Graphene-Based Conducting Metal Oxide Coated D-Shaped Optical Fiber SPR Sensor

Abstract

We report a graphene-based indium tin oxide coated surface plasmon resonance sensor built on a D-shaped optical fiber for near infrared. Different parameters of the proposed sensor have been optimized to obtain a maximal phase matching between the core guided mode and the plasmon mode using finite element method. Wavelength sensitivity of the proposed structure is as high as 5700 nm/RIU with a maximum resolution of 1.754 × 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-5</sup> RIU. The proposed sensor can also be used for bio layer thickness monitoring with a maximum resolution of 62.5 pm in wavelength interrogation.