Folded cladding porous shaped photonic crystal fiber with high sensitivity in optical sensing applications: Design and analysis

A micro structure folded cladding porous shaped with circular air hole photonic crystal fiber (FP-PCF) is proposed and numerically investigated in a broader wavelength range from 1.4 µm to 1.64 µm (E+S+C+L+U) for chemical sensing purposes. Employing finite element method (FEM) with anisotropic perfectly matched layer (PML) various properties of the proposed FP-PCF are numerically inquired. Filling the hole of core with aqueous analyte ethanol (n = 1.354) and tuning different geometric parameters of the fiber, the sensitivity order of 64.19% and the confinement loss of 2.07 × 10-5 dB/m are attained at 1.48 µm wavelength in S band. The investigated numerical simulation result strongly focuses on sensing purposes; because this fiber attained higher sensitivity with lower confinement loss over…