Modeling of coupled-resonator optical waveguide (CROW) based refractive index sensors using pixelized spatial detection at a single wavelength

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 22227-22241

  Lei, Ting ^a   Poon, Andrew W ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS; SENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

CAVITY FIELD; CAVITY LENGTH; CAVITY NUMBER; COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; DETECTION LIMITS; DYNAMIC RANGE; FABRY-PEROT; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; MICRORINGS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS; SENSING PERFORMANCE; SINGLE WAVELENGTH; SPATIAL DETECTION; SPATIAL DOMAINS; SPATIAL FOURIER TRANSFORM; SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

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EID: 80054963911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022227     Document Type: Article

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