REFRACTOMETER FOR CLINICAL USE

Known as: Refractometer, refractometers 
An optical instrument that can be used to determine the refractive index of a sample.
National Institutes of Health

Papers overview

Semantic Scholar uses AI to extract papers important to this topic.
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Linear refractive index and absorption measurements of nonlinear optical liquids in the visible and near-infrared spectral region
Liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers and optofluidic devices require infiltration with a variety of liquids whose linear optical… (More)
  • figure 1
  • figure 2
  • figure 3
  • figure 4
  • figure 5
Is this relevant?
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
High sensitivity SMS fiber structure based refractometer--analysis and experiment.
We have investigated the influence of multimode fiber core (MMFC) diameters and lengths on the sensitivity of an SMS fiber based… (More)
  • figure 1
  • figure 2
  • figure 3
  • figure 4
  • figure 5
Is this relevant?
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
High-sensitivity, evanescent field refractometric sensor based on a tapered, multimode fiber interference.
We propose and experimentally demonstrate an enhanced evanescent field fiber refractometer based on a tapered multimode fiber… (More)
  • figure 1
  • figure 3
  • figure 2
  • figure 4
  • figure 5
Is this relevant?
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Optical fiber refractometer using narrowband cladding-mode resonance shifts.
Short-period fiber Bragg gratings with weakly tilted grating planes generate multiple strong resonances in transmission. Our… (More)
  • figure 2
  • figure 1
  • figure 3
  • figure 5
  • figure 4
Is this relevant?
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Polymer microring resonators for biochemical sensing applications
Polymer microring resonators were demonstrated for sensing biomolecules without using fluorescent labels. The microring devices… (More)
  • figure 1
  • figure 2
  • figure 3
  • figure 4
  • figure 5
Is this relevant?
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
All-fiber multimode-interference-based refractometer sensor: proposal and design.
A novel all-fiber refractometer sensor is proposed, which is based on multimode interference in the multimode fiber core section… (More)
  • figure 1
  • figure 2
  • figure 3
  • figure 4
Is this relevant?
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Monochromatic aberrations in the accommodated human eye
The wave-front aberration of the human eye was measured for eight subjects using a spatially resolved refractometer (a… (More)
  • figure 1
  • figure 2
  • figure 3
  • figure 4
  • figure 6
Is this relevant?
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
A new approach to the study of ocular chromatic aberrations
We measured the ocular wavefront aberration at six different visible wavelengths (between 450 and 650 nm) in three subjects… (More)
  • figure 1
  • figure 2
  • figure 3
  • figure 4
  • figure 5
Is this relevant?
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Refractive index of the human corneal epithelium and stroma.
BACKGROUND The refractive index of the cornea must be determined to optically perfect keratorefractive procedures. There are very… (More)
Is this relevant?
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
On the calculation of sugar concentration in flower nectar
There are several sources of potential error in calculating the concentration or energy value of floral nectar. Errors resulting… (More)
  • table 1
Is this relevant?