“…3 4 In recent years, highly sensitive optical sensing has been achieved with a variety of PS structures, including Fabry-Perot films, 5 Bragg mirrors, 6-8 microcavities, 9 and rugate filters. 10 PS employs to detect a wide range chemical and biological compounds, including volatile organic vapors, 11 explosives, 12 chemical nerve agents, 13 DNA, 14 and proteins, 15 due to their large surface area, easy surface chemistries. 16 Multi-encoded rugate filters were recently developed by applying a computer-generated pseudo-sinusoidal composite current-time waveform.…”