Refractive index sensing characteristics of dual resonance long period gratings in bare and metal-coated D-shaped fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 31, 2009, Pages

  Tripathi, Saurabh Mani ^a,b   Marin, Emmanuel ^b   Kumar, Arun ^a   Meunier, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; METAL COATINGS; METALS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

BIO-CHEMICAL SENSOR; FIRST ORDER PERTURBATION THEORY; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; MAXIMUM SENSITIVITY; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 70449629958     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000G53     Document Type: Article

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