Flexible fiber-optics probes for Raman and FT-IR remote spectroscopy

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1704-1708

  Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Kino, Saiko ^a   Yokoyama, Eriko ^a   Katagiri, Takashi ^b   Sato, Hidetoshi ^b   Tashiro, Hideo ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hollow optical fiber; Infrared optical fiber; Infrared spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL FIBERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE;

CONFOCAL SYSTEMS; ENDOSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS; HOLLOW FIBER PROBES; INFRARED OPTICAL FIBERS; NONINVASIVE ANALYSIS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 38149100987     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.910111     Document Type: Article

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