A Polarization-Independent Fiber-Optic SPR Sensor

A fiber optic sensor for measuring glucose in aqueous solutions

In this paper, the set-up of a multi-mode fiber optic sensor for measuring glucose in aqueous solutions is investigated and evaluated. The basis of this sensor is based on the Fresnel Reflection. In this setup, a helium-neon laser is used as a light source, a fiber optic probe, photocell as detector and a digital multimeter. The statistical analysis of the recorded data shows a highly linear be...

Fiber Optic Polarization

Study on Polarization Effects Based on Fiber-Optic Vibration Sensor

An analysis based on the Jones matrix theoretical analysis is presented in this paper, which is based on the distributed optical fiber vibration sensor to study the polarization effect. A new improved distributed optical fiber structured is designed by using a Faraday rotation mirror ,the system remove the linear birefringence and the orientation birefringence, and it is insensitive to the chan...

Polarization-Induced Fading in Fiber-optic Sensor Arravs

The statistics of polarization-induced visibility fading is studied for fiber-optic interferometric (Michelson or Mach-Zehnder) sensor arrays made of either regular singlemode fibers or polarization-maintaining fibers. Performance is measured in terms of the probability to observe visibilities, all of which exceed a given value, for all members of the array. Very poor performance is obtained fo...

Performance Evaluation of a Bilayer SPR-Based Fiber Optic RI Sensor With TiO2 Using FDTD Solutions

We proposed a new bilayer surface plasmon resonance-based fiber-optic refractive index sensor with silver and an over-layer of TiO2. We numerically investigated the optimal thickness of TiO2 over-layer in the proposed sensor and compared its performance to that based on typical bimetallic layers of silver-and-gold in the aqueous media using finite-difference time domain approach. We show that t...