Comparison of Surface Plasmon Resonance and Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance-based optical fibre sensors

In this work, two of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR)-based optical fibre sensors have been successfully developed and cross-compared. With one SPR sensor being coated with a thin layer of gold film and the other gold-nanorods (GNRs), forming a LSPR sensor, both sensors are subjected to various refractive index changes. As a result their sensitivities are measured in the form of resonance wavelength shift as a function of refractive index variation. The results demonstrate that the thin-film coated SPR sensor has much higher sensitivity than that of GNRs coated LSPR sensor but with worse linearity.