Label-free sensitivity of long-period gratings enhanced by atomic layer deposited TiO2 nano-overlays

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 8441-8453

  Smietana, Mateusz ^a   Koba, Marcin ^c   Brzozowska, Ewa ^d   Krogulski, Krzysztof ^a   Nakonieczny, Jakub ^a   Wachnicki, Lukasz ^e   Mikulic, Predrag ^b   Godlewski, Marek ^e   Bock, Wojtek J ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

^e POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITED; BIOFUNCTIONALIZATION; LABEL-FREE SENSORS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; OVERLAY THICKNESS; T4 BACTERIOPHAGES; TITANIUM DIOXIDES (TIO2);

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION;

EID: 84928023586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.008441     Document Type: Article

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