Multimode waveguide-cavity sensor based on fringe visibility detection

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4295-4305

  Ruege, Alexander C ^a   Reano, Ronald M ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

AQUEOUS GLUCOSE SOLUTIONS; FRINGE VISIBILITIES; INTRINSIC QUALITY FACTORS; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC PROCESS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; SINGLE MODE RING RESONATOR; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES;

VISIBILITY;

GLUCOSE; INTERFEROMETRY; LITHOGRAPHY; POWER SUPPLY; REFRACTIVITY; RESONANCE; SENSORS; SILICA;

EID: 62549114435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004295     Document Type: Article

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