High-Q width modulated photonic crystal stack mode-gap cavity and its application to refractive index sensing

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 27039-27044

  Yao, Kaiyuan ^a   Shi, Yaocheng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; MODE VOLUME; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL STACKS; Q-FACTORS; QUALITY FACTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING; SENSING APPLICATIONS; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; VOLUME CONCENTRATION; WATER ETHANOL MIXTURES;

ETHANOL; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; TRANSDUCER;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL DEVICES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84870597416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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