From the reflected spectrum to the properties of a fiber bragg grating: A genetic algorithm approach with application to distributed strain sensing

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 5238-5244

  Casagrande, Federico ^a   Crespi, Paola ^a   Grassi, Anna Maria ^a   Lulli, Alfredo ^a   Kenny, Robert P ^b   Whelan, Maurice P ^b  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRAIN;

REFLECTED SPECTRUM;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0036712163     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005238     Document Type: Article

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