On the performance quantification of resonant refractive index sensors

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1020-1028

  White, Ian M ^a   Fan, Xudong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESONATORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL DETECTION;

RI SENSORS; SENSING MECHANISM;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 38549085707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001020     Document Type: Article

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