Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber probe for remote fluorescence sensing with single molecule sensitivity

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 28379-28387

  Ghenuché, Petru ^a   Rigneault, Herve ^a   Wenger, Jérôme ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSPHERES; MOLECULES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; POLYSTYRENES; PROBES; SILICA;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; COUNTERPROPAGATING; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; MINIMUM DETECTABLE CONCENTRATIONS; NANOJET; NANOMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OPTICAL FIBER PROBE; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; REMOTE FLUORESCENCE; SAMPLE SOLUTION; SILICA FIBERS; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION; SINGLE-MOLECULE SENSITIVITY; TRANSLATIONAL DIFFUSION;

FLUORESCENCE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTON; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTONS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84872050938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.028379     Document Type: Article

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