Investigation and application of the frustrated-total-internal-reflection phenomenon in optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2183-2187

  Weiss, Joseph M ^b   Arya, Vivek ^a   Wang, Anbo ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber optics; Frustrated total internal reflection; Sensors

Indexed keywords

AIR; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; EVALUATION; FUSED SILICA; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; SAPPHIRE;

FRUSTRATED TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION; PRESSURE SENSOR; SAPPHIRE FIBERS; SILICA BASED FIBERS; STRAIN SENSOR;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0031123061     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002183     Document Type: Article

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