High Sensitive Refractive Index Sensor Based on Cladding Etched Photonic Crystal Fiber Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Haifeng DU; Xiaoyan SUN; Youwang HU; Xinran DONG; Jianhang ZHOU

doi:10.1007/s13320-019-0532-2

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