Sensing characteristics of plastic optical fibres measured by optical time-domain reflectometry

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1553-1559

  Husdi, Irwan Rawal ^a   Nakamura, Kentaro ^a   Ueha, Sadayuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed sensing; Optical time domain reflectometry; Photon counting; Plastic optical fibre

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTONS; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; STRAIN;

DISTRIBUTED SENSORS; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS (POF); REFLECTOMETRY TECHNIQUES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

SENSOR;

EID: 4043066520     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/15/8/022     Document Type: Article

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