Miniaturized long-period fiber grating assisted surface plasmon resonance sensor

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1003-1008

  Schuster, Tobias ^a   Herschel, Reinhold ^a   Neumann, Niels ^b   Schäffer, Christian G ^a  

^a HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biosensing; long period fiber grating (LPG); optical fiber sensor; surface plasmon resonance (SPR)

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSING; CLADDING MODES; GOLD-COATED; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; INTENSITY-BASED; LAB-ON-CHIP SYSTEMS; LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATING; NOVEL CONCEPT; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; POINT OF CARE; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; SENSING AREAS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE (SPR); SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSOR;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84858032082     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2166756     Document Type: Article

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