DFB FL sensor cross-coupling reduction

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 533-538

  Tikhomirov, Alexie ^a   Foster, Scoot ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic sensor; Bragg grating; Distributed feedback (DFB) lasers; Laser noise; Multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL SENSORS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFLECTION;

LASER FREQUENCY NOISE; SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 34147138739     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.889096     Document Type: Article

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