Refractometric sensing with fluorescent-core microcapillaries

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21540-21551

  Manchee, C P K ^a   Zamora, V ^a   Silverstone, J W ^a   Veinot, J G C ^a   Meldrum, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SENSORS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

CAPILLARY CHANNELS; CHANNEL SURFACE; DETECTION LIMITS; EFFECTIVE INDEX; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; FLUORESCENT CORES; MICRO-CAPILLARIES; MICROCAVITY SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; REFRACTOMETRIC SENSING; RING RESONATOR; SILICON QUANTUM DOTS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 80054954134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021540     Document Type: Article

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