Simultaneous measurement of multiparameters using a Sagnac interferometer with polarization maintaining side-hole fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 4841-4848

  Frazao O ^a   Silva, S O ^a   Baptista, J M ^a,b   Santos, J L ^a,c   Statkiewicz Barabach, G ^d   Urbanczyk, W ^d   Wojcik, J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CHROMATIC DISPERSION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; INTERFEROMETERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIZATION; STRAIN; TORSIONAL STRESS;

INTERFERENCE FRINGE; LONG-WAVELENGTH-RANGE; MULTI-PARAMETER MEASUREMENT; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SPECTRAL INTERFERENCE; WAVELENGTH RESPONSE;

POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER;

EID: 56849083102     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.004841     Document Type: Article

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