Nonadiabatic tapered optical fiber for biosensor applications

Photonic Sensors

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 340-356

  Latifi, Hamid ^a   Zibaii, Mohammad I ^a,b   Hosseini, Seyed M ^a   Jorge, Pedro ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biconical tapered optical fiber; Biosensor; Nonadiabatic; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSING; BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; BIOSENSOR APPLICATIONS; DIRECT DETECTION; DNA SENSORS; FIBER BIOSENSORS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LABEL FREE; NON-ADIABATIC; OPTICAL SENSING; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; SENSING PROBE; TAPERED FIBER; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBERS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 84869026971     PISSN: 16749251     EISSN: 21907439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13320-012-0086-z     Document Type: Review

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