In-line short cavity Fabry-Perot strain sensor for quasi distributed measurement utilizing standard OTDR

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8719-8730

  Cibula, Edvard ^a   Donlagic, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; INSERTION LOSSES; SENSOR ARRAYS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

FABRY PEROT SENSORS; FUSION SPLICING; STRAIN ERRORS;

STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34547173641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008719     Document Type: Article

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