A theoretical evaluation of fibre-optic evanescent wave absorption in spectroscopy and sensors

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-101

  Xu, Yu ^a   Cottenden, Alan ^a   Jones, N Barrie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption; Evanescent; Fibre optic

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; SENSORS; WAVE EFFECTS;

EVANESCENT; FIBER-OPTIC; WAVE ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION;

EID: 27744519545     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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