Sensitivity enhancement of fiber Bragg gratings to transverse stress by using microstructural fibers

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2260-2262

  Jewart, Charles ^a   Chen, Kevin P ^a   McMillen, Ben ^a   Bails, Michael M ^a   Levitan, Steven P ^a   Canning, John ^b   Avdeev, Ilya V ^c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ANSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL LOAD; MICROSTRUCTURE FIBERS; TRANSVERSE STRESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33748689599     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.002260     Document Type: Article

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