Advanced sensing with PCF integrating structural optimization and neural network for analyte prediction
摘要
In this paper, a PCF-based plasmonic sensor with hybrid circular and elliptical air holes is designed and optimized using the Nelder-Mead algorithm. The optimized structure achieves a wavelength sensitivity of 17,000 nm/RIU and an amplitude sensitivity of 16,900 RIU⁻¹. A machine learning-based artificial neural network (ANN) is trained for inverse prediction; estimating the unknown refractive index of an analyte from its resonance wavelength. This combination of optimization and ANN-based prediction enables rapid, real-time refractive index sensing.