Microstructured and Photonic Bandgap Fibers for Applications in the Resonant Bio- and Chemical Sensors
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Solid core honeycomb photonic crystal fiber-based SPR sensor. (a) Schematic of a sensor. Solid fiber core having a small central hole is surrounded with a honeycomb photonic crystal reflector. Two large channels are integrated to implement analyte access to the fiber reflector region. The channels are goldplated for plasmon excitation. The gold layer is bordered by an aqueous analyte. (b) Band diagram of sensor modes. Dispersion relation of the fundamental core mode (thick solid curve), analyte bound plasmonic mode (dashed curve with circles), and cladding bound plasmonic mode (dashed curve). The bandgap of an infinitely periodic reflector is shown as a clear region. (c) The energy flux distributions across the fiber cross-section are shown for the fundamental core mode (II) as well as the analyte and cladding bound plasmon modes (I,III) outside of the phase matching region. The energy flux distribution is also shown for the fundamental core mode at the phase matching point (IV) showing strong mixing of the fundamental core mode with plasmonic modes.
