Fabrication of a compact reflective long-period grating sensor with a cladding-mode-selective fiber end-face mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17976-17982

  Jiang, Meng ^a   Zhang, A Ping ^a,b   Wang, Yang Chun ^a   Tam, Hwa Yaw ^b   He, Sailing ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COATINGS; CLADDING (COATING); FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ALUMINUM FILM; CLADDING MODES; CORE REGION; END FACES; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; MICROTIPS; REFLECTION MODES; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

FIBERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LENSES; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 70349664746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017976     Document Type: Article

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