Mach-Zehnder refractometric sensor using long-range surface plasmon waveguides

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Khan, Asad ^a   Krupin, Oleksiy ^a   Lisicka Skrzek, Ewa ^a   Berini, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION LIMITS; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; LOSS MECHANISMS; MACHZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS (MZI); MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; REFRACTOMETRIC SENSING; REFRACTOMETRIC SENSORS; TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84884232834     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4820909     Document Type: Article

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