Novel index-guided photonic crystal fiber surface-enhanced Raman scattering probe

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8300-8305

  Yan, He ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Yang, Changxi ^a   Jin, Guofan ^a   Gu, Claire ^b   Hou, Lantian ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); LIGHT PROPAGATION; NANOPARTICLES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILICA;

ANALYTE SOLUTIONS; CAPILLARY EFFECT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 44649118587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008300     Document Type: Article

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