Optical low-coherence reflectometry based on long-period grating Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5733-5739

  Zhang, A Ping ^a   Guan, Zu G ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT SOURCES; SENSORS;

LONG-PERIOD GRATING (LPG); MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL LOW-COHERENCE REFLECTOMETRY;

REFLECTOMETERS;

EID: 33749861304     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005733     Document Type: Article

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