Remote opto-chemical sensing with extreme sensitivity: Design, fabrication and performance of a pigtailed integrated optical phase-modulated Mach-Zehnder interferometer system

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 100-127

  Lambeck, P V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SILICON NITRIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

INTEGRATED OPTICAL SENSORS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS (MZI); OPTO-CHEMICAL SENSORS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0033554762     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4005(99)00283-X     Document Type: Article

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