Design of a fiber-optic quasi-distributed strain sensors ring network based on a white-light interferometric multiplexing technique

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 34, 2002, Pages 7205-7211

  Yuan, Libo ^a,b,c   Zhou, Limin ^b,c   Jin, Wei ^b,d   Yang, Jun ^a  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c Deptof Mechanical Engineering   (India)

^d The Department of Electrical Engineering   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT SOURCES; MULTIPLEXING;

MACH-ZEHNDER OPTICAL PATHS INTERROGATORS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0036903685     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007205     Document Type: Article

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