Photonic crystal fiber-based interferometric biosensor for streptavidin and biotin detection

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1293-1297

  Hu, Dora Juan Juan ^a   Lim, Jun Long ^a   Park, Mi Kyoung ^b   Kao, Linus Tzu Hsiang ^b   Wang, Yixin ^a   Wei, Huifeng ^c   Tong, Weijun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^c LINYI PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Biomedical measurements; biophotonics; biosensors; optical fiber devices; optical fiber sensors; photonic crystal fibers (PCF); refractive index (RI)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; BIO PHOTONICS; BIOAFFINITY; BIOMEDICAL MEASUREMENTS; BIOSENSING; BULK LIQUID; CLADDING MODES; CONVENTIONAL SINGLE-MODE FIBERS; EXTERNAL SURFACES; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LINEAR CURVE; MICROBUBBLES; MODE SPLITTER; OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; STREPTAVIDIN; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

BIOSENSORS; COENZYMES; FIBERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONICS; PROTEINS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84863434075     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2169492     Document Type: Article

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