Photonic Sensors, Volume. 11, Issue 3, 279(2021)

Polarization-Insensitive Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide Design for Evanescent Field Absorption Gas Sensor

Nikolay Lvovich KAZANSKIY1,2, Svetlana Nikolaevna KHONINA1,2, and Muhammad Ali BUTT1,3、*
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  • 1Department of Technical Cybernetics, Samara National Research University, Moskovskoye Shosse 34, Samara 443086, Russia
  • 2Institute of RAS-Branch of the FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS, Molodogvardeiskaya 151, Samara 443001, Russia
  • 3Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, Warszawa 00-662, Poland
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    We propose a polarization-insensitive design of a hybrid plasmonic waveguide (HPWG) optimized at the 3.392 μm wavelength which corresponds to the absorption line of methane gas. The waveguide design is capable of providing high mode sensitivity (Smode) and evanescent field ratio (EFR) for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) hybrid modes. The modal analysis of the waveguide is performed via 2-dimension (2D) and 3-dimension (3D) finite element methods (FEMs). At optimized waveguide parameters, Smode and EFR of 0.94 and 0.704, can be obtained for the TE hybrid mode, respectively, whereas the TM hybrid mode can offer Smode and EFR of 0.86 and 0.67, respectively. The TE and TM hybrid modes power dissipation of ~3 dB can be obtained for a 20-μm-long hybrid plasmonic waveguide at the 60% gas concentration. We believe that the highly sensitive waveguide scheme proposed in this work overcomes the limitation of the polarization controlled light and can be utilized in gas sensing applications.

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    Nikolay Lvovich KAZANSKIY, Svetlana Nikolaevna KHONINA, Muhammad Ali BUTT. Polarization-Insensitive Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide Design for Evanescent Field Absorption Gas Sensor[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2021, 11(3): 279

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    Paper Information

    Category: Regular

    Received: Mar. 10, 2020

    Accepted: Jun. 24, 2020

    Published Online: Sep. 3, 2021

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

    DOI:10.1007/s13320-020-0601-6

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