Fast optical wavelength interrogator employing arrayed waveguide grating for distributed fiber Bragg grating sensors

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 132-139

  Sano, Yasukazu ^a   Yoshino, Toshihiko ^b  

^a FUJI ELECTRIC CO   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); Background reflectance; Distributed sensing; Fiber bragg grating (FBG); Wavelength interrogation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODIODES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDE CIRCULATORS;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; DISTRIBUTED FIBER SENSOR; WAVELENGTH DETECTION; WAVELENGTH INTERROGATOR;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0037258975     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.808620     Document Type: Article

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