Packaged silica microsphere-taper coupling system for robust thermal sensing application

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5753-5759

  Yan, Ying Zhan ^a   Zou, Chang Ling ^b   Yan, Shu Bin ^a   Sun, Fang Wen ^b   Ji, Zhe ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Zhang, Yu Guang ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Xue, Chen Yang ^a   Zhang, Wen Dong ^a   Han, Zheng Fu ^b   Xiong, Ji Jun ^a  

^a NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUING; MICROSPHERES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

ANTI-JAMMING ABILITY; COATING MATERIAL; COUPLING STRUCTURES; COUPLING SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTEGRATED SENSORS; LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; RADIATION LOSS; SILICA MICROSPHERES; THERMAL SENSING; ULTRA-VIOLET;

GLUES;

ABSORPTION; GLUE; GLUING; RADIATION; REFRACTIVITY; SILICA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

MICROSPHERE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICROSPHERES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON DIOXIDE; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79953196168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005753     Document Type: Article

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