Experimental investigation of an optically amplified time-division-multiplexed polarization-insensitive fiber-optic Michelson interferometric sensor system

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 28, 1998, Pages 6615-6622

  Chen, Yung Kuang ^a   Law, Pi Cheng ^a   Huang, Shih Chu ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DEMODULATION; FIBER LASERS; INTERFEROMETERS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EXTINCTION RATIO; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; MINIMUM PHASE DETECTION SENSITIVITY; PHASE GENERATED CARRIER DEMODULATION;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0032185272     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.006615     Document Type: Article

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