Waveguide-based optofluidics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7606, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Karnutsch, Christian ^a   Tomljenovic Hanic, Snjezana ^b   Monat, Christelle ^b   Grillet, Christian ^b   Domachuk, Peter ^b   McPhedran, Ross ^b   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^b   O'Faolain, Liam ^c   Krauss, Thomas F ^c   Xiao, Sanshui ^d   Mortensen, Niels A ^d  

^a KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Microcavity; Microfluidics; Microphotonics; Nanophotonics; Optical sensors; Optofluidics; Photonic integration; Silicon photonics; Temperature stabilization

Indexed keywords

MICRO-PHOTONICS; OPTO-FLUIDICS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; SILICON PHOTONICS; TEMPERATURE STABILIZATION;

BIOSENSORS; FLUIDS; MICROCAVITIES; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; STABILIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 77951698688     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.839822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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