Fiber Grating-Assisted Surface Plasmon Resonance for Biochemical and Electrochemical Sensing

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S. Lepinay, A. Ianoul, and J. Albert, “Tilted fiber Bragg gratings as a new sensing device for in situ and real time monitoring of surface initiated polymerization,” Talanta, vol. 128, no. 7, pp. 401–407, 2014.

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L. Y. Shao, Y. Shevchenko, and J. Albert, “Intrinsic temperature sensitivity of tilted fiber Bragg grating based surface plasmon resonance sensors,” Opt. Express, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 11464–11471, 2010.

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Y. Shevchenko and J. Albert, “Plasmon resonances in gold-coated tilted fiber Bragg gratings,” Opt. Lett., vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 211–213, 2007.

T. Allop, R. Neal, S. Rehman, D. J. Webb, D. Mapps, and I. Bennion, “Characterization of infrared surface plasmon resonances generated from a fiber-optical sensor utilizing tilted Bragg gratings,” J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 481–490, 2008.

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B. M. Beam, N. R. Armstrong, and S. B. Mendes, “An electroactive fiber optic chip for spectroelectrochemical characterization of ultra-thin redox-active films,” Analyst, vol. 134, no. 3, pp. 454–459, 2008.

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M. Golosovsky, V. Lirtsman, V. Yashunsky, D. Davidov, and B. Aroeti, “Mid infrared surface plasmon resonance: A novel biophysical tool for studying living cells,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 105, p. 102036, 2009.

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F. Baldini, M. Brenci, F. Chiavaioli, A. Giannetti, and C. Trono, “Optical fibre gratings as tools for chemical and biochemical sensing,” Anal. Bioanal. Chem., vol. 402, no. 1, pp. 109–116, 2012.

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