Modeling, design, fabrication, and testing of a fiber Bragg grating strain sensor array

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2563-2574

  Abdi, Abdeq M ^a   Suzuki, Shigeru ^b   Schülzgen, Axel ^b   Kost, Alan R ^b  

^a Saada Optical LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; REFLECTOMETERS; SENSOR ARRAYS; STRAIN; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

FBGA SYSTEM; FBGA-C-OFDR SYSTEM; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; SYSTEMWIDE;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 34250764827     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002563     Document Type: Article

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