Sensitivity enhancement of long period gratings for temperature measurement using the long period grating pair technique

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 314-320

  Abi Kaed Bey, Samer K ^a   Sun, Tong ^a   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group index; Interference fringe; Long period grating; Mach Zehnder interferometer

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WAVELENGTH;

GROUP INDEX; INTERFERENCE FRINGE; LONG PERIOD GRATING (LPG);

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 38349076226     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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