Stress optical fiber sensor using light coupling between two laterally fused multimode optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3417-3425

  Gafsi, Rachid ^a,b   Lecoy, Pierre ^a   Malki, Abdelrafik ^a,c  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ ET INSA DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CONCRETES; MANUFACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STRESSES; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TESTING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BRIDGE WEIGHING; CONCRETE SHRINKAGE; LIGHT COUPLING;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0032097165     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.003417     Document Type: Article

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