Photonic crystal fiber as an optofluidic platform for surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Yun Han; Maung Kyaw Khaing Oo; Svetlana Sukhishvili; Henry Du

doi:10.1117/12.869331

14 October 2010 Photonic crystal fiber as an optofluidic platform for surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Yun Han, Maung Kyaw Khaing Oo, Svetlana Sukhishvili, Henry Du

Proceedings Volume 7839, 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-2); 783908 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869331
Event: Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-10), 2010, Oaxaca, Mexico

Abstract

As both a waveguide and a gas/liquid transmission cell, photonic crystal fiber (PCF) allows synergistic integration of optics and microfluidics to form an unconventional optofluidic platform with long interaction path. In this paper, we report our strategy to achieve surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) PCF optofluidics by polyelectrolyte-mediated immobilization of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) inside the fiber air channels. Through forward propagating Raman measurements and hyperspectral Raman imaging, we demonstrate the realization of SERS-active PCF optofluidics with accumulative Raman signal gain along the entire fiber length using both solid-core PCF (SC PCF) and hollow-core PCF (HC PCF). By numerical simulation and Raman measurements, we show that suspended-core PCF (SP PCF) consisting of a silica core surrounded by three large air channels conjoined by a thin silica web is the most robust platform of the three SC PCF microstructures investigated for evanescent-field SERS spectroscopy.

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Yun Han, Maung Kyaw Khaing Oo, Svetlana Sukhishvili, and Henry Du "Photonic crystal fiber as an optofluidic platform for surface-enhanced Raman scattering", Proc. SPIE 7839, 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-2), 783908 (14 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869331

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