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However, it remains challenging to produce a highly sensitive, reliable, cost-effective and electromagnetic-interference interference-immune device to detect Cu2+ ion in drinking water. In this paper, a taper-in-taper fiber sensor was fabricated with high sensitivity by mode-mode interference and deposited polyelectrolyte layers for Cu2+ detection. We propose a new structure which forms a secondary taper in the middle of the single-mode fiber through two-arc discharge. Experimental results show that the newly developed fiber sensor possesses a sensitivity of 2741 nm\/RIU in refractive index (RI), exhibits 3.7 times sensitivity enhancement when compared with traditional tapered fiber sensors. To apply this sensor in copper ions detection, the results present that when the concentration of Cu2+ is 0\u20130.1 mM, the sensitivity could reach 78.03 nm\/mM. 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