Optical evanescent field waveguide Bragg grating pressure sensor

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Dai, Xiaoli ^a   Mihailov, Stephen J ^a,b   Blanchetière, Chantal ^a  

^a Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

^b Optical Communications and Electrophotonics Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bragg grating; Evanescent field; Polydimethylsiloxane; Pressure sensor; Ridge waveguide; Transverse electric and transverse magnetic modes

Indexed keywords

EVANESCENT FIELD; EVANESCENT FIELDS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODES;

BRAGG GRATINGS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASTIC FILMS; PRESSURE SENSORS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICONES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77449104710     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3319819     Document Type: Article

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