Flexural beam-based fiber Bragg grating accelerometers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1605-1607

  Todd, M D ^a   Johnson, G A ^a   Althouse, B A ^b   Vohra, S T ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b URF   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Bragg gratings; Design methodology; Optical sensors

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATING ACCELEROMETERS; FLEXURAL BEAMS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0032208408     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.726764     Document Type: Article

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