Tilted Bragg grating multipoint sensor based on wavelength-gated cladding-modes coupling

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 3915-3920

  Caucheteur, Christophe ^a   Mégret, Patrice ^a   Cusano, Andrea ^b  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

DEMODULATION TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HYBRID CONFIGURATIONS; QUASI-DISTRIBUTED SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING; TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM; TILTED BRAGG GRATINGS; TILTED FIBER BRAGG GRATING;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 67749145389     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.003915     Document Type: Article

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