Numerical and experimental study of microfluidic devices in step-index optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1410-1416

  Petrovic, Jovana ^a   Lai, Yicheng ^a   Bennion, Ian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETERS;

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING; IN-FIBER; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POWER-LOSSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; STEP INDEX OPTICAL FIBERS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 48949098390     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001410     Document Type: Article

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