Highly birefringent optical-fiberized slot waveguide for miniature polarimetric interference sensors: A proposal

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1681-1685

  Kou, Jun Long ^a   Guo, Wei ^a   Xu, Fei ^a   Lu, Yan Qing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

High birefringence; sensor; slot waveguide

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSING; FIBER LOOP MIRRORS; HIGH BIREFRINGENCE; LARGE TUNING RANGE; MICRO-FIBER; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETERS; POST PROCESSING; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SENSING PROPERTY; SENSOR HEAD; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SMALL SIZE; STRAIN SENSING; STRAIN SENSITIVITY; ULTRA-SMALL;

POLARIMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS; WAVEGUIDES;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 84860523679     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2177521     Document Type: Article

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