Fabrication and modeling of uniform-waist single-mode tapered optical fiber sensors

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2278-2283

  Villatoro, Joel ^a   Monzón Hernández, David ^a   Mejía, Efrain ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; GOLD; OPACITY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

SINGLE MODE TAPERED FIBERS (SMTF);

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0042472827     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002278     Document Type: Article

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