Fiber-taper seeded long-period grating pair as a highly sensitive refractive-index sensor

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1247-1249

  Ding, Jin Fei ^a   Zhang, A Ping ^a   Shao, Li Yang ^a   Yan, Jin Hua ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fiber taper; Long period fiber gratings; Optical fiber sensor; Refractive index (RI) measurement

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FIBER TAPER; LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATINGS; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; REFRACTIVE INDEX MEASUREMENT;

REFRACTOMETERS;

EID: 20544456058     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.847437     Document Type: Article

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