Tapered optical fibres for sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7138, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Martan, Tomas ^a,b   Kanka, Jiri ^a   Kasik, Ivan ^a   Matejec, Vlastimil ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^b Institute for Micro Sensors GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evanescent wave sensing; Fiber taper; Microstructure optical fiber

Indexed keywords

AIR HOLES; AT-WAVELENGTH; CHEMICAL SENSING; CLADDING AIR HOLES; CORE DIAMETERS; CORE MODES; EVANESCENT WAVE; EVANESCENT-WAVE SENSING; FDTD TECHNIQUES; FIBER TAPER; FIBRE STRUCTURE; FIELD SENSITIVITY; FLAME BRUSH; INNER STRUCTURE; LIGHT POWER; MICROSTRUCTURE OPTICAL FIBER; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBRE; MODE INTENSITY; OPTICAL FIBRE; OUTER DIAMETERS;

FIBER OPTICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; WHEELS;

FIBERS;

EID: 66749187636     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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