Fiber Bragg grating accelerometer with temperature insensitivity

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-153

  Zhu, Yinian ^a   Shum, Ping ^a   Lu, Chao ^a   Lacquet, Beatrys M ^b   Swart, Pieter L ^b   Spammer, Stephanus J ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Chirped grating; Fiber Bragg grating; Optical fiber sensor

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; ACCELEROMETERS; CANTILEVER BEAMS; PHOTODIODES;

TEMPERATURE INSENSITIVITY;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0037457595     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.10852     Document Type: Article

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