Wide-band polarization-insensitive fiber optic acoustic sensors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 968-976

  Shih, Sung Tsun ^a,b,c,d  

^a Department of Electronic Engineering   (Taiwan)

^b Tatung Institute of Technology   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3 3 coupler; Acoustic sensor; Faraday rotator mirror; Michelson interferometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345682560     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601929     Document Type: Article

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