Polymer waveguide-based optical sensors—interest in bio, gas, temperature, and mechanical sensing applications

SN Khonina, GS Voronkov, EP Grakhova… - Coatings, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the realization of photonic integrated devices, materials such as polymers are crucial.
Polymers have shown compatibility with several patterning techniques, are generally …

Hybrid metasurface perfect absorbers for temperature and biosensing applications

MA Butt, SN Khonina, NL Kazanskiy, R Piramidowicz - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a comprehensive study of the sensing capabilities of a hybrid metasurface
perfect absorber (HMSPA) based on square meta-atoms (S-MAs) and hollow-square meta …

Plasmonic Refractive Index and Temperature Sensor Based on Graphene and LiNbO3

M Irfan, Y Khan, AU Rehman, MA Butt, SN Khonina… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
A high-efficiency dual-purpose plasmonic perfect absorber sensor based on LiNbO3 and
graphene layers was investigated in this paper for the refractive index and thermal sensing …

Review of Microbottle Resonators for Sensing Applications

H Adnan Zain, M Batumalay, H Haris, I Saad… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microbottle resonators (MBR) are bottle-like structures fabricated by varying the radius of an
optical fiber. MBRs can support whispering gallery modes (WGM) by the total internal …

Plasmonic perfect absorber utilizing polyhexamethylene biguanide polymer for carbon dioxide gas sensing application

M Irfan, Y Khan, AU Rehman, N Ullah, SN Khonina… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper a perfect absorber with a photonic crystal cavity (PhC-cavity) is numerically
investigated for carbon dioxide (CO2) gas sensing application. Metallic structures in the form …

Thermal sensor based on polydimethylsiloxane polymer deposited on low-index-contrast dielectric photonic crystal structure

Y Khan, MA Butt, SN Khonina, NL Kazanskiy - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work, a dielectric photonic crystal-based thermal sensor is numerically investigated for
the near-infrared spectral range. An easy-to-fabricate design is chosen with a waveguide …

PCF based modal interferometer for lead ion detection

A Al Noman, JN Dash, X Cheng, HY Tam, C Yu - Optics express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A compact, reliable, and fast responsive PCF (photonic crystal fiber) based modal
interferometric sensor for lead ion detection is proposed and experimentally demonstrated …

HEC/PVDF coated microbottle resonators for relative humidity detection

HA Zain, M Batumalay, HRA Rahim, M Yasin… - Optik, 2021 - Elsevier
A micro-bottle resonator sensor is proposed here for relative humidity detection with an
HEC/PVDF coating acting as a transducer. Microbottle resonators are a promising fiber …

Comparative study an effect of polymethyl methacrylate coating on optical microbottle resonator for enhancing sensing performance for ethanol liquid sensor

MAM Johari, R Apsari, M Yasin - Microwave and Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper observed the performance of the coated optical microbottle resonator (MBR) for
the liquid ethanol concentration sensor. The MBR is prepared in three sizes by a technique …

Whispering-gallery mode sensor based on coupling of tapered two-mode fiber and glass capillary

L Deng, C Jiang, X Guo, S Sun, H Huang… - Review of Scientific …, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
A novel whispering-gallery mode (WGM) sensor is fabricated by coupling a tapered two-
mode fiber and a glass capillary. By utilizing the relatively large orifice of glass capillaries …