Coherence multiplexing of fiber-optic pressure and temperature sensors based on highly birefringent fibers

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 392-397

  Bock, Wojtek J ^a,b   Urbanczyk, Waclaw ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MULTIPLEXING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED INTERFEROMETER; PRESSURE SENSOR; TEMPERATURE SENSOR;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0033705319     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.843084     Document Type: Article

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