High-refractive-index transparent coatings enhance the optical fiber cladding modes refractometric sensitivity

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 29073-29082

  Renoirt, Jean Michel ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a   Debliquy, Marc ^a   Olivier, Marie Georges ^a   Mégret, Patrice ^a   Caucheteur, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); COATINGS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

OPTICAL FIBER CLADDING; REFRACTOMETRIC SENSING; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER; SURROUNDING REFRACTIVE INDICES (SRI); TILTED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; TRANSPARENT COATINGS; TRANSPARENT THIN FILM; WAVELENGTH SPACING;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84888254539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.029073     Document Type: Article

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