Indium Tin Oxide Coated Two-Mode Fiber for Enhanced SPR Sensor in Near-Infrared Region

A surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor based on side-polished two-mode fiber (TMF) coated with indium tin oxide (ITO) film is proposed. ITO enables tuning of resonance wavelength of the sensor through changing its carrier concentration. The advantages of the TMF and ITO are combined in the sensor, which can achieve high sensitivity and plasma frequencies in the near-infrared region. The impact of ITO film thickness and residual fiber thickness on the sensing performance are numerically investigated with LP01 and LP11a modes coupled to specific surface plasmon modes. The results show that the resonance wavelength locates in 1500–2200 nm and an average sensitivity of ∼10149 and ∼10400 nm/RIU can be achieved for LP01 and LP11a modes, respectively, when the environmental refractive index varies between 1.33 and 1.39. The penetration depths of evanescent wave for the LP01 and LP11a modes are 460 and 502 nm, respectively. Both the sensitivity and penetration depth of the sensor are larger than those of single-mode fiber and multimode fiber based SPR sensors. The proposed sensor can play an important role in various applications, including environment, medicine, and security.

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