Terahertz refractive index sensors using dielectric pipe waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5858-5866

  You, Borwen ^a   Lu, Ja Yu ^a   Yu, Chin Ping ^b   Liu, Tze An ^c   Peng, Jin Long ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIPE; REFRACTOMETERS; VAPORS;

ANTIRESONANT; DETECTION LIMITS; DIELECTRIC PIPE; ENGINEERED STRUCTURES; HOLLOW CORES; LIQUID-VAPOR; MOLECULAR DENSITY; MOLECULAR SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; SPECTRAL SHIFT; TERA HERTZ;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; POWDER; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GASES; MICROCHEMISTRY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHASE TRANSITION; POWDERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84858987411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005858     Document Type: Article

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