Proposal and experimental verification of Bragg wavelength distribution measurement within a long-length FBG by synthesis of optical coherence function

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7881-7887

  Hotate, Kazuo ^a   Kajiwara, Koji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH;

BRAGG WAVELENGTH DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE FUNCTION;

BRAGG GRATINGS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 44649172501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007881     Document Type: Article

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