Light-sheet skew rays sensing platform based on microstructuring of coreless multimode fiber

Lukui Xu; Tingting Zhuang; Bonan Liu; Jinyu Wang; Mamoona Khalid; Soroush Shahnia; Christophe A. Codemard; Zhiyong Bai; Shen Liu; Ying Wang; George Y. Chen; Yiping Wang

Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research (Jun 2024)

Light-sheet skew rays sensing platform based on microstructuring of coreless multimode fiber

Lukui Xu,
Tingting Zhuang,
Bonan Liu,
Jinyu Wang,
Mamoona Khalid,
Soroush Shahnia,
Christophe A. Codemard,
Zhiyong Bai,
Shen Liu,
Ying Wang,
George Y. Chen,
Yiping Wang

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Lukui Xu: Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Photonic Devices and Sensing Systems for Internet of Things, Guangdong and Hong Kong Joint Research Centre for Optical Fiber Sensors, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
Tingting Zhuang: Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Photonic Devices and Sensing Systems for Internet of Things, Guangdong and Hong Kong Joint Research Centre for Optical Fiber Sensors, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
Bonan Liu: Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Photonic Devices and Sensing Systems for Internet of Things, Guangdong and Hong Kong Joint Research Centre for Optical Fiber Sensors, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
Jinyu Wang: Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Technology of Shandong Province; Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Laser Institute, Jinan, Shandong 250014, China
Mamoona Khalid: Photonics and Communications lab, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Engineering and Technology, 47050 Taxila, Pakistan
Soroush Shahnia: Laser Physics and Photonic Devices Laboratories, School of Engineering, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South Australia 5095, Australia
Christophe A. Codemard: TRUMPF Advanced Laser Laboratory, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
Zhiyong Bai: Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Photonic Devices and Sensing Systems for Internet of Things, Guangdong and Hong Kong Joint Research Centre for Optical Fiber Sensors, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
Shen Liu: Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Photonic Devices and Sensing Systems for Internet of Things, Guangdong and Hong Kong Joint Research Centre for Optical Fiber Sensors, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
Ying Wang: Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Photonic Devices and Sensing Systems for Internet of Things, Guangdong and Hong Kong Joint Research Centre for Optical Fiber Sensors, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
George Y. Chen: Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Photonic Devices and Sensing Systems for Internet of Things, Guangdong and Hong Kong Joint Research Centre for Optical Fiber Sensors, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China; Corresponding author at: Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
Yiping Wang: Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Photonic Devices and Sensing Systems for Internet of Things, Guangdong and Hong Kong Joint Research Centre for Optical Fiber Sensors, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 44
p. 100656

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Given the increasing demands for quality assurance in the food industry, a significant challenge emerges in the form of expensive integration of food sensors into packaging. This integration is crucial for strengthening food safety measures and ensuring the impeccable quality of food products. Official laboratory food safety testing heavily relies on expensive and bulky equipment. This article presents a new chemical sensing platform and a comparative study of in-house built novel designs for a robust multimode chemical sensor head probed by highly sensitive light-sheet skew rays for addressing cost and footprint issues. The sensing mechanism is the interaction between evanescent field mediated by refined skew rays propagating through a structured coreless multimode fiber and external chemicals, resulting in probe light absorption. The sensitivity is enhanced by the controlled excitation of skew rays using a light sheet and four specially engineered coreless multimode fiber structure, including uniform, tapered, microstub and microbubble designs. The sensitivity was demonstrated to be as high as 0.046 (dB/cm) / dB(1 ng/ml) and the limit of detection as low as 1.028 ng/ml for the microbubble structure. The results of our research pave the groundwork for a new range of chemical sensors suitable for food safety monitoring.

Published in Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research

ISSN: 2214-1804 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/sensing-and-bio-sensing-research/

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