Low-coherence interferometric method for measurement of displacement based on a 3 × 3 fibre-optic directional coupler

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Tomic, Milos C ^a   Elazar, Jovan M ^a,b   Djinovic, Zoran V ^a,c  

^a Institut Bezbednosti   (Serbia)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c IHTM CMTM ^*  (Serbia)

Author keywords

Displacement measurement; Low coherence interferometry; Optical fibre sensor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; PHOTODIODES;

DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; PHASE DETECTION; PHASE DIFFERENCE;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0036864645     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/4/6/384     Document Type: Article

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