Surface plasmon resonance sensors based on diffraction gratings and prism couplers: sensitivity comparison

Abstract Theoretical analysis and comparison of the sensitivity of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors using diffraction at gratings and attenuated total reflection (ATR) in prism couplers for two detection methods-resonant angle interrogation and resonant wavelength interrogation is presented. Analytical expressions for sensitivity of these SPR sensors are derived and the influence of the major design parameters of the sensing structures on the sensor sensitivity is discussed. The analysis shows that grating-based SPR sensors using wavelength interrogation are much less sensitive then their prism coupler-based counterparts. In the angular interrogation mode, the sensitivity of SPR sensors using diffraction gratings depends on the diffraction order and does not differ much from that of SPR sensors based on prism couplers.

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