Photonic crystal fiber sensor array based on modes overlapping

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7596-7602

  Cárdenas Sevilla, Guillermo A ^a,b   Finazzi, Vittoria ^b   Villatoro, Joel ^b   Pruner, Valerio ^b,c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SENSOR ARRAYS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; CONVENTIONAL SINGLE-MODE FIBERS; CRYSTAL FIBER; EXTERNAL PERTURBATIONS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; INDEX GUIDING; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 79953841400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007596     Document Type: Article

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