Citation: Nianze Shang, Yi Cheng, Shen Ao, Gulimire Tuerdi, Mengwen Li, Xiaoyu Wang, Hao Hong, Zehui Li, Xiaoyan Zhang, Wangyang Fu, Kaihui Liu, Zhongfan Liu. Graphene Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Fluid Sensor toward Distributed Environmental Monitoring[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, ;2022, 38(12): 210804. doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB202108041 shu

Graphene Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Fluid Sensor toward Distributed Environmental Monitoring

Nianze Shang ^{1, 2} ,
Yi Cheng ^{2, 3} ,
Shen Ao ⁴ ,
Gulimire Tuerdi ⁴ ,
Mengwen Li ² ,
Xiaoyu Wang ¹ ,
Hao Hong ¹ ,
Zehui Li ¹ ,
Xiaoyan Zhang ^4,, ,
Wangyang Fu ^4,, ,
Kaihui Liu ^{1, 5,,} ,
Zhongfan Liu ^{2, 3,,}

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State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI), Beijing 100095, China
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Center for Nanochemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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School of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Corresponding author: Xiaoyan Zhang, xyzhang@iccas.ac.cn Wangyang Fu, fwy2018@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn Kaihui Liu, khliu@pku.edu.cn Zhongfan Liu, zfliu@pku.edu.cn
Received Date: 26 August 2021
Revised Date: 30 September 2021
Accepted Date: 20 October 2021
Available Online: 25 October 2021
Fund Project: the National Natural Science Foundation of China 52025023the National Natural Science Foundation of China 51991342the National Natural Science Foundation of China 52021006the National Natural Science Foundation of China 11888101the Key R & D Program of Guangdong Province 2020B010189001the Key R & D Program of Guangdong Province 2019B010931001the Key R & D Program of Guangdong Province 2018B030327001the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences XDB33000000the Beijing Natural Science Foundation JQ19004the Pearl River Talent Recruitment Program of Guangdong Province 2019ZT08C321

Compared to traditional sensor device arrays, optical fiber systems capable of wide-range detection are gradually emerging as strong candidates for distributed monitoring owing to their simplified structure. However, the working mechanism of optical fiber sensors limits their use to the detection of physical parameters such as refractive index and is an obstacle for the detection of small doses of molecules by optical fiber systems. Several researchers have focused on this aspect to endow sensitivity to these optical fibers for gas or liquid molecules. By deliberately destroying the fiber structure, strong interactions between the evanescent field of optical fibers and the target materials, such as microfibers, D-shaped fiber, etc. can be achieved. Assisted by the surface plasmon resonance techniques, such configurations can exhibit highly enhanced sensitivity to a change in the refractive index caused by gas or liquid molecules. Two-dimensional materials are an excellent candidate as coating materials due to their high specific surface area, which also guarantees a large sensing response and simultaneously minimizes any side effects by suppressing the propagating mode of optical fibers. However, owing to the obstacles in optical fiber engineering and device fabrication, the abovementioned functional 2D sensors are still limited to sample-scale fabrication, and their mass-production has not yet been realized. An all-fiber distributed sensing system with high single-spot sensitivity is still difficult to fabricate. Here, we propose a new configuration of a grid-distributed environmental optical fiber sensing by introducing low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD)-grown graphene photonic crystal fiber (PCF) into the optical fiber sensing system. We successfully synthesized monolayer and/or bilayer graphene in the air holes of PCF. By fusing the graphene PCF (Gr-PCF) to a single mode optical fiber, we fabricated an all-optical-fiber sensing system. Preliminary experiments suggest that Gr-PCF can selectively detect NO₂ gas at ppb-level and exhibit ionic sensitivity in liquids. The ability to detect NO₂ gas is attributed to the graphene layer's interaction among light-mode and adsorbed molecules: adsorption-induced additional hole-doping caused a shift in the Fermi level of graphene and eventually modulated its light absorption, leading to changes in the light intensity signals. We believe that the sensor can be extended to other kinds of gases and liquids, considering the affinity of graphene toward various molecules. In view of practical optical sensors, our design is compatible with the time domain or wavelength domain multiplexing techniques of optical fiber communication systems. Because CVD-based synthesis can be used to realize mass production, the design proposed herein shall be one of the answers to the distributed optical fiber environmental sensors.
- Graphene,
- Graphene photonic crystal fiber,
- Optical sensing,
- Gas sensor,
- Distributed sensing
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