Fibre optic load sensors with high transverse strain sensitivity based on long-period gratings in B/Ge co-doped fibre

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 661-663

  Liu, Y ^a   Zhang, L ^a   Bennion, I ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; SEMICONDUCTING BORON; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

LONG-PERIODIC GRATINGS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0032689925     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990457     Document Type: Article

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