Demonstration of a folded sagnac sensor array immune to polarization-induced signal fading

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 7132-7136

  Vakoc, Benjamin J ^a   Digonnet, Michel J F ^a   Kino, Gordon S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FADING (RADIO); FARADAY EFFECT; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HYDROPHONES; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL NOISE; SUPERFLUORESCENT FIBER SOURCE (SFS);

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0346937398     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.007132     Document Type: Article

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