A novel fiber-optic tapered long-period grating sensor for pressure monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1176-1180

  Bock, Wojtek J ^a   Chen, Jiahua ^a   Mikulic, Predrag ^a   Eftimov, Tinko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiber optic sensors; Long period fiber gratings; Pressure calibration and measurement; Step index fiber; Tapered long period gratings (TLPGs); Temperature

Indexed keywords

LONG-PERIOD FIBER GRATING; STEP INDEX FIBER; TAPERED LONG-PERIOD GRATINGS;

CALIBRATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE SENSORS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 34547883830     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.899904     Document Type: Article

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