Low-cost high-performance fiber-optic pH sensor based on thin-core fiber modal interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22296-22302

  Gu, Bobo ^a   Yin, Ming Jie ^b   Zhang, A Ping ^a   Qian, Jin Wen ^b   He, Sailing ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; INTERFEROMETERS; PH; SELF ASSEMBLY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ALKALI SOLUTIONS; ELECTROSTATIC SELF ASSEMBLY; HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIBERS; MODAL INTERFEROMETERS; POLY(ACRYLIC ACID ); POLYALLYLAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS; THIN-CORE FIBERS;

PH SENSORS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; PH; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

CHINA; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 72049132662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022296     Document Type: Article

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