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They propagate along the interface of the crystal and dielectric medium. Surface exciton polaritons hold a significant position in the aspect of novel sensor and optical devices. In this article, we have realized a sharp Fano resonance (FR) by coupling the planar waveguide mode (WGM) and SEP mode with Cytop (perfluoro (1-butenyl vinyl ether)) and J-aggregate cyanine dye. After analyzing the coupling mechanism and the localized field enhancement, we then applied our structure to the imaging biosensor. It was shown that the maximum imaging sensitivity of this sensor could be as high as 5858 RIU\u22121, which is more than three times as much as classical FR based on metal. A biosensor with ultra-high sensitivity, simple manufacturing technique and lower cost with J-aggregate cyanine dye provides us with the most appropriate substitute for the surface plasmon resonance sensors with the noble metals and paves the way for applications in new sensing technology and biological studies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18124437","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,14]],"date-time":"2018-12-14T12:11:08Z","timestamp":1544789468000},"page":"4437","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Fano Resonance in Waveguide Coupled Surface Exciton Polaritons: Theory and Application in Biosensor"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Jiaqi","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9502-5467","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuaiwen","family":"Gan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Banxian","family":"Ruan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Leiming","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Houzhi","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoyu","family":"Dai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuanjiang","family":"Xiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"012007","DOI":"10.1088\/1742-6596\/865\/1\/012007","article-title":"On the theory of three types of polaritons (phonon, exciton, and plasmon polaritons)","volume":"865","author":"Ha","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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