leads to maximum wavelength and amplitude sensitivities of 30,000 \(\text{nm}/\text{RIU}\) and 7174 \(\left({\text{RIU}}^{-1}\right)\). Moreover, high figure of merit and good resolution values of 768.64 \(\left({\text{RIU}}^{-1}\right)\) and \(3.33\times {10}^{-6}\) \(\text{RIU}\) are calculated for the analyte refractive index (RI) range from 1.33 to 1.42. Good performance parameters beside to fabrication simplicity introduce the proposed sensor as a suitable platform for the precise detection of various bio samples.

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This manuscript has associated data in a data repository. [Authors’ comment: The data generated and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available for legal/ethical reasons but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.]

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This research is supported by a research grant of the University of Tabriz (number 1519). Also, the first author B. Meshginqalam would like to acknowledge the Computational Nanoelectronic Research Group (Cone) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, for their support and contribution to this study under visiting research program.

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Meshginqalam, B., Barvestani, J. Surface plasmon resonance based photonic crystal fiber sensor for bio samples detection. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 139, 577 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05379-6

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