Theoretical and experimental considerations for a single-mode fiber-optic bend-type sensor

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 6264-6273

  Gauthier, R C ^a   Ross, C ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CALCULATIONS; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

SINGLE MODE BEND FIBER OPTIC SENSOR; TRANSLUCENT PROTECTIVE SHEATH;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0031233506     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006264     Document Type: Article

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