Fiber grating sensor interrogation using a double-pass Mach-Zehnder interferometer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 1833-1835

  Park, Hyoung Jun ^a   Song, Minho ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating; Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI); Quadrature sampling; Zero crossing detection

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBERS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; MODULATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SENSORS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; FIBER GRATING SENSORS; MEASUREMENT RESOLUTIONS; MODULATION SIGNALS; PHASE DIFFERENCES; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES; QUADRATURE SAMPLING; QUADRATURE SAMPLINGS; SAMPLED SIGNALS; ZERO CROSSINGS; ZERO-CROSSING DETECTION;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 56049095498     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2004562     Document Type: Article

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