High sensitivity of taper-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer embedded in a thinned optical fiber for refractive index sensing

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 5503-5507

  Yang, J ^a   Jiang, L ^a   Wang, S ^a   Li, B ^a   Wang, M ^a   Xiao, H ^b   Lu, Y ^c   Tsai, H ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; INTERFEROMETERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

CROSS SENSITIVITY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATING; LOWER TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITIES; MACHZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS (MZI); REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 80053427934     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.005503     Document Type: Article

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