Integrated optical Mach-Zehnder interferometers as simazine immunoprobes

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 39, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 277-282

  Drapp, B ^a   Piehler, J ^a   Brecht, A ^a   Gauglitz, G ^a   Luff, B J ^b   Wilkinson, J S ^b   Ingenhoff, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Bruchsaler Stra e 22   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 3 couplers; Integrated optical immunoprobes; Mach Zehnder interferometers

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

IMMUNOASSAY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

IMMUNOSENSORS;

EID: 0031084339     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4005(97)80218-3     Document Type: Article

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