Planar antiresonant reflecting optical waveguides as integrated optical refractometer

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 652-657

  Bernini, Romeo ^a   Campopiano, Stefania ^b   De Boer, Charles ^c   Sarro, Pasqualina M ^c   Zeni, Luigi ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Microsensors; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; MICROSENSORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODETECTORS; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; RESONANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS;

ANTIRESONANT REFLECTING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES (ARROWS); OPTICAL REFRACTOMETER; OPTIMUM SENSING WAVELENGTH; PLANAR ANTIRESONANT;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 3042820795     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2003.817166     Document Type: Article

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