Spatial refractive index sensor using whispering gallery modes in an optically trapped microsphere

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Zijlstra, Peter ^a,b   Van Der Molen, Karen L ^a   Mosk, Allard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MICROSPHERES; POLYSTYRENES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BROADBAND EXCITATION SOURCE; OPTICALLY TRAPPED MICROSPHERES;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 34247392474     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2722695     Document Type: Article

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