High-responsivity fiber-optic flexural disk accelerometers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1233-1243

  Cranch, Geoffrey A ^a   Nash, Philip J ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; BANDWIDTH; INTERFEROMETERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL SENSORS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

FIBER-OPTIC FLEXURAL DISK ACCELEROMETERS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0034264782     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.871700     Document Type: Article

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