Not-lithographic fabrication of micro-structured fiber Bragg gratings evanescent wave sensors

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1042-1054

  Paladino, Domenico ^a   Iadicicco, Agostino ^b   Campopiano, Stefania ^b   Cusano, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEFECTS; FABRICATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WET ETCHING;

COMMUNICATION APPLICATION; EVANESCENT WAVE SENSORS; EXTERNAL REFRACTIVE INDICES; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; LITHOGRAPHIC FABRICATION; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; SURROUNDING-MEDIUM REFRACTIVE INDICES; TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 58449117397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001042     Document Type: Article

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