Fast detection of humidity with a subwavelength-diameter fiber taper coated with gelatin film

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13349-13353

  Zhang, Lei ^a,b   Gu, Fuxing ^a   Lou, Jingyi ^c   Yin, Xuefeng ^b   Tong, Limin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FAST DETECTIONS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; OPTICAL SENSING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RADIATION MODE; SENSING ELEMENTS; SUBWAVELENGTH-DIAMETER; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBERS;

FIBERS;

GELATIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; HUMIDITY; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; GELATIN; HUMIDITY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS; WATER;

EID: 50049097173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013349     Document Type: Article

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