Design and analysis of an integrated antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide refractive-index sensor

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 70-73

  Bernini, Romeo ^a,b   Campopiano, Stefania ^a   Zeni, Luigi ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODETECTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANTIRESONANT REFLECTING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES (ARROW);

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0036281930     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000070     Document Type: Article

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