Evanescent-field sensor using selectively excited modes in step-index fibers

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7894, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Klein, Karl Friedrich ^a,e   Gonschior, Cornell ^a,e   Dahal, Pasma ^a   Eckhardt, Hanns S ^c   Belz, Mathias ^d   Hillrichs, Georg ^b  

^a University of Applied Science   (Germany)

^b University of Applied Sciences Merseburg   (Germany)

^c Tec5 AG   (Germany)

^d World Precision Instruments   (United States)

^e TransMIT GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATR; coupling efficiencies; fiber optic sensors; light sources; multimode fibers; skew modes; step index fibers

Indexed keywords

ATR; COUPLING EFFICIENCIES; MULTIMODES; SKEW MODES; STEP-INDEX FIBERS;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSORS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 79954530665     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.879284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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