Surface plasmon resonance sensors based on uniform-waist tapered fibers in a reflective configuration

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 7294-7298

  Esteban, Öscar ^a   Díaz Herrera, Natalia ^b   Navarrete, María Cruz ^b   González Cano, Agustín ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CHEMICAL SENSING; METALLIC MEDIUM; RESONANT EXCITATION; TOLLENS REACTION;

SENSORS;

EID: 33750865355     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007294     Document Type: Article

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