Multiple-beam interferometric determination of Poisson’s ratio and strain distribution profiles along the cross section of bent single-mode optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 3197-3201

  El Diasty, Fouad ^a  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; POISSON RATIO; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

STRAIN DISTRIBUTION;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 0000224328     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003197     Document Type: Article

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