Ultimate resolution for refractometric sensing with whispering gallery mode microcavities

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8284-8295

  Silverstone, J W ^a   McFarlane, S ^a   Manchee, C P K ^a   Meldrum, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; FLUORESCENCE; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; SENSORS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

DETECTION LIMITS; DETECTION SYSTEM; EVANESCENT COUPLING; FOURIER METHODS; MICRO-CAPILLARIES; MICROCAVITY SENSORS; MICROFLUIDIC BIOSENSORS; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; PRECISE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRIC SENSING; RESONANCE SHIFT; SENSOR DESIGNS; SENSOR RESOLUTION; SUCROSE CONCENTRATION; TUNEABLE LASER; WAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

MICROCAVITIES;

QUANTUM DOT; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICS;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; QUANTUM DOTS; REFRACTOMETRY; SUCROSE;

EID: 84860192170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008284     Document Type: Article

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