Reflection intensity optical fiber sensors for the mid-infrared

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1297-1302

  Tugendhaft, I ^a   Bornstein, A ^a   Weissman, Y ^a   Hardy, A ^b  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chalcogenide glass fibers; Optical fiber coupler; Reflection optical fiber sensors

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS FIBERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORGANIC COATINGS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ARSENIC SELENIDE; CHALCOGENIDES; FRESNEL LOSSES; HOLLOW METAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0031076852     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001297     Document Type: Article

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