Tapered optical fiber sensor based on localized surface plasmon resonance

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 21693-21701

  Lin, Hsing Ying ^a,b   Huang, Chen Han ^a,b   Cheng, Gia Ling ^c   Chen, Nan Kuang ^c   Chui, Hsiang Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS;

BIOCHEMICAL DETECTION; BIOMOLECULAR SENSING; COMPACT SENSORS; EVANESCENT FIELDS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LABEL FREE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING; TAPERED FIBER; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; TRANSMISSION INTENSITY;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84866248861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021693     Document Type: Article

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