• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 12, Issue 4, 372 (2019)
Etu PODDER1, Md. Bellal HOSSAIN1、*, Rayhan Habib JIBON1, Abdullah Al-Mamun BULBUL1、2, and Himadri Shekhar MONDAL1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Electronics and Communication Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh
  • 2Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ETE), Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, Gopalganj, Bangladesh
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    DOI: 10.1007/s12200-019-0903-8 Cite this Article
    Etu PODDER, Md. Bellal HOSSAIN, Rayhan Habib JIBON, Abdullah Al-Mamun BULBUL, Himadri Shekhar MONDAL. Chemical sensing through photonic crystal fiber: sulfuric acid detection[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2019, 12(4): 372 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) for sensing of sulfuric acid is designed and analyzed using Comsol Multiphysics. To analyze the sensor performance, 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% H2SO4 solution is placed into the fiber separately and then relative sensitivity, confinement loss, birefringence, effective area etc. are investigated for each solution over wavelength ranging from 0.8 to 1.8 mm. The sensor structure affords moderately high relative sensitivity and around 63.4% sensitivity is achieved for the highest concentration of H2SO4 at the wavelength 1.5 mm in x polarization direction. This PCF model also shows zero confinement loss for all solutions of H2SO4 over wavelength ranging from 1 to 1.35 mm and later on approximately 1.422 × 10–17 dB/km confinement loss is found for the highest concentration of H2SO4 at 1.5 mm wavelength. Besides, higher birefringence is attained when the concentration of sulfuric acid is lower and it is achieved 7.5 × 10–4 at 1.5 mm wavelength. Moreover, higher sensing area is achieved at high concentration of sulfuric acid.
    Etu PODDER, Md. Bellal HOSSAIN, Rayhan Habib JIBON, Abdullah Al-Mamun BULBUL, Himadri Shekhar MONDAL. Chemical sensing through photonic crystal fiber: sulfuric acid detection[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2019, 12(4): 372
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