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We demonstrate a photonic crystal fiber temperature sensor based on surface plasmon resonance and evaluate it using the finite element method. A temperature-sensitive material is injected into the central air hole of the photonic crystal fiber. The air hole is coated with nanoscale gold film. Six cores are formed by removing air holes in the second layer, which supports the core mode. The coupling between the core mode and the surface plasmon polariton mode occurs as the phase matching condition is satisfied. The average sensitivity and linearity become −2.15 nm/°C and 0.99991, respectively. The length of this fiber is only 1 mm. Our temperature sensor is competitive within the temperature sensor field.

We propose and investigate a D-shaped photonic fiber refractive index sensor with rectangular lattice based on surface plasmon resonance. In such sensor, the nanoscale gold metal film is deposited on the flat surface where it is side polished. Numerical results show that the average sensitivity of Au-metalized surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor could reach as high as 8,129 nm/refractive index unit (RIU) in the dynamic index range from 1.35 to 1.41 as well as 2,000 nm/RIU from 1.33 to 1.35. Compared to conventional Au-metalized SPR sensors, the performance of our device is obviously better, and the production process is greatly simplified.