Label-free bacteria detection using evanescent mode of a suspended core terahertz fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5344-5355

  Mazhorova, Anna ^a   Markov, Andrey ^a   Ng, Andy ^b   Chinnappan, Raja ^b   Skorobogata, Olga ^c   Zourob, Mohammed ^b   Skorobogatiy, Maksim ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SENSORS;

BACTERIA CONCENTRATIONS; BACTERIA DETECTION; BACTERIA SENSOR; CLADDING TUBES; E. COLI; E. COLI DETECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SEM; EVANESCENT FIELDS; EVANESCENT MODE; FIBER CORES; FIBER SURFACE; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; LABEL FREE; POLYETHYLENE FIBERS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TERA HERTZ; THZ SPECTRUM;

FIBERS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BIOASSAY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBER OPTICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84857612239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005344     Document Type: Article

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