A terahertz plastic wire based evanescent field sensor for high sensitivity liquid detection

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20675-20683 (2009)
• You, Borwen; Liu, Tze-An; Peng, Jin-Long; Pan, Ci-Ling; Lu, Ja-Yu
• A highly sensitive detection method based on the evanescent wave of a terahertz subwavelength plastic wire was demonstrated for liquid sensing. Terahertz power spreading outside the...

Vertical Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder interferometer for sensitive optical sensing

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20747-20755 (2009)
• Gan, Qiaoqiang; Gao, Yongkang; Bartoli, Filbert J
• Vertical plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers are investigated theoretically and experimentally, and their potential for ultra-sensitive optical sensing is discussed. Plasmonic...

A generalized model of maximizing the sensitivity in intensity-interrogation surface plasmon resonance biosensors

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20771-20776 (2009)
• Li, Chung-Tien; Yen, Ta-Jen; Chen, How-foo
• Intensity interrogation of surface plasmon resonance (IISPR) biosensors possesses the greatest sensitivity beyond other interrogations and is operated at a fixed incident angle to...

Optical fiber magnetic field sensors with TbDyFe magnetostrictive thin films as sensing materials

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20777-20782 (2009)
• Yang, Minghong; Dai, Jixiang; Zhou, Ciming; Jiang, Desheng
• Different from usually-used bulk magnetostrictive materials, magnetostrictive TbDyFe thin films were firstly proposed as sensing materials for fiber-optic magnetic field sensing...

Silicon based total internal reflection bio and chemical sensing with spectral phase detection

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20847-20852 (2009)
• Patskovsky, Sergiy; Song, In-Hyouk; Meunier, Michel; Kabashin, Andrei V
• Si-based total internal reflection (TIR) bio/chemical sensor presents an attractive alternative to Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) technology due to a relatively simple optical...

A microfluidic refractometric sensor based on gratings in optical fibre microwires

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20866-20871 (2009)
• Xu, Fei; Brambilla, Gilberto; Lu, Yanqing
• In this paper we investigate a novel method to manufacture gratings in optical fiber microwires and discuss their application to sensing. Gratings can be manufactured by wrapping an...

Thermally stabilized PCF-based sensor for temperature measurements up to 1000ºC

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21551-21559 (2009)
• Coviello, Gianluca; Finazzi, Vittoria; Villatoro, Joel; Pruneri, Valerio
• We report on the development of a stable Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) based two-mode interferometric sensor for ultra-high temperature measurements (up to 1000ºC). The device...

Near-infrared optical response of thin film pH-sensitive hydrogel coated on a gold nanocrescent array

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21802-21807 (2009)
• Jiang, Hao; Markowski, Jan; Sabarinathan, Jayshri
• A hydrogel-based chemiresponsive sensor for monitoring H⁺ (pH) has been developed by coating the surface of a gold nanocrescent array structure with a thin film of a...