Frequency-domain displacement sensing with a fiber ring-resonator containing a variable gap

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 410-413

  Vollmer, Frank ^a   Fischer, Peer ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Displacement sensing; Optical circulator; Optical fiber; Optical resonance; Reflectance metrology; Ring resonator

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT REFLECTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL CIRCULATORS; OPTICAL RESONANCE; REFLECTANCE METROLOGY; RING RESONATORS;

POSITION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33847341130     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2006.06.022     Document Type: Article

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