Photonic Sensors, Volume. 5, Issue 4, 312(2015)
Enhancement of the Sensitivity of Gas Sensor Based on Microstructure Optical Fiber
This paper proposes the design and characterization of microstructure optical fiber for gas sensing applications. The aim is to detect toxic and colorless gases over a wide transmission band covering 0.80 μm to 2.00 μm wavelength. Numerical investigation is carried out by using the finite element method (FEM). The numerical study shows that sensitivity of the proposed sensor is moderately increased by introducing four non-circular holes around the defected core of photonic crystal fiber and the confinement loss is also reduced. Furthermore, we confirm that increasing the diameter of central air core and size of the non-circular holes can improve the relative sensitivity and the confinement loss is reduced by increasing the diameter of air holes in the cladding. The enhancement of the relative sensitivity is more than 27.58% (0.1323 to 0.1688) at the wavelength λ=1.33μm that is the absorption line of methane (CH4) and hydrogen fluoride (HF) gases. The confinement loss of the fiber is 1.765×10-8 dB/m.
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Monir MORSHED, Md. Imran HASAN, S. M. Abdur RAZZAK. Enhancement of the Sensitivity of Gas Sensor Based on Microstructure Optical Fiber[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2015, 5(4): 312
Received: Mar. 2, 2015
Accepted: Aug. 9, 2015
Published Online: Jan. 6, 2016
The Author Email: MORSHED Monir (monirmorshed.mbstu@gmail.com)