Sensing with suspended-core optical fibers

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 343-356

  Monro, Tanya M ^a   Warren Smith, Stephen ^a   Schartner, Erik P ^a   Franois, Alexandre ^a   Heng, Sabrina ^a   Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^a   Afshar, Shahraam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological sensing; Chemical sensing; Fiber sensing; Microstructured optical fibers; Nanowires; Surface functionalization

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICAL SENSORS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL FIBERS;

BIOLOGICAL SENSING; CHEMICAL SENSING; FIBER SENSING; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 78649703759     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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