Abstract
This paper presents mercury (II) ions detection based on long period fiber grating (LPFG) sensor written on a single mode optical fiber by electrical arc induced technique that is suitable to be used for long term monitoring purpose. In the work, the LPFG was coated with both polyelectrolyte (PE) layers to enhance its sensitivity as well as a layer of gold nanoparticles (AuNP) for reaction to the mercury (II) ions. Experiments were conducted using double-pass configurations with mercury (II) ions concentrations varied between 0.5 ppm to 10 ppm. The results showed that the resonance wavelength of the PE–AuNP coated LPFG notch shifted to the longer wavelength, with a total shift of 1.34 nm and transmission power increment of 1.74 dBm over a period of 5 h. The results were then compared with uncoated as well as PE-only coated LPFGs, where no significant changes in resonance wavelength and transmission power were observed for these LPFGs. A novel PE–AuNP coated LPFG sensor that is suitable to be used for in-situ, long term and remote monitoring has been successfully demonstrated and tested for the detection of mercury (II) ions in water.
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