In-fibre directional transverse loading sensor based on excessively tilted fibre Bragg gratings

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Suo, Rui ^a   Chen, Xianfeng ^a   Zhou, Kaiming ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Bennion, Ian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Tilted fibre Bragg grating; Transverse load; Vector sensor

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION; SLOW LIGHT;

GRATING STRUCTURES; ORTHOGONALLY POLARIZED MODES; PHOTODIODE DETECTOR; POLARIZATION MODE COUPLING; POLARIZATION MODE SPLITTING; TRANSVERSE LOAD; TRANSVERSE LOADING; VECTOR SENSORS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 63749103532     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/20/3/034015     Document Type: Article

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