Zhilin Xu, Junlong Lim, Dora Juan Juan Hu, Qizhen Sun, Rebecca Yen-Ni Wong, Kun Li, Meng Jiang, and Perry Ping Shum, "Investigation of temperature sensing characteristics in selectively infiltrated photonic crystal fiber," Opt. Express 24, 1699-1707 (2016)
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In this paper, we investigate and experimentally demonstrate the influences of distance between the silica core and the glycerin core of a selectively glycerin-infiltrated photonic crystal fiber (PCF) on the mode characteristics, as well as the temperature sensitivity. By comparing the simulation and experiment results of three single-void glycerin-infiltrated PCFs with the glycerin core being one period, two periods and three periods away from the silica core respectively, it reveals that the smaller distance between the silica core and the glycerin core does not affect the modes indices, but increases the intensities of modes in the glycerin core and thus enhances the temperature sensitivity. Consequently, the temperature sensitivity can be controlled and tuned by appropriately designing the structure parameters of glycerin-infiltrated PCF. Besides, the highest temperature sensitivity up to -3.06nm/oC is obtained in the experiment as the glycerin core is nearest to the silica core. This work provides insights into the design and optimization of the liquid-infiltrated PCF for sensing applications.
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This work is supported in part by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, and in part by the Postgraduate Internship from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Zhilin Xu acknowledges funding from the sub-Project of the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61290315), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61275004), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 2014CFA036), the Innovation Foundation of Graduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (No. 2015650011).
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