Fiber Bragg grating strain sensor demodulation with quadrature sampling of a Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1106-1111

  Song, Minho ^a   Yin, Shizhuo ^a   Ruffin, Paul B ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b US Army Aviation and Missile Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SENSORS; INTERFEROMETERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

PHASE DEMODULATION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0001527083     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001106     Document Type: Article

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