Miniature tapered photonic crystal fiber interferometer with enhanced sensitivity by acid microdroplets etching

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4328-4332

  Qiu, Sun Jie ^a   Chen, Ye ^a   Kou, Jun Long ^a   Xu, Fei ^a   Lu, Yan Qing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; ETCHING; INTERFEROMETERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

COST EFFECTIVE; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; ETCHING PROCESS; LOW-TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; MICRO DROPLETS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING; SIZE AND POSITION; TAPERED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 79961074065     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.004328     Document Type: Article

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