Characterization of silica nanowires for optical sensing

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5537-5542

  Themistos, Christos ^a   Rajarajan, Muttukrishnan ^b   Rahman, B M Azizur ^b   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^b  

^a FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical transducers; Finite element methods; Optical fiber applications

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TRANSDUCERS; COMPOSITE NANOWIRES; FIELD FORMULATION; MACH-ZEHNDER; OPTICAL FIBER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL SENSING; POWER FRACTION; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; SILICA NANO WIRES;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOSENSORS; ELECTRIC WIRE; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 70350702840     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2026655     Document Type: Article

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