Photonic Sensors, Volume. 10, Issue 3, 223(2020)

Highly Sensitive Refractive Index Sensor Based on Plasmonic Bow Tie Configuration

Muhammad Ali BUTT1、*, Nikolay Lvovich KAZANSKIY1,2, and Svetlana Nikolaevna KHONINA1,2
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  • 1Department of Technical Cybernetic, Samara National Research University, Samara 443086, Russia
  • 2Institute of RAS-Branch of the FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics”, RAS, 151 Molodogvardeiskaya, Samara 443001, Russia
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    We propose a highly refractive index sensor based on plasmonic Bow Tie configuration. The sensitivity of the resonator design is enhanced by incorporating a nanowall (NW) in a modified Bow Tie design where sharp tips of V-junction are flattened. This approach provides high confinement of electric field distribution of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode in the narrow region of the cavity. Consequently, the effective refractive index (neff) of the mode increases and is highly responsive to the ambient medium. The sensitivity analysis of the SPP mode is calculated for six resonator schemes. The results suggest that the NW embedded cavity offers the highest mode sensitivity due to the large shift of effective index when exposed to a slight change in the medium refractive index. Moreover, the device sensitivity of the proposed design is approximated at 2300 nm/RIU which is much higher than the sensitivity of the standard Bow Tie configuration.

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    Muhammad Ali BUTT, Nikolay Lvovich KAZANSKIY, Svetlana Nikolaevna KHONINA. Highly Sensitive Refractive Index Sensor Based on Plasmonic Bow Tie Configuration[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2020, 10(3): 223

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    Paper Information

    Category: Regular

    Received: Nov. 4, 2019

    Accepted: May. 19, 2020

    Published Online: Dec. 23, 2020

    The Author Email: BUTT Muhammad Ali (ali_ciit_engineer@yahoo.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s13320-020-0588-z

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