Novel signal demodulation technique for chirped Bragg grating strain sensors

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-94

  Fuhr, Peter L ^a   Spammer, Stephanus J ^b,c   Yinian, Zhu ^b  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c Science and Technology Division ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DEMODULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; STRAIN;

CHIRPED BRAGG GRATING STRAIN SENSORS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0033907929     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/9/1/309     Document Type: Article

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