Fiber Bragg grating location by a side-scatter technique based on cladding-mode coupling

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3310-3314

  Maier, Robert R J ^a   Barton, James S ^a   Jones, Julian D C ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CLADDING (COATING); FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; FIBER BRAGG GRATING (FBG) SENSORS; SCATTERING LOSS SPECTRUM; TRANSMISSION LOSSES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 2942538610     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003310     Document Type: Article

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