Highly Sensitive Refractive Index Sensor Based on Polymer Long-Period Waveguide Grating With Liquid Cladding

Lingfang WANG; Keyu REN; Bao SUN; Kaixin CHEN

doi:10.1007/s13320-018-0520-y

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