A full ellipsometric approach to optical sensing with Bloch surface waves on photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 23331-23344

  Sinibaldi, Alberto ^a   Rizzo, Riccardo ^a   Figliozzi, Giovanni ^a   Descrovi, Emiliano ^b   Danz, Norbert ^c   Munzert, Peter ^c   Anopchenko, Aleksei ^a   Michelotti, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; SENSORS; SURFACE WAVES;

FIGURE OF MERITS; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; OPTICAL SENSING; PHASE-SENSITIVE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84885447713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.023331     Document Type: Article

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