Chirped fiber Bragg grating sensor for pressure and position sensing

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Swart, Pieter L ^a   Lacquet, Beatrys M ^b   Chtcherbakov, Anatoli A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chirped Bragg grating; Esophagus; Motility studies; Position sensor; Pressure sensor

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; PHOTODETECTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSDUCERS;

CHIRPED BRAGG GRATING; ESOPHAGUS; MOTILITY STUDIES; POSITION SENSOR; PRESSURE SENSOR;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 24044444295     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1914792     Document Type: Article

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