Long period fiber grating for biosensing: an improved design methodology to enhance add-layer sensitivity

We present our theoretical study on the design of LPFG sensor where its add-layer sensitivity is enhanced. addlayer sensitivity quantifies the sensitivity of the sensor to the changes taking place within few tens of nanometers around the receptor molecules. Two different methodologies: the use of du...

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Autores: Bandyopadhyay, Sankhyabrata, Del Villar, Ignacio, Basumallick, Nandini, Biswas, Palas, Dey, Tanoy Kumar, Bandyopadhyay, Somnath
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/28093
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/28093
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Long period fiber grating
Couple mode theory
Cladding modes
Add-layer sensing
Bio-sensing
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Sumario:We present our theoretical study on the design of LPFG sensor where its add-layer sensitivity is enhanced. addlayer sensitivity quantifies the sensitivity of the sensor to the changes taking place within few tens of nanometers around the receptor molecules. Two different methodologies: the use of dual overlay layer and tailoring of the intermodal separation between two cladding modes, have been used to enhance the add-layer sensitivity. Using coupled mode analysis we compute several examples to carry out a detailed comparative analysis between the results obtained, focusing on the cladding mode near mode transition.