Temperature-insensitive fiber Bragg grating tilt sensor

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 556-560

  Chen, Hsuan Jen ^a   Wang, Likarn ^a   Liu, W F ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL SENSORS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

LINEAR THERMAL EXPANSION; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TILT ANGLE;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 41449091529     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000556     Document Type: Article

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