Sensing with photonic crystal fibres

2007 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing, WISP

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nasilowski, Tomasz ^a   Berghmans, Francis ^a,d   Geernaert, Thomas ^a   Chah, Karima ^a   Van Erps, Jurgen ^a   Statkiewicz, Gabriela ^b   Szpulak, Marcin ^b   Olszewski, Jacek ^b   Golojuch, Grzegorz ^b   Martynkien, Tadeusz ^b   Urbanczyk, Waclaw ^b   Mergo, Pawel ^c   Makara, Mariusz ^c   Wojcik, Jan ^c   Chojetzki, Christoph ^e   Thienpont, Hugo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^e Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiber sensors; Photonic crystal fibers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); APPLICATIONS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FLUID MECHANICS; GERMANIUM; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POWDERS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

FIBER SENSORS; INTELLIGENT SIGNAL PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SENSING APPLICATIONS;

FIBERS;

EID: 51149108268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WISP.2007.4447526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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