Dramatic performance enhancement of evanescent-wave multimode fiber fluorometer using non-Lambertian light diffuser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16457-16470

  Ma, Jianjun ^a   Bock, Wojtek J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFLECTION;

FIBER-OPTIC SIDE-EMITTING DIFFUSER (FOSED); NON-LAMBERTIAN LIGHT DIFFUSER; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR);

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 37149004873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016457     Document Type: Article

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