Highly efficient fluorescence sensing with hollow core photonic crystal fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 12783-12791

  Smolka, Stephan ^a   Barth, Michael ^a   Benson, Oliver ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

DYE CONCENTRATIONS; EVANESCENT SENSING; HOLEY STRUCTURE; HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (HCPCF);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 35148890197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012783     Document Type: Article

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