Exploitation of multilayer coatings for infrared surface plasmon resonance fiber sensors

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 276-286

  Allsop, T ^a   Neal, R ^b   Mou, C ^a   Brown, P ^b   Saied, S ^a   Rehman, S ^a   Kalli, K ^c   Webb, D J ^a   Sullivan, J ^a   Mapps, D ^b   Bennion, I ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM PREPARATION; GERMANIUM; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; D-SHAPED FIBER; FIBER DEVICES; FIBER SENSOR; MULTI-LAYER-COATING; MULTI-LAYERED; MULTILAYERED THIN FILMS; TYPE STRUCTURES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GERMANIUM; GLASS FIBER; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GERMANIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 60849091369     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000276     Document Type: Article

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