Porous silicon integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer waveguide for biological and chemical sensing

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 19488-19497

  Kim, Kyowon ^a   Murphy, Thomas E ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION CAPABILITY; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; INTEGRATED SENSORS; INTERFEROMETRIC STABILITY; MACH-ZEHNDER STRUCTURES; NANO-POROUS MATERIALS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; WAVEGUIDE SEGMENTS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; POROUS MATERIALS; POROUS SILICON; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TEXTILE FIBERS;

WAVEGUIDES;

GLASS FIBER; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; POROSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL FIBERS; POROSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON;

EID: 84883240127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.019488     Document Type: Article

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