Polymer inverted-rib Optical Waveguide Interferometric Sensor for optoacoustic imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8223, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gallego, Daniel ^a   Wang, Meng ^b   Hiltunen, Jussi ^c   Myllylä, Risto ^b   Lamela, Horacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Interferometric Sensor; Polymer Optical Sensors; Ultrasound sensors

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; INTERFEROMETRIC SENSOR; NOISE EQUIVALENT PRESSURE; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; OPTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; OPTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; POLYMER (SOLID); POLYMER OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE; SINGLE MODE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND SENSORS; ULTRASOUND SENSORS;

BANDWIDTH; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; PHOTONS; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMERS; SILICA; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84859348899     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.910826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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