Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Temperature Sensor with Outer Surface Metal Coating on Multi-Core Photonic Crystal Fibre

Abstract

We report an innovative design of a multi-core photonic crystal fibre-based surface plasmon resonance temperature sensor using ethanol and benzene as temperature-sensitive materials with a segmented outer-surface metal coating scheme. A stable sensing performance for a detection range of 10–80 ∘ C was found while using ethanol as the temperature-sensitive material; while using benzene both blue and red frequency shifts were observed. The maximum temperature sensitivities obtained from this proposed temperature sensor were 360 pm/ ∘ C and 23.3 nm/ ∘ C with resolutions of 2.78 × 10 − 1 ∘ C and 4.29 × 10 − 3 ∘ C, respectively, when using ethanol or benzene as the sensing medium.

Keywords

• multi-core
• photonic crystal fibre
• surface plasmon resonance
• temperature sensor
• finite element method
• surface metal coating