Analysis of the effect of imperfect fiber endfaces on the performance of extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric optical fiber sensors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2262-2265

  Arya, Vivek ^a   De Vries, Marten J ^a   Athreya, Madhu ^a   Wang, Anbo ^a   Claus, Richard O ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic range; Endface imperfections; Fabry perot interferometer; Fiber optic sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042875250     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600801     Document Type: Article

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