Dual temperature and strain measurement with the combined fluorescence lifetime and Bragg wavelength shift approach in doped optical fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 31, 2002, Pages 6585-6592

  Forsyth, David I ^a   Wade, Scott A ^a,b   Sun, Tong ^a   Chen, Xiaomei ^a,c   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHANGCHENG INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY AND MEASUREMENT   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; STRAIN;

STRAIN SENSORS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0036848658     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006585     Document Type: Article

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