Photonic crystal fibers: New opportunities for sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6619, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Urbanczyk, W ^a   Martynkien, T ^a,c   Szpulak, M ^a   Statkiewicz, G ^a   Olszewski, J ^a   Golojuch, G ^a   Wojcik, J ^b   Mergo, P ^b   Makara, M ^b   Nasilowski, T ^c   Berghmans, F ^c,d   Thienpont, H ^c  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Photonic crystal fibers; Sensing applications

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; STRESS EFFECTS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 36549000276     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.738353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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