Highly sensitive refractive index sensor based on two cascaded special long-period fiber gratings with rotary refractive index modulation

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 4604-4610

  Fan, Yan En ^a   Zhu, Tao ^a   Shi, Leilei ^a   Rao, Yun Jiang ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETERS; MODULATION; REFRACTOMETERS;

ASYMMETRIC CLADDING MODES; BIOCHEMICAL SENSING; FIBER MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; INTERACTION LENGTH; LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATING; REFRACTIVE INDEX MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051596551     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.004604     Document Type: Article

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