External refractive index sensitivity of weakly tilted fiber Bragg gratings with different coating thicknesses

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1330-1336

  Caucheteur, Christophe ^a   Paladino, Domenico ^b   Pilla, Pierluigi ^b,c   Cutolo, Antonello ^b   Campopiano, Stefania ^d   Giordano, Michèle ^c   Cusano, Andrea ^b   Mégret, Patrice ^a  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bragg grating; Optical fiber; Refractive index; Sensor; Tilted

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; COATINGS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSORS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

DEMODULATION TECHNIQUES; DIP COATING TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL REFRACTIVE INDICES; SURROUNDING REFRACTIVE INDICES (SRI); TILTED; TILTED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COATINGS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTIVITY; REFRACTOMETERS; SENSORS;

EID: 47849107918     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.926966     Document Type: Article

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