The invention relates to an
optical fiber hydrogen sensor based on a
silver film-
nanowire hole array structure and a preparation method thereof in the field of photochemical sensors. The
optical fiber hydrogen sensor comprises a multimode
optical fiber, and a sensing area is formed on the multimode optical
fiber; the sensing area is formed by stripping a
coating layer with a preset length from the multimode optical
fiber,
thinning the optical
fiber in the area, plating a
silver film on the surface of the thinned optical fiber, and adsorbing a
nanowire hole array structure which is sequentially and vertically arranged on the surface of the
silver film in a liquid level self-
assembly manner; the
nanowire hole array is of a
metal-medium-
metal (MIM) structure, a gold-
palladium nanowire array is arranged at the bottom, an intermediate medium layer is made of aluminum
oxide, and a silver film with a hole array in any shape is arranged at the top. When light is transmitted to a sensing area from a fiber core of the multimode optical fiber, the light and a
metal silver film can excite a
surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect, meanwhile, an MIM structure formed by a gold-
palladium nanowire, an aluminum
oxide dielectric layer and a porous silver film serves as an
optical coupling antenna through a local
surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effect at the edge of a top hole, and the
optical coupling antenna is used for transmitting the light to the sensing area.
Light energy is efficiently converged and excited in an extremely bound gap
plasmon (Gap
Plasmon) in an aluminum
oxide dielectric layer, so that far-unconventional
electromagnetic field enhancement is generated in a sensing core area, and the sensitivity of the sensor is greatly improved.