Nonpigtail optical coupling to embedded fiber Bragg grating sensors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Qiu, Liang ^a   Goossen, Keith W ^a   Heider, Dirk ^b   O'Brien, Daniel J ^c   Wetzel, Eric D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded optical fiber; Fiber Bragg grating; Fiber optical sensors; Free space coupling; Smart structures; Structural monitoring

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED OPTICAL FIBER; EMBEDDED OPTICAL FIBERS; FIBER-OPTICAL SENSORS; FREE SPACE COUPLING; SMART STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL MONITORING;

CONCRETE BRIDGES; ELECTRIC SENSING DEVICES; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; GAGES; GLASS FIBERS; MONITORING; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SENSORS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TENSILE STRAIN;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 77952868353     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3421552     Document Type: Article

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