Recent developments in the application of optical frequency domain reflectometry to distributed Bragg grating sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4578, Issue , 2001, Pages 19-31

  Childers, Brooks A ^a,c   Brown, Timothy L ^b,d   Moore, Jason P ^b   Wood, Karen H ^b  

^a Luna Innovations ^*  (United States)

^b NASA Langley   (United States)

^c LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bragg gratings; Fiber optics sensing; Optical frequency domain reflectometry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; LASER TUNING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

FIBER OPTIC SENSING; NONLINEAR LASER TUNING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; POLARIZATION FADING;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0035774452     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456077     Document Type: Article

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