A scalable pathway to nanostructured sapphire optical fiber for evanescent-field sensing and beyond

Hui Chen; Fei Tian; Jiri Kanka; Henry Du

doi:10.1063/1.4915325

A scalable pathway to nanostructured sapphire optical fiber for evanescent-field sensing and beyond

Hui Chen
, Fei Tian
, Jiri Kanka
, Henry Du

Stevens Institute of Technology
Czech Academy of Sciences

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We here report an innovative and scalable strategy of transforming a commercial unclad sapphire optical fiber to an all-alumina nanostructured sapphire optical fiber (NSOF). The strategy entails fiber coating with metal aluminum followed by anodization to form alumina cladding of highly organized pore channel structure. Through experiments and numerical simulation, we demonstrate the utility and benefit of NSOF, analogous to all-silica microstructured optical fiber, for evanescent-field surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) measurements. We experimentally reveal the feasibility of Ag nanoparticles (NPs)-enabled NSOF SERS sensing of 10^-6 M Rhodamine 6G (R6G) after thermal treatment at 500 °C for 6 h by taking advantage of porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) structure to stabilize the Ag NPs. We show, via numerical simulations, that AAO cladding significantly increases the evanescent-field overlap, lower porosity of AAO results in higher evanescent-field overlap, and optimized AAO nanostructure yields greater SERS enhancement.

Original language	English
Article number	111102
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	106
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4915325
State	Published - 16 Mar 2015

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