Evanescent field sensors with periodically segmented waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1218-1222

  Weissman, Z ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LITHOGRAPHY; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BIASING CONDITIONS; EVANESCENT WAVE SENSORS; MACH-ZEHNDER CONFIGURATION; MODE EXPANSION EFFECT; PERIODICALLY SEGMENTED WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0031076576     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001218     Document Type: Article

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