Planar waveguides as efficient transducers for bioaffinity sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2836, Issue , 1996, Pages 221-234

  Neuschafer, D ^a   Budach, W ^a   Bar, E ^a   Pawlak, M ^a   Duveneck, G ^a  

^a CIBA GEIGY LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bioaffinity sensors; Grating couplers; Luminescence detection; Planar waveguides; Trace analysis

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LUMINESCENCE; METALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS;

BIOAFFINITY SENSORS; COMPACT SENSOR SYSTEM; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; EVANESCENT FIELD SENSOR; GRATING COUPLERS; LUMINESCENCE DETECTION; LUMINESCENCE-BASED SENSORS;

EVANESCENT FIELDS;

EID: 8344235412     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.260596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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