Efficient fiber Bragg grating and fiber Fabry-Pérot sensor multiplexing scheme using a broadband pulsed mode-locked laser

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3798-3807

  Cranch, Geoffrey A ^a,b   Flockhart, Gordon M H ^a,b   Kirkendall, Clay K ^b  

^a SFA INC   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Large scale systems; Mode locked lasers (MLLs); Optical fiber transducers; Strain measurement

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSDUCERS;

FABRY-PEROT SENSOR; OPTICAL FIBER TRANSDUCERS; PULSED MODE-LOCKED LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 30344456413     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.857735     Document Type: Article

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