Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 10, Issue s1, S12401(2012)

SPR sensor by method of electro-optic phase modulation and polarization interferometry

Xiangliang Chen, Le Liu, Zhiyi Liu, Heng Shi, Suihua Ma, Yonghong He, and Jihua Guo

We propose a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor based on phase modulation and polarization interferometry, both of which provide a refractive index (RI) resolution of the same order as that of SPR sensors of the phase type. And it has a wide dynamic range and insensitivity of RI resolution to the thickness of metal films as that of the intensity type SPR sensors. In this letter, we choose electro-optic (EO) phase modulation instead of the angle modulation. We demonstrate theoretically that with the EO phase modulation, our sensor could provide a better RI resolution.

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Xiangliang Chen, Le Liu, Zhiyi Liu, Heng Shi, Suihua Ma, Yonghong He, Jihua Guo. SPR sensor by method of electro-optic phase modulation and polarization interferometry[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2012, 10(s1): S12401

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Category: Optics at Surfaces

Received: Aug. 6, 2011

Accepted: Oct. 24, 2011

Published Online: Apr. 17, 2012

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DOI:10.3788/col201210.s12401

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