Effects of gold film thickness on spectrum profile and sensitivity of a multimode-optical-fiber SPR sensor

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-33

  Suzuki, Hitoshi ^a   Sugimoto, Mitsunori ^a   Matsui, Yoshikazu ^a   Kondoh, Jun ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gold film; Optical fiber sensor; Surface plasmon resonance; Thickness

Indexed keywords

GOLD COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GOLD FILMS; OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; RESONANCE WAVELENGTH; SENSOR PERFORMANCE;

FILM THICKNESS;

EID: 43749104929     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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