Temperature-insensitive fiber Bragg grating accelerometer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1437-1439

  Zhu, Yinian ^a   Shum, Ping ^a   Lu, Chao ^a   Lacquet, B M ^b   Swart, P L ^b   Spammer, S J ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; CANTILEVER BEAMS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; STRAIN RATE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BRAGG WAVELENTH MODIFICATION; CHIRPED GRATING;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0141884021     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818048     Document Type: Article

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