Theory of fiber-optic, evanescent-wave spectroscopy and sensors

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2274-2284

  Messica, A ^a,b   Greenstein, A ^a   Katzir, A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COUPLING ANGLE; EVANESCENT WAVE ABSORPTION; FIBER LENGTH; FIBER OPTIC EVANESCENT WAVE SPECTROSCOPY; FRESNEL REFLECTION; FRESNEL TRANSMISSION LOSSES; MULTIMODE FIBERS; PSEUDO BEER LAMBERT LAW; SKEW RAY PROPAGATION;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0030151928     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002274     Document Type: Article

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