Integration of polymer waveguides for optical detection in microfabricated chemical analysis systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4072-4079

  Mogensen, Klaus B ^a   El Ali, Jamil ^a   Wölff, Anders ^a   Kutter, Jorg P ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

POLYMER WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

BROMOTHYMOL BLUE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

BROMTHYMOL BLUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0042810708     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004072     Document Type: Article

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