Influence of skew rays on the sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio of a fiber-optic surface-plasmon-resonance sensor: A theoretical study

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 4563-4569

  Dwivedi, Yogendra S ^a   Sharma, Anuj K ^a   Gupta, Banshi D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FIBER CORES; NUMERICAL APERTURE; SKEWNESS;

FIBER OPTICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 34548577392     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004563     Document Type: Article

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