Temperature-insensitive and strain-insensitive long-period grating sensors for smart structures

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1872-1875

  Bhatia, Vikram ^a,b,c,d   Campbell, David K ^a,e   Sherr, Daniel ^a   D'Alberto, Tiffanie G ^a,b   Zabaronick, Noel A ^a   Ten Eyck, Gregory A ^a   Murphy, Kent A ^a   Claus, Richard O ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SP DV 01 6 ^*  (United States)

^c BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e Fiber and Electro Opt Res Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Long period grating sensors; Optical fibers; Smart structures; Strain; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001418212     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601379     Document Type: Article

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