Integrated optical dual Mach-Zehnder interferometer sensor

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 250-257

  Hua, Ping ^a   Jonathan Luff, B ^a   Quigley, Geoffrey R ^a   Wilkinson, James S ^a   Kawaguchi, Kenji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Integrated optics; Interferometers; Sensors

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE FILMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0037058667     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4005(02)00244-7     Document Type: Article

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