Erbium-doped optical fiber fluorescence temperature sensor with enhanced sensitivity, a high signal-to-noise ratio, and a power ratio in the 520–530– and 550–560–nm bands

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 3251-3258

  Paez, Gonzalo ^a   Strojnik, Marija ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0042472882     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003251     Document Type: Article

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