Abstract:The functionalization of the surface of fiber-optic surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors can effectively enhance the sensor's sensitivity, but it can also cause distortion in the sensor's transmission spectrum and a decrease in the system's signal-to-noise ratio. Therefore, this study introduces the variational mode decomposition (VMD) filtering algorithm to improve the system's signal-to-noise ratio and the asymmetric double-S function method to fit the resonance wavelength and address the signal distortion issue. This paper theoretically explains the basis of applying the VMD algorithm and the asymmetric double-S function to fiber-optic SPR biosensing systems. In the experiment, a fiber-optic SPR biosensing system was constructed, and various denoising and fitting algorithms were applied to the experimental data. The results show that compared to the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) algorithm, the VMD filtering effectively improves the system's signal-to-noise ratio (increased from 53.72dB to 61.57dB). In solving signal distortion, the fitting accuracy of the asymmetric double-S function method is higher compared to the minimum value method and centroid method. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm was used to demodulate the transmission spectrum data of the fiber-optic SPR sensor for monitoring C-reactive protein, and the results demonstrate that the lowest detection concentration of the sensor decreased from 1.119 ug/ml (using EMD algorithm) to 0.429 ug/ml. These research findings are of significant importance for enhancing the commercial value of fiber-optic SPR biosensing systems.