Mechanically created long-period fiber gratings as sensitive bend sensors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Singh, Nahar ^a   Jain, Subhash C ^a   Mishra, Vandana ^a   Poddar, G C ^a   Bansal, Ashu Kumar ^a   Jindal, V K ^b   Bajpai, R P ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS ORGANISATION   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bend sensors; Long period fiber gratings; Smart structures

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONOCHROMATORS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

BEND SENSORS; LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATINGS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 24744436808     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1871792     Document Type: Article

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