Demodulation of fiber bragg grating sensors based on dynamic tuning of a multimode laser diode

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 4751-4759

  Ferreira, Luís Alberto ^a   Diatzikis, Envangelos Vasilios ^c   Santos, Jose Luis ^a,b   Farahi, Faramarz ^b,c  

^a INESC   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DEMODULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DITHER DEMODULATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATING (FBG) SENSORS; MULTIMODE LASER DIODES;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0032620846     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004751     Document Type: Article

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