D-Shaped photonic crystal fiber biosensor based on silver-graphene

Abstract

A D-shaped photonic crystal fiber surface plasmon resonance biosensor is presented with high sensitivity. Determinand are used outside the fiber structure to realize a simple detection mechanism. The sensor consists of photonic crystal fiber, graphene and metal. The sensitivity of the sensor is enhanced by graphene between the silver layer and D-shaped photonic crystal fiber. The two small air holes in the center of the photonic crystal fiber are beneficial to the phase matching of the core and the plasmon polaritons. The two large air holes are beneficial to the birefringence and the coupling of polarized light with metal. The Full vector finite element method is used to numerical simulation and analysis the transmission mode and characteristics of the photonic crystal fiber surface plasmon resonance biosensor. In the range of refractive index is 1.34–1.40, the average sensitivity of the sensor is 4850 nm/RIU with a high resolution of 2 × 10−5RIU. The minimum full width at half maximum is 10 nm. The proposed sensor can be applied to real-time detection of the biomolecules and small drug-molecules due to the advantages of long distance transmission, high sensitivity and high resolution.