Theoretical suppression of cavity interferences in a fiber Bragg grating array interrogated with coherent optical frequency domain reflectometry

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1296-1304

  Abdi, Abdeq M ^a   Kost, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFLECTOMETERS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

CAVITY INTERFERENCES; FIBER BRAGG GRATING ARRAY (FBGA); FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33748863809     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/15/5/019     Document Type: Article

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