Optical Fiber Micro-Taper with Circular Symmetric Gold Coating for Sensor Applications Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 545-554

  Wieduwilt, Torsten ^a   Kirsch, Konstantin ^a   Dellith, Jan ^a   Willsch, Reinhardt ^a   Bartelt, Hartmut ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiber optical sensors; Refractive index; Surface plasmon resonance; Tapered fiber

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877601825     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9432-7     Document Type: Article

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