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Magnetic Field Sensing Using Whispering-Gallery Modes in a Cylindrical Microresonator Infiltrated With Ferronematic Liquid Crystal

Magnetic Field Sensing Using Whispering-Gallery Modes in a Cylindrical Microresonator Infiltrated With Ferronematic Liquid Crystal

Aseel Mahmood, Vishnu Kavungal, Sudad S Ahmed, Peter Kopcansky, Vlasta Zavisova, Gerald Farrell, Yuliya Semenova

Opt Express. 2017 May 29;25(11):12195-12202.

PMID: 28786578

Abstract:

An all-fiber magnetic field sensor based on whispering-gallery modes (WGM) in a fiber micro-resonator infiltrated with ferronematic liquid crystal is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The cylindrical microresonator is formed by a 1 cm-long section of a photonic crystal fiber infiltrated with ferronematic materials. Both ferronematics suspensions are prepared based on the nematic liquid crystal 1-(trans-4-Hexylcyclohexyl)-4-isothiocyanatobenzene (6CHBT) doped with rod-like magnetic particles in the first case and with spherical magnetic particles in the second case. WGMs are excited in the fiber microresonator by evanescent light coupling using a tapered fiber with a micron-size diameter. The Q-factor of the microresonator determined from the experimentaly measured transmission spectrum of the tapered fiber was 1.975 × 103. Under the influence of an applied magnetic field the WGM resonances experience spectral shift towards shorter wavelengths. The experimentally demonstrated sensitivity of the proposed sensor was -39.6 pm/mT and -37.3 pm/mT for samples infiltrated with rod like and spherical like ferromagnetic suspensions respectively for a magnetic field range (0-47) mT. Reducing the diameter of the cylindrical micro-resonator by tapering leads to enhancement of the magnetic field sensitivity up to -61.86 pm/mT and -49.88 pm/mT for samples infiltrated with rod like and spherical like ferromagnetic suspensions respectively for the magnetic field range (0-44.7) mT.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP92444149	1-(trans-4-Hexylcyclohexyl)-4-isothiocyanatobenzene		92444-14-9	Price

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