Temperature insensitive measurements of static displacements using a fiber Bragg grating

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1918-1924

  Zhu, Yinian ^a   Shum, Ping ^a   Lu, Chao ^a   Lacquet, M B ^b   Swart, P L ^b   Chtcherbakov, A A ^b   Spammer, S J ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CANTILEVER BEAMS; DEMODULATION; EPOXY RESINS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

FABRY PEROT FILTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; STRAIN MAPPING; WAVELENGTH DETECTION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 2942711507     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001918     Document Type: Article

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