Response of FBGs in microstructured and bow tie fibers embedded in laminated composite

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1290-1292

  Luyckx, Geert ^a   Voet, Eli ^a   Geernaert, Thomas ^b   Chah, Karima ^b   Nasilowski, Tomasz ^b   De Waele, Wim ^a   Van Paepegem, Wim ^a   Becker, Martin ^c   Bartelt, Hartmut ^c   Urbanczyk, Waclaw ^d   Wojcik, Jan ^e   Degrieck, Joris ^a   Berghmans, Francis ^b   Thienpont, Hugo ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gratings; Optical fibers; Strain measurement; Temperature measurement

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; BOW TIE; BRAGG PEAKS; COMPOSITE SAMPLES; EMBEDDED FIBERS; EMBEDDED GRATINGS; FIBER REINFORCED EPOXY; GRATINGS; LOW-TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; TRANSVERSAL STRAIN;

CARBON FIBERS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; STRAIN GAGES; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 70349427173     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2025262     Document Type: Article

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