Backscatter-immune, polarization managed, all fiber Sagnac sensing interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3110-3119

  Chow, Jong H ^a   McClelland, David E ^a   Gray, Malcolm B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT LIGHT; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FIBERS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

FIBER SAGNAC SENSING INTERFEROMETERS; LASER SOURCES; RAYLEIGH BACKSCATTERING;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 33947382194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003110     Document Type: Article

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