Biconical fiber taper sensors

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2239-2241

  Kieu, Khanh Quoc ^a   Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Displacement sensor; Fiber taper; Refractive index sensor; Temperature sensor

Indexed keywords

BICONICAL FIBER TAPERS; DISPLACEMENT SENSOR; FIBER TAPER; NM ACCURACY; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR; REFRACTIVE-INDEX SENSORS; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TEMPERATURE MONITOR;

LIGHT REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

FIBERS;

EID: 41849128447     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.884742     Document Type: Article

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