Analysis of the reflective-matched fiber bragg grating sensing interrogation scheme

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 934-939

  Ribeiro, A B Lobo ^b   Ferreira, L A ^b   Santos, J L ^b,c   Jackson, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg gratings; Optical fiber sensors; Strain sensors

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEMODULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTODIODES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TUNING;

BROADBAND SOURCE; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATION; STRAIN SENSORS; WAVELENGTH;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0031076791     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000934     Document Type: Article

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