Sensitivity Enhancement in Evanescent Optical Waveguide Sensors

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 677-682

  Veldhuis, G J ^a   Parriaux, O ^a   Hoekstra, H J W M ^a,b   Lambeck, P V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Chemical sensing; Evanescent field sensing; Integrated optics; Refractometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000617432     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.842082     Document Type: Article

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