High-accuracy fiber-optic shape sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6530, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Duncan, Roger G ^a   Froggatt, Mark E ^a   Kreger, Steven T ^a   Seeley, Ryan J ^a   Gifford, Dawn K ^a   Sang, Alexander K ^a   Wolfe, Matthew S ^a  

^a LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR SOURCES;

ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR ARRAYS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 35648971510     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.720914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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