Covering a fiber taper with a refractive index matching gel residue: a significant increase in evanescent-wave signal collection efficiency

Huacai Chen; Jianjun Ma; Jiahua Chen; Wojtek J. Bock; Andrea Cusano

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 9, Issue s1, s10701 (2011)

Covering a fiber taper with a refractive index matching gel residue: a significant increase in evanescent-wave signal collection efficiency

Huacai Chen, Jianjun Ma, Jiahua Chen, Wojtek J. Bock, and Andrea Cusano

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Huacai Chen, Jianjun Ma, Jiahua Chen, Wojtek J. Bock, Andrea Cusano. Covering a fiber taper with a refractive index matching gel residue: a significant increase in evanescent-wave signal collection efficiency[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2011, 9(s1): s10701 Copy Citation Text

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