DocumentCode
521038
Title
A terahertz plastic wire based evanescent field sensor for high sensitivity liquid detection
Author
You, Borwen ; Lu, Ja-Yu ; Pan, Ci-Ling ; Liu, Tze-An ; Peng, Jin-Long
Author_Institution
Inst. of Electro-Opt. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
fYear
2010
fDate
16-21 May 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
A highly sensitive detection method based on the evanescent wave of a terahertz subwavelength plastic wire was demonstrated for liquid sensing. A 20ppm melamine alcohol solution is successfully identified with refractive-index sensitivity of 0.01.
Keywords
Absorption; Liquids; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Plastics; Powders; Refractive index; Spectroscopy; Wire;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Type
conf
Filename
5500645
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