Plastic optical fibre sensors and devices

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 431-457

  Bartlett, Rebecca J ^a   Philip Chandy, Rekha ^a   Eldridge, Piers ^a   Merchant, David F ^a   Morgan, Roger ^a   Scully, Patricia J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

environmental measurement; flow; fluorescence; multimode; optical fibre sensor; particle concentration; polymer optical fibre; polymethylmethacrylate; turbidity

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLYMERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBIDITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE CONCENTRATION; POLYMER OPTICAL FIBER;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0034500929     PISSN: 01423312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014233120002200507     Document Type: Article

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