A terahertz plastic wire based evanescent field sensor for high sensitivity liquid detection

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 20675-20683

  You, Borwen ^a   Liu, Tze An ^b   Peng, Jin Long ^b   Pan, Ci Ling ^c   Lu, Ja Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); EVANESCENT FIELDS; LIQUIDS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

ALCOHOL SOLUTIONS; DETECTION LIMITS; EVANESCENT FIELD SENSOR; EVANESCENT WAVE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE DETECTIONS; INDEX VARIATION; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS;

TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; MELAMINE; PLASTIC; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ALCOHOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PLASTICS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; TRIAZINES;

EID: 70749104244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020675     Document Type: Article

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