Hollow cylindrical waveguides for use as evanescent fluorescence-based sensors: Effect of numerical aperture on collected signal

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 31, 1997, Pages 8199-8205

  Kao, H Pin ^a   Schoeniger, J S ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary; Fluorescence sensors; Hollow cylindrical waveguide

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SENSORS; THIN FILMS;

EPIFLUORESCENCE OPTICAL SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE SENSORS;

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031280855     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008199     Document Type: Article

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