Optical detection of single nanoparticles with a subwavelength fiber-taper

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 1346-1348

  Zhu, Jiangang ^a   Özdemir, Şahin Kaya ^a   Yang, Lan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber taper; nanoparticle; Rayleigh scattering; single particle detection

Indexed keywords

DETECTION SCHEME; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FIBER TAPER; INSTALLATION FLEXIBILITY; OPTICAL DETECTION; PARTICLE BINDING; POLYSTYRENE NANOPARTICLES; RAYLEIGH; SINGLE NANOPARTICLE; SINGLE PARTICLE; SINGLE PARTICLE DETECTION; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TAPER FIBER; TAPER SURFACE; TRANSMITTED LIGHT; WAVELENGTH BAND;

POLYSTYRENES; SENSORS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 80052396040     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2160847     Document Type: Article

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