Characterization of long-period grating refractive index sensors and their applications

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4559-4571

  Tsuda, Hiroshi ^a   Urabe, Kei ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Long period grating; Refractive index; Spectral sensitivity

Indexed keywords

GRATING LENGTH; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; SENSITIVITY CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

SILICA; SPECTROSCOPY;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 75149157244     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90604559     Document Type: Article

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