%0 Journal Article
%T Nonadiabatic tapered optical fiber for biosensor applications
%A Hamid Latifi
%A Mohammad I. Zibaii
%A Seyed M. Hosseini
%A Pedro Jorge
%J Photonic Sensors
%@ 2190-7439
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.1007/s13320-012-0086-z
%X A brief review on biconical tapered fiber sensors for biosensing applications is presented. A variety of configurations and formats of this sensor have been devised for label free biosensing based on measuring small refractive index changes. The biconical nonadiabatic tapered optical fiber offers a number of favorable properties for optical sensing, which have been exploited in several biosensing applications, including cell, protein, and DNA sensors. The types of these sensors present a low-cost fiber biosensor featuring a miniature sensing probe, label-free direct detection, and high sensitivity.
%K Biconical tapered optical fiber
%K nonadiabatic
%K refractive index
%K biosensor
%U http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13320-012-0086-z