Grating-assisted demodulation of interferometric optical sensors

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 34, 2003, Pages 6824-6829

  Yu, Bing ^a   Wang, Anbo ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ERRORS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LASER TUNING; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT SOURCES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCES (OPD);

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0344254757     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006824     Document Type: Article

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