Numerical Analysis of a Photonic Crystal Fiber for Biosensing Applications

This paper presents a theoretical study on a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) surface plasmon resonance biosensor. The proposed PCF sensor introduces the concept of simultaneous detection with H E<sub>11</sub><sup>x</sup> and H E<sub>11</sub><sup>x</sup> modes, which opens up some possibilities for multianalyte/multichannel sensing. Analysis was performed which considered the operation of the sensor in both amplitude and wavelength interrogation modes. Typical sensor resolutions of 4×10<sup>-5</sup> RIU and 8×10<sup>-5</sup> RIU with respect to H E<sub>11</sub><sup>x</sup> and H E<sub>11</sub><sup>y</sup>, respectively, are reported for the amplitude interrogation mode, while resoutions of 5 × 10<sup>-5</sup> RIU and 6×10<sup>-5</sup> RIU are reported for H E<sub>11</sub><sup>x</sup> and H E<sub>11</sub><sup>y</sup>, respectively, for the wavelength interrogation mode.

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