Fiber-coupled in-line heterodyne optical interferometer for minimally invasive sensing

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2449-2454

  Arain, Muzammil Arshad ^a   Riza, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustooptic devices; Heterodyne optical interferometers; Optical sensors; Scanning interferometers

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; BIREFRINGENCE; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT REFLECTION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL SENSORS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

FIBER-REMOTED SENSING; HETERODYNE OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER; INVASIVE SENSING; REFLECTIVE SENSOR CHIP; SCANNING INTERFEROMETERS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 24744441198     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.851330     Document Type: Article

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