Application of ring down measurement approach to micro-cavities for bio-sensing applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7888, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cheema, M I ^a   Kirk, Andrew G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

bio sensing; Cavity ring down; micro cavity

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BIOSENSING; BLOOD SERUM; CAVITY RING DOWN; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN MEASUREMENT; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LABEL FREE; MODELING RESULTS; NOISE TOLERANCE; OPTICAL BIO-SENSORS; PICOSECOND RESOLUTION; REAL TIME; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS; RESONANT FREQUENCY SHIFT;

DETECTORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROCAVITIES; NANOSENSORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 79953192150     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.874890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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