Fiber optic sensing of liquid refractive index

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 594-605

  Banerjee, Argha ^a   Mukherjee, Sayak ^a   Verma, Rishi Kumar ^a   Jana, Biman ^a   Khan, Tapan Kumar ^a   Chakroborty, Mrinmoy ^a   Das, Rahul ^a   Biswas, Sandip ^a   Saxena, Ashutosh ^a   Singh, Vandana ^a   Hallen, Rakesh Mohan ^a   Rajput, Ram Swarup ^a   Tewari, Paramhans ^a   Kumar, Satyendra ^a   Saxena, Vishal ^a   Ghosh, Anjan Kumar ^a   John, Joseph ^a   Gupta Bhaya, Pinaki ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Fiber optic refractive index sensor; Liquid refractive index sensor; Refractive index sensitivity of uncladded fiber; Uncladded optical fiber as sensor

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

FIBER OPTIC REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSORS; LIQUID REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSITIVITY; UNCLADDED OPTICAL FIBERS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 33947624155     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2006.09.063     Document Type: Article

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