Enhanced responsivity with skew ray excitation of reflection- and transmission-type refractometric sensors
Enhanced responsivity with skew ray excitation of reflection- and transmission-type refractometric sensors
The responsivity of optical fibers to refractive index can be enhanced using high-order skew rays compared with using meridional rays. Skew rays can have a much higher number of reflections with increased interaction length along the core-cladding interface, which gives rise to stronger interactions with the external medium. Reflection/transmission-type refractometric sensors based on twin-coupled-core and multimode fibers showed one/two orders of magnitude increase in responsivity with skew ray excitation. The responsivity and sensitivity for the two types are ~2000%/RIU, ~1400%/RIU, and 4.9 x 10-5 RIU, 7.0 x 10-5 RIU, respectively.
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Chen, George Y.
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Codemard, Christophe A.
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Lewis, Richard J.
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Jankowski, Lukasz
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Chan, Jaclyn S.
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Gorman, Philip M.
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Zervas, Michalis N.
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2014
Chen, George Y.
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Codemard, Christophe A.
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Lewis, Richard J.
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Jankowski, Lukasz
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Chan, Jaclyn S.
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Gorman, Philip M.
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Zervas, Michalis N.
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Chen, George Y., Codemard, Christophe A., Lewis, Richard J., Jankowski, Lukasz, Chan, Jaclyn S., Gorman, Philip M. and Zervas, Michalis N.
(2014)
Enhanced responsivity with skew ray excitation of reflection- and transmission-type refractometric sensors.
Optics Letters, 39 (13), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.39.003822).
Abstract
The responsivity of optical fibers to refractive index can be enhanced using high-order skew rays compared with using meridional rays. Skew rays can have a much higher number of reflections with increased interaction length along the core-cladding interface, which gives rise to stronger interactions with the external medium. Reflection/transmission-type refractometric sensors based on twin-coupled-core and multimode fibers showed one/two orders of magnitude increase in responsivity with skew ray excitation. The responsivity and sensitivity for the two types are ~2000%/RIU, ~1400%/RIU, and 4.9 x 10-5 RIU, 7.0 x 10-5 RIU, respectively.
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 May 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 June 2014
Published date: 2014
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Michalis N. Zervas
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