Strain and temperature sensing characteristics of single-mode-multimode-single-mode structures

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2348-2356

  Tripathi, Saurabh Mani ^a,b   Kumar, Arun ^b   Varshney, Ravi K ^b   Kumar, Y Bala Pavan ^b   Marin, Emmanuel ^a   Meunier, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Graded index multimode fiber; Modal interference; Single mode multimode single mode (SMS) structure; Strain and temperature sensors

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CORE DIAMETERS; EFFECT OF DOPANTS; GRADED INDEX MULTIMODE FIBER; GRADED-INDEX MULTIMODE FIBERS; GUIDED MODES; IN-BETWEEN; MODAL INTERFERENCE; MULTIMODE; RED SHIFT; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; SENSING CHARACTERISTICS; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE-MODE-MULTIMODE-SINGLE-MODE (SMS) STRUCTURE; SPECTRAL SHIFT; STRAIN AND TEMPERATURE SENSING; STRAIN AND TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 67651102517     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2008820     Document Type: Article

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