Historical review of microbend fiber optic sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2360, Issue , 1994, Pages 182-186

  Berthold, John W ^a  

^a BABCOCK AND WILCOX COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

HISTORICAL REVIEW; MICROBEND; MICROBEND SENSORS; PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0001431551     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.185034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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