Reliability, availability, and maintainability considerations for fiber optical sensor applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6167, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Brönnimann, Rolf ^a   Held, Marcel ^a   Nellen, Philipp M ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Availability; Maintainability; Monitoring; Optical Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor; Reliability

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; CONDITION MONITORING; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MAINTAINABILITY; RELIABILITY; STANDARDS;

INDUSTRIALIZATION; OPTICAL FIBER BRAGG GRATING SENSORS; SENSING SYSTEMS; VALIDATION;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 33745838232     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.657872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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